Gesu

34 minutes ago, heresytrash said:

I was running away from Gackt

Aren't we all

9 minutes ago, Komorebi said:

I could submit a photo but Idk how to post images here, I've tried for about 5 years with 0 results.

Upload it to Imgur and paste the BBCode for it (in the drop-down menu on the image) in your post.

I'm, uhh, guilty of having this mindset myself so this was interesting to me.

I currently live in a small bedsit and whenever anyone walks past my room and I'm listening to something I would consider "weird" (which is... most of my music, not to sound all #notlikeothergirlsuwu but whatever), I turn it down and put my bed covers over my laptop mic so they don't hear it. I really gotta break that habit. I mean... yeah, so fuckin' what if I like Moran? As I'm sure many here will agree, they kicked ass. So what if I wanna listen to something completely different to Moran? Even if it's not my usual genre, it doesn't matter... that's what I tell myself anyways but the truth is, I care way too much about what others think of me. It ain't good.

Last night, I dreamt that I was playing the FFVII remake and it was really good. The animation was, of course, top-notch and the character dynamics were excellent. Also I ran away to Germany and I'm not sure if that was a separate dream or if it was in the remake and I was a character but it felt like the two dreams were kind of intersecting.

48 minutes ago, Saishu said:

Also make sure your band name is easy to Google. Don’t make it one letter or a super common word like “Sugar”

This is too true and it sucks because Sugar were awesome. If only they had a more distinctive name, they might have got more recognition.

Always thought this song sounded really fucking cool. I remember when I was living with my grandma I'd sit in bed and listen to this all the time while playing lil games on the tablet I had at the time.

Edgy face reveals. Unless you're a really popular/established musician making a surprising comeback, there's just no need for it and it kind of defeats the point of VK being a visually striking genre that jumps out at you the moment you see it. It's meant to get your attention and not being able to see the members just completely takes that aspect of it away. I do believe that the music is more important than the visuals but in such a stylised genre, you're taking a huge (and usually stupid/arbitrary) risk by obscuring yourself like that and more often than not, they fail to live up to the high expectations they give to the people waiting to see what they look like with mediocre music. It kind of adds insult to injury, imo.

Aww, but Arabic eyeliner is my favourite... I always do it like that. *cries*

Lol jk, interesting tutorial! You really know your stuff

Edit: I think super-long eyelashes (like super SUPER-long, feathery eyelashes) can look good for a more out-there VK look. I think Sizna pulled it off pretty well.

Love it! I am definitely gonna keep an eye on these guys.

1 hour ago, Wakarimashita said:

To me he's unquestionably gay

I'm always a bit iffy whenever I hear someone say "he must be gay, he looks it". Now, granted, stereotypes do often have a grain of truth in them whether we want to admit it or not and a lot of the time, camp men do happen to be gay but I wouldn't say it's unquestionable (even if, given the question, I would probably guess Sena was gay too so I guess I'm not trying to vehemently disagree with you). Actually, I once knew a guy who was about as stereotypically, histrionically camp as you could imagine but I know for a fact he wasn't gay. For the record, I have a shite gaydar (if that's even a thing) and can never really guess someone's sexuality accurately if I'm put on the spot to do so but the point I'm (perhaps clumsily) trying to get across here is that I don't think you can say someone is or isn't something just because they seem it or because someone on the Internet/your friend of a friend said so, especially in a scene defined by flamboyance and intricate hairstyles/makeup/costumes; basically, traits that would be considered "gay". Hell, I'm straight as a fuckin' arrow and when I was about seventeen, people used to think I was bisexual because apparently, my hair looked it, whatever that means.

I remember a few years back, this guy I talked to a lot online introduced me to OC Remix (this song in particular) and I have never looked back. This is probably the most amazingly awesome VGM remix I have ever heard.

Awesome thread, thanks for this! Hitomi's always been the sort of singer who just effortlessly emanates the raw pain and passion in his heart when he sings, like you can feel the melancholia he felt when he was writing his songs. That, and he's always worked with the exactly the right musicians to complement his lyrics and style. He has that perfect mixture of heart and technical skill. Speaking of technical skill, Sizna has to be my favourite musician in terms of that. Moran honestly had something no-one else had and I don't know if anyone's gonna be able to capture that lightning in a bottle again.

2 hours ago, morugya926 said:

I think Sana from UNiTE. was born on 1989. He kind of like gave a clue about it, indirectly saying he was already 26 on 2015.

According to this, he was. This site isn't really official but if two sources are saying it and it sounds reasonable enough, I'd say there's a good enough chance it's true.

Sounds nice! Vid coulda been a bit more inventive but I don't really care too much about that, just a thought.

@MAGORiA Damn, I want a makeover from you so badly

Tani Takuma from Jikkendai Marmot has a third daughter and he and his family all band together as some mini lolita army to take over the world

God, this one was bloody weird. I just had a nap and in my dream I had a nap as well and when I awoke there was a massive security camera in my room with "arms" and gloved hands like Mickey Mouse. It could extend out and inspect every corner of my flat. It also knew sign language. Also I fell in love with it. Like, romantic love. So, um. Yeah. Spread the robosexual love, I guess.

I can hardly find a single job that wouldn't make me blow my brains out and it's making me want to blow my brains out.

Welcome back~!

10 hours ago, colorful人生 said:

ACME, contrary to their current "wE aRE VisUaL kEI" messaging, will continue to dip in the BMTH playbook and become less "visual kei" as the year progresses whilst continuing to play random anime-con gigs overseas. After two releases, everything starts to lull out before they go for one really "off brand" concept, they end up disbanding by the end of the year b/c of musical differences.

Seconded. This is almost eerie in how likely it seems.

On 12/15/2018 at 7:08 PM, Gesu said:

I predict that:

* DELUHI will finally return after almost eight years, only to disband again two months later

* Sugar Or Dry will disband, quickly followed by MiA's reputation getting even worse due to some other carcinogenic shit-kei project

* DIAURA will keep on slaying it

* ACME will keep on slaying it

* Munou Na Lucid will get HOOGE

* A band will form that tries to mix oshare kei and brutal kei; not only that, but it's actually not that bad

On 12/31/2018 at 10:10 PM, Gesu said:

* Chobi and Satoshi (ex-DIV) will finally realise that, no matter how talented they are, all the DIV fans care much more about what Chisa and Shogo are doing and give up entirely

* Moran will come back for, like, a day... or maybe they'll say they will, but then they won't

* The esteemed SHiSHi will take off, but only after lowering their astronomical prices (2500 yen for your 0th mini-album, are you kidding me? And 7800 yen for a hoodie!? That's about £52! 😲)

* Everyone ex-MEJIBRAY will fade away into nothingness bar Meto, who makes a pleasantly surprising comeback

* Kaya will continue being wonderful

* DIAURA will come to England (onegai?)

Aight, let's see what I got right and what I got wrong.

* Wrong ❌

* I don't think so but could it really get any worse ❌

* Right ✔️

* Wrong if we're being entirely honest (although their new look was 👌) ❌

* So very, very wrong ❌

* I don't think so ❌

* Taking The Guzmania into account, wrong ❌

* Wrong ❌

* Right ✔️

* This almost couldn't be more wrong ❌

* Right ✔️

* Wrong ❌

3/12... that's pretty bad lmao. Oh, well, I had fun.

I always get the urge to clean at stupid o'clock in the morning when I really should be sleeping, is that weird?

Huh, that was pleasantly surprising. Not bad.