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Nikki from Chrono Cross seems quite influenced by VK, he's the guitarist of the band 'Magical Dreamers'
 

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 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 

in a box on the floor until i get around to dumping them all at puresound

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

Broke my 'no-buy' streak last month. Cheap singles are my weakness woops but I'm extremely happy that I finally have 激情マニフェスト after looking for it forever ;;
蜉蝣-XIII dizzy
hurts-鼓膜×キャンドル
hurts-眼球×ニードル
トーマス-激情マニフェスト
トーマス-Determination

My recent Rarezhut purchase that I bought myself for my birthday. The second and third picture is what I got from the "Lucky Bag" while the first picture was my main order.
 

The only thing mana smokes is fat goth doobies of primo quality cemetery w e e d

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

It's been a minute since I took pics of my DIR EN GREY collection, so here it is.
 
Cassette tapes:
 
VHS tapes:
 
Abums:
 
EPs/Best-ofs:
 
DVDs:
 
Singles:
 
Promos:
 

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

I ain't saying anything... but pictures don't lie.

Not just ICEMAN but a whole segment of 90s jpop - through names and acts such as AXS and, well, all of DA Family actually - was very... very Y2K vibes; but I used to think of vk as sort of the antithesis to it, as a whole. Like, where jpop was aggressively Y2K ~trendy bandomen~ were often just vampiresque lol.  So, sadly, nothing to contribute here but thanks for this topic, it's pretty nice!
 

I agree. Perhaps they tried to court everyone, but in the end failed to get them. Perhaps they withdrew behind Mana's artistic direction, and thus all MM less Gackt were dropped off Columbia; I can't imagine him, even Kozi or Yuuki playing pop, putting up 00s 64 bits softvi rockers aesthetics, surrounded by group of dancers, etc. They are artists, I think that's clear. Kozi, like Mana, even at the cost of losing their mainstream status (a thing that history has reserved to less than 10 bands in Japanese music history, even Dir or the Gazette never had the attention MM received from the media in the late 90s), decided to move on and run after a consistent artistic project within their own worldview. On the other hand, Gackt brought iconic moments to VK and J-rock (Mizerable, Vanilla, Redemption) but generally speaking he did the stuff that would attract masses.

The only tea here is that yellow don't mellow 

Welcome to the forum and have fun! Nice starter bands though! 

I've noticed early 2000's Diru, as somewhat kinda previously mentioned by @Himeaimichu, has a very kind of Y2K vibe to it, in fact Kisou and MACABRE share similar vibes.
 
 
 
 

👀 Nice phantasmagoria video 

I've noticed early 2000's Diru, as somewhat kinda previously mentioned by @Himeaimichu, has a very kind of Y2K vibe to it, in fact Kisou and MACABRE share similar vibes.
 
 
 
 

I've noticed early 2000's Diru, as somewhat kinda previously mentioned by @Himeaimichu, has a very kind of Y2K vibe to it, in fact Kisou and MACABRE share similar vibes.
 
 
 
 

👀 Nice phantasmagoria video