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Well, this was pretty frustrating to put together! I decided to go with the one-album-per-artist rule afterall, but I cheated by not ranking any of these (that would take way too long for me). Everything here consists of albums and EPs only, but there are some great singles, soundtracks, splits, and compilations I would have liked to include too. There are some things I couldn't fit in and I'm seeing now that I forgot about some stuff too lol. oh well!
 
 It's funny because I realized when making this that I'm much more of a "song person", as in I tend to listen to specific songs far more than I do full albums. I often just make playlists of songs/albums with a particular mood/style and just shuffle them, but I digress. This has been a fun little introspective exercise. I've noticed that a lot of albums I filed away in my brain as 'favorites', like "The Rose God Gave me" by SADS, or "DIM" by the gazettE, have not really grown with me throughout the years. I also noticed that there are many bands that I enjoy a ton of songs from, yet those songs are all scattered throughout the band's discography and there are no albums that I could consider a favorite - THE BACK HORN and sleepy.ab are examples of this.
 
As mentioned above, there is no ranking here -> everything is roughly in alphabetical order!
 
 

 
 
 
There we are. One day I would like to make a more detailed list with no restraints, but this was a daunting enough task by itself!. Fun tho!

tfw when downy releases a brand new album and THE NOVEMBERS also release a new album 2 weeks later:
 

Never really liked or cared for Gesu. The only song I've ever liked is the second one, "私以外私じゃないの". I would happily listen to that from time to time, but other than that, nothing else has caught my interest. And I doubt it ever will, mainly because it's Enon, and I really don't have a soft spot for his own work, nor voice, which I find most important. TK, on the other hand, has always had my support and attention, even if it all may be going downhill now. I've enjoyed his works, with the band and on his own, and continue to do so. It just has to be Ling for me!

Since we are talking about western artists (preferably household names) doing tracks (e.g. self-covers, covers, original songs by any chance etc.) in our lovely Nihongo, this section would be the nice place for us to spread all that weeb love we have around here. So as it says: post western artists that may have (surprisingly enough) some (bonus) tracks in Japanese
 
For instance
 
 
Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) and Scott Murphy (Allister)
 
 
Mew (yes, that Danish band)
 
 
The Police
 
 
France Gall
 
 
Nat King Cole
 
And as you may have noticed, this mainly revolves around artists who would otherwise do their stuff in English - and to restrict certain choices, definitely NO swede kei NOR Avril at this point (tacky and cringy).
 
 

Ok....let's delve into the horror-show that is my digital Japanese music collection.  

 
 

@doombox Thanks for your awesome mini-reviews! I'm gonna follow suit. Somehow, the news of chariots' return gave me the slip, but this is better than what I remember them sounding like. Very cool to see some of the VII-SENSE musicians return and frankly, Riku seems to be a better fit than whatever Juka was doing in that band. Your OBLIVION DUST vid didn't work though!

@beni I can definitely see myself getting into TWEEDEES--they seem to have a nice shibuya kei tinge to their music. I'm still on the fence about GOMESS, but I appreciate the cutesy unorthodox take on rap. Also, the verses of that Aikawa Nanase song are giving me strong "片手に夢を持つ少女" (KAMIJO) vibes! Do you hear it too?

@togz Unfortunately your illion track is no longer available. Great pick with THE NOVEMBERS though!  Although I much prefer their softer side, this is an awesome atmospheric track, harkening back to some of the moments on Rhapsody in beauty. Shoegrunge! Oh and on FB, they just announced that the song is released worldwide now as "Black Rainbow"

@tetsu_sama69 Insanity Injection is such an accurate band name, haha. VK will never not need Kyouka's special brand of crazy! And thanks for helping spread the word about FerrisWheeL! They (like Crishuna) seem really special!

@emmnySo glad you covered Kiryu. I haven't spent enough time with the full album yet (though, it seems better than their last one), but this is seriously one of their best songs ever. The creepiano is so good!

@CAT5Agreeing with everyone else. That Aimer track is gorgeous! Her voice works super well with TK's dramatic composition. FUJIN CLUB is pretty neat too. I can definitely see what you mean with the WUJA BIN BIN comparison.

@Zeus I'm still resisting KEEL (I really despised "fanfale" off their last mini), but I hope they're winning me over. "LEM" is my kind of track! Need to check out that single.

@chemicalpicturesand @Ada Suilen Thanks for your guest reviews! We hope you and others will consider submitting in the future too, to help keep our Recommended Tracks lists as well-rounded and representative of the MH community as possible! Clearly, DOF is a band I need to give another chance. It's so cool how you both (and togz) covered three different tracks--looks like I need to grab that single. The FoLLoW track is quite nice as well. I only know them from their song "Planetarium," but I appreciate MASASHI's rich vocals. Even though the lead single "Music Garden" is so NOT my thing, I'm hoping I can enjoy something from their upcoming album.

That feeling where you still briefly get hyped upon seeing the words 'TK from 凛として時雨' only to remember how bland his releases have been for the last 3-4 years.
 
I'll give it a courtesy listen, at least, but I don't see it doing anything for me, especially if Secret Sensation and that latest single are anything to go by.

I thought this might need its own thread, so here goes~
 
 
http://myanimelist.net/news/47204328
 
How do we all feel about this? With already done anime adaptions from previous years that weren't too amazing (looking at Dragon Ball Z, Death Note, and Avatar, not so respectively), how can we ever be confident anymore? This goes without saying to both Japanese and Western adaptions. With the recent news on Death Note's dreaded American adaption (which you'll find plenty of updates on), and no forgetting about the very much spoken of and anticipated Ghost in the Shell with Scarlett Johansson, is anyone genuinely excited about these (SAO, especially!)? Or are we all always walking on egg shells when it comes to live adaptions?
 
Don't get me wrong, I have liked plenty of them, and they've had their own success (mainly the Japanese ones, amirite? >.>)~ I think of 20th Century Boys and Rurouni Kenshin.
 
But I'm pretty intrigued how it'll be a series. I'm NOT intrigued that it's SAO. I really cannot be any less interested in the show after trying it out a bit and being so underwhelmed. If anything, all these adaptions make me sad how the focus, effort, energy and love can be put into something better, like more deserving mangas getting the anime treatment, and even some much needed sequels of a couple of anime seasons (like Highschool of the Dead... I mean Toaru Majutsu no Index)! 
 
Also do note, this thread can be used to talk about any and all adaptions of this entertainment (anime/manga). I used SAO as the main starter subject because of its very recent relevance to open it up.
 

 

 
Stage play Yowamushi and musical Kuroshitsuji any time though. /o/

ドレスコーズ(the dresscodes) will be releasing a new single called 「人間ビデオ」(ningen video), which will contain a theme song for the upcoming CGI film Gantz:O. The single will be released on 2016.10.12, a couple days before the film release, and there will be three types.
The regular edition will include the Gantz:O theme song and one new song. The R.I.P. Deluxe edition will be the same with the inclusion of a Tour DVD. The Gantz:O edition will include the theme song, a different new song, and a PV.
Further details: ohp
 
 
 

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

^ HOT DAMN. I haven't even discovered it on my own (but the guy looks familiar. I probably did stumble on it, thinking it was FFXV, lol), thanks for sharing! I'll have to keep an eye on that. Looks bloody amazing. Props to the creator, I'm super jealous he can create such brilliance. ;-; Hope to see more of it!
 
The only other recent big thing I've been hearing a lot about is We Happy Few. Supposedly, you can finish it in two minutes. I've never heard of such a thing in a game before, please enlighten me if I've missed out on anything, but this seems to have picked up quite nicely on YouTube from what I've seen. 
 
 
Not usually one to like the first person playstyle, but I must admit, this has my attention.

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

Tried to avoid compilations. Tried.
I better not remember anything else. .-.
 
Edit: I've remembered one. ;-; d e l u h i, bruhs. Gomen. AND, too. Damn...

That's plenty of that now. This has gone on long enough. 

Tried to avoid compilations. Tried.
I better not remember anything else. .-.
 
Edit: I've remembered one. ;-; d e l u h i, bruhs. Gomen. AND, too. Damn...

Okay now that I've gotten a chance to digest all these jams (man, what a month!) I can comment. XD
 
@beni I don't know where you find all these cool artists. I know I don't follow pop that closely but they don't even seem to be the kind of trendy pop artists, they're always a little quirky or underrated and interesting! Fitz is also always surprising me with picks like these. SUPER BEAVER are a real crowd pleaser though, so I'm happy to see them show up. I couldn't see the TWEEDEES song since it's blocked in my country but there seem to be a some live recordings on youtube I was able to check out. Very nice!
 
@togzNice range of picks this month. That illion site teaser was really interesting. I was able to hunt it down and play with it a little after reading your blurb. Talk about cool marketing! And that Novembers track is back in the direction I like! Their softer side is nice but just doesn't grip me like this does. I think I'm gonna get a lot of milage out of that one. And of course I love Develop One's Faculties and Crossfaith. Crossfaith's singles never seem to stick with me like their albums do, but man Kenta's cleans are sounding soooo gooooood. 
 
@emmny Dat girugamesh track. I couldn't even handle writing about it, I'm still so salty. So bless you for that one. I can't contain my feels. ToT
 
@tetsu_sama69 *high fives* for chariots. That single rocked hard. Also digging FerrisWheeL. I will take all the old school vk feelings I can get. <3
 
@fitear1590 Man you really covered the spectrum this month! Koochewsen reqs are always A+ in my book. They keep slaying! I'm also floored by kamisai and heisenburg. Really gorgeous tunes, I'm gonna have to go hunting through more youtube recommendations if they're giving you gems like these!
 
@CAT5Holy cow. I remember liking Aimer's previous stuff but this song was a whole 'nother level of good. 

 
@Zeus I was about to give up on KEEL, but you have shown me the err of my ways. That was awesome. 

Glad to have joined this list! The choices are pretty interesting, with thumbs up for The Novembers, Develop One's Faculties, Girugamesh and Chariots!
Keel's track is monstrous, such as Shuumeigiku are pretty interesting!
Boris's song is pure ear-gasm!!

yaaay, glad to be part of this!

I did not even notice this, lmaoo. 
 
RIP LADYBEARD. Live forever in that fabulous fashion sense of yours. Guess you can't really ever forget the girls anyway because of his involvement (I just didn't recognise her in the PV >.>). Well certainly not with their new name reminder. X'D

source: http://aramajapan.com/news/ladybaby-drops-ladybeard-forms-the-idol-formally-known-as-ladybaby/61713/