NICKT

Chronic Bandmate Slappin' Disorder, it's untreatable

Those pants, those shoes, ugh...

the dude literally only wrote two songs (and they were credited to both him and hazuki) because hazuki constantly rejected his compositions as they talked about a few times. hazuki had almost 100% of the creative control and still does minus the handful of songs written by yusuke. and the bass was not the problem with their particularly same-y albums, in fact, akinori introduced slap bass to their repertoire which they promptly lost when he left. i love hazuki but he is 100% the problem with lynch.'s music being stale because he IS the sound of lynch....

I really like it!
 
Losing Akinori is a blessing in disguise 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

What have they done to you, Nikky?

cue like 20 more "is this the end of visual key?!?!?!?!?!" threads

NANI THE FUCK

MY FUCKING SOUL

"I'm half tired and was in the middle of speaking, you mind if we take the picture again? ...No? Ok..."

"I'm half tired and was in the middle of speaking, you mind if we take the picture again? ...No? Ok..."

He might think he is too Murican now for crossdressing band like Jupiter 

4thEP『FLYING LEAP EP』 -Track list-
01. Flaming Immortal Wings
02. Phoenix
03. Autumnal Gloom
04. Violence to the Steel Gray Night 
05. Breathe D.C.

Also, the gay scene and what gay men find attractive in Japan may be different from the gay scenes in other countries?
 
When I first came to Japan a lot of gay dudes were into cute, cuddly "big" guys. One of my gay Japanese friends is somewhat feminine in dress/mannerisms, and he's had no problems getting dudes.
 
I also think it's important to note that your general fashionable Japanese dude looks kind of feminine by Western standards to begin with, so unless the VK guy is actually the "girl" of the band, he probably doesn't seem that feminine to people who like VK.

nearly everything i've seen & read about gya culture here and elsewhere feels utterly horrible and cultish to me so i dont rly blame dudes for not wanting to get dragged into that hell pit t b f

Actually part of my family thinks I'm a lesbian because of this XDD and I've heard other girls having their sexuality questioned based on the type of male artists they follow. It sucks. 
 
This one not only gets on my nerves per se but also leads to some really sexist comments from western male fans who like to make assumptions. "ohh I bet she only listens to NCBL cuz Hiro takes his shirt off, we appreciate how amazingly brootal the band truly is", "oshare bands are for girls" and such. 

I have to agree with this 100%
After attending several VK lives in Japan I almost lost interest in going to concerts in the west. 
As much as I feel sorry for japanese guys not being able to fully enjoy the scene there, I was extremely grateful for being able to stand in saizen AND breathe at the same time. Being pushed around and covered by other people's sweat while being squashed by dudes who are trying to push to the front is NOT an enjoyable experience.
 
it is kinda sad though, whichever scenario happens, it means there's a fairly large portion of the audience who will not fully enjoy the live. 

Bangya culture is not just something that keeps vkei afloat. It's communities of (mostly) women who would never get to experience live music the way they do if they went to a 'regular' rock or metal concert. So while it kills the fun for some men who come to the show expecting one thing and getting something different, or prevents men from coming to lives, I think it's an essential part of what vkei is.

I'll keep my eye on them

Based on the oneman tours D'espairsRay could do before their first disbandment, I think it's fairly safe to say they had a decently large fanbase in Japan.
Also, as for being the target of dislike overseas, I'm not sure if we were in different circles or what but I distinctly remember them being quite hyped from an early stage, just the fact that they were one of the earliest bands to come to Europe back in 2004 should be proof that they received popularity fairly early here, the shows sold very well too.
 
I think bangya circles are kind of misleading often as well, because most people have one or at most two bands they hardcore follow and don't usually care much for other bands, so you can often end up thinking that it's representative of the VK fanbase as a whole. Sort of like how overseas VK fans have no idea who GLAY is since they don't have any fans, but in Japan they're one of the biggest VK bands around. It becomes a closed group culture of sorts, just like there are bands that are/were hyped on here that had next to no following in Japan.

Girugamesh and Sel'm hit me hard. These were bands that were around and putting out great material when I was first getting in to VK, and they were some of the very few that were still remaining. They felt kind of like nails in the coffin.