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I'm very curious about the Watchmen serie. I hope it's good, but if it's not at least I can hope for more Dan/Rorschach on AO3, so it's still a win for me. 😆 (hopefully I can have both)

I watched both Chernobyl and Good Omen and I liked both (although for entirely different reasons). They are both really well made.

Waiting for s3 of Stranger Things in july and a bit of free time to binge Gentleman Jack.

1 hour ago, spockitty said:

 Idk idk, I do feel like not much has changed in vk those 10 years I've been gone

You missed cheki explosion. Before going into hiatus myself I didn't even know they existed (if they) now half VK marketplaces in the west are cheki (I'm not into them but I'm not meaning it's a bad thing they are popular, it's only that I was surprised how popular they were when I returned)

Hello, fellow "oldie"! 😉

Anyone already posted about Malice Mizer's movie/mega-MV Bara no Konrei?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YijTiUCDfLc

Onegai Kanaete Versailles. Although I don't know how it is, never found the courage to watch it. It screams to my face how it would NOT be my jam and how will it kill me of too much cringe.

9 hours ago, Tokage said:

I saw Yoshiki at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bags of potato chips in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired from recording the new X-Japan album and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bags and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to preserve the spiciness,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a thing. After she scanned each bag of chips and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Where is the part where he made sweet sweet love to you-told you he loves you since your eyes first met- then married you?

13 minutes ago, psychonnect_rozen said:

Just watched the music video. Love the song, but I couldn’t understand the video honestly. Im probably just stupid lol

The scenes telling what the MW story is really about are few and cut out really fast, plus there is a really not subtle symbolism thing going on with the tadpoles.  

It's not a MV about a child going to a camping trip in the woods with his granpa and getting dirty playing happily in the wood.

I absolutely love the retro vaundeville aesthetics with the band and the dancers. It works so well with the song and the kind of band they were.

For a more recent one I absolutely love Kizu's Kawazu MV and how the director was able to speak about pedophilia in a crude way but without being too much on your face/commercially-edgelordy.

4 hours ago, ahnchc said:

I completely ignored the "great musician" part and almost said Maria Cross, LOL.

 

I mean the thread title doesn't say that "in their hearts" or "in their mom's opinion" doesn't count.

1 hour ago, Gesu said:

Idk if I'm making this up, but I seem to recall the members of Versailles (back when Jasmine was still with us) releasing a perfume each to promote an album or sth. If my memory hasn't failed me and that really did happen, I'd love to have one.

Trust me, don't bother unless you find it for cheap. I bought only Kamijo's because it was very expensive for what it gave even thought at the time I usually bought all variations of Versailles releases.

I didn't regret it. The perfume is very small and the necklace and DVD don't add much to make the price.

I'd love to own all that sweet fanclub only material Lareine released at the time, plus the demos. But they are usually out of my budget when I see them.

Up with new stuff added.

I'm not sure if it was Lareine in 2000/01 after I found on an anime fanzine a very short section (with a little photo) about their Bara wa Utsukushikuchiru cover and fallen immediately in love with the visual part (and few months later using my 56k pay-for-the-minute internet to download the whole 6/7 songs I was able to find and confirming my first positive reaction), or if I started to listen to X-Japan a short time before them, after I liked their Forever Love used as a final theme song in X-1999.

There are some names in your list I like very much.

I think kizu may interest you too. They are popular in the VK scene bul also good.

And if I can reccomend a western name try early Muse (there is plenty of good stuff in their late discography too, even if more "commercial" oriented tho)

I did a trade with Mizumi and all ran smoothly.  I reccomend dealing with her.

Oh yes, my name is Chrismas tree.

KAMIJO (for Lareine)- Lyrics genius

Translation:  *Vocative* *affirmation*, those who raised me were so gracious to give me the legal name of Abies alba or maybe Picea abies.

Alternative translation: Yes, my parents were d*cks.

Alternative translation n° 2: I'm stoned as f*ck.

11 hours ago, Marchen said:

Still waiting for this

 

Edit: But seriously, 17000 JPY?

 

Edit2: DUDE HOW'S A DVD 17000 JPY

Maybe you can have your favorite bandoman be your fake boyfriend for a whole day as a "free" privilege?

For real tho, if someone here buys it please let we know if there was some secret add on and/or some luxurious casing to at least justify this kind of price or if all those money simply ended up paying for Mana new swimming pool o similar.

(If it's not clear I'm salty. I wanted to buy it but not 130€ plus shipping and custom taxes kind of want)

I think it's more linked to the mondial decrease of the physical media market and closing of many physical shop (amazon giving the deathblow) than a mere VK endemic thing (Japan lasted very long, in Italy the "music shop apocalypse" started more than a decade ago and it already got to the point that big chains too closed part of their stores), VK scene being small and losing in popularity makes it so VK specialized stores are among the first ones bearing the brunt of it, but it's not the sole cause.

Although it also mean VK (and VK music stores) need to learn to evolve fast if it wants to survive, since it's very connected with the physical media market to make their ¥¥¥ (some changes since early 00's are already noticeable tho, so finger crossed the scene survives even if small)

On 5/6/2019 at 2:48 AM, chipathy said:

also i thought ganshin records was putting their stuff up on spotify but i cant seem to find anything about that 

There is some of their stuff on Spotify EU. (Maybe with  a good proxy program you'll b able to access it? I just noticed you are writing from US, sorry)

Kamijo- Rose Croix magazine 5-7

Lareine- Lillie Charlotte lim. ed. (hopefully)

Lareine- Yasashii Hana-tachi no Kyousou

Lareine- TOUR-Fleur 1998

Kamijo- 20th Anniversary All Time Best (reg. ed.)

Kamijo - Live of Moshijo (type

Kamijo- Moshijo the Next

Lareine- Knight

Versailles- Descendant of the Rose 0-2

Versailles- Rose 5th anniversary box bonus DVD (Like an Edison)

Versailles-???Rose??? bonus DVD (Like an Edison)

Versailles- various bonus postcards/photos

Kamijo- various postcards/photos

Kamijo- pin+ various stickers

Watch me reading ALL bands names as they were italian words. 😎

Upside is that japanese and Italian work similar in pronunciations so if the band has a japanese name it usually doesn't end too much f*cken up.

I'm in love. They are all I dreamed since I was a teen (female lead visual kei band + late 90's/early 00's visual kei sound + elegant gothic aestetic).

8 minutes ago, Sahzx said:

I need to listen to sad songs or with a melancholy or somber mood. Help me please.

The first two from the top of my head:

Versailles- Serenade

kizu- Uramibushi

18 hours ago, deedlitmurata said:

  there's also "Anli Pollicino", sounds like a disease name..

 

 

 

Pollicino (little thumb) it's the italian name for Hop-o'-My-Thumb.  8 out of 10 times I stumble in their name I read it as Anti Pollicino.

Already best PV-song combo of 2019. (it contains sensitive stuff, so if you are easily shocked please be cautious)

Congratulations! It doesn't lack anything. It's wholesome VK (a new genre!)