Miku70

Not so much MH, but the VK fandom in general:
 
One guy in VK: *does a bad thing*
Fandom: All of VK is terrible! Oh, well, I still like it.
 
Make up your goddamn mind. 🙄

Haha hello fellow elder!
With the response I'm getting I'm starting to wonder if the vk fandom is a dying breed, or the young innocents are just too embarrassed to be seen with us ^^;

Welcome here 😊.

Welcome my dear children! How's vk doing these days? 😎
 
I see you can even listen to your weird japanese metal on Spotify, kids have it way too easy nowadays... 
BACK IN MY DAY I had to hunt single songs in 92kbps on dial-up Limewire and half the time ended up with "I did not have sexual relations with that woman.mp3".
 
Funny story, that's how I got into vk! 13-year-old me was browsing the wide web, probably for some quality Britney Spears, and found a grainy Miyavi's Jibun Kakumei PV instead. With a 20MB download limit per day, I thought CLOSE ENOUGH and the rest is history. 
 
Now I'm back after over 10 years of impersonating a Serious Adult™ and I have Opinions™ to share. 
 
Some bands that I used to listen to (some of which are surprisingly still around!): Miyavi (duh), MUCC, Merry, girugamesh, 9GOATS BLACK OUT, Hora, Kaya, Schwarz Stein (can't believe they got back together, it's like I never left!) and the whole shebang, Aural Vampire, Kagrra,, Yoshiki's classical stuff~
 
And some bands that I've discovered in the past few weeks and absolutely love: Initial'L and consequently Lycaon, DIMLIM, Xaa-Xaa~
 
Also, I'm Anna 💩
 
P.S. I also listen to a lot of kpop, all kinds of electronic and celtic music; don't expect there to be much overlap but you never know! if your music taste is as all over the place as mine, hit me up, we can share obscure recommendations!

VALDER has disbanded as of June 16. For a quick recap, vocalist Syu departed back in December; guess they failed to find a replacement.
 
 

For what I read here, do not work with Interac

This is awesome
 
They've played the sun plaza multiple times arleady i feel like they can move up to arenas and bigger venues by now no? 

Good song !

The music video is out
 
 

Yeah, especially when vkei artists always drastically transform their faces with makeup anyway...

Ok it's real and he's not big change. But Mahiro he's happy after the operation .

CHIC BOY Gt.セラ(Sera) has left the band on 2019/06/03.
 
 
 

Nice to see him being so upfront about it, and I'm glad he's happy with it.
 
Can't see the difference, but It will probably take some more time before the changes are noticeable?

“ This last video featuring Mahiro regards his face and his negative body image issues, especially his dislike of his own nose. He documents the time he goes to South Korea for plastic surgery after the Koubou Issen (Senkou’s tour) final. It looks painful, but in the end he seems pleased with the result.”
I think his nose and face was always beautiful but if he’s more happier now, it’s great

I mean it's his money and his face and he can do whatever he wants with it, but I don't think he needed the surgery.

Nero is amazing for uploading this video and speaking up. My friend and I experienced this recently and got called "ayashii" pretty much to our faces (they thought we couldn't understand Japanese). They asked us to show our resident cards, emptied our wallets and looked at the names on our credit cards. They also asked personal questions about my family. It was really humiliating but we complied because we didn't want to get in trouble. The real kicker was when they noticed my friend has a Yoshiki credit card and started talking to us about X Japan as if they were our  friends. It took all the restraint in the world to not tell them to go fuck themselves. 
 
 

(I posted about this incident in the MERRY thread, but nobody cares about them so I've decided to give it its own thread instead.)
So the other day, Nero (MERRY drummer) posted a video of himself being harassed by police as he was on his way to work, specifically a band meeting with the label president. He says he experiences this very often, only because he has tattoos. Eventually when he made it to the meeting (late), nobody believed him when he told them of the incident, so he took this video as proof he wasn't lying. Since then, there have been many people - who call themselves fans btw - calling for the video's deletion because it makes the band "look bad" and that's just the way it has to be...
 
 
Fortunately, many fans, plus outsiders who aren't familiar with the band, have also told stories of their encounters with police, whether it be foreign folk or anyone else that appears to be ~suspicious~. As many of you have travelled to Japan, what were your experiences like? Have you ever been harassed by some asshole cop just because of your skin color, the way you dress, etc. while minding your own business? Any advice to those who may be cautious about this, etc? Do you agree with how they do their duties?  How have they affected your experiences in Japan, while either touring, living, studying, or working there? Dish out your thoughts below!
 
*Please note that this is only about police in Japan, not anywhere else.

Mahiro's surgery in South Korea 
 

remember me as the young girl you see in the photo cuz i have final exams tomorrow so its very likely ill age 40 years in a single night

Welcome here 😊.

I'm pretty bad at introducing myself, so here goes nothing.
 
I'm 19 years old, live in a tiny, very rural village in the middle-west of Germany, and English is my second language (excuse any mistakes, pls). I've been into VK for like 5 years now, if I remember it correctly. What got me into it was Kiryu's MV for Oirantan and from there I just went down the rabbit hole and have no intentions of leaving.
I've also been a guest on the news board for over a year.
 
Some of favorite bands are
• the GazettE (all time favorite and I'm gonna see them in Cologne in a few days and I'm already bouncing off the walls with excitement 💜💜)
• DEXCORE
• DIMLIM
• DEVILOOF
• JILUKA
• Kiryu
• Royz
• Zero[Hz]
 
99.9% of the music I listen to is VK, the remaining 0.1% are bands/artists like Nightwish, MCR, Linkin Park and Marilyn Manson. I'm always open for suggestions, tho! Both VK and non-VK.

I discover An Cafe by  my sister's rock magazine, because the old family is really slow to start. Maybe it's 2006 or 2007, and Bou was in the band.  I was 12 or 13 years old don't know visual kei and I convinced Bou was a women 😥. My little sister explained me  Bou was a guy.   And more later , I watch their MV on Youtube.
 
My third pseudonym is Miku70, because I am great fan of Miku of An Cafe  and 70, because it's the number of my  French department .
 
An Cafe is my first band of visual kei and  I love them rapidily. I am a very shy, I bougth their album in 2008 and their old more laters. I have not best of or singles releases. ( and one cd made by my little sister and this not legal, but were very young and this his a birthday present). I have some lives DVD.
 
This band bring me so much during my teenage years and after for my difficult times. I have not them in live because , I am not live at the capital and others difficulty.
 
Their disband is a shook for me, but now I feel beter because their music live with me and nobody is dead.
 
I have not command their last DVD because it's sold-out and I am not sure in the same time. Goodbye are very sad.
 
2019 is for me the year of disbandments 😔.
 
For me, the death is more sad than a disbandement.
 
I hope the ex members of An Cafe their are happy for their new projects ☺️.
 

Dr.ぴっぴ has departed on March 19, and the band have disbanded after their last live on April 24.
 
 

First it's face reveals, now (since Ari) it's baby pictures. What will the next VK fad be?

Their first live will be on 2019.08.31 at Shinsaibashi FANJ !
 
Members :
Singer : れいや (Reiya)
Guitarist : 咸(Mina)
Bassist : 暮橋夕羽(Kurehashi You) (i.D.A support, ex-Kronos Cat) 
 
Twitter : https://twitter.com/koukaofficial