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Really want to stan them after watching their great NYE performance, but all these live-limited releases are a bummer. Someone wake me up when they stop being losers.

It's better to call out fans on their actions. Of course it's gonna backfire, but what can you do, when fans can't grasp the concept of their idol being an actual human being with limited patience?
 
When talking about fans, it never ceases to amaze me, how violent, delusional and insane some can be.

MeteoroiD played Tokyo in Tulsa and then broke up.... Avanchick set to play Tokyo in Tulsa and then announce they're breaking up. Shit's cursed! Stay woke!

Those concept are cute and story is nice~

Some background info on what I'm working on for my final project. 
Everything is still not textured   but I'm working on it 
 

 
 
- Witch's Beach Hut - 
 
Some assets from the house
 
 
 
Sappho (The witch)
 
 
Sappho's selkie girlfriend
 

These have been my thoughts for a while. The territorial behavior disgusts me and the fact people don't realise what they're doing puts me off even more.
Fans are not entitled to anything to do with the artist's life or being.
Look at yourself and think "I am getting possessive of this artist like a rabid dog over a bone? Am I having murderous feelings towards other fans because they dared come to the same live gig like me? Have I been feeding my dog in the past few months or have I just been living, breathing and drinking this thing I'm a fan of?''  Answer yes to any of those and imo you've gone too far. 
 
Musical artists aren't sacred entities, they make mistakes, they fuck other people, they get messy when they eat, they have lazy days, they fart and have bad hair days because they're humans.(Yes, that includes those perfect doll-like kpop idols). So fans need to remember that at some point their patience is gonna run out if you keep acting like an animal and you're probably embarassing yourself in the process.
All cool if you go to a band's gigs every week, you follow them all over the country and socialise when you get the chance. But if people are going as far poisoning someone, beating other fans up /threatening them, sending their bodily fluids or other things that came from their body....bitch, I don't care if this is how you show love. You need help immediately. 
 
I just hate fandoms in general. Nowadays any conglomerate of fans become an angry cloud of bees, if anyone dares step out of the fandom's rules that person will be erased (e.g get doxxed, ''cyber-bullied'' to suicide, etc) and that's some really sickly behavior typical of people who can't form their own opinions. It's even come to the point where creators or artists get harassed for not giving fans what they want...but anyway. I'll just watch everything from the back.

guess Noah used all their money with the lawyers bwahahaha
 
bye bye

Preach.
 
Some VK fans in Chile keep whining about how today's bands aren't as great as some Matina band that was around for half a year. I don't see how that can be enjoyable...
 
To me 2016 was the year of discoveries, of jumping on the post 2006 bandwagon and trying the new scene. If you dig around you can find stuff you like. With like 80 new bands a year there's gotta be something that fits your taste.

Enough is enough when you are actively harming yourself or others, or making the artist in question uncomfortable. I don't think it's really fair to judge by more than that. It's a rough world, and as hokey as it sounds, life's just too short. If you love something that much, do it. If you don't, not your place to judge.
 
There are some things like the whole practice of demachi that I'm not entirely comfortable with, for example, but I've seen girls do it and a lot of the bands were really cool about it. (Morrigan for example really doesn't seem to mind people approaching them at all, haha, they were so chill with their fans.) If the band doesn't take issue, then I don't see a reason to.
 
Also, again, I really have to vocalize that my experience with people in Japan regarding vkei (who aren't involved in the scene) hasn't been remotely negative. More often than not they either don't anything about it and shrug it off or don't know anything and they're curious about it. To have a stigma would mean it's known enough to have a stigma in the first place. But again, that's just my experience.

not that familiar with OOR, but aren't they big enough to actually do something about the same fans hogging the front row? most vk bands ban shikiri once they start doing lives at the bigger venues anyway, so i'm surprised OOR still has this problem.
 
as for "crazy fans" in general: i draw the line at the point where a fan's display of affection for the band and/or its members intrudes upon other fans' ability to do the same. until that point, i wholeheartedly support fans who are comfortable with being as crazy as they want. yes i may have no idea what blackdoll is going on about 90% of the time, but it's her prerogative to say what she wants about Lycaon. if you love something/someone, just show it? tbh it bores the hell out of me to associate with people who are constantly hedging and checking themselves to make sure that they don't lapse into their 'fangirl' mode because that's somehow inappropriate.
 
but really, for vk at least, many people can't seem to accept that music is only one part of the lived experience of a bangya, especially so if you happen to live in japan. i'm still astonished every time someone claims that only when you're level-headed enough to extricate yourself from the 'craziness' of the scene and be able to discuss the band's cadences and progressions (not even lyrics, mind you) in the same way a bunch of paleontologists examine fossil records with measured excitement can you finally be crowned a card-carrying Mature Fan. clearly the irony isn't lost on people who quite fearlessly denigrate other sections of the fanbase for their supposed 'elitism'.
 

Fun fact: Bero also was DIV's roadie.

It's better to call out fans on their actions. Of course it's gonna backfire, but what can you do, when fans can't grasp the concept of their idol being an actual human being with limited patience?
 
When talking about fans, it never ceases to amaze me, how violent, delusional and insane some can be.

These posts are always so subjective. People get into visual kei at such a young age, and their interests change. People tend to not listen to music they listened to as teenagers. Just saying. Music scenes change and grow--whether for better or worse, which is also subjective. I also think people get too attached to their favorite bands. Bands come and go. But their music stays around. 

i made a video with timeless!! pls watch :'DDDDDDDDDD
 
 

Yeah, they did play in Budokan.
 
I kind of noticed that a lot of bands that were big, when I got into VK (which are still going) now are hardly heard of. I guess it's just a matter of them being overshadowed by young bands gaining in popularity. Also fans grow up and change their tastes in music. Not a lot of people can stick to their faves for, let's say, ten years.
 

New look
 

YES! More music from Anfiel~

アンフィル(Anfiel) will release a new album "PARADISE LOST" (2 types) on 2017/04/19. Limited edition (3611 yen + tax) will include 11 tracks+DVD, while regular edition (3056 yen + tax) will have 13 tracks.
 
Live DVD of today's oneman "アンフィル 2nd Anniversary Oneman Live 「Lamplight&feel.-equal-」@新宿BLAZE" will be released on 2017/05/17 (5000 yen + tax).
 
Anfiel will also have a fan meeting "祭&feel. 2017 春" at Shibuya Rex on 2017/04/02.
 
They will hold a oneman tour "一石を投じる" across Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka in August-September.
 
Dates are as follows
8/19 (Sat) Osaka RUIDO
8/20 (Sun) Nagoya ell.FITS ALL
9/2 (Sat) Takadanobaba AREA
9/3 (Sun)Takadanobaba AREA

OMG @hirokithat's the coolest wall ever! Shogo would probably enjoy to see all your love and support to him
 
Happy birthday to this amazing band and may they keep giving us more beautiful songs \(^0^)/ <3

today, Anfiel is officially 2 years old (T_T)
 
 
 
^ natsume's like "thanks for falling in love with anfiel" and i just cannot ;_;
 
they will have their 2nd anniversary oneman at BLAZE later tonight
 

man, i almost cried when i heard about him this morning,,,
 
he will forever bork in our hearts :'(((

Yeah, they did play in Budokan.
 
I kind of noticed that a lot of bands that were big, when I got into VK (which are still going) now are hardly heard of. I guess it's just a matter of them being overshadowed by young bands gaining in popularity. Also fans grow up and change their tastes in music. Not a lot of people can stick to their faves for, let's say, ten years.
 

I wouldn't focus either. xD