Arkady

I prefer to say my farewell with a bittersweet laught, so I'm choosing "Dance my Generation", since the "End of an era" theme is fitting.

Kamijo from his LAREINE (fiançaille) era

This time it was a less-musically-relevant-and-more-of-a-collecting-bonanza package

Versailles- Jubilee score book

Versailles- a ton of bromides

Anubis- PAPYRUS ni Egaka Reru RAA no Tenbin

Versailles- Cure, pamphlets, and flyers

Lareine- Fleur (yellow disc ed.)

Kamijo- Mademoiselle (lim. ed. A)

Kamijo- Epic Rock Orchestra at Zepp DiverCity Tokyo (lim. ed.)

Kamijo- Epic Rock Orchestra at Zepp DiverCity Tokyo (reg. ed.)

Lareine- a ton of postcards (the 2 in the middle right are my favorite find of this whole haul)

Lareine- signed boards (pretty aged, but they were cheap, so)

Lareine- fanclub first 5 magazines (+ the seller added for free what I think may be one of the member letters fans received back if they sent the insert inide Billet?)

Lareine

The Ghost inside of me

Kizu

Versailles

Malice Mizer

28 minutes ago, Saishu said:

The new album doesn’t exist 

The new album is the friendships/contacts HE made all along.

Gazette stans are really pissed off in the Twitter comments.

31 minutes ago, VkBrutaliaN said:

I also once thought about if i should put all caseless CDs into slimcases but then i refused cuz of the money which would have to go into buying new CD cases and mainly cuz the sleeves mostly they have different colors and i would kinda feel like if i disrupt the original "product" when separating the CD/lyric card from the sleeves if you get what i mean...

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this kind of mental bug. *high five*

I stay in the "small collection" side, especially considering it's 15+ years I'm collecting. 3/4 of it it's Kamijo related.

75 albums (EPs included)

100 singles

22 DVDs

32 promo discs (here I counted different kinds of promo discs)

5 VHSs

1 cassette

3 misc.

(singles and/or albums with a second CD/DVD included I counted as simply 1 single/album)

In the "collectibles" side (not counting stickers or cards):

79 postcards/bromides

9 photobooks (half of them are from Malice Mizer)

10 pamphlets

7 flyers

12 fanclub magazines

1 cheki

I'm waiting for stuff to come at the end of the month, but nothing that will dramatically change numbers (maybe a bit the postcards and flyers ones)

My western music collection is more or less 25 items betweens albums and a couple singles/DVD

I LOVE Lareine Fuyu Tokyo PV.  I adore that budget vintage Paris vaudeville aesthetic, I wish they'd have used it more in their other PVs. It's the kind of extra I love.

Also:

Praying for an Enka-kei EP where he sings and play solo. ❤️

I hope it's a stunt during which the singer will go solo releasing a vaporwave or some random undergrond genre mini ep, or something the like, before announcing they'll be coming back.

Thanks, I HATE it (or more specifically, I hate the track hiccupping every time it changes part), I didn't even finish 2 minutes of the track.

Is this a late april fools joke?

31 minutes ago, blacktooth said:

Chill/melancholic ambient MIDI beats to relax/study to

The joke is that you cannot even do it with how it hiccups from part to part every 30 seconds.

Early morning acoustic Kizu *chef kiss*

1 hour ago, platy said:

I only like merch that I can put to use, so towels, tote bags and T-shirts if they have a cool design. 

I envy you because I tryed it a few times, but every time I get caught in a memento-mori esistential horror and I never use them.
(the alternative would be to buy one for collection and one to wear/use, but I'm not too keen to use my money that way and fill my wardrobe of unused  VK stuff)

Music supports apart  (CD, DVD, VHS etc.) and photobooks/pamphlets, I go crazy also for almost all you can put into a clear file (and that tells the band story) like flyers, postcards, bromides, trading cards etc.

2 hours ago, Total Saikou said:

Ooh, I usually never segregate my western CDs from my Japanese ones

I do it because western albums would disappear among the ginormous mass of Kamijo's entire career discography (and I still own more or less only half the stuff released).

For each western artist, I usually own max 2-3 disks, it's much easier and faster for me to locate each in the single line I dedicated to them, than scattered and hidden among the MANY dozen Lareine/Versailles/etc discs.

Same reason why my "not-Kamijo" part of the VK collection is separated too, since it's just a little bigger than the western one (and for lack of the right space where to put it all together).

(premise: my Vk collection and the MUCH smaller western musicians one are separated)

I divide them by artist/band's name THEN I order each artist's disks by cronological order, from the oldest to the newer (from left to right).

I have only 1 cheki, but I store it in a cute cheki photo album I use to store Kamijo's stickers too. There are pretty cheap ones on ebay.

This (photo stolen from ebay) v

Maybe it's something very deep and meta and they mean his creativity vein got infertile, as his creative juices don't flow like the good old 80's days? 👀

I mean it could happen to old artists, look at Yoshiki.

On 6/18/2020 at 10:15 PM, Arkady said:

Signature fashion collection.

OH SH*T! OH GAWD! OH C*ZZO!

I got it this time too. (Last time it was the Mc Donald collaboration)

Follow my *mumbles something intelligible*  for more foresights over Yoshiki's future money/attentiongrabs!!

So?

What was this EXCITING announcement?

Sparkling water is the devil's beverage. It hurts my nose without the other carbonated drinks perks.

I voted Sprite, but if the poll was about favorite any-colour soda drinks my vote would have gone to Chinotto. It looks like coke but it tastes bittersweet (more bitter or sweet depending of the brand)

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Be part of@YoshikiOfficial's groundbreaking secret online project!

I feel "someone" heard about Kpop stans feats and now want to end World hunger o something with his own synchronized army of stans.

Gackt's Vanilla PV borrowed part of the aesthetic, even though you can still see the 90's here and there.

I feel like Tonight PV by Luna Sea would have liked to use the aesthetic too (at least for the parts with the band playing inside the "futuristic" room) but the director/post production didn't received the memo (they didn't even put the omnipresent cold blue filter).

OT: For the ones that don't know whats Y2K aesthetic is, basically the 2 biggest cultural spreader (and large scale influencer?) were Matrix and Bjork "All is full of love video" video, if my memory doesn't fail me. Good to know it has a name now, at that time I liked to call it the "aseptic futurism"

Who will win the "Tardy" race?

-Our favorite Queenslayer Scarf Lady

OR

-Our favorite YT ASMR Queen

???

STAY TUNED!