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Apologies for reviving this thread, but if I'm reading this right, people have been inviting the vocalist to events for female idols only?!

Mentioned it in another thread but for completion's sake: BP records bands are on spotify as BabyKingdom, codomodragon, kiryu, Royz and zerohz, in those exact upper/lower cases and spacing. there's 2 kiryus so here's the link for the legit one instead: I know right! For some reason only vk-Razor's songs are shown in the page but the artist link gives the other artist's songs instead.

seems like they're also mixed in with another artist? ugh nvm. here's the link to one of their songs instead

Bands under BP records are finally available for online streaming outside of Japan. Where's nepenthes though?!

True that. Not sure if I should keep updating but anyway 🤷‍♀️ Here's the tracklist for the second album. Here's hoping the rehashed tracks will sound better lol

Liked the 2nd track the best. Now that it's brought up, the last track does sound quite early 00s to me. Third tracks sounds quite ani-songy as people have said also.

I'm really liking the first one.

Did you go to yesterday's live? seems like people had a good time. (ngl I have been searching for live reports lol) Never had the chance to go to one of their lives but from the super short clips they put up, it does seem like they are sounding better live than last year. And ready player is really quite an improvement from superstar imo.

it's also 8P-SB's first anniversary

Second album, future past, is releasing on 7/7/2019.

I didn't want to mention that but...yeah... In fact I think one is holding back the other. Would be better to have a singer-instrumentalist duo but it seems like koichi is taking charge of 8P-SB, so 🤷‍♂️ Wouldn't know which song to rec you for mejibray lol, I only listen to anemone but that's only clean vocals.

I see, I'm from somewhere near East Asia so this sentiment was rather unexpected to me. imo they felt misunderstood, whether be it by the public or the (straight) politicians pushing the issue on behalf of them. iirc they were interviewed at a pride parade so I don't think keeping status quo was their goal, but was more concerned about the means of going about it.

Same here. Also the lyrics for some of them are cute lol. I think their newer release is better too, though chip tune may not be to everyone's taste. That being said, I never liked mejibray's music but genki's voice change is a loss!!! I guess my unpopular opinion is that I'm glad 8P-SB exists lmao. Genki and koichi seem much happier, for one. Music is sometimes a train wreck, but I'm sure they'll eventually get their shit together (<--another unpopular opinion?)

East Asia in general treats lgbt as humor, unfortunately. iirc, interestingly, some japanese lgbt people have said that they do not think bills for equal rights should be passed now as the jp populace doesn't really understand lgbt, or have misconceptions, even though there were some politicians pushing for equal rights. This was some years ago though. Often I find the bl fanservice in vk to be....awkward, to say the least. Feels exceedingly contrived with an undertone of reluctance. If you're going to do it then just go all way and act properly dammit! the half baked-ness adds to the cringe. I thought the kaitou example was just jewel(juex? I don't know his name lol) trying to expose kinoko's thighs for fun lol.

Really liked it! the dance(?) is cute too.

Nice to see him being so upfront about it, and I'm glad he's happy with it. Can't see the difference, but It will probably take some more time before the changes are noticeable?

aw it's taken down. saw someone else with a gretsch guitar on SNS (probably insta) yesterday but I can't remember who or where lol. this is the vaguest shit ever but they were wearing a dress and kneeling on the floor while holding the guitar upright. (Damn you, brain!)

Great, been looking forward to new stuff from them!

Good to know that they aren't banned! I guess this means Ikebukuro Cyber may just be dubious in general huh. edit: appropriate that this post finally got me out of the Maria's Cross rank 😄

Someone better at Japanese than me needs to attempt this, but the gist I got is that he's talking about their thoughts on starting daily youtube uploads, reaching more subs etc. But basically he's announcing BP Channel Fest which will be held on 7 Nov.

retsu's outfit is making me feel...things. as for the song itself, took me a few times to get into due to the vocals in the beginning but once it struck, it really struck. Another single on my to-buy list!

Decided to join after lurking for a while and reading through the threads. Here for the music...and the drama, ngl 😎 Knew of VK previously but only checked it out recently, it has definitely changed somewhat from what I remembered. didn't expect chekis to be a thing, for one. Looking for recommendations too since I have only gotten a few songs from almost every band I came across. The only exception is codomo dragon which is my favorite right now. I prefer clean singing, though some growls/screaming is ok too. I prefer Dimlim's latest single over most of Chedora, for example. I really like: Ningen isu, most of kizu, gulu gulu's single, and like 3 arlequin songs lol. Songs like Henry by ZZooo are cool with me too! Non-japanese bands are fine too - looking to expand my repertoire! I...also listen to some 8psb...

Same here. I only listened to it once, but iirc the violins overpowered the guitar? imo it was too much. The original melody was good in a sparse way.