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current Ryohei mood:
 

 

 
Aaand merci @Danaofor the help! <3 

My last order from RarezHut finally arrived

current Ryohei mood:
 

 

 
Aaand merci @Danaofor the help! <3 

Initial'L - Moon Light Down (all types)
Inception of Genocide - do not despair
Victim of Deception x Last Day Dream - VoD vs LDD

The pond in my neighborhood was frozen yesterday! So, I braved it and took a self-portrait on it.
It was frozen pretty solid so I actually ice skated a little too (haha).

This is so good... Why is this live-limited? >_<

BROOOO' YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM RN

BRUUUUU

BRUUUUU

BRUUUUU

Today's arrival !
 
Initial'L - Moon light down all types
the god and death stars - It isn't a singles
DALLE - ambivalence to violentia
Kisaki Project - Re:Requiem
megamasso -  雨降る夜に
megamasso - Frosty +  雨降る夜に for my girl @eiheartx (who will probably be in love after this pic :D)
 
LUNA SEA The holy night SLAVE FC limited tee shirt
LUNA SEA The holy night candle
 
FInal Fantasy XV Limited Collector's edition + Amazon JP pre order bonus
FFXV Prologue drama CD

『セラフ｡』2nd press artwork 

So, your first and only post here is a goodbye post, it's so ironic that's hilarious x'D
And you're leaving us because? You can't find what you were looking for *wink*?
Goodbye then, and good luck.
 

So, your first and only post here is a goodbye post, it's so ironic that's hilarious x'D
And you're leaving us because? You can't find what you were looking for *wink*?
Goodbye then, and good luck.
 

So, your first and only post here is a goodbye post, it's so ironic that's hilarious x'D
And you're leaving us because? You can't find what you were looking for *wink*?
Goodbye then, and good luck.
 

Well, it's a calendar, it's here only as a reminder for releases. I'm not going to write a biography each time I'm creating a post. If someone want to know more about a band, there's still a research function on the news forum.

True, but that's also what bugs me often. Also in the news forum there are often no links to official website twitter.
There why I prefer my blog thing, with just some basic information.  For me it's just: Picture, release date, tracklist, cd/dvdcovers, website/twitter. 
Also if you search here, you often also see a mess of discussions etc. Which takes sometimes also a while until you know what you wanna know, or still don't know what you wanted to know.
 
But I will help out with the calendar too.

Well, it's a calendar, it's here only as a reminder for releases. I'm not going to write a biography each time I'm creating a post. If someone want to know more about a band, there's still a research function on the news forum.

I update the calendar here with cdjapan list of VK new items added, so I should miss some releases (webshop, jpop, jrock). But if you know more osbcure stuff than me or us (the few people who are updating the calendar), then why not update our calendar instead of doing a blog apart from here?

I think your looking for one of those shady blog websites, this is a honest community and I am highly offended

BRUUUUU DAT MEGAMASSO PHOTOSET *-*
 
@Komorebiyou've bought Wonderland Savior all 3 types? I'm really surprised, I thought you hated this album and that ASAGI needed to go back on hiatus asap. How things have changed  
(I know I'm seeing this only now but I wasn't there during the holidays so I missed plenty of things).

On 2017.03.22, Royz will release its 13th single called 「RAVEN」 !
 
TYPE A : 1800 yens + taxes
CD :
1.RAVEN
2.[Title unknown A]
DVD :
1.RAVEN
 
TYPE B : 1800 yens + taxes
CD :
1.RAVEN
2.[Title unknown A] 
DVD :
1.RAVEN multi angle PV 
 
TYPE C : 1500 yens + taxes
CD :
1.RAVEN 
2. [Title unknown A]  
3. [Title unknown B] 
4.RAVEN (inst) 
5. [Title unknown A]  (inst ) 
6. [Title unknown B]  (inst) 
 
TYPE D : 1500 yens + taxes
CD : 
1.RAVEN 
2. [Title unknown A]  
3. [Title unknown C] 
4.RAVEN (inst) 
5. [Title unknown A]  (inst ) 
6. [Title unknown C]  (inst) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An one man tour called 『THE AXIA47 -RAVENS CALL-』 will begin as of  2017.04.08 to 2017.08.17.

Got into vkei in 2006, so bands around that time and later. It got dead when the autotune was popular, but lately I've been getting my interest back, because many old musicians came back and also got in touch with the community again. I voted for 2005-2010, but I like the last one, too.

But what if a spent counterculture is actually more subversive than an active one?
 
For me, there are two very different ways of thinking about countercultures and the transgressive work they are performing. The first is where you try to build rapport, get more people interested in the subculture, then flag it up as some kind of collective protest. In practice, this has always been the mode by which identity politics operated in the public domain--through aggregation, coalition-building, and ramping up the numbers. There are good reasons for this, but there are problems with it, especially for its cultural parallel. Some of us here might be familiar with a book published some decades ago by Dick Hebdige on British youth subcultures (punks, mods, etc.), in which he observed that every subculture that has historically evolved in ostensible protest against popular/mainstream culture cannot elude the inevitable fate of commodification by social and cultural institutions. This spells the death of that subculture either because the ‘transgressive’ force has by that point been entirely neutralized through its absorption into mass culture, or because the “angry young men” who are in them just to make a deafening aesthetic/political statement about themselves have migrated to another fledging subculture en masse before that could happen. I have a hunch that the "scene culture" today that Disposable alluded to might be linked to precisely this. Just look at how cultural scenes have become increasingly dispersed, and interest groups increasingly fragmented (and alienated from one other) since the last decades of the 20th century.
 
The other way of thinking about transgression, I think, is to simply not concern oneself with it. This might sound somewhat counterintuitive but I’ve always been struck by how it’s actually incredibly difficult in this day and age to be totally useless. Think of NEETs who are sitting around at home relishing how they aren't contributing to society; but by being held up in the mass media as exemplary negative "case studies" that parents ought to dutifully warn their children about, they are nevertheless serving an important social function. All of this is a very laborious way of saying that even as we admit to ourselves that it's no longer possible to be radically transgressive in the way most of us had hoped to be at some point in our lives, at least the Wildean decadent who doesn’t give a damn whether the subculture he’s participating in is still relevant or subversive wouldn’t rehearse the problematic we encountered in the first case--where, by reacting violently against the mass culture we absolutely detest we’re in some sense being held hostage to it and playing by its terms. Which reminds me of something Slavoj Zizek said: sometimes, doing nothing is the most violent thing to do. He isn’t taken very seriously by most of his colleagues within academic circles, but I think there’s at least a grain of truth in what he said there.
 
In any case...
 
If nothing else, people who stick by visual kei even after it’s no longer the fad are usually those I enjoy talking to the most. I had an uncannily similar experience in classical music: over there, the same handwringing we’re having now in this thread had taken place approximately half a century ago and by this point everyone I know has basically given up trying to ‘make it relevant’. Thankfully, it’s always more fun associating with people who consume a cultural product because they genuinely enjoy it, and not because they want to appropriate it (consciously or not) as a proxy to make a conspicuous statement about themselves.