Nighttime Jae

There's definitely been some unreported drama between EVE and UNiTE (because of the Sana situation) and Takeru has unfollowed Yui on Twitter (while Yui still follows him). He still follows Lin and Sana tho, so perhaps he only has beef with Yui🤷‍♀️

A good fit. I can bet they're associated with Kerberos, just like Warumono.

Been stanning Ogyaa since the very beginning (cause Hakuya, my queen 💜✨), so can't even begin to tell you how excited I am about this! They seem to have really amped up the production value of this and I'm loving the zombie (?)/dark web theme! Dis gon b good, guaranteed. Btw: Lyiek from Clack inc. and Monokurokarma is in there too as support drummer^^

It was Meto and Hitsugi from Nightmare lol. I don't think they were fighting though, just drunk shenananigans? Either way, I remember that Royz rumors from back in the day were pretty wild and lulzy, especially the Kuina stuff. Good times.

I mean Mamo is at least somewhat relevant, but the other two? 🤷‍♀️

How come we live in a world in which indies can have their own clothing line? :') Something tells me Cult must come from a wealthy family...

Needless to say, I'd choose Takeru from CLACK inc., I think we'd spend the day at home watching movies and nerding out (he went to film school and he's a huge movie and anime nerd). I would also love to go to karaoke with him as I love singing (and he's a vocalist obviously so). For something a bit out of the ordinary, I'd like to explore a haunted location with him cause we're both into this shit lol

That lipsynch... oof. Sucks to see Nina go, but that deserved a double sashay away. But yeah, the fact that Silky got to stay at the end makes it so obvious that she's kept only because she's good tv material. And the way she treated Soju was pretty horrid, too.

Yeah Ohana is iconique, only he can get away with...that lol (and the moe blush is everything~)

So freaking adorable!😭 It astounds me how they come up with... such questionable looks, and yet they make it work somehow lol (really feeling Yamato and Ryohei especially~)

Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" (much darker than the movie adaptation)

Yayyyy Hora and Kaya are back! I'm pretty hyped about this one, fingers crossed it's gonna deliver!

EVE - Case;A 君はいつも独りだった 手首の傷増やさないで 悲しいのは君じゃない 重ねていく数字の上 人は愛を紡いだ その瞳閉じて 「信じて」 Translation (dunno how accurate): "You were always alone Don’t let the pain in your wrists increase You’re not sorrow Above the piling up digits, people are spinning love Close those eyes “Trust me” Basically, the theme of the song is the feeling of loneliness in an increasingly digital, emotioneless world. Then there is of course a clear reference to self-harm, and I appreciate the fact that it spreads a positive message rather than trying to be edgy. For my own reasons, these words in particular speak to me and I hold them cloes to my heart.

Even though I definitely agree this statement, I always get sad when I hear that vk stores are closing down because I think it's symptomatic of the current state of the vk scene. Brand-X was also one of the few stores that sold overseas, so I can imagine people being upset over this. Let's hope that other (better) stores will keep on going strong...

These fans are totally missing the point though. Of course he's not just going to announce he's married if he had been forced to do it because the rumors on Tanuki went out of hand? And it's obvious that if you're not part of the drama you shouldn't feel called out, clearly he was only addressing those who played a part in it. I swear I cannot with Japanese fans sometimes, they're so over-sensitive. Also, I have no doubt the chick was some kind of toxic gya, but even if she wasn't, people would've attacked her anyways on the sole basis of having a relantionship with their beloved. I'm a sucker for Tanuki drama, and I'm not even a Kiryu fan, but I genuinly feel bad for Takemasa. No matter what he does, he's gonna get shit for it from fans regardless.

Japanese fans literally can't accept their faves being in a romantic relationship, whenever stuff like that gets leaked it's always treated as a huge scandal. It surprises me that that Takemasa has decided to acknowledge it and speak out about it, truly shows the role that Tanuki plays in the vk scene. It's really sad that bandmen have to be paranoid about their private lives simply because fans aren't mature enough to accept them having girlfriends/wives. It's the "I spend money on you therefore I own you" mentality that is exclusive to Japanese fan culture. Crazily enough, western fans are much more respectful and understanding in that sense.

CDJapan, closetchild and I use proxies like FromJapan to get stuff from places like Puresound, Zeallink, Little Hearts etc. Recently I've tried WhiteRabbit to get a cd off Mercari, everything seems to have gone well so far but we'll see when it actually gets here🙏

Otaku-kei😁 Looking forward to it, I quite like this band!

I've had contacts with most Clack inc members, Takeru and Lyiek on Twitter and through DMs, Arma through Instagram DMs and Hakuya has liked some tweets of mine. Everyone has been really really kind.

I totally believed that as well, trust me!^^ Tsubaki is awesome and I'm so glad that he has become part of RIR officially! I'm super pumped about this!

Untucked was a shit-show this week. Kinda living for it, but at the same time damn, take a chill pill everyone. The episode itself was okay, Alyssa' presence made everything 100 times better. Also, I really felt for Plastique and Ru's reaction to her opening up, what can I say, I'm weak to emotional mumbo-jumbo... (also, Brooke in Untucked was a mood lol)

I may be extremely biased, but EVE's cover of LM.C's "88" is much better imho because Takeru's voice is much more pleasant than Maya's (LM.C's fans please don't kill me)

This is great news! SHiSHi is a very promising band, I liked everything they put out so far, so looking forward to their actual first single release💜

I understand and share your feelings completely. Metalcore has been the go-to genre for indies in recent years and I definitely agree that it's getting a bit stale and repetitive. At the same time, if I have to listen to this type of sound I prefer to favor young indies that have at least a sort of niche, underground feel to them, which is the case with this band. I've quite enjoyed this MV despite it not being the most original-sounding in any way, shape or form. But like you said, they're pretty new and I'm also interested to see if they will evolve in the future.

Oh I see, that's fair. To be honest I haven't looked much into their philosophy, I was under the impression that they were trying to market themselves as a "natural" based on what people were teling me, I've been linked some pages of their products and when I started looking at their ingredient list I was pretty surprised. But if they're pretty upfront about it that's fair. I for one try to avoid chemicals in my products as much as possible, especially silicones, but of course I know that they're tested and safe and can work well for some people.