ChaoticEnding

Thanks everyone for taking the time to vote and share your thoughts. We had 69 people submit a vote for this poll, which has to make this one of our most popular polls of all time! It is intriguing how little the hive mind opinion of our scene has changed within the last ten years. Over 75% of us believe that piracy is still a necessary evil, 72% of us cite piracy as one of the main factors of engagement retention, and that a whopping 60% of members believe Monochrome Heaven would get worse if downloads and piracy were to disappear overnight. I tend to agree with the majority, but I also agree with the minority. Things haven't gotten any easier to acquire legitimately as a sailor of the high seas since the turn of the century, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon, but I'm reluctant to force sweeping changes that I don't fully understand to an ecosystem which is one of the few remaining and active ties to the scene. On the other hand, we provide a valuable service through piracy that record companies couldn't throw enough money at to replicate, and the answers you all gave to the poll show that.
 
So this is what I propose we do next, just to see how things play out. The GazettE is releasing a new album, "NINTH", on 2018-06-13. Let us not share this album here until 2018-06-27. Ideally, as a scene we wouldn't share it at all, but I have no control over anything not posted here. If you purchase it on your own, please refrain from sharing here, but you can write reviews and openly talk about it. If you never planned on buying it, you may have to wait an additional two weeks. What I am interested in seeing is just how much our piracy impacts sales, and how much higher CD sales are if we don't immediately put it on the internet for free the day it comes out. Maybe Ruki will even make a twitter comment about it so we can get some deeper perspective. We can do this with two or three more hot releases, and then come back to discuss this again with some more information. I have some thoughts about how this will go, but I will save them until after the experiment is complete.

Thanks for reading.

got myself some new lenses and tried some make up for carnival on Saturday. not really satisfied but I still kind of like the result.
 

your face when you hate flights
 

Me:

 
 
 

Oh, maybe one or two months after ;3

Yes man.
Please turn this avaliable on itunes!!!!

They stick too much to stereotypes rather than taking VK and make their own spin on it. Taking inspiration from Japanese is fine, but they're not Japanese, and trying to copy them makes Western VK either bland or cringey af.

RIP Nagoya-kei.

Hani Potter hehehe
 

good fucking lord
 
((i WISH this was sarcasm))

RotM?
This guy?  https://www.tunecore.co.jp/artist?id=205695

Só barraco pra ressuscitar esse tópico depois de 4 meses? 

Nothing surprising
2 years is the average life for a Visual band especially a Nagoya-based band.
Doube River Records needs a Nagoya-based band with the Nagoya vibes.

2nd & 3rd track are amazing! 
It's great that their releases are available on ITunes. Now there is accessibility and We don't have to look for water in the Sahara desert xD

i read naruto XD
cool look

It's easy to make fun (which was my first thought, I'll admit), instead it would be nice if we could all make some constructive criticisms to help the gals, since they'll probably check the thread...
 
- I don't care about visuals, but people in general do, and you are all looking nice. Hair, clothing, makeup... maybe work on your poses, and improve the photoshop (the group photo is much worse than the individual ones, probably too much light on your faces)
 
- The main point: the recording of your song is PRETTY bad. I know youtube usually drags it down and you probably don't have that much of a budget, but you can DEFINITELY record a song or two in a proper studio with a couple hundred bucks. Yes it's an investment, but it makes the world of a difference. That chorus could be catchy if properly recorded and equalized, the drum lines specially. It's such a niche market that usually don't care about western bands, so you really have to go the distance to win this crowd.
 
- It's a matter of personal preference, but I find your logo way too confusing, really hard to identify the band's name. Branding is important, I would try to express that differently.
 
wish you girls luck!

bloop
 
 

ロクダマカルタ eu adoro muito e gostaria só de dizer isto mesmo, bye. 
 
 

He did hurt my feelings with his terrible music, he got that right. Somebody gotta stop this mofo

I've finally cut my hair, goddamit x'D

Before: 

and after:  

"哀絶綺譚" (Aizetsu kitan) feat. 祈狂 (kikyo) (La'veil Mizeria)
YEAAAAHHHHHH

MISSA just by himself is already awesome enough, but with Kikyo and MI? c-c-c-combo!