desparejo86

My fave accessory makes my throat look slit.
I'm not creepy at all, I swear. 

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Sorry... but... I can't...

Syndrome, kids. Syndrome.
 


 


 
Why are there only live tracks on youtube? Kisaki fangirls must have dwindled. 

Yep, they were really frustrating. Those early singles are INSANE. And then, after the first album hit, only sparse moments of greatness here and there. TONS of filler. Some bands are just not tailored for albums. 蜉蝣 was one of them. 

Couldn't have said it better.
 
It's like Kagerou were always able to write 2 or 3 great songs per release no matter the length of the CD... which meant incredible maxi-singles near the beginning of their career and generally lackluster albums.

To be honest, I wouldn't know. When a man has made such an impact on you already and then there's also all of his extensive history of musical releases to choose from, that's where it gets difficult. There's a distinct sound that man has; in earlier years you'd only have to hear one note on his bass and you'd know it was him, although unfortunately within the course of Visual Kei's destination his sound eventually faded into nothingness, which puts him more in the background or so at least I think. --- Although with his compositions there's always something I recognize as being his, his lyrics, the wailing synthesizers, they always fit right in to that cavity my heart is opened with and it only absorbs everything of him. Even though there's a repetetive theme he uses for his lyrics, it always gets to me somehow, but I suppose we all have this person we so greatly adore no matter their quality or quantity.
 
For me that's Kisaki, for me that shall always be Kisaki. No matter his band, solo projects or whatever material he puts on the market. I crave it, I need it. 
I don't label him to having only one band that's my favourite. He's my favourite, no matter where, when or what he played, and it depends entirely on my own personal mood what band of his I can currently say is my favourite of the week, since it changes quickly.
 
I love all of his projects greatly, but there's just one song that stands out above all, and that's 勿忘草 (Wasurenagusa, respectively with Jui on vocals). Mind me, I'm a 20 year old woman with a steadily maintained water reservoir, but this song literally gets me to tears every single other time I hear it. It's just one big emotional wave that passes over you and keeps you captured until the very last second. I can zone out entirely when listening to it and remain in that daze for an hour longer if I want to. 
 
And before I ramble on (which is likely to happen when about him), so this is where I end it.

I'm single please date me anyone.

Nah, i totally see where you're coming from and how it can rub people the wrong way. To be quite honest, i could care less about the visuals for any band, even VK. From what I heard though, i guess EU is more open to these kinds of alternative styles so its not weird for a group of peeps to wanna dress up and add some pizzaz to their look. When done right, it's also an excellent marketing tool/ way to draw in more fans and recognition (Nocturnal Bloodlust is also a nice contrast to this) and in the case of Yohio and BatAAr, a way into the VK nitch. It has its benefits. 
 
I actually would like to believe that in the near future BatAAr is at a place where they no longer have 2 rely on the VK aspect and can just as you say, be "themselves." They have one hell of a catalog backing them as well as Patrik (say what y'all want about him), who is one hell of a composer. It can be done.  

Patrik has always seemed like a cool guy and I respect anyone out there doing the damn thing full on, especially over a long time. Do your damn thing dude!
 
Saying that?
 
I don't like this song, and I don't care for this stuff in general. I've never liked any of western visual kei stuff. I don't get it. When I would see heavily VK influenced bands on Myspace/Mp3.com/Soundclick back in the day, it confused and annoyed me. What need is there for an imitation when we have access to the real thing? If I was at SXSW and someone told me there was a Japanese guy in a bar playing authentic delta blues... I would walk on by. Why the hell would I want to see that? I can see real delta blues players. Same goes for Western VK. Why?
 
Like, if you're going to take a VK influence and heavily mix it with other influences... there's certainly potential there. But going all in as a "We are a Visual Kei band from (not Japan)" kinda thing.... No way.
 
Chris Hart (クリス・ハート) an American singer who made it big in Japan (had an Oricon #3 recently), actually started out as a wannabe-visual rocker under the name Nikita Rose (his band Eden Cell were actually really good!). He did the visual look, the clothes, the BC rich guitars, the Gackt-esque mannerisms... it was silly. BUT once he dropped all of that bullshit and decided to just be himself (an American guy who loves Japan and Japanese music), he made it big time because he wasn't imitating anymore; he was doing his own thing.
 
That is where it's at, in my opinion. I'm not trying to talk down to or offend anyone, it's just a subject I'm really passionate about.

I think I lost interest once the novelty of "I know this guy from the jrocknyc shoutbox" wore off. That said, I liked the first two minis, but nothing grabbed me after that.

they've been flopping in shitty internet band limbo since I was like in 6th grade RESPECT 

lmao still trying huh

No, please, no

FUCK OFF YOSHIKI

Am I vk yet? 

love hate nimbly~
love hate nimbly~
the fortune flower told me that I should care about you - one-sided love

Hi Everybody ! 

So i'm Sora215 here   . I'm 21, living in france, and ... I'm a visual kei fan since i'm 12, and even before I was already into japanese stuffs, like animes and so on   

I really hate introductions, think it's quite hard to do ahaha.

I'm currently looking for some new groups, because i made a break in my "visual" period, and now all my bands are off or disbanded    (Okay not all, I love, SuG, Lm.C, An Cafe, and Versailles (they're gonna do new stuffs ! and i just discovered jupiter)  And I'll be at Kamijo's concert in september in Paris
I love video games, music (I have so many CD of all king of genres), Tv shows, cooking    I do some papercraft too

Well, i think that's all, i'm done with this   
 

This is Anja! Half yorkie, half dachshund, 100% insane

Kagerou.
 
They had some incredible songs that, to me, defined the era (KAKOKEI SHINJITSU. SHIROI KARASU), but they came up WAY short every time they did a full length. Their albums were lazy shit jam packed with filler.... never even came close to having a classic, genre defining visual album. Which sucks, because they definitely could have.

Mana, Kozi, and Yu~ki onstage together? As far fetched as it is....
 
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Hi guys,
 
Hmmm…I haven’t wrote a forum intro in more than a decade now, well, let’s see how this goes.
 
I was a 90's kid who got into J-Rock in the beginning of the ‘00s when I upgraded to electric guitar, at the time, it was Glay, L’arc en Ciel and Dir en Grey that dominated the scene. Slowly, I got pulled towards the lesser known stuff like Malice Mizer(at the time that is), Raphael, hide, Due le Quartz and a few others that I forget now. I spent a great deal of fun with VK during those years, a couple of friends and I formed a band and we used to rehearse with J-Rock(and J-Pop) music. My favorite bands at the time were Malice Mizer, Glay and Dir en Grey (but over the years Malice Mizer became the victor).
 
I haven’t been catching up for the past 7-8 years due to the change in musical style and that the old stuff were kind of getting lost in the sea of new VK hype, also for the fact that I was moving towards University and my hobbies subsequently changed. During those years I have discovered new gems every once in a while – Acidman, Versailles, Maximum the Hormone and Tsubakiya Quartette, so I guess I wasn’t completely cut off.
 
While watching Malice Mizer’s Merveilles l’espace a few days ago, the nostalgia crept back up, and I found myself wanting to catch up with everything that I’ve missed out so far, the love for J-Rock and VK somehow revived itself after all these years.
 
So in the meantime, I thought I’d drop by and say hi to the community; it appears it’s become way bigger than how I remembered it, and I’m glad it is so. So if there’s anything I’m missing out on, I’m counting on you guys to fill me in
 
Yoroshiku,
 
Shiro

Hi guys !

So, it's time for an introduction there. Before anything else, please forgive me for any mistake since english is not my mother tongue. But I will do my best

My nick name is Undead burger, and my real name is... unpronounceable if you're not french. Mathilde, like what the heck ? It's just the french version of Mathilda. ANYWAYS.
I'm 21 and I live in france, in the southern part : French Riviera, sun, Cannes film festival and all the rest. I'm currently in a relation ship if you are curious about it, and I plan to become a funeral counselor in my adult life. I have various interests in life and death is one of them. Like, I've been obsessed with it since I was 8 or 9 years old when I found out about egyptian mummies. I'm kinda weird, but I promise i don't bite My other main interest is foreign languages. I obviously speak French and English (even if I still make silly mistakes.) I have basics in Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese (been studying it for 2 years now). I also do love piercings and tattoos. For the moment I only have one tattoo (a bat on my left clavicle) and two piercings (a neck surface and a microdemarl on my chest) But I have a looooot of other plans for my body when I'll have money lel. I do play video games A LOT, I'm insomniac, I smoke too much, I don't eat enough healthy things and I'm a crazy cat lady.
 
My favourite band EVER is Dir en Grey, I fell in love with them back in 2007 when I heard their song Zan (the first version obviously). Thanks to youtube recommendations! One of the things I like the most is collecting/making dir en grey memes by the way. When it comes to japanese bands, I like the heavy ones mostly. Such as Dadaroma, Deviloof, Lynch, Noctural bloodlust, DIO, Maximum the hormone, Nega and so on. But strangly, I'm also a huge fan of Kamijo (this includes Versailles, New sodmy and his solo career), I do worship this man hair honestly. 

I also listen to metal and whatevercore a lot. But not only, I do love strange/weird electronic music like witch house or J-crore for example. And I have guilty pleasures like everyone else...

I guess this is long enough. See you soon guys

i did and looks like black metal and glam. and the anime looks like western people. and when did i imply or say "Visual Kei and anime started in South Korea."
 
super sayain my ass combdown in the front with spikes in the back this plu the guy in black above. And you must not know what masculinity is. The only thing masculine was maybe the dance or dance parts, like thrusting.
 
You keep saying japan, but like i said it's empty. It took from high fashion, and movies yesss. anime, noo.
 
WoW basketball outfits, yeah that's totally only anime related. lmao please get a grip
 
and ill say it again why are you talking about people who are not hear. And what are you saying with
 
which all come out too what you want to believe. And  it is pointless as you alone got upset that i said they both wear make up and felt the need to push your blind VK thoughts and attitude onto me, and im not having it.