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I tried to avoid getting involved in this one, however just to simply state my understanding of how it works:

I feel that overseas fans downloading music really doesn't effect their sales. (as stated quite a few times). As of right now, we're not really a target audience since money has not been spent to promote and distribute their goods. cds etc to overseas fans. The fact that some overseas fans even go out of their way to spend the money and buy a cd would be a bonus considering what was spent to only promote and distribute in Japan. Yes in the long run, cd and goods purchased in overseas countries will most certainly play a role in deciding a tour here or not. I don't see a bunch of uploads coming from sources in Japan, they're usually uploaded and shared through overseas fans anyway.

The one thing that annoys me most is the fact that people still pull the whole. "Well if you love the band so much you'll find a way to purchase their stuff." 
I'd like to address the fact that a large percentage of people in to visual kei overseas are teenagers who don't have the means to even buy themselves their own shampoo let alone a $40 album. Plus from personal experience, I could love a band as much as i want to but if it's between keeping my water on or making sure I have gas money to get to work and buying a cd... hell, sorry for being responsible but i'm going to choose to pay my bills. I won't have a damn thing to play that cd on if my electricity gets shut off. but at least it will look nice on the shelf. 

Another thing that was brought up was the numbers that fill the live houses this band plays at. I don't listen to Nocturnal Bloodlust so i don't have a solid opinion of their style. Regardless, whether people are downloading or not, if they like the band and have the money and are able to go see them, they'll go. Whether it be promotion and marketing, or the band just not really hitting home with their style choices... overseas downloads do not play a part in how successful they are in their own country. 

I'm not saying downloading music illegally is all A+ okay now, no. Every artist deserves the support and i can understand. I'd be pissed off too if someone started handing out something I spent a shit ton of money on and hard work and efforts to make to just anyone. I'd feel under appreciated for the amount of people who claim to like it. But it should be common sense with the way the industry is and how file sharing has been for YEARS before NB even formed. 

File sharing is and always will be there, so they need a game change because as stated somewhat before... NB has 99 problems and file sharing ain't one of them.

I tried to avoid getting involved in this one, however just to simply state my understanding of how it works:

I feel that overseas fans downloading music really doesn't effect their sales. (as stated quite a few times). As of right now, we're not really a target audience since money has not been spent to promote and distribute their goods. cds etc to overseas fans. The fact that some overseas fans even go out of their way to spend the money and buy a cd would be a bonus considering what was spent to only promote and distribute in Japan. Yes in the long run, cd and goods purchased in overseas countries will most certainly play a role in deciding a tour here or not. I don't see a bunch of uploads coming from sources in Japan, they're usually uploaded and shared through overseas fans anyway.

The one thing that annoys me most is the fact that people still pull the whole. "Well if you love the band so much you'll find a way to purchase their stuff." 
I'd like to address the fact that a large percentage of people in to visual kei overseas are teenagers who don't have the means to even buy themselves their own shampoo let alone a $40 album. Plus from personal experience, I could love a band as much as i want to but if it's between keeping my water on or making sure I have gas money to get to work and buying a cd... hell, sorry for being responsible but i'm going to choose to pay my bills. I won't have a damn thing to play that cd on if my electricity gets shut off. but at least it will look nice on the shelf. 

Another thing that was brought up was the numbers that fill the live houses this band plays at. I don't listen to Nocturnal Bloodlust so i don't have a solid opinion of their style. Regardless, whether people are downloading or not, if they like the band and have the money and are able to go see them, they'll go. Whether it be promotion and marketing, or the band just not really hitting home with their style choices... overseas downloads do not play a part in how successful they are in their own country. 

I'm not saying downloading music illegally is all A+ okay now, no. Every artist deserves the support and i can understand. I'd be pissed off too if someone started handing out something I spent a shit ton of money on and hard work and efforts to make to just anyone. I'd feel under appreciated for the amount of people who claim to like it. But it should be common sense with the way the industry is and how file sharing has been for YEARS before NB even formed. 

File sharing is and always will be there, so they need a game change because as stated somewhat before... NB has 99 problems and file sharing ain't one of them.

Well yes of course, by all means if you have the budget and save for things go ahead and buy the thing. But I mean in a generalization, a highschool student who doesn't have a job (majority here in the US) can't really be expected to have a budget to begin with. I mean yeah you have to work for the things you want but people use that statement "If you like it, buy it" like money grows on trees. Even as a college student, if the parents are putting you through college, which is thousands and thousands of dollars... I'd feel a little guilty asking them to buy me every release of all the bands I like. 
I myself don't even have the privilege to have supportive parents enough to put me through college so i work a full-time job and pay for classes out of pocket while maintaining a budget for rent, food, gas, and other necessary things for a stable life.
If you have a job, great. But what I'm saying is people have other financial priorities and in comparison to the economic state of a lot of countries, importing CDs and goods are expensive.

Being a teenager doesn't mean much in terms of not being able to buy products. Whatever you want will typically cost money. If you can't afford something then dont buy it. I didn't grew up rich or anything like that but that only thought me that whatever it is you want, you must work for it. In my case, I spent my spare time working after school and fulltime during the summer break. I could afford whatever I wanted within budget of course.

I tried to avoid getting involved in this one, however just to simply state my understanding of how it works:

I feel that overseas fans downloading music really doesn't effect their sales. (as stated quite a few times). As of right now, we're not really a target audience since money has not been spent to promote and distribute their goods. cds etc to overseas fans. The fact that some overseas fans even go out of their way to spend the money and buy a cd would be a bonus considering what was spent to only promote and distribute in Japan. Yes in the long run, cd and goods purchased in overseas countries will most certainly play a role in deciding a tour here or not. I don't see a bunch of uploads coming from sources in Japan, they're usually uploaded and shared through overseas fans anyway.

The one thing that annoys me most is the fact that people still pull the whole. "Well if you love the band so much you'll find a way to purchase their stuff." 
I'd like to address the fact that a large percentage of people in to visual kei overseas are teenagers who don't have the means to even buy themselves their own shampoo let alone a $40 album. Plus from personal experience, I could love a band as much as i want to but if it's between keeping my water on or making sure I have gas money to get to work and buying a cd... hell, sorry for being responsible but i'm going to choose to pay my bills. I won't have a damn thing to play that cd on if my electricity gets shut off. but at least it will look nice on the shelf. 

Another thing that was brought up was the numbers that fill the live houses this band plays at. I don't listen to Nocturnal Bloodlust so i don't have a solid opinion of their style. Regardless, whether people are downloading or not, if they like the band and have the money and are able to go see them, they'll go. Whether it be promotion and marketing, or the band just not really hitting home with their style choices... overseas downloads do not play a part in how successful they are in their own country. 

I'm not saying downloading music illegally is all A+ okay now, no. Every artist deserves the support and i can understand. I'd be pissed off too if someone started handing out something I spent a shit ton of money on and hard work and efforts to make to just anyone. I'd feel under appreciated for the amount of people who claim to like it. But it should be common sense with the way the industry is and how file sharing has been for YEARS before NB even formed. 

File sharing is and always will be there, so they need a game change because as stated somewhat before... NB has 99 problems and file sharing ain't one of them.

please refer to my post # 3 in this thread.
I'm not attacking you or anything, but this thread has really turned into a looping broken record at this point.

They should change their name to Nocturnal Butthurt tbh

Meku's currently being tortured by Kamijo, and I'm happy to watch him stay there for a while. I loved Galeyd, and followed them religiously for the entire year I was living in Tokyo. So, I"m okay with him being forced into a corner with his back against the wall to whatever Kamijo wants... at least for a little while.
 
There's another reason the fans flocked to Galeyd after Deluhi. The company and management who worked with Deluhi went on to work with Galeyd. Their entire label was made up of ex-deluhi workers. In addition, for a while, Galeyd's OHP was actually deluhi.com
 

I mean i can see the small comparison and why it's over stated... but I never really got in to DELUHI and i tried to. It's not that i thought they sucked or something, I just wanted to listen to different things, which is why I can understand and appreciate your bias towards DELUHI. I actually did enjoy DIVIDE and Sujk's solo thing, maybe I just wasn't in to Juri's voice so much? Either way both were skilled bands that did revolve around one main composer. It's amazing how I could sort of tell just by hearing the tracks that Meku had pulled from really composing as much. Especially in the last two releases before the hiatus/disbandment. They were doing good so I wonder what honestly changed Meku's mind to pursue other things.
 
I know Meku did the thing for Kamijo which was a little weird, not sure why. and as rsasai said, Toki has been in some session projects and what not. 
Now we play the waiting game. haha.
I hope they come back to do something whether they work together or not. Especially Garo because he has the voice of an angel ;___;

^ This actually sounds a lot like Leda as well lol, which was precisely why he left Galneryus to form DELUHI.
 
I kinda feel that the comparison between DELUHI and GALEYD is often overstated, other than the fact that both bands effectively revolve around one uber-talented musician and his quality compositions that are a cut higher than the rest of the core-ish vk bands. Maybe factor in as well how the two bands were playing somewhat contemporaneously with each other (hence after DELUHI's disbandment a good proportion of their fans flocked to GALEYD, with the rest of them - as is often the case in such scenarios - quietly unimpressed). Yet in terms of the actual sound, I feel they aren't even that close? Even Lustknot. sounds closer to DELUHI than GALEYD does (especially if we take vocals into account).
 
Admittedly I'm more of a DELUHI fan than a GALEYD fan so I hope I haven't been too off-topic x.x I do wish that their members go on to achieve greater things (especially Meku); they definitely have the potential to.

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I watched it last year with my gf at the time. It was definitely enjoyable and the I remember the final episode being pretty intense. I need to check out the new season...

I actually watched it by accident because I didnt have anything to watch and i was just so hooked!!!! I watched all of it in one day...and then I watched the second season in one day when it came out.

So recently I got sucked into the (very expensive) world of BJDs and I was wondering if anyone else around here was into the hobby?
 


 
these are my two girls.
The top one is Hyejoo and the bottom one is Mamo
I got them pretty recently and I really really love them to death 8D
So if you have them, share pics, stories, all the things 8D

I always preferred french toast but idk if that counts.

best release of 2013 in my opinion.

best release of 2013 in my opinion.

Perhaps its because waflles are indeed NOT better than pancakes!  mwahaaahahaha

I've seen a few episodes in passing, but never watched the series on my own (and would like to). It seems to be an interesting storyline and very progressive in terms of characters, which I believe is where a lot of the popularity and hype lies.

So I noticed they put up the second season for this series. I had originally started watching it because once again I couldn't find anything else to watch on netflix and found myself finishing the whole first season. When I saw that the second season was up, I wasn't sure if I was excited because I was bored or excited because i ended up enjoying it a little. It makes me think more of high school than prison. www.
 
Has anyone else watched this?

sorry for party rockin.

I'd love to see a collaboration between Leda and Meku, though I don't know exactly what would happen when they argue over who gets to write the songs. xD