SakuraFox512

Nice to meet you  

Looking more at the lower part of the bands you listed, have you checked out any of D'ERLANGER's early output by any chance?

Unfortunately, I think that's usually the case more often than not. =/

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Just nabbed a (general admission) ticket to the NY show -- feeling pretty hyped for my first j-rock show...and visit to NY, for that matter! 

Just nabbed a (general admission) ticket to the NY show -- feeling pretty hyped for my first j-rock show...and visit to NY, for that matter! 

So I guess Ki$aki has that hu$h money, because it's been two months and I haven't heard anything.

oh nice, a linkin park tribute band

...does this mean i'm the only person who thinks Ganges & Namaatatakai Ame are by far the best songs they've ever done

i received the albums today, limited A and B, I'm still shocked... the only thing I can say is that the album is a masterpiece.. i'll post more thoughts later xD

I'm not sure about different takes on Pura songs, but 「日没地区 / nichibotsuchiku」 and 「19罪 / jukyusai」 both borrow from 「恋ト幻 / rentogen」 and/or 「メモ / memo」 from his previous solo releases. 

ETA: Also, if memory serves, I think 「19罪 / jukyusai」is the song Ryutaro mentioned as being the first he wrote? That is to say, the '1992' part of the album. Which would also make sense, given the song title's apparent play on words. So if that one reminds you of an older Pura song, that might be another reason why. But I don't know whether he was referring to solely the lyrics or the composition as well.

performances from トロイメライ AND doorAdore? sign me up
 
also you might want to fix some info in your post: the source states that トロイメライ is their 4th album and doorAdore their 14th instead of 6th and 18th respectively.

I'm not sure about different takes on Pura songs, but 「日没地区 / nichibotsuchiku」 and 「19罪 / jukyusai」 both borrow from 「恋ト幻 / rentogen」 and/or 「メモ / memo」 from his previous solo releases. 

ETA: Also, if memory serves, I think 「19罪 / jukyusai」is the song Ryutaro mentioned as being the first he wrote? That is to say, the '1992' part of the album. Which would also make sense, given the song title's apparent play on words. So if that one reminds you of an older Pura song, that might be another reason why. But I don't know whether he was referring to solely the lyrics or the composition as well.

Considering a lot of his old bandmates / friends don't ever seem to hang out or work with him anymore (any member of Lin that wasn't Riku, D, any member of Phantasmagoria + Kisaki project (Jun didn't even do anything for UCP closing, nor did JUI iirc), and Diru / Merry just pretend they were never involved with him ever), it makes me wonder if this was all a sort of secret thing people found out about after they were already involved with him professionally + contractually, and how much of it is either ignored or played down (e.g.: Rame and Riku working with him, defending him on Twitter, or providing him gigs, etc).
 
 
My guess is that the guys in Mirage and the various big-name support members they, and at some point Lin + a couple other Kisaki sessions, got (like Shazna's guitarist and Kuroyume's guitarist and bassist) probably didn't really speak with him much since the mid-90's and might not have known he was that bad, but going forward they and no one else would not, and should not, want anything to do with him.

think about this: if this al  turns out to be legit, there -must- be some artists or people who have worked closely with Kisaki in some form who actually knew about this shit to some extent, i don't feel like it's the kind of thing that would just be easy to hide

It's worrying to me that some peoples first thought is 'oh noh muh music!!!!!'
do you not have any sympathy for this little girl?? or her mother? or any other people he's mistreated??
 
I've always hated Kisaki, thought he was an overdramatic attention seeker; but knowing he does this is shocking
he's disgusting and I hope he rots in prison. 
 

Development: The account was deleted. Not really surprising considering the seriousness of the allegations, the amount of tanuki attention it attracted and the fact that the police are reportedly involved. I might screencap the archive I saved of the account for posterity?

Kisaki has always shown that he’s a piece of shit, but this is just.. I don’t know what to say. No matter what, there’s no excuse for this. He can honestly just rot because there’s no coming back from something like this.

When I opened this post about an hour ago, I expected a kettle of piping hot tea on Kisaki's recurring financial tomfoolery and musical misadventures. I was proven otherwise.
 
If the allegations are proven to be true (with this much evidence and photographs, how could it not), there is no chance of redemption for this absolute scumbag of a person.

P.S.
 
I wonder if the recent cancellation of the upcoming Phantasmagoria compilation album was Kisaki's way of funding himself to hire a reputable defense attorney in case any information surfaces on the internet.

well, the authorities still have to take the word of a WOMAN and we all know how that goes in most cases, so I wouldn't be certain about that...

(Thank you to @ricchubunny for posting about this in a status, which led to @Chi linking it to me!)
 
An account on Twitter, @KISAKI54175241, has begun to make some fairly serious claims against Kisaki, so here we are in the rumors section yet again. At the time of this posting the account has 66 tweets and multiple images. I saved an archive of the page at it is at this moment in case anything happens to it, so please let me know and I will post that somewhere.

Disclaimer: What follows is a translation of allegations made by twitter user KISAKI54175241. I neither endorse nor deny any of the claims made below, and I made a conscious effort to avoid sensationalizing anything in my translations... If you have any questions or feedback in that regard please let me know.

More importantly some of the content below is disturbing. There are mentions of domestic violence and child sexual abuse. Please read at your own discretion or skip to the summary below if you would like to know what happened without getting into explicit detail.

KISAKI54175241's posts (oldest to newest, although sometimes self-retweets that reordered her twitter timeline will cause discrepancies)
 
The translation as the account stands at 2:28 PM -6:00 GMT is complete.

This picture provided by @colorfuljinsei (originally from Kisaki's official twitter?) can serve as a tattoo placement/design reference if you would like to do any comparisons.


In summary, Kisaki has been accused of:
-Inappropriate sexual contact with a young child
-Domestic violence
-Being a habitual benzo seeker/user
-Being suicidal and using this as a manipulation tactic
-Astroturfing tanuki, working to have critical articles and twitters suspended
Allegedly, these matters have been brought to police.

"憑影と月風 / tsukikage to tsukikaze" (formerly known as "op.7") PV spot
 

Cover art has been revealed (it was already pretty much revealed...)

Type A:


Type B:


Standard edition:


Also revealed:
* The standard edition comes with 8 tracks
* Limited types A and B each come with 11 tracks.
      - 8 of the tracks are the same as the standard edition.
      - the remaining 3 tracks consist of acoustic arrangements of songs on the album, and will vary between Type A and Type B. Basically, the same scenario as his previous album.
* Type A comes with a DVD featuring a PV for a song titled 「くるおし花/kuruoshibana」
* Type B comes with a DVD featuring a PV for a song titled 「憑影と月風 /tsukikage to tsukikaze」


The full tracklist still has yet to be posted.

following seikun's impeccable logic all the bangyas in vk are actually secretly lesbian because there's absolutely no reason why straight girls would be attracted to 'feminine' bandmen 
 
while we're on this topic, i also don't get:
- why there's still the weird division dictating that guys must be into vk as "ongen-gyao" who only collect cds, and girls only go to lives to swoon over hot bandmen
- why the former is somehow usually conceived as more superior to the latter.... almost every guy who's an armchair connoisseur of vk i've encountered exudes the insufferable air of making themselves sound like consumers of vk who are more sophisticated than "those bangyas over there" aka the "necessary evil" that keeps the scene afloat
- why the two are even mutually exclusive in the first place, as if being into the bandmen themselves somehow diminishes or effaces one's ability to appreciate/talk about music intelligently
 ...and i can go on.
 
basically i feel that people (mostly guys, but also girls who are concerned with being viewed a certain way) who actually have the money to spare AND want to participate are given pause because of these problematic assumptions. i've been saizen for bands (mostly very small) and have no problems with the girls or the bandmen themselves so i can't help thinking a lot of these strange ideas are self-imposed. people should just enjoy the scene in whatever way they want (yes, even if you're a guy who go to lives to fantasize about bandmen - what's wrong with that??), instead of losing sleep over what the bangyas in the same row are potentially gossiping about you.

I was afraid of that, since it was left untitled.

I can only make out some of it -- some of the quieter parts have me stuck.