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Oh, same here! Wailing Wall is another one of my favorite songs by them. I still loved them, but yeah, I agree. I was sad about the direction they were taking (music wise) by the end of their career. At least they left us with some great songs, though!

A while ago I decided to try drawing again. I didnt draw for 7 years anymore, beside cartoon animals for my kids. 
Till now its only fan art 
 




Ryo (m:a.ture, Joppin:cal. Ex serial number)
 

Rayji (ex ViV)
 

Kazuya Sakuragi
 
 

Hi everyone,
 
I am Baptiste (but call me Tsukiyo), 25 years old. I was born in Vietnam but I grew up in France. I'm living in Belgium currently.
 
When I was 12 years old, one of my friend who made me discover a lot a musics (rock musics) sent me two videos. It was Gianism Shichi by Nightmare and Garnet by D'espairsRay. At first, I didn't really like those musics, I guess there were too different from what I usually listened and watched. But there was something that was pushing me to listen to them again and again. Some sort of curiosity. After some days, I ended up loving visual kei. It was one of the most important event of my life beacause visual kei influenced me a lot after that. During several years, I was listenning to visual kei musics and I discovered many bands. But sadly, around 2014, most of the bands that I loved disbanded or started to realese more commercial musics. On top of that, I didn't like the new bands at that time. Finally, I stoped being interested in visual kei scene.
 
But recently, one of my friend (another this time) encouraged me to post my photos on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tsukiyo_yazawa/ if you are interrested) and I got in touch with some other visual kei fans. This led me to try visual kei musics again and... here I am. So, I hope I will like some new musics because I am a bit tired to listen to the same musics for 10 years.
 
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions or just to say hi. See you
 
My favorites bands are : 
ALSDEAD
D'espairsRay
DIAURA
Lin-the end of corruption world-
Megaromania
NIGHTMARE
-OZ-
Phantasmagoria
Sadie
SCREW
the Gazette
 
Musics I love the most :
Jukai Ni Saku Ai - SCREW
Eternal Wish ~Todokame Kimi E~ - Raphael
AURORA -destinies of world- - Megaromania

SCREW is pretty nostalgic for me, so that could be part of the reason why I find KHRYST+ a little lacklustre. I also think KHRYST+ isn't really anything new to the scene, they don't sound as unique to me as SCREW did. KHRYST+ only being active for a year though doesn't really help either, it's not enough time to get established in the scene and really find a unique sound.

Also thought of this as well. Khryst+ was fine, but when compared to Screw, I think Khryst+ was definitely lacking something.

Love the songs from TWEWY! It always makes me want to get up and dance (horribly). My personal favorite is the song, Twister.
 
 

Been wanting to play TWEWY since I was about seven so imagine how delighted I was to get Final Remix for my Switch! I have not been disappointed at all and the soundtrack absolutely bangs.
 
 

KHRYST+ really didn't hold up as well as SCREW did. I know RAZOR is doing very well but they're pretty underwhelming to me after BORN, but they were fizzling out. Everything they released after THE STALIN -666- really didn't do it for me.
I have to second this. I didn't listen to Sugar while they were still around and while I did enjoy Konig a lot, everything Loki did after that didn't grab my attention the same way.

Vidoll

I was perusing through the artist forum, and I was surprised that a Kagrra, thread was never made in this section, so here it is. Even though they disbanded in 2011 (and sadly are never coming back), this band definitely deserves much love. Let me know if I made any mistakes ^^
 

 
Members
Vocalist: 一志 (Isshi)
Guitarist: 楓弥 (Akiya)
Guitarist & Koto: 真 (Shin)
Bassist: 女雅 (Nao)
Drummer: 白水 (Izumi)
 
More info links on Kagrra,
https://vk.gy/artists/kagrra/
https://www.last.fm/music/Kagrra,
 
Releases
神樂, (Kagrra,)
[1999.06.13] 百夜絵 (Hyakuyae) 
[2000.06.21] 恋綴魂 (Kotodama)
[2000.12.01] 鵺 (Nue) [First press]
[2000.03.03] 鵺 (Nue) [Second press]
[2001.03.03] 桜 (Sakura) [First press]
[2001.04.27] 「幻惑の情景」(Genwaku no Jyoukei)
[2001.05.26] 「眩暈」(Memai)
[2001.06.29]「神謌」(Kami Uta)
[2001.07.21] 「徒然なるままに」(Tsurezure naru mama ni)
[2001.10.03] 彩 (Irodori)
[2002.03.06] 桜 (Sakura) [Second press]
[2002.04.03] 「~夢イズル地~」 (~Yume izuru chi~)
[2002.05.01] 煌 (Kirameki)
[2002.05.05] 「いろはにほへと」(Iroha ni hoheto)
[2002.05.05] 「案山子」(Kakashi)
[2002.06.16] 「~夢イズル地~」(~Yume izuru chi~)
[2002.10.04] 「恋綴魂」(Kotodama)
[2002.10.04] 「桜舞い散るあの丘で」(Sakura maichiru ano oka de)
[2002.12.11] gozen 
[2003.05.28] 「春麗ら」 (Haru urara)
[2003.07.30] 「夜伽噺」(Yotogi banashi )
[2003.09.24] 桜花爛漫 (Ouka Ranman)
[2004.01.01] 「愁」(Urei)
[2004.03.03] 京 (Miyako)
[2004.10.27] 憶 (Omou)
[2005.01.20] 凛 (Rin)
[2005.07.20] 燦 (San)
[2005.08.01] 幻影の貌 (Genei no katachi)
[2005.08.01] 沙羅双樹の子護唄 (Sarasouju no komoriuta)
[2006.02.01] 誓ノ月 (Chikai no Tsuki)
[2006.11.22] うたかた (Utakata)
[2007.02.14] 雫 (Shizuku)
[2008.01.09] Core
[2008.09.10] 渦 (Uzu)
[2009.04.01] 珠 (Shu)
[2009.10.21] 四季 (Shiki)
[2010.06.16] 月に斑雲 紫陽花に雨 (Tsuki ni Murakumo Hana ni Ame)
[2010.08.11] 白ゐ嘘 (Shiroi Uso)
[2011.02.02] 百鬼絢爛 (Hyakki Kenran)
[2011.06.29] Kagrra, Indies Best 2000-2003
 
shiki∞project～志鬼陰謀～ (一志 [Isshi's] solo project)
[2011.04.02] 屍楽園 (shirakuen)
[2011.09.09] 羅紗桜 (Rasasakura)
[2011.12.07] 紅葉 (Kouyou)

hey all you cool cats and kittens! We have luckily not disbanded in 2 months as the coolio Karma's Hat predicted but who knows haha.
finally we were able to arrange photos during this crazy corona festival.
Have to wait a little bit longer to announce our bassist though >.<! New single Dataizai coming soon as well~
Am talking to STARWAVE about when we can do an event as well but still sketchy here.
can see more images on our twitter plus me being a dork on TOKYO BORDERLESS TV at: https://twitter.com/Encelldisdein
Stay safe out there~!

Trying to get home and
 
Wait for bus for 45mins. Bus magically doesn't come to that stop at that time (the company's app and another bus driver indicated that it did). Well, either way now it's too late and buses don't run at this time anymore (9:30pm)
 
Nearest uber is in the city next-door 30mins away
 
Call taxi company and get hung up because I was trying to find the road name
 
Phone battery proceeds to run out
 
Walk another 45mins to get to my friends cuz it's too dark to do the 1h30mins walk home 
 
That's what happens when u live in old-people's-ville. I'm tired

Started watching Giri/Haji on Netflix today, and I'm already halfway through (well it's only 8 eps)... it sucked me in, haha. Really cool British thriller/drama, with an exciting adventure zigzagging between Tokyo and London, involving the yakuza, hitmen, long-lost siblings and an assortment of colorful characters. Like I said, I haven't finished it yet, but I can already wholeheartedly recommend it. Good stuff.
 
 

Long Live Art-Kei
Mercari is a blessing and a curse
 
Sioux - filled (Final live-limited single)
amber gris - hollow sound (feel me pv making) 
amber gris - Children + (Thank You @Danao)

Posters are the death of me

I mostly tend to buy CDs, DVDs, and keychains/pins. At lives, I purchase chekis, pamphlets, and/or live-limited items for the memories. I also have a habit of getting posters since I like decorating the wall.

Besides finding Vk related items in resale stores, the best two experiences for me was going to a Mitsuwa and hearing "I for you" by Luna-Sea, and then going to a generic weeb store in a small shopping center and they were blasting an cafe, nightmare, gazette, and miyavi lolz.

I just have them underneath some flyers on my shelf, but I ordered a cheki case I hope to put my rare chekis in, that being said @monkeybanana4has the best method for storing them tbh 

I keep some of them in cheki holders, but I ended up buying protector sheets to store most of them in a binder. It look something similar to this picture (stolen right from pinterest):
 

 

I tend to put my CDs wherever it fits as long as all the CDs from a single artist/band is all together. I keep the Western and Japanese artists separated, though.

I store them in a shelf and there isn’t really much of an order as to what band goes where, more like how can I fit them better. Releases within a band are arranged in chronological order though. 

How about moving the threads with dead links to the request section? Or alternatively adding a tag signifying it as dead (like "needs re-up" or sth). 
 
Now, I realize there are 386 pages in the subforum and that's only vk, but I'm willing to offer my time to wade through that if anyone thinks it'd be useful at all. 
After one initial look through, I think it could be done only to the threads where someone is requesting a re-up. 
 
I know it seems like a massive amount of work just to assuage the frustration of finally finding some release only to realize the thing is dead, but I thought I'd put it out there and see what people think. 

The latest single from Nicolas with a signed group photo.