platy

I could tell who they were before even looking! They're spot on, awesome stuff 

1st single 『PLEDGE』will be released 2017.08.01 
 
 

The Grumpy Cat is now in a Visual band.

artwork and a band pic have been revealed:
 

 

Thanks! The short answer: Quality of life
 
Long answer: I  think it's a great place to visit, but not to live. There are too many people, you generally have to commute 1-2 hours to work and back if you don't want to pay 10-15 man to live in a shoebox, everything is horribly commercialized and expensive, and in general Tokyo people aren't that friendly and/or act really fake compared to people in other parts of Japan. Not to mention  job competition is much higher, so often you get paid less than you would living outside urban areas.  There's a running joke that most expats who move closer to Tokyo for the nightlife generally end up being too poor to ever fully enjoy it. 
 
In comparison, I'd much rather live surrounded by nature instead of having a skyscraper or advertisement in my face everywhere, have a better job/salary, live in a bigger place,and have friendly neighbors/overall great sense of community than live around strangers. I also much prefer driving to work instead of spending 30+ minutes rubbed up against some smelly old salaryman on the train everyday. 
 
And I think contrary to popular belief, there is very little besides lives/special events and clubbing that can't be done anywhere else in Japan. Even if that wasn't the case, it would still be much cheaper (and more convenient) to commute into Tokyo every weekend than live there. 

I'm very surprised
Because at this point I just expected the old man in your avatar

I thought the singer looked familiar for a second, but I think he's just giving me flashbacks to this:
 

Found another one who can sing. 

Found another one who can sing. 

and avril
 
 
 
lets be real this is basically a sug song

are we seriously still using 'deadass' ?

I swear I'm gonna do a drinking game while watching the next episode: take a shot whenever Farrah looks like she's about to cry. #rekt
 
btw rooting for Valentina, Nina, Shea and Sasha (in this order)

interesting how in this discussion about gaijins imitatiing trve VKei no one has mentioned this guy before (who seems to split people's opinions just as much):
 

 
Tbh, his look come a lot more closer to actual VK than most of the swede kei bands

xaa-xaa will release their first video DVD at 2017/06/07 which is named "Hare nochi ame nochi kumori nochi arashi"
This DVD will be only sold at live venues and first selling date is at 6/7 at takadanobaba area  and only a limited amount is available. 
 
 
 
Also the band will release a new single, 2 types at 2017/07/26
 
「○と×」 CD only
￥1,500- (tax-out)

【CD】
1.⚪︎と×
2.黒い猫ちゃん
3.透明人間
 
「○と×」 CD+DVD
￥1,800- (tax-out)

【CD】
1.⚪︎と×
2.黒い猫ちゃん 

【DVD】
1,⚪︎と×(ミュージックビデオ) 
2.オフショット
 

 
 
 

Farrah has to go next. She's beautiful, but all she does is cry at everything... bitch,please. NEXT.
Shea and Sasha slayed my heart once again.
 
 
And why the fuck everyone acting like Eureka DIED? Have you guys seen how many queens have left the show before? It's normal, don't act like she died mid-challenge or something lol Yeah, she wasn't the worst person in the cast but I still couldn't stand her. Good riddance.

IN LIGHT OF THIS THREAD....
 
please donate to my gofundme to make the western equivalent of 9goats black out. thank you. vkei is not dead.

I can't even take this guy seriously to begin with. This is the same guy that said a Jrpg doesn't have to be made in Japan to be a Jrpg. He's clearly an idiot.

support Dr.綾 (Aya) (ex-レダ(rleda)-->Amaryllis-->LAVIS-->MEL-->VIVRA VIVRE(support)-->#ロストワールド (lost world)(綾聖/ryose))has officially joined アマンジャク。(Amanjaku) at 2017/4/29.

I definitely don't think there's anything wrong with Westerners having visual kei bands, but it would be great if their music and style was anything more than mediocre and if they weren't cringey narcissists as people. Also in terms of not being able to pull off the style, they COULD do it. I do and I'm a chubby average-looking white person. It takes a lot of practice and effort to learn to style yourself correctly, but some people are so cocky that they're convinced they're already perfect when they're only halfway there, in both fashion and music. 
 
ALSO I've literally seen people whining that "visual kei is dying" or "it isn't what it used to be" since I got into this shit in 2003. It's usually from people who have been in the scene like 2-5 years and haven't come to terms with the fact that the life expectancy of a visual kei band unfortunately includes their favs and they get bitter when all the bands they liked when they got into vk are now disbanding. 

I used to be a member here at some point but I can't remember how long ago that was tbh. Maybe some people I used to go to lives with back in the day still use this forum and we can get back in touch.
 
I'm an ex-bangya/obangya in my early 30s. I "quit" the scene after most of my fave bands broke up, but since Psycho le Cemu got back together I've been going to a lot of their shows. My favorite v-kei bands besides Psycho le Cemu are Kuroyume, BUCK-TICK, PIERROT, and (older) Plastic Tree/Dir en grey.
 
I got into visual kei through Gackt/Malice Mizer when I was in early high school. Everything was so ~dramatic~ back then, I swore I'd marry Kozi someday, and I remember my BFF and I ugly cried when Malice Mizer announced their hiatus, wondering what the hell we were gonna do with the rest of our lives. In those 15+ years that have passed since, I relocated to Tokyo, became a bangya, got married (obviously not to Kozi, sorry to disappoint my teenage self lolz), and then settled down in the countryside.
 
As for upcoming lives, I'm going to see PLC at Studio Coast this Sunday and PIERROT/Dir en grey's Androgynos two-day live at Yokohama Arena in July.

I saw that Nina is gonna be Jasmine Masters and someone else is gonna be Alyssa Edwards... Like, even Violet Chachki BARELY made it funny. Why you wanna try it again...?

tbh all these drag queens impersonating other drag queens is starting to get old altho i am looking forward to Nina's Jasmine impersonation *_*
 
inb4 someone else impersonates a man in this season too ((haven't watched the preview yet))
 

I saw that Nina is gonna be Jasmine Masters and someone else is gonna be Alyssa Edwards... Like, even Violet Chachki BARELY made it funny. Why you wanna try it again...?

If I was Tatianna I'd be salty for the rest of my life after that. Fuck RoLaskaTox.