Komorebi

This doesn't sound too bad.

Is that the pot smoking device? Cuz I did.

Oh, the cringe.

Those demotapes look familiar. Laybial?

It had to be said, thanks Masato. I used to stan the hell out of Hyde but let's be real, he's not that sexy anymore and I can't understand why there's still so many girls in their 20's claiming he still looks "young and fresh" and "sexy". Same with many others his age. Sis, no. What kind of daddy issues are you working through?

Why are y'all so upset about this thread? You can all ignore it. It's not like no one posts random shit here, people come and cry about their failed relationships all the time and no one bats an eye about those "boohoo my ex left me" threads. There's no specific rule on the forum about political discussions so I don't really see the problem. Y'all can just ignore the threads you aren't interested in instead of making a fuss about them. Or then rewrite the rules or something, idk. Go post about VK to balance it out. To secret: yeah, the religious post was fun and insightful as a few others that had real substance, but just posting a link or a youtube video and expecting discussion to take off in a healthy manner is not the way to go either, this isn't your FB newsfeed. I advise to either restrain from it or at least provide a richer starting point for a conversation to make it interesting. Otherwise it looks like cheap clickbait and I can see why users get upset.

I have an iPhone 5c because I seriously can't with Android and I'm too broke for a newer iPhone model.

Do you have a page or something where you list your fees? 😮

I still don't quite get how that happened... Is it a social experiment?

Funny, my mom says that a lot. That most atheists just rebelled against a religious upbringing to be free of any kind of moral responsibility. I gotta say she doesn't have it all wrong and after some personal experience, I agree to some extent. People nowadays DO look for rights and avoid duties in any aspect of life. They don't want the constraints of a committed relationship, of children, and of course, a God/Religion/spiritual belief. However, the personal search for a spiritual life is inherent to human beings, and as it can be seen in this very thread, even proclaimed atheists say they are "considering switching to this and that". Are they atheists because they truly do not believe in anything spiritual or are they just rejecting the religions they know (and their inconvenient constraints)? If they truly are atheists and deny the existence of gods, why are they still searching for "something" spiritual? I might have a wrong definition of atheism, feel free to correct me, but I was under the impression/knowledge that they deny spirituality altogether. This goes back to what I said above, religion is natural, inevitable, and a part of what makes us human. And they do provide a lot of comfort for many people. Abolishing religions is as selfish as imposing them. Same, if we look into them they all have common points and even common reasoning and rules. These two pretty much sum up my current relationship with God/religion. I felt that too and I went through a phase of spiritual rebellion and felt free indeed... and now somehow I've gone back to praying occasionally and even stepping into a church every once in a while, mostly when I want to thank whoever is up there for the good things life keeps giving me. If there is indeed a higher power giving away 30 minutes to give thanks and listen to a couple of readings isn't bad. I feel as free as ever for doing so. Yeah, I agree once again. My "issue" is not with God himself, but with mankind and the way they have twisted and defiled every form of organized religion, which may be really good natured at heart, but humans aren't always so. This is also another reason why I could never call myself an atheist, or attempt to be one. I can't blame a god for what people do in his name, especially with the strong concept of free will present in many religions. I was raised a Roman Catholic, in a very strictly religious household, went to Catholic school as well as to church every Sunday and special required dates and I started questioning all of it at a rather early age. What I am somewhat grateful for is that my family is not only religious but also most have studied Philosophy/Theology and those who haven't majored formally in it take intense courses on those matters constantly, so whenever I questioned something what I got wasn't always a "because God/the Bible says so" (I did from my not-so-educated mom) but actual explanations, interpretations, teachings and tools that encouraged me to think a bit more about religion instead of blindly accepting whatever without question. It is also a reason why I have a degree of respect for my family's choice of a religious life and while I do not want it for myself and I do not agree with many personal views, they have been very open to many discussions and I have even brought topics such as homosexuality and gender identity into discussion with neutral and positive results (my mother now lowkey advocated for same sex marriage), so if they are willing to open up to certain topics and at least let me explain some of my worldviews, then who am I to shit on their belief and lifestyle under their own roofs? So yeah, I sometimes go to church when I visit for the weekend, mostly to ease my mother's concern about my soul and show respect for her lifestyle, despite not following it myself. I do believe in a higher power, but I'm not really comfortable with the Catholic church as an institution due to its current state (I think no one here is). I'm very curious about Buddhism as a lifestyle, but educating myself and following an Asian religion in a deeply Catholic country is pretty hard and I haven't felt the strong spiritual need to yet. As for the Bible itself, I take the Old Testament as any other religious mythology. What matters the most for Catholics is the new testament and the teaching there is love thy neighbor and God and that's about it. You also have to consider many things in the Old Testament were written as laws and whatnot for a primitive civilization to abide to in order to strive, and the best way to get people to abide to stuff such as "don't steal or lust after your pal's wife" was with the underlying religious threat. But take it like what it is; a very old set of rules for a primitive-ish civilization. Idk why Christian groups still take everything there so seriously. PS: I'm not sure how protestant branches of Christianity teach science in the Northern Hemisphere, but being educated in a strictly Opus Dei school, we were never denied scientific knowledge, evolution, or any other learning tool. The only single point where the Catholic Church formally disagrees with evolution is the fact that man evolved from apes, due to the soul issue, mainly. But I've never seen them deny science or take the Old Testament literally.

Can we cancel her now, please? The entire family, actually. This reminds me... some fucker trademarked "kawaii" in Chile like 3-4 years ago.

What?!

There's lots of rumors of Hyde and Tetsu hating each other's guts + Ken some joke at a TV show with a Kpop group (T-ara or Kara, idk which) about how they got along at the beginning and now they can't stand each other (sometime around 2011/2012). It is been sort of confirmed the bandmembers have no contact with each other and management even has to set separate recording schedules so they won't cross each other's paths. Also, apparently Kaz and Hyde had some sort of beef that lead to Vamps suddenly going on hiatus with the latter resuming a solo career, without Kaz this time.

I though my mom was mentally ready for me to come out but the way she freaked out when I shared Sena's photo with fake boobs on IG says otherwise 😕

That's a pretty great setlist 😮

Uhm, they are.

Well, I've personally seen and heard feminists advocate for the abortion of male fetuses for the only sin of being male. I don't see how that is different from nazism.

They mean merch, not CDs.

Don't they have an online store?

Keep the feedback coming, I'm sure they can use it

The band formed in 2017 and their music is inspired by Malice Mizer, which they cover often at lives. Lineup: Vo.: Dante Gt.: Sora Gt.: Atma Ba.: Azazel Dr.: Karu Their releases are available on Spotify: 「Eventide」(12.22.2017) 「Inner Demon」(01.25.2019)

Can't blame those intentions, I'd hate to have to enter a lottery to even see if there's room for me at the damn venue.

I have NO idea why they worship him so much. Fans here are way more into the old school popular bands and diss post-2010 vk a lot. There's a 2000+ people group for Jrock fans in Chile and 80% of the posts are about Hyde, B-T, Gackt and popular Jrock stuff. The people really into obscure old VK bands or the newer scene are a niche within a niche. A gya I get along with goes with me to lives and events of two different bands and for one band we have the same favorite member and for the other one we don't. She asked me once if she was ok with us liking the same member for band A and seemed surprised when I said I was, and then said "if you liked my honmei (her fave from band B ) we wouldn't be friends". They are super intense, but I've never had a real problem with a fan, probably because I only go occasionally on vacation. It felt stalkerish since it was after the live. They seemed more surprised than annoyed, but I'm not great at reading people so idk. I'm generally get along really well with girls who are into the bands I like, no matter where they are, I don't see them as competition, what is there to compete for? Giving a band their well deserved support? What I hate and don't even try to hide is girls being way into the members of the bands I like and not even liking the music (like when I tried discussing a Morrigan album with some friends and they kept going back to Aryu's look). Or girls who get creepy/disrespectful on IG comments and claim it's ok because they don't understand the language. I don't see as much toxicity on Twitter as I see on FB and IG tbh, or maybe I just follow less VK fans on Twitter.

I second this. I feel so called out too :C I've heard some bands don't mind much, I guess it depends on the band and the type of event. I did demachi once with friends in Japan for a band they knew well and the vocal approached us and asked us to buy him an energy drink .____. I felt used lol I also ran into my faves at a conbini after a live and I felt awful, even though it was an accident 😕 Edit: Hyde stans are WILD in Latin America, go say he looks old on his latest selfie and they'll insult you, your mother, your dog and even your coworkers. Also; troll gazette stans who are a weird breed who will also insult you to no end if you suggest harrassing their accounts with gross troll-like questions is wrong, and god forbid you aren't meming the shit out of them 24/7.