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Ah men det gör du ju xD

One of the best newcomers... sucks D:

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Couldn't stand the summer hotness so I went to cut my hair short. Unfortunately the barber failed to cut as the pic i showed him and gave me an Ohara Sakurako mushroom head look instead. :/
 
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i just couldn´t resist posting again. those blueshades are really kickin´!
 

Me working as KAMIJO and MASASHI's staff!

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Last recent photo (implant looks fine, tho, I am so happy with that )
 



Aaaand...
I finally got my long awaited boots, so I took some comparasion pics. Left are mine, right is SHOW, from JIGGYS SHOP. Unfortunately I don't own the whole set (it's really hard to get them, since they're sold out), but it's okay. SHOW looks so thin, I can't believe xDD 
 

I think you're being a little too defensive with the fact that someone doesn't agree with your opinion. I don't have to explain why i think they sound cookie cutter as I mentioned before the way you may take in things is different than how I would. I already said I respected your opinion or rather "u still cool for liking what you like." But even if I posted a whole list of bands with a similar sound and concept.... you like this song so you are going to hear it how you want to. And cookie cutter is such a loose term, if there was an actual definition of what the ideal cookie cutter band would be... then of course it wouldn't even be a term. Every band is going to sound at least a little different, but the idea of the direction of this sound TO ME has been done before and is very popular right now. Get a hot dark look, play a few heavy chords and throw in an ok solo. BAM success. A cookie cuter band to me is a band that plays it safe. This was safe. Their older stuff might not have been amazing either, but at least I could tell it was BFN right away. If this song came up on random, the only reason I'd know it was them would be the dying demon frog in Ice's throat. -shrug- That is my opinion. Take it or leave it. I'm not saying hey don't like them. Or hey they really suck a lot. I'm just saying this is bland. and the music isn't very impressive based on my tastes and views on the common mediocre standards.
 
I'm not going to post again because this is getting off topic and too tense. 

Someone obvs didn't read the last Dir en grey reviews....
 
This song is a total regression in their writing abilities to me. But I'm hoping its a one-off ~heavy~ song and they'll go back to more melodic stuff asap.

idk. I watched the PV with Biopanda... and... It was so unsatisfying. Not to mention Ice has reverted back to terrible screaming vocals. This is really cookie cutter music and bad vocals. I feel cheated tbh.

Great and accurate observations from the two people above.
 
I have taken note of this myself; both that these bands get instant, albeit not particularly sizeable fanbases upon formation without even having released music or even previous band history of the members. If one goes to the facebook pages of these bands you are quick to find out that these are not the people that for example frequent this very forum here, but instead they're almost their own strange breed that is relatively distant from all the happenings in Japanese visual kei. It is true that there are people who cross over and are more in the know, however they remain a minority in a very odd community where even the more universal bands like X and Gazette make far seldom make appearances in their tastes as of those of the people here. The fans present on the social media pages of these nordic groups are moar likely to be into various emo bollocks than whatever just made it into the indie Oricon charts last week. in Tumblr I have not once seen people spamming material from both continents, ever. 
 
Yet despite all this, these bands appear and disappear very fast making very little impact spite inexplicably amassing a considerable amount of facebook likes and youtube views. The fact of the matter is that these bands are the shite playing at the youth center near you and they fail to capitalise on their dubious popularity of a mysterious origin, and end up meeting the same fate that by and large every other "local" band does. The future of visual kei, is not Stockholm nor Helsinki, not the least because here we lack a certain VISUAL KEI infrastructure that allows many bands to last longer and gain more monertary capital backing them that exists in Japan. Being familiar with the circles here, I can say with total confidence that these bands exist almost completely separate of "us", and the weeaboo of the mid 2000's fad are a dying breed, sentenced to death with no possibility to make an appeal, and this is the carcass of the local scene taking its last breaths before it rots away on the pavement. If one of these bands takes off, Japanese visual kei doesn't benefit from it the slightest. Yohio is popular as fuck in Sweden, but where are the Japanese bands touring there? The record sales? Nowhere, that's where. 
 
It's worth noting that Yohio is the only western visual kei band to have ever had a physical release and we all know that was not because we worked his way up the ranks, gathering an organically grown fanbase along the way. He got into Eurovision and broke through with the kids, now working to establish himself there through various different projects.
He obviously flopped in Japan since he has pretty much completely ceased to promote there, has he not? His first solo LP got a release there but the second didn't as far as I know. I would have done the same, and it appears that he has managed to make himself a name in Sweden which is commendable. As a side note according to hear-say this project is the result of him not particularly caring for the fact that his fanbase is at least 3 years short of their first pubic hairs, and therefore this is him really expressing himself without giving a toss, if you will. 

Sorry for keeping this going but I just felt like I had to add something to this. As a swede, having to endure the "success" of yohio who's also a swede...in sweden -.-' I just want to add that the majority of his fans, here, are people who don't care for japanese vk or vk at all for that matter, they like him and whatever he does (and the other members of his former band seremedy), so I don't see how supporting them is supporting the japanese VK scene... I went to a live gig for a japanese act, and the band to play before was the vocalist of seremedy's new band, and most of the people who attended just wanted to see that, they didn't care at all for the japanese band (I felt so bad for them, I almost felt like telling them I'm sorry for them at the signing afterwards), so this new gaijin VK is like it's own genre it seems. I can't really say how it is overseas, because I get the feeling most who likes Yohio etc likes japanese vk too?

Oh my god, thank you so much!! *3* you've been very helpful!

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I could post scans of HEAVENS later, when I get the time to scan them.

oh yes... again, I'm sorry on the behalf of sweden, for doing shitmusic.
Ever since Yohio it has become an embarrassment to say you're into VK, mostly because people think you're into Yohio and his fanbase concists of a bunch of 5-15year olds.... so everyone now thinks that VK has that kind of fanbase, EVERYWHERE. and everything is sooo "innovative" eventhough we who know VK know it's not...so yes, they'll think that cover is very stylish and new -.-'''

u wot 

Fuck it, bring back UnsraW

I prefer being a nightowl, it is so much quieter and music tends to sound better because of that. But responsibilities has me waking up early.