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  1. Nice to meet y'all!

    y'know on some level i know i'm not gonna be into vkei for my whole life, so i just hope whenever i do find stuff i like better i can still look back on this dumbass genre fondly like that.

    If you don't mind me asking - what bands (in general) are you into now and which vk bands stood the test of time for you?


  2. aas part of my attempts at teaching myself japanese, i thought i'd take an album i liked, and translate the whole thing to see how my translations compared against others'.
    So with the exception of two tracks, these have all been translated before, but in the chance that i may have gone with a different meaning/inflection of a phrase or such, i'll post my results here....
    but please don't assume any degree of 'accuracy' to these, as 1) i don't know what the hell i'm doing and 2) i tried to prioritize readability over accuracy anyway.
    To keep this post from becoming enormous i'll put just the english here under spoiler tags, but if anyone wants to compare my translations against the kanji in a more readable format, i've put it all in a google doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXwShjwBLSL-PE3EaFZHnl1F_O7ePT4xTaXsCefdsrg/edit?usp=sharing

     

    01- IDEA

    Spoiler

    Hey

    Surely you can hear them too

     

    That blue-nosed clown you saw back then

    Or the red-eyed hippopotamus

     

    Morningrise as the rain falls on a sunday

     

    Those colours and scents, you can hear them too

     

    The navy-blue curtain is opened

     

    My ideals take flight.

     

    02- シアトリカル・ブルーブラック

    Spoiler

    “Theatrical Navy-Blue”

    For both sides of myself... the time has come

     

    As I try to stomach this stale story

    As it breaks me inside - am I not pleased?

    Someone has to say, “isn’t death the greatest relief?”

    So I try to live to want to die

     

    If a vibrant life is drawn in twenty four colours of crayon

    I’m no more than three dusty colours of pen

     

    Shedding the wires of that birdcage

    Before my eyes is that navy-blue curtain

    To start the show, I alone, draw the heavens

     

    “Theatrical Navy-Blue”

    I plant the deadly medicine

    “Theatrical Navy-Blue”

    And to you, I take brilliant flight

    To bring these writings more into my heart

     

    But still, I can’t heal this emptiness

     

    In my dreams of tomorrow, I see yesterday’s scar

    Today I’ll try only to walk

    To start the show, I alone, draw the heavens

     

    “Theatrical Navy-Blue”
    Have you become our oxygen?

    “Theatrical Navy-Blue”

    I’ll repaint it all

    To a green visage

     

    Those who suffer still are able to walk

     

    “Theatrical Black Shine”

    I’ll repaint with you

    On invisible wings

     

    03- DiefiL

    Spoiler

    Why are you
    Why are you
    Cutting your wrists and wanting to die?

    The scar remains

    If tomorrow still comes, the tears only return again

     

    Why do I

    Why do I

    Think about living?

    Into countless vortices

    Let’s join hands and dive

     

    One spoonful of happiness...

    Like a drug, makes death seem regrettable

     

    A dying man needs to die.

    Won’t anything you found worth living for

    Just be scattered in desperation again?

     

    Why do you

    Why do you

    Live only in annoyance

    Unable to be loved

    Alone you dive

     

    Why am I

    Why am I
    Bound by living?

    In countless vortices

    I sing to the scars

     

    As you try to fly with only one wing I’ll give you a push...

     

    Around the world people manage to live

    And think it strange to see a knife in our right hands

     

    A dying man needs to die.

    I’ll be your one wing

    Someday, won’t we be able to find something to live for?

     

    04- Hungry Psychopath

    Spoiler

    When I ran away from the pain, the angel of emotion fell like rain.

    I focused my thoughts...

     

    I’m tired of melodrama like the last page of a cliche novel

     

    Hungry Psychopath

    So I’ll be broken

    So I’ll be drowned

    Those ambigious magical words

    I still love

    Hungry Psychopath

    So please break me

    Drown us both

    Those words when we met...

    Does your love still wait?

     

    Surely these ideals and reality have become a world apart.

    A melancholy temperature...

     

    I’ll go and pick you

    To augment myself

    The sky is blue

     

    Somewhere behind your ears

    There might be another you

     

    Hungry Psychopath

    “Stealing my heart... what do you mean?”

    “Suddenly making your stomach hurt... just like that”

    Lyrical with you

     

    05- Mr. レインは死んだふり

    Spoiler

    I woke up Mr. Rain

    Frozen solid until yesterday...

    Even if I close my eyes

    Even if I talk about it

    It comes in

    And doesn’t disappear

     

    Overdose... Mr. Rain

    I’m tired... of thinking about it

    Even if I open the door

    Even if I walk away

    It comes in

    And doesn’t disappear

     

    Time does not stop even though I act like I’m dead

    The attacking arrows are like centipedes frightening me

    I’m okay

    I cried

    If I’m able to live

    I’ll show you

    The view of the other side

     

    Lonely screaming Mr. Rain

    There is no death for a god

    For the people seeking light

    You’re supposed to be that god

     

    I’ll listen

    To that painful scene


    06- RAVEN

    Spoiler

    The flightless raven

     

    Resonance, a raised flag

    The voice is scattered

     

    The lynch mob

    Lights a fire in the minority

    “Don’t die, it’s okay”

    Meddling irresponsibly in other peoples’ affairs

    Higher powers say “It’s for the future!”

    What a headache

    For that reason we question every day we live

     

    I can’t accept while keeping my mouth shut

    The silent judgement from adults’ eyes

    The mute keyboard is beaten and discarded, losing sight of tomorrow

    The contracted costume

    Is swallowed up by modern times

    Let go of this thread, let go of ourselves into the darkness of solitude

     

    In the morning as you wish to die, even hope melts from your mouth

    People in the rainfall don’t notice their surroundings

    These black dirty feathers can’t see tomorrow

    Even as I wish to disappear into the night, there’s no escape to rely on

    I’ve lost sight of anyone who would hold my hand

    If someday I see that light before I take off

     

    -there is no light-

     

    “Hello, flightless birthday!”

     

    I don’t know right from left

    I don’t know my own self

    This cruel world has me saying things like “I want to die.”

    This information flutters around the world

    Our wounds forsaken

    Those words spiral into tears and loneliness

     

    As morning comes again, will this voice as well?

    Someday those days will come

    When we’ll be as migrating crows

    Uncaring of the unspeakable scars

    Able to shout that I’m alive

     

    Even if I live one day I’ll die

    Even if I lived once one day I’ll be dead

    In this time as I’m alive

    Any happiness isn’t enough


    07- 埋葬虫

    Spoiler

    The world of coexistance

    Now opens new resonance

    Eats into imagination’s biscuit

    In a game of musical chairs

    The fault of hatred

    The teddy bear’s not laughing

     

    Come, come

    The throat gives moistness to

    A tasseled, malicous, unknown

    Shining, pearl spirit; 420 in the moon

     

    Biting

    Into pale blue

    A temporary mark... it hurts

    Wandering to seek a bone

    Those days I didn’t know good from bad

    Shaking in vomit and love

     

    I eat so I can spit out my life

    Inverted

    Betrayal laughed in the past, asking... eat


    08- Contagion

    Spoiler

    I leave myself to the shapeless melody

    Grief... is a surprisingly shining transience

     

    Again I draw my hands in the delicate dusk

    Stirring up a prayer

     

    Hey, you can hear it

    The shadow thinning out

    Clawing open an arpeggio under the sheets

     

    To take on this lyric in the shadow again

    What you draw will be hidden in the tears

    To take on this lyric in your shadow again

    It becomes painful and I scream

     

    “The separate volumes have become like one”

    You said, seeming more like me already

     

    To take on this voice as you fall asleep

    Crying like a child to the invisible wall

    To take on tomorrow against the shadow of now

    I glare at the time when I could see nothing


    09- Echo

    Spoiler

    I turned my eyes from that clear day

    Inviting a thread of innocence

    Was tragedy reflecting through the cracks I had closed?

     

    If I put it into words, as only a bitter gift to the past...

    Even those memories cut into the skin like glass

     

    If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be

    The past I’ve turned away from shook with that sound

    I closed my ears to the silence that my eyes couldn’t meet

    Because I knew your pain too

     

    And if I start to ignore it all and pretend to smile

    Would you still cry? Or would you smile with me?

     

    As though we were falling, our fingers searched to meet

    Like a child you cried, and I couldn’t break that image

    So I close my eyes

     

    If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be

    Suddenly tired and crying... as outside it rains

    “If I can’t have you I’ll disappear”

    Codependent reverberation

     

    Were you to suddenly die

    I would be relieved

    Nothing more to cry over

    Nothing more to suffer

    Nothing more to love...

    “‘I love you’

    Was that moment put into words

    The abandoned past shook in that sound”

     

    “‘Because I love you’ I embraced you as you collapsed

    Suddenly tired and crying... as outside it rains”

     

    If it’s what you want I’ll become what you want me to be

    Counting the blank space in my hands...

    Tomorrow is as unseeable as a deep darkness
    The past is in full bloom
    I fall into a hole without end...

     

    Traces of dry rain

    And eternity are quietly gathered


    10- hatred × tangle red × hunger red

    Spoiler

    Red draws deeply closer

    As we go looking for flowers

    We block our eyes from that place which hung by chains

     

    You somehow disappeared

    This world is so vast

    What fantasy could have us forget such suffering?

     

    Children acting like the devil

    Are the soldiers protecting that place

    We traded common sense for the guile held in our hands

     

    Hatred tangle red world

    Hatred hunger red

    Everyone flattens others for their own sake

    Hatred tangle red world

    Hatred hunger red

    I’ve lost the words to say ‘I’m just living,’ that even now don’t change

     

    From hidden cracks

    The kitten’s carcass laughs

    If the future were abandoned, I would choose to sleep

     

    I am a slave, just something in this world made to be a slave
    Will the answer I’ve waited for come? If needed, it’s something.


    11- 瞬間のアイディアル

    Spoiler

    Light

    Hide the moment’s truth

    I beg

    For a momentary ideal

     

    Ah... kick away the countless scattered glass beads

    My body is pierced and I tremble in pain

    Ah... I don’t want to take in that sight, of falsehood and sheeps’ eyes

    Again I’m spoiled for telling myself this is fate

     

    Pray... this world is always the same

    Ray... I don’t even want to save it

     

    Light

    Engulf the moment’s suffering

    Like embracing hidden wounds

    Light

    Hide the moment’s truth

    I beg

    For a momentary ideal

     

    Ah, the navy-blue bell sounds, as my fingertips are shaved off

    As my freedom is stolen, the gathered eyes are laughing

    Ah, “together, shall we break it?” I longed to hear those words

    Stolen by the flow of time we run away

     

    Pray... this world is always the same

    Ray... i want it to be saved


    12- BOWWOW

    Spoiler

    This is just like me

    Haven’t you noticed?
    Bite and lick

    Bite and lick

    Bite down and don’t let go

     

    Touched with pain

    A tearful smile

    Bite and lick

    Bite and lick

    Bite down and don’t let go

     

    Even now, when lyrical and free

    This mind still lacks the strength to understand

     

    As the late show sings its ending

    You gently caress my head

    An applause of hearts - gushes forth

    This familiar fuckup dog is enough for you

     

    “Hey, do you know? That food’s got a bad taste”
    “Hey, are you listening? Please love me”


    13- SUICIDAL WORD GAME

    Spoiler

    Having chewed so many grains

    I’m crying, unable to fall asleep

    Blurred to hide the past

    Unaware, my wounds grow

     

    At once, to drink up the platinum

    Spewing the smoke of grief

    Already driven by these words

    “When will it be okay to laugh?”

    Knowing that delusion is free

    “A body wrapped in affection”

    The oath “I will smile! From now on”

    Stop it!
    “What do you know?”

     

    Ah... unrecognized lyrics

    Ah... obidient support, ask

     

    I want to break. I want to be destroyed.

    Taking love in my hand

    I can’t respond to myself

    I tried to close my eyes and smile.

    Stained with an ugly reaction

    We keep on living


    14- SERVANT

    Spoiler

    Those sufferring in the fire are stirred in sparkling pain

    A devil without wings surrenders to me

    With neck hung, wandering in search of fresh blood

    Shaking in the same merry-go-round a pentagram is cut

     

    From the shining blue jewelry bowl i eat, misled by nausea

    With hubris and pain mourning my own power

    Stoke my head... just today let me have some candy

    The bestowed piercing sublimates my tired trembling body

     

    Loyalty swore

    With a grin

    To drink from the cup

    Until that life is destroyed send to me a prayer

    The reward this poem is for...

    Loyalty swore

    With a grin

    To embrace

    If that life is destroyed for you i would shed tears

    The reward this voice is for...


    15- Cristate

    Spoiler

    If you don’t know how to kill, there are ways to dive

     

    As long as i live inside you the music flows forth everyday

    No sounds are the same; make this world your own

    To make that voice heard should be your reason to live

     

    It’s okay to live there

    It’s okay to just act on the outside

    That’s just your part

     

    Just as you become my reason to live every day

    It’s fun to imagine your world

    I’ve come to think i’d like to stay here

    I’m not forcing you to live every day

    But why are you over there?

     

    I should have known really

    Because you won’t stop singing over there

     

    What you taught me

    “I live because I am”

    That

     

    So close... yet so far

    Even with these red shoes

    Crying, shaking, i become cristate

    If this is the world we choose to live in

    “I am you, and you are called me”


    16- 鳥は泳ぎ方を知らず溺れ亡骸

    Spoiler

    Flickering shadows dance

    As if prepared to fall

    The sweet dream has burned

     

    Rustling and flowing

    The black-haired puppet

    With no corpse to be found

     

    Covered in the colour of obscured sin

    Ah, ah...

    The wings are broken

    Buried beyond the burnt scent

    Ah, ah...

    To be forgotten

     

    Light dances from the sky

    Piercing my chest

    The bright red rain falls

    The end... isn’t it lovely?

    Light dances from the sky

    Plucking off my arms

    The past streams down the face

    Of this drowned body

     

    Relenting for want of love

    The egoist relinquished

    Hey... shall we dance?

     

    My hair grows longer

    To cover my mouth

    Rejecting the lyrics of despair

     

    Dramatic lines again

    Make this room feel lonely

    Broken sounds play at the ears

     

    You dance from the sky

    So full of dreams

    The rainbow shines dazzlingly bright

    I dance from the sky

    Dirtying the words

    I had bloomed

    Soon, i will drown


    17- COPERNICUS

    Spoiler

    “So, we can’t afford not to choose. For the future.”

     

    A new

    Drama

    For our future

    And for tomorrow

     

    “Start moving”

     

    Do you know?

    In this world that we see

    There are different angles.

     

    “There is no endless rain”

    Is something i’ve sung somewhere, but,

     

    As for me

    “Endless rain”

    I want it to keep falling

    Even if it’s not like those drops that fall from the sky.

     

    -The End...?-


    Anyway there's my take on the album, hope someone thinks it's cool or something.
    No need to credit me or w/e since only suicidal word game & servant were 'new' translations.
    Definitely feel free to ask/correct anything on these though, i'm still learning ofc so any comments would be helpful, thanks~!


  3. hi, i'm ryan... i've been lurking here since forever, created an account a few months ago, and lately something's been telling me i should try to talk here more.
    i'm not terribly good with forums though - something about the way anything i'd say gets kept on the site forever seems to trip me out a bit.
    and i'm not sure how much of value i'd have to comment - so, i'll try to make myself useful and get to posting some (probably wildly inaccurate) translations~

    as far as me....... got into vkei with ナイトメア about when their s/t came out, haven't found a band that resonates more with me since.
    p sure i can find something to like in just about any style/scene, but i really think vkei hit its golden age between 1997-2007. at least to me.
    as of typing this i'm also stanning diru, mucc, the gallo, and meji pretty hard. and since 2014 i've been living in varying degrees of Worried About Royz.
     

    IRL i work at a sushi/udon place, it's p great, and i'm trying to get the hang of this whole 'understanding and speaking japanese' thing. it's hard tho.
    Oh, and i'm trying to get a band together. also hard.
    and that's basically it for me because i have no life outside visual kei.

    Nice to meet all of you though - even if i haven't said much anything before i owe y'all a lot for recommending a lot of my fav bands.
    special shoutout to all the staff/mods, rarezhut guys, and everyone who translates band shit bc it'd be so much harder to get into this dumb scene without people like you putting in all the work.

    Oh and @ everyone feel free to hmu on twitter, username's same there as here
     


  4. hey, if this makes any difference to say -
    grab a copy of Diru's Missa or even better, google sometime from La:Sadie's & tell me you sound any worse than Kyo does there

    Or check out some of The Gallo or Vanessa's early releases & imagine what kinda shit Jojo & Tsudzuku would have heard with voices as weird as theirs

    if you keep working at something you get hella better at it, whether you actually try to or not.


  5. i wonder if i'm the only one who does this, i love B-sides but hate having so many singles in my iTunes or playing thru them 2 tracks at a time, so i take all an artist's B-sides from a set of years and arrange them into a custom album....
    so i'll have like the 'album' Vermilion by ナイトメア, and it'll look like
     

    Spoiler

    1- Love Addict
    2- Romeo
    3- Rover
    4- Trauma
    5- ByeBye
    6- Star Spangled Breaker
    7- Dazzle
    8- Ugly Duck's Will
    9- アイリス
    10- Paranoid
    11- Rubbish
    12- Honesty

    and i'll do the same w/ rereleases, unplugged vers, and demotapes....


  6. like the title says i just made some dumb decisions and bought the wrong version of some CDs sooo here they are if anyone wants them

    they're all in great condition & have all the obi/attachments i got them with; i didn't take pictures just yet but i def can if anyone has questions

    If you don't mind, it'd be great if you could name your price, just whatever you think it's worth cuz i'm pretty awful at determining that

    oh and i don't know if trades are done or how common that is but if you'd want to do that i'd probably be totally down

    so i've got:

    Dir en grey - Gauze [Ever Anime bootleg]

    己龍 - 暁歌水月 [初回盤]

    ナイトメア - Killer Show [Miya Records bootleg]

    ROYZ - S.I.V.A  [初回盤]

    Sadie - Voyage [初回盤A]

    anyway shipping is from Texas, let me know if you're interested, thanks~!

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