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Just came across the news that they would be selling a limited edition Reiya body pillow at his birthday event, and I was wondering if anyone who is attending, but not interested in buying, would be willing to buy it for me? I am willing to pay about 130 USD (or more)! It looks ridiculous but this d00d is my favourite member and since there's no way I can fly over so suddenly and buy it myself, I have to resort to asking if anyone is willing to help me buy xD My life would forever be indebted to you LOL Please drop me a PM if you're willing!

For me, there were certainly good tracks such as ラストダンス (Last Dance) and ぐちゃぐちゃ (Gucha Gucha), which till now I'm still listening to. However, most of the tracks on the album, particularly 落とし穴 (Otochiana), 寄り道 (Yorimichi) and 交尾をしてよ (Koubi o Shiteyo), lacked the replay factor for me and I found myself skipping over these tracks all the time. On my first listen of this album, most, if not all tracks didn't attract my attention at all, particularly the above 3 tracks mentioned. However, some did gradually pique my interest the more I listened, particularly ラストダンス (Last Dance), ぐちゃぐちゃ (Gucha Gucha), 恋人ごっこ (Koibito Gokko) and 人殺し (Hitogoroshi). But sadly, the last 2 tracks have been getting quite boring for me as of late. Having been listening to their songs all this time still, I can't say I'm not disappointed that none of these tracks on the new album managed to be on par with some of their best tracks - for me - such as 死にたい (Shinitai), 青いレインコート (Aoi Raincoat) and どす黒い (Dosuguroi). Kazuki really knows how to convey his emotions well in their songs, which is the reason why I find even slower, but pretty good tracks like 雪時計 (Yukitokei) and 余命 (Yomei) enjoyable up till now. Unfortunately, he wasn't exactly living up to his full potential in this album, for many of the tracks were flat and repetitive. I may be biased for I am quite a xaa-xaa lover (lol), but at least their tracks manage to maintain a standard that many generic Visual Kei bands nowadays lack. They seem to be gaining quite a bit of popularity recently too, so I'm definitely expecting the next album to be a lot better than 不幸な迷路

@anakuroThank you so so much! <3

Just came back from a short break away from VK and kinda sad that this thread is half-dead I've been keeping up with xaa-xaa's latest release still, but sadly I'm not particularly impressed with the whole album, what about you guys? I must say I do like ぐちゃぐちゃ, though it still doesn't have the hype that the previous albums (especially 雨に殺される gave me)! On a side note, can anyone please enlighten this newbie on how I can participate in xaa-xaa's instore event? When I bought their CDs at little HEARTS last June, the guy asked if I wanted to participate but I had no idea how to fill in the form + I had to leave Tokyo shortly after Kinda worried that if I were to wait till I visit Tokyo next time and then buy the CD to participate, I might not be able to as the date is too close to the event, or there are no slots etc.!

@DREAMON DREAMER @ryuhimethank you both!

@ryuhime Do you happen to know if Puresound include bonuses (photosets etc.) when you buy from them?

not digging this song yet but i guess i'll give it a few more replays and see how it goes lol

wait........... diaura never had a thread on MH? O_O i didn't get into visual kei early, but when i did, it was through lost november and i was HOOKED D: now look what you did yo-ka..