Akaricchi

I wish Gackt would accidentally stand too close to a candle and have half his face melt off

i love meji but this battle got me hooked on 88
仏狂 is such a great song damn
 

"Best album"

what

10 Types of J-Music Fans
 
 
 
 
The Casual That moment when you actually try to talk about visual kei with someone.
 
 
Pros: Potentially interested in learning more.
Cons: Unfamiliar with anything else an artist may have done.
 
 
 
 
The Expat
I'm into plush dolls. Native women are so overrated...
 
 
Pros: Did you need that ameblo post translated? They know a guy...
Cons: Will probably find a way to make every music discussion about j-music.
 
 
 
 
The Hoarder
The visual kei ward will be fresh af bby
 
 
Pros: They definitely have that super rare live distro file you've been looking for in flac.
Cons: It's just on their hard drive from 2001 packed up in storage.
 
 
 
 
The Otaku
How otakus share rarez
 
 
Pros: Deep and knowledgeable about music, may have variety in taste, love spreading music
Cons: Can be very difficult to find common ground musically, don't like sharing, neurotic habits
 
 
 
 
The Historian
Visual kei alone would take up half the chart but historians disagree on how many different sub -keis there should be.
 
 
Pros: A walking encyclopedia of obscure musical knowledge
Cons: Doesn't know anything about anyone you would care about
 
 
 
 
The Elitist
Start by listening to some real music n00b
 
 
Pros: Actually has dope music taste (on occasion)
Cons: Spends too much time being an asshole, too selective, not open to new things
 
 
 
 
The Shadow
Is it safe to come out?
 
 
Pros: The coolest peeps in the scene for sure.
Cons: Rarely ever advertise themselves as a J-Music fan
 
 
 
The Bangya Believe it or not they're sitting in assigned order.
 
 
Pros: They actually support the movement.
Cons: Describe going to lives as 参戦 (lit. "going to war").
 
 
 
 
The Hype Beast
This new visual kei band's releasing a 7-TYPE live distributed 30 copy single campaign based on the days of the week all recorded, mixed, and mastered in the same day! Pre-ordered all seven already!
 
 
Pros: They're on top of everything that's happening
 
Cons: Listens to Instigate the Grief and THE RUDIE SATAN PARK for pleasure.
 
 
 
The Tanuki
qurl you won't believe what i just found about about satsuki...
 
 
Pros: They got all the details about everyone
Cons: All but one of them are a lie (and they might not know which)
 
 
I hope you enjoyed the read! Are there any you think I missed? Comment and leave them below.

Since I was into metalcore, at the beginning I liked their heavy songs, but then it took me not so long to like also the not-metalcore ones.
 
I'm not a music expert, but I truly enjoy their music. I don't know the reason why, but it could be because of Yoshiatsu's voice, that gives me chills.
 
My favourite song is ベルカとストレルカ: I love both the screamo and the melodic part and I find also the lyrics very good. My favourite PV is the ルシッド・ドリーム's one: I've enjoyed the concept and their outifts.
 
Maybe Takashi is my favourite member, but I can't really choose. I admire everyone.
 
I'm looking forward to their new cd (May, please come soon!). I'd like to have to opportunity to listen to more heavy track, but, even if i hadn't, I would be curious to find out how the new songs looks like.

Dead is Me
I Aim to Inspire
Fuck Kisaki
My Mixtape is Fire

Agitato GRIMOIRE new ver.
 

Whilst browsing my local Japanese merchandise store, I stumbled across a copy of The GazettE's D.I.N.G.K.Z.O compilation album for $10.
 
Happy to say it was a nice drive home as I listened to the CD, remembering the music that made me stay listening to them forever.

Another meh release for me, even though it's still better than Paradigm Paradox and Eiki. It sounded really disjointed and it didn't even feel as one band anymore.
And that hideous new look...

They really need hiatus.

Mysterious new collab single called 月華❁乱れ牡丹, original single released on 02/01/2016 with Eve & Hatsune Miku, guessing the one with Yuuki, for his birthday? No idea.
 

Good music is enough

Most mainstream Japanese music makes my heart bleed. Not all of it, but a very good amount of it does. I'm pro-indie like a muthafucker, but I've also heard tons of bullshit indie music too.
The difference is, most of this major label released music is so shamelessly vapid that it makes me feel like killing something!!! For major labels, there is rarely a happy medium between musical integrity and profitability - it's pretty much all about the money. It pains me to know that the mainstream music world (not just in Japan) is run by suits who know more about business than they do music. But hey, this is Earth and money is God.
I've witnessed too many times how major labels take good bands/artists and turn them into pure shit or degrade their sound considerably. A few recent examples being Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, School Food Punishment, and immi.
Also, there is such a lack of variety in the mainstream that it drives me crazy! PEOPLE WILL LISTEN TO WHATEVER THE FUCK IS PUT BEFORE THEM, so why are they scared to play more than the same 10 songs on the radio? Why do these music award shows praise the same few artists? Why aren't the major labels using their power to expose people to music of all kinds? WHY ARE THEY INSULTING US LIKE THIS!!!!!!???? Because the major labels are a bunch of pussies who could care less about music. Showing the world how diverse and wonderful music is would be too risky for them, so they'll continue to shove the same ol' shit down our throats as long as it sells. And before the masses can regurgitate the shit they've been force-fed, the powers that be will move on and stuff a new dick down their throats. I REFUSE to gag on the cock of the corrupt music industry.
I've managed to make myself angry it seems >_>

Nope.

My main issue with the visual kei scene isn't really represented in the options here, and it's something you generally get more in touch with once you get to Japan and get to experience the scene.
Firstly, the fact that a large majority of visual kei musicians more or less openly admits they don't have any artistic or personal integrity, they don't care what they produce and they don't care that their sound is exactly like every other band out there, because they know that as long as the members are pretty enough there WILL be fans, and they WILL pay you money for "company" and "favors" so that you can survive comfortably and keep rehashing the same song for a couple of years until you feel like calling it quits and do something more worthwhile with your life, or more likely, go into full time hosting business now that you have a decent circle of clients already.
 
This sort of leads me into my second issue and it's the bangya culture. It's generally really vile, and the way the girls not only talk about the musicians but also each other is quite disgusting. If the bangyas decide that a member has done something they do not approve of, that doesn't live up to their perfect ideals that they hold them all to (because god knows the fangirls don't live up to any of them) they can easily start enough shit to cause a band to break up or force a member out of the band. The issues doesn't end there though, because the few foreign bangya that exists generally adapt to this mentality and lifestyle too. They openly shun other foreigners who dare attend the lives of "their" band and ruin their "specialness", they participate in this completely daft saizen system where a designated person basically decides who gets what spot at a concert so everyone can enjoy playing ten year olds doing the "you're not allowed to play with us"-games... And the obviousness of what really drives people to be fans of these bands become so apparent when they get to this level, and it's certainly not the music.
 
To be honest, in a lot of ways I never realized how bad this was until I got there and could see it all for myself, and that's despite a 13 year stint in the scene by now.

I am always amused by how much can be fit into Koichi's hair.
 

I am always amused by how much can be fit into Koichi's hair.
 

As much as I love Meji, I'd honestly be in favor of them going on break of it meant something good would come out of it. Nepenthes was the last one that had me hooked and then they kind of lost me after that. I know it will be hard for a lot of the fans, especially since half the bands that go on break don't come out of it, but I'd be willing to wait for them to put out something great instead of more songs that sound just like the others. Or at the very least they could spend more time with each new release.
I don't know about everyone else, but I still see quite a bit of potential with them, but I guess we can only wait and see.

Can ya'll just make a 'VK sucks' section on the forum so all these damn threads can go there?

NEW PV called Lucid Dream: 


 
What do you think? 
 

NEW PV called Lucid Dream: 


 
What do you think? 
 

NEW PV called Lucid Dream: 


 
What do you think? 
 

"Oh crap, we all forgot the pizza in the oven."

Zin's English sounds like he had a stroke.
 
S'IM STIIII SAAAALSSSHGNG FOR YOU
 
 
/skips to guitar solo