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Thank you and yeah I suppose they are lol I have never seen Brotherhood seeing as I had watched the entirety of the original and have never felt like going back and watching the manga-esque version. 

Hello everyone, I've been a Visual Kei fan since 2004 when I discovered J-Rock with Asian Kung Fu Generation and subsequently Visual Kei through L'Arc~en~Ciel through Fullmetal Alchemist and quickly found DIR EN GREY and X Japan. I was a fan of everything FROM ∀NTI FEMINISM, An Cafe, Girugamesh and 蜉蝣 to Phantasmagoria, Moi dix Mois and Versailles -Philharmonic Quintet- from 2004 up until around 2010. I then fell into Japanese hip hop and left the scene until last year while keeping up with stuff like DIR EN GREY and the GazettE. Anyway, since last year I've been back in it and quite deeply and it's been nice discovering so many new bands and the nostalgia of the bands I used to love. I was always ostracized and ridiculed about my musical choices in my youth (my youth? I'm only 28 xD) and I ended up finding a soul mate who enjoys Visual Kei as well, especially DAMY, but that doesn't mean that I am not looking to create friendships as friends with similar musical interests are few and far between.
 
I've been a fan of a variety of subgenres over the years, everything from your traditional Visual Kei to Oshare-kei and Nagoya-kei. My favorite bands since I've come back would have to be TRNTY D:CODE, Darian Marian, SARIGIA, dexcore, DatuRΛ, MISERIA, and I was really fond of DEVIZE, VRZEL and MEJIBRAY. As far as old bands I've always loved anything MORRIE does; so DEAD END, 黒夢, PENICILLIN, GLAY, X Japan, Luna Sea and D'erlanger. 
Oh my, I apologize for writing what has essentially turned into a short story! I guess I can end this by saying that I've been aware of this place for some years and used to lurk off and on in the past and I'm happy to be here now.

Sorry to disappoint you all, but honestly,  Golden Bomber belongs here

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LAST update: 2018/12/21
I update once or twice a month.  Please DM me if I missed a name. 
 
NEW BANDS / RESTART | currently 121 bands?!
 
BANDS ON A BREAK (活動休止)  (Real break, 90~100% coming back)
 
DISBAND /indefinitely hiatus(解散/無期限活動休止) (94 bands)
 

Glad I could show something interesting!
 
The full video is now available:
 

Hello, I am a fan of visual kei since 2006 and I am read this forum.
I am French  and I a student of archive.
 
I like bands An Cafe, A9, The GazettE, Codomo Dragon, Kiryu, Zero [Hz]  etc.
 
I like mangas , animes, history and others.
 
 
 
 

Snow Scene is really good song and she's very sad. The PV is really beautiful too ☺️
 

I dont know him before ... but  he's sound really interressing  =).
 
Thanks you for this  discovory .

Same! I’ve been listening to them since 2006, which was, on my opinion, still their best era 😊 Their music gives me strength in a way that no other VK band ever could. AnCafe are basically saying: life might be hard sometimes, but when pressure is weighing you down, all you can do is remember all the good things in life and just dance. That’s it. 
Escapism and tekesuta kousen are great songs! My favourite will forever remain snow scene, partly, because it’s the first song I ever listened to. 

Their are my first band  oshare kei who I like their music so much . This band  bring me  strengh and energy during my bad periods. There are really important for me.
 
I know them with Bou in 2006  and I follow them.
 
Negaigoto wo Hittosusa their last single is a really sad song.
 
And I appreciate their last album, because i don't know. JUMBO is my favorite song of this album.
 
But my favorites songs are Tekesuta Kousen and Escapism (and my first then discover them).
 
 

While I also like their new stuff, you are certainly right! They used to be heavier, and for me, there was more...emotion that came across in their music.
Still, I thought that Harajuku Dance Rock , Hikagyaku Ziprock and BB Parallel were great albums overall. My absolute favourite songs were their B-sides during (and before) their shikisai moment days.

It's really nice to hear you guys enjoy his music! ; > I completely agree. It's not that easy to find innovative and genuine artists in visual kei so supporting them is very important.  Especially if they are this skilled, too. Also the non Japanese bands often try to imitate the Japanese ones so much that they end up lacking substance and miss the chance to add their own perspective and this is very different.
 
A teaser for the upcoming MV has been released yesterday:
 
 

The song is all over the place but is actually very good!

This is soooooooo good! i'm really impressed! I think this is one of their best song ever!

I’m still working on the full report because there are a lot of important details that I wanted to fully write out so it might take me a little long but I wanted to say a few things before I get the time to finish it:
I don’t think people should worry too much right now about a disbandment because I don’t think Mahiro's eye condition was directly related to what happened at the live.
Even looking on Tanuki, most of the gyas contributed it to heat exhaustion (and to be fair, there’s been a really bad heatwave in Japan for the past week).
However, I do think that Mahiro has been pushing himself a lot recently because he knows his time with Kiryu is getting shorter. He really does care and love the band and the fans. And because he feels like his eyes are a burden to everyone, I think he’s pushing himself when he can to make up for it maybe. 
You can also see it in Mahiro’s post he made about a week ago.
Also, he’s doing less photo instores at the moment and wearing sunglasses when he can.
And again, I do really want them to take a break. Looking at their schedule from the past, they’re due for a new album and another 47 prefecture tour but I really really really hope they don’t do a really long tour and stick with short tours like they’ve been doing or just take a hiatus for at least until the end of the year (because BP Records always has New Year’s events so they’d probably have to play and do fan meets at it even if they did hiatus.)
 
Mahiro also made this tweet.

Translation:
Thank you so much to everyone for your concern.
I most definitely will be resting my body a lot for the Niigata performance, so thank you again. 
I want to bite into a peach.
 
So hopefully he’s feeling better.

So I'm coming home from Kiryu's show in Osaka and I'm really worried about Mahiro right now...
I'll do a proper live report tomorrow when I have more time but here's the "short" version of what happened.
From the very first song, Mahiro didn't have a lot of energy which was already making me worries but after a few songs, he got back to his normal levels of energy and so those worries went away.
But at the end the set before the encore, one of the staff members had to help him walk off of the stage.
For the MCs during the encore everything also seemed fine. Mahiro was even smiling a lot but for the very last song Mahiro looked really really tired and then when the song ended he was stumbling a little. And then started talking in this really delirious tone and I couldn't even really catch what he said. Then he was stumbling a lot more and bumped into the mic stand a few times and a staff member caught him before he fell down coming off of the stage. I don't think he fully fainted but he couldn't stand up straight. A good hand full of girls were crying after that (I teared up a little too). 
At the very end of the live Mitsuki was trying to calm everyone down and even made a joke about the 6-man tour they're doing next.
But after this, I really want them to take a long break...seeing Mahiro almost faint was so scary... And I really think he's pushing himself too hard. 

I cannot even put my sadness into words. I’ve been a fan for 12 years, and even though I expected it (and I’m also glad that they can move on), it is still a shock. I only had the chance to see them live 2 times (I was in Japan two years go, but sadly, AnCafe’s tour only started shortly afterwards.) I wished to see them live at least one last time. Now I know it is never going to happen. I’m sad I cannot bid this band farewell for it really influenced my teenage and early adult life. Bye Nyappy. This time for good. 

This is a follow up Event where Mathilda has been naturally banned!

They are doing this kind of stupid event again, where they think they are the best