AwesomeNyappy

While I also like their new stuff, you are certainly right! They used to be heavier, and for me, there was more...emotion that came across in their music.
Still, I thought that Harajuku Dance Rock , Hikagyaku Ziprock and BB Parallel were great albums overall. My absolute favourite songs were their B-sides during (and before) their shikisai moment days.

I cannot even put my sadness into words. I’ve been a fan for 12 years, and even though I expected it (and I’m also glad that they can move on), it is still a shock. I only had the chance to see them live 2 times (I was in Japan two years go, but sadly, AnCafe’s tour only started shortly afterwards.) I wished to see them live at least one last time. Now I know it is never going to happen. I’m sad I cannot bid this band farewell for it really influenced my teenage and early adult life. Bye Nyappy. This time for good. 

Oh, I know those fanpages of course! Let me know when you’re ready, I certainly want to be part of it!! I once participated in a caffekko fan project a few years ago (we send them a fan book, so to speak), and I’m all ready for it. Thank you so much for putting effort into this. Keep us other caffekkos updated 😊

Oh believe me I will! It's my favorite song! I know a lot of foreign cafekkos can't attend  this, so yeah, us lucky ones will totally enjoy this as much as humanly possible! 
I'm currently thinking about ideas for one last fan project, I will post it here once it's decided! (I'm running the BondS ~France~ Facebook and Twitter pages, but most of my followers are now from elsewhere in the world haha) Hopefully we'll do something great!

I started being a fan around the same time, back in 2006. A friend gave me a mix tape of their music, and I instantly fell in love.
I’m so glad you will be able to see them one last (well, technically two) last time! Sadly, even if I decided to go to Japan, I have an internship coming up, which ends in late January. So it’s sadly not possible.
But I hope you have a great time! Can you do me just one favour? When BondS comes on (and it has to, come on), sing along extra loud? Jump around, cry your heart out? I cannot be there, so someone has to.

I totally feel you. I started following them in 2007, they were my first band, first concert (and not in my home country), first concert in Japan... I adore them, and even expected, I still can't believe it. Their songs were the soundtrack of most of my life, I never stopped loving them.

I scored two FC BondS tickets for the last two concerts, I'm 50% super happy to get to say goodbye to them, 50% terrified to do so.

I cannot even put my sadness into words. I’ve been a fan for 12 years, and even though I expected it (and I’m also glad that they can move on), it is still a shock. I only had the chance to see them live 2 times (I was in Japan two years go, but sadly, AnCafe’s tour only started shortly afterwards.) I wished to see them live at least one last time. Now I know it is never going to happen. I’m sad I cannot bid this band farewell for it really influenced my teenage and early adult life. Bye Nyappy. This time for good. 

My biggest worry about potentially dating someone while in Japan is if they're gonna judge me for eating after 10 pm.

For me, Kisou tries to be more aggressive/nu-metal, but it didn't quite make it there. So it's like in a weird middle ground, and I find the compositions there to be a lot simpler than the previous two albums.  Still, it has some great tracks like 'Mushi' or 'Embryo.' I do actually like the nu-metal/j-rock thing Dir en grey had going on with Vulgar and WtD so both of those albums I find entertaining. Even simple stuff like 'Garbage' (insert the obvious joke here) is fun just for Kyo's silly vocals.
 
Arche is definitely my favorite Diru album though. That one strikes a perfect balance between their latter-era heaviness, lighter ballad side, and their progressive tendencies. Yeah, I'll grant you that 'The Inferno' is kinda lame, but the rest I love.

I think WtD is pretty boring. Marrow is a mess, but what do you expect when they wrote it while touring America with a bunch of middle-aged edgelords?
 
kisou is cool, just unfortunate that the bad mixing sounds like the feeling of chewing a wad of tin foil. 

Everyone does things at their own pace, aand that's a good thing. "Virginity" itself is a pretty wild concept. Having sex does not make one more "adult" or "more experienced".
 
And there's also something else that I wanted to throw in: terms such as demisexual or asexual exist for a reason. Not having felt any sexual attraction to anyone yet does not always mean you're "picky".

parenting done right!
 
this one instantly came to my mind.
 

from yesterday’s concert at 甲府. I will post the other videos soon. MERRY is awesome. Thank you so much for the great memories. I’ll be back next year to see them, that’s for sure.

Wouldn’t have put beautiful dirt and the IIID Empire on there (never really held much love for either of these songs.)
 
I kept thinking about how dir en grey have changed because someone mentioned here that the songs on Arche and dum spiro Spero all sound the same, and I sort of get where this is coming from. I like both albums, but I realised that I listen to them differently...I think dir en grey albums until then demanded a lot of attention from the listener and while listening, it was sometimes impossible to concentrate on anything else. But with Arche and dum Spiro Spero I feel like all of these songs emerge together into one. I like to listen to them on the train because I enjoy their whole atmosphere, but they don’t demand my whole attention. If that makes sense to any of you.

It gets even better over time.
 
Found myself watching a bunch of their live performances on YouTube yesterday and it's pretty crazy how seeing them play the same songs over and over never gets old. Still got chills watching ROSIER and TONIGHT even after all this time.
 
Their 2013 Budokan live DVD is insanely good btw. Incredible energy from the entire band.

More to come
yesterday was amazing, yet again. Setlist was really cool. Seriously, go see MERRY at least once in your life. [human farm], T.O.P, バイオハレ、ジャパモダ、窓 (yea‼️）、躊躇いシャッフル (！！！)。And we got 2 extra songs because the crowd didn’t stop singing. We got Happy life and F.J.P twice. Which was cool because ガラ had technical problems with his mic during the first Happy life. He also forgot the lyrics to MASS CONTROL ( at 奈良, he forgot エムオロギー). Adorable. 
 
And MERRY’s fan base is friendly as fuck! Holy shit, those girls are amazing.
 
now, I’m off to Tokyo to catch them again with BAROQUE (yeahhh!!)

So far, nu chemical rhetoric is my favourite album. I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I thought that while modern Garde is a great album, Gara’s voice had not yet been that refined. M.E.R.R.Y is an okay album, under-world is pretty good (human farm is an awesome song), Nonsense Market has a couple of great songs, but it seems a bit bland next to other merry albums. Still have to listen to peep show

So far, nu chemical rhetoric is my favourite album. I know this might be an unpopular opinion, but I thought that while modern Garde is a great album, Gara’s voice had not yet been that refined. M.E.R.R.Y is an okay album, under-world is pretty good (human farm is an awesome song), Nonsense Market has a couple of great songs, but it seems a bit bland next to other merry albums. Still have to listen to peep show

Yes, I wrote her a message too, telling her about it. She has yet to take it down, though.
I didn't even know a bootleg version of the TOUR04 dvd exists, added it to discogs already.
In addition to what LIDL said, you can also check discogs for existing bootleg copies (although I have yet to add all of them).

That one on ebay is bootleg, the original limited edition with 2 Discs looks like these
 

 
 
also, the original DVD  catalog numbers are
 
SFBD-0006 for regular edition and SFBD-0004~5 for the limited 2 disc edition, by Firewall Div.
 
direngrey.co.jp/discography/432/
 
 
the bootleg one are by Miya Records, catalog numbers MIDP-0056-7
 
On online sales, make sure to ask the seller about the catalog number of CD, DVD or BluRay each time, that is clear way to find out if  a CD is genuine. 
 
Or if in person, or you wanna check if all Cds you owned and got from second hand market are genuine, you can see these catalog numbers usually on the bottom of the spine of the dvd/cd case or obi. It is usually also placed next to UPC barcode

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/dir-en-grey-tour-04-the-code-of-vulgar-ism-/737990668-79-9595
 
bootleg

There must be a duplicate thread, because I know these have been posted before. Anyway, my "fave" worst CD covers:

Dear L'Novel - 罪と罰(Tsumi to Batsu) 

 
ViViD - Message
 

Dear L'Novel's is one of the few albums that I truly enjoy but refuse to buy, because the album art would haunt me. And yet, the ViViD one is somehow worse, because they were actually a major band. Can you imagine who designed these covers and thought "Yup, these are good to go!"

I understabnd you 100 %. I can't even tell you how much.

I’m in Japan, so I could buy and send it for you?
not sure how much you’re willing to pay max.?
 
(Shipping from Japan really isn’t that expensive btw)