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Nope, this one I can confirm first hand, the boy does not talk at in-stores!  He does draw pictures and gesture to get his points across, and he does this well. I think it's what Ruri said, he's the "weird" character so he can pull this type of stuff off while maintaining a strong personality. (re: Last in-store I went to, he had Koichi in STITCHES because he kept pretending to ride a magikarp. Don't ask.)

The string of band members who have the 'no talkie' schtick. It's less that I hate it, because sometimes I'm cool with it (like shamelessly, I think Meto does it well), but then I keep seeing it and sometimes it just either feels unnecessary or like they don't really have enough personality sans voice to pull it off. It's less that I can't stand them and more that I sometimes go 'why?'

Nope, this one I can confirm first hand, the boy does not talk at in-stores!  He does draw pictures and gesture to get his points across, and he does this well. I think it's what Ruri said, he's the "weird" character so he can pull this type of stuff off while maintaining a strong personality. (re: Last in-store I went to, he had Koichi in STITCHES because he kept pretending to ride a magikarp. Don't ask.)

Nope, this one I can confirm first hand, the boy does not talk at in-stores!  He does draw pictures and gesture to get his points across, and he does this well. I think it's what Ruri said, he's the "weird" character so he can pull this type of stuff off while maintaining a strong personality. (re: Last in-store I went to, he had Koichi in STITCHES because he kept pretending to ride a magikarp. Don't ask.)

The string of band members who have the 'no talkie' schtick. It's less that I hate it, because sometimes I'm cool with it (like shamelessly, I think Meto does it well), but then I keep seeing it and sometimes it just either feels unnecessary or like they don't really have enough personality sans voice to pull it off. It's less that I can't stand them and more that I sometimes go 'why?'

The string of band members who have the 'no talkie' schtick. It's less that I hate it, because sometimes I'm cool with it (like shamelessly, I think Meto does it well), but then I keep seeing it and sometimes it just either feels unnecessary or like they don't really have enough personality sans voice to pull it off. It's less that I can't stand them and more that I sometimes go 'why?'

Yeah, pretty much in this boat. ^^; Don't even get me started on in-stores. But I'm probably heading back to the states for awhile next year, so might as well live it up while I can. (Even if my wallet hates me for it.) I've put a decent amount of cash into MeteoroiD too, but not nearly as much -  due largely to the fact that a lot of their shows are in Tokyo and tend to be on weekdays.

Just going to go ahead with the consensus of yeah, variety is the spice of life and would have been nice to have here. The lack of Malice Mizer actually really confused me. Poor choice of samples, poor choice of YouTubers to expose this to, definitely set up in a certain way to illicit a very specific reason from the people watching which is a little unfortunate.

Just going to go ahead with the consensus of yeah, variety is the spice of life and would have been nice to have here. The lack of Malice Mizer actually really confused me. Poor choice of samples, poor choice of YouTubers to expose this to, definitely set up in a certain way to illicit a very specific reason from the people watching which is a little unfortunate.

I'm not a technical music expert or anything so this probably won't be helpful at all, but I really liked 羽花. It had a good hook, and as expected there were some heavier sections. Also, damn, Mejibray fans are on top of their furi game, at least my section of the crowd. Everyone jumped right into clapping and headbanging along, which actually might've spoken less to the fans' credit and more to the fact that the song was that catchy, IDK. I'm really looking forward to hearing the release, but I tend to prefer Mejibray live so I'm grateful I had that kind of experience.

Vo.一聖(issei) has recovered his consciousness and has been discharged from intensive care unit as no life-threatening symptoms are noted, and other members and staff have visited to hospital at 2016/05/20

Yo, this.

i didn't like meto much for a long time but he kind of grew on me from the last few instores i went to (and i started to like mia less i guess).
he can seem kind of like he's being a sarcastic asshole in reply to a question without saying anything.

Also joined the mobile tour lottery.  Fingers crossed. Will edit in a sec with Meto pics.
 

A few years ago I got some responses from Jun of Gotcharocka, and both Aika and Yuhma of Fixer like any tweet directed at them.

I was too busy having Lion King flashbacks. ;D