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玲央 (Reo) (lynch.) will act as guest musician on their new maxi-single

Hi,
So the people have asked me to make a own thread and since these are hard, official allegations on public, retweeted twitter, I decided to make this in the general section and not rumors.
 
It all began when Kaitou was invited to play as a guest at Ikebukuro Cyber. They don't usually play that venue, but they decided to do so this time.
 
It then happend that Maria Cross was staffing the drinkbar that night. As we all know Maria Cross is a highly suspicious individual, with former arrest for pedo antics etc. And according to his twitter, he is a regualr at Cyber, being there ~4 days a month and apparently acting as staff. 
 
Allegedly Maria at the drinkbar then mixed alkohol also into drinks where people requested non-alcoholic beverages (some of my twitter mutal were there, sensed the strange taste and threw it away...), when alcoholic stuff was ordered,  he filled half the glasses with alcohol and also gave alcohol to (un-)willing minors, who identified themselves as such. 
 
Well, girls were rather offended. Maria then proceeded to hit on the girls and try to exchange line and other contact information. This made a lot of them very uncomfortable. 
 
The fans proceeded to report this to the band and the band was very upset at these illegal, shady antics that ruined the fun for their fans. Masato did not know a lot about Maria at that point and sent out his first tweet warning people of Maria's behaviour.
 
People then gave him Maria's twitter and he repeated his warnings and exposure if Maria's account, explicitly doubting how such a pervert could be employed as staff at cyber:
 
He was also playing a session band soon after and the band had practiced the song "M" by Ayumi Hamasaki. He was very upset, so he exchange the lyrics at somepoint from "Maria" to "Masato" in protest.
 
I don't find his tweet about not wanting to sing the name Maria anymore, he seems to have deleted it from his official "shitpost twitter" lol.
 
The whole thing cumulated in Kaitou writing an official complaint E-mail to Ikebukuro Cyber, notifying them of Maria's illegal and suspicious behaviour and requesting a response.
 
 
Cyber just gave a random reply along the lines of "We are sorry this happend, we will look into it. Thank you for your patronage." 
Which was not satisfying at all so basically Masato ended his tweet with telling his fans to take extra care and caution when going to Cyber (as they apparently accept shitty behaviour of their staff.)
 
Well, this and the cyber issue was mentioned in their potcasts a lot where they repeated that such things are inacceptable, fans pay money to have a good time and should not have to be subjected to such shitty treatment....
They got really upset about it.

IZABEL VAROSA - Juliet
A9 - Birth in the death
envy - Rain Clouds Running in a Holy Night/Scene
Dir en grey - Zetsuentai/Behind a vacant image
sukekiyo - Nurebairo/Hakudaku/in all weathers
Luna Sea - LOVELESS
MUCC - Kuchiki no Tou
Plastic Tree - circus/Shizuka no Umi/saishuu ressha (live 2006)
The Novembers - Romancé/Bokurawa nattan darou
Nega - Kohaku/Reminiscence
 
These are just offa the top of my head tho.

(I don't know if this can be defined as the performance of Misaruka WDP)
 
It seems that Rui & Rin will perform together in a session band called "Project-Merrow-" on 03/07/2019 at Ikebukuro Black Hole.
 
 
Project-Merrow- members :
 
Vocal : Rui (Ex-Misaruka -> Mikansei Alice)
Guitar : Rin (Ex-Misaruka -> Scarlet Valse)
Guitar : Nazuki (La'Veil MizeriA)
Bass : 70 (Ex-FIXER)
Drums : Tomoya (Ex-SchwarzKain -> Ex-FIXER[Support])

Support drummer サト (Sato) is ex-RABBI★STAR-->ZAKLIA-->Mummy

''wow i sure as hell hate people being toxic and saying meanie things about my faves, got damn elitists!"
 
*harasses some completely uninvolved person for absolutely no reason*

sasaeng is more like a stalker/very obsessive and creepy fan, whereas bangya is just a neutral word for a vkei fangirl I think.

I've never felt real toxicity towards me, mostly because I'm a guy. 
 
The most toxicity I've seen are from foreign fans fighting over dumb ass genres like: I hate x band because they're Osare, they're too bright, kirakira sucks. While in the meantime stanning bands like Aicle(who are KOTEOSARE KEI) that plays heavy music, but also poppy music(Which is a Koteosa staple). Let's face it, foreign fans care too much about something being cute, but if they play heavy ass fuck music, they'll look pass the hypocrisy. 

This thread makes me lose hope in humanity

Ohh, so its like Sasaeng fan from KPOP I asume?

Release date for the single have been changed to 2019/07/17

The new look is pretty cool, dig it. But again will probably pass on all these singles like the 粉砕するぞ！and 俺を必要とする人はこの世の中に居ないよ singles that came out at the same time, where all the songs basically could have just been one full length. These songs could all just be one mini-album. I know there are reasons why they would take this approach instead but seriously that kind of thing is one of the things I really hate about the way Vkei bands market themselves. haha. So if they can convince me to spend money on these they'll have to pull off something really special to convince me. Look forward to seeing what they come up with nonetheless.

Support drummer サト (Sato)
 
They also changed their name to MAMIRETA (in English letters)

The first single,「A才教育」(A-sai kyouiku), will be released on 2019.08.07.
 
TYPE A : 2000 yen + taxes
CD :
1.A才教育(A-sai kyouiku)　
2.深夜2時の探し者(Shin'ya 2-ji no sagashi-sha)
DVD :
1.A才教育(A-sai kyouiku)　
 
TYPE B : 2000 yen + taxes
CD :
1.A才教育(A-sai kyouiku)　　　
2.涙不明(Namida fumei)
DVD :
01. Images from their live on 2019.05.29 at Takadanobaba Area
 
The second one, 「次のニュースです少年B(4)猥褻願望のため思考停止」(Tsugi no news desu shounen B(4) waisetsu ganbou no tame shikou teishi), will be released on 2019.09.04.
 
TYPE A : 2000 yen + taxes
CD :
1.次のニュースです少年B(4)猥褻願望のため思考停止(Tsugi no news desu shounen B(4) waisetsu ganbou no tame shikou teishi)
2.真っ暗なドア(Makkurana door)
DVD :
1.次のニュースです少年B(4)猥褻願望のため思考停止(Tsugi no news desu shounen B(4) waisetsu ganbou no tame shikou teishi)
 
TYPE B : 2000 yen + taxes
CD :
1.次のニュースです少年B(4)猥褻願望のため思考停止(Tsugi no news desu shounen B(4) waisetsu ganbou no tame shikou teishi)
2.おじいちゃん(Ojîchan)
DVD :
01. Images from their live on 2019.05.29 at Takadanobaba Area
 
The last one, 「調教C」(ChoukyouC), will be released on 2019.10.02.
 
TYPE A : 2000 yen + taxes
CD :
1.調教C(ChoukyouC)
2.罠と縄(Wana to nasa)
DVD :
1.調教(ChoukyouC)
 
TYPE B : 2000 yen + taxes 
CD :
1.調教(ChoukyouC)
2.お腹の中のブラックホール(Onaka no naka no black hole)
DVD :
01. Images from their live on 2019.05.29 at Takadanobaba Area
 

 

 

 

 

Especially considering the foundations for most of these discussions/opinions. I mentioned in another thread that a lot of people's definitions of "shitty person" seem to be "bcuz rumourz".

Well, when there is picture or other proof like arrests, it seems more than just a rumor, and there is enough of this out there. I even saw a bandomen i liked, but heard he slept around, trade something with a fan and then quickly hurry away before a live. 
But I am old enough not to take these things seriously. There are so many more important things in life. And if the artists are bad people, who cares? They are not your roommates....

All the sick self harm and anorexia pictures/tweets floating around on jap. Bangya twitter are toxic and not nice. 
Mamo posting these fanletter notebooks written with blood.....
 
Stop it guys, respect yourselves!

What the fuck?! Lol. I’d laugh if it was Toshiya. Like, he’s awesome and all, but saving your v card for him?! Buy a dildo god damn it XD

Most toxic thing I've ever seen in the VK fandom... go on Tanuki (or any Tumblr translation blog if you can't read Japanese).
 
Wait, don't. I don't want to see you get sucked into that vortex. *shudder*

I actually had a Mamo stan from Japan harass me on facebook before, because I made a partially joking (but also partially serious) post about Mamo being a Kusomen in a Vkei group I'm in. I posted the screenshot to my FB to see if anyone knew who she was, and this dude who was a somewhat popular Western Vkei musician (not gonna say any names publicly) actually ratted me out to them and she continued to harass me even more (gladly I blocked her). She even try strawmanning Ai from Gulu Gulu and talked down to me like I was some newbie fan lol.
Funny enough, she didn't deny Mamo's shitty behavior, but actually tried to defend it by saying that my favourite bandmen (who I doubt she even knows) isn't a good person either. Like, even if Ai was a kusomen, that doesn't mean I have to turn a blind eye to shitty behavior. Like, yes, I know Mamo ain't the only one, but for fuck's sake I was just shit posting in a shit posting group
 

your fave band sucks xoxoxo
 
Or let me follow this band I dont like to make it worse for the people who do like this band.

Yeah, I remember seeing it around on places like LiveJournal and Tumblr (especially on member-centered communities/pages - i.e. "[insert bandomen's name]_a_day_community) I don't think anything is wrong with the communities itself, but that kind of behavior doesn't make sense because each fan in said communities like the same bands/people, right...? Some things I will never understand ^^;

I remember someone asking for links to files back on inertia’s board, what must have been 14-15 years ago.
 
Someone honestly responded;
”Why don’t you just buy the CDs, instead of being a leech?”
 
Yes, because someone back in 2004 can just walk to the store and buy whatever VK CD they want, or just go on to Western iTunes, and have the whole world at their fingertips. Or, they could blindly buy a $40 CD. Amazin’!

"You only listen to post 2010 VK? I, an intellectual individual, avid connoisseur of the Visual Kei scene with peak music taste know that only obscure 90s bands with unpronounceable names count as true VK"