astra☆

I used to be known as Sora Yuki (Janglish "snowy sky") around 10 years ago. Here's a picture from back then!
 

 
Eventually it started to make me feel like a pretender, who wants to fit in because I was trying to be like the Japanese artists I looked up to by using a similar name. Also, hearing "Oh, like the Kingdom Hearts character?" got annoying.  So now I go by Astra.

I enjoy quite a bit of it. Here's a few of my favorites.
I couldn't figure out how to make the spoiler work! If a mod sees this please help me format my post!
 
 
A few others not on Youtube that I really like...
DREAM CATALOGUE™ - HomeScreen
HyperGanesh - Restless
HyperGanesh - Slow
nebula - on-line
Saphron Squares - Olive
音 LIGHT システム - Darkroot 鎧

Was thinking this! Idk why I didn't say it, actually. He had more passion in his voice and he seemed to care more about what he was doing... it's a shame he changed, really.

How about GACKT? Old solo stuff and MM work sounds much more raw and emotional than a lot of his recent stuff, where it seems like he's sacrificing some of that in an effort to producing clean recordings. I also suspect his voice has changed along with the facial surgery we all know he had done, and possibly just a result of aging too.

god thisthisTHISTHIS the culture of "give me an EQUALLY RARE mp3/PV/etc. if you want this intangible file" has always been so bizarre to me.
 
Also, so many people in the scene give off this vibe of band/artist fandom ownership, like they're more entitled to be a fan than someone else. Seems kind of esoteric, but I can't be the only one who notices this?

i have some super ultra rarez but I'm not going to share them because I'm an asshole 

I love tanbi/beauty kei the most. I like it because I think it looks so cool yet so sophisticated, and while I guess Malice Mizer and Versailles would be the poster children for it, I've seen some really interesting takes on it. Moran progressively got more and more tanbi as time went by, but they looked so much more different to any other band I've seen before. They were like something out of a fairy tale (they even had a song called Fairy Tale ). I like anything that looks very original, really. SHiSHi have a great style; oshare kei (I love it too ) but really... out there.

There's no originality in it. It's just American pop music made 2 years after the fact, and sung by 8 guys with pink bowl cuts. It's an imitation of soulless music.

There's no originality in it. It's just American pop music made 2 years after the fact, and sung by 8 guys with pink bowl cuts. It's an imitation of soulless music.

Necroing the thread, but it seems I'm the only one with a first hand account on him and maybe this can put OP's mind at ease if they're still concerned.
I used to speak to Yohio regularly when I was 16 and he was 13. He was incredibly nice then. Maybe him being interested sex is true, he was quite flirty when I spoke with him but in a sweet way, not creepy. He was also very serious about his music and a skilled guitarist, especially for that age, and practiced vk back then too. So I don't believe rumors that he uses vk as a way to get laid. Of course, we were both kids and people can change. But if someone told me he used vk as a means to get easy sex from fangirls, I wouldn't believe it.

I felt based on Deep Sanctuary, Kamijo was a really great fit for them. I think it's because I hear elements of the three original vocalists in his voice; Klaha's 'smoothness', Gackt's general tone and slight nasality, Tetsu's power and vibrato. If they ever get back together in an official sense, I'd really like to have him on the records. Though, I thought all three did well, so I wouldn't be disappointed about any of them.
In a general sense, I find it a little strange that despite their immense popularity, there haven't been a lot of other acts that have tried to recreate a similar sound of any of their eras (at least, that I know of). They've got a sound that is uniquely Malice Mizer. On one hand, I think it's great they're still so prolific, on the other, I'm sad we haven't had more music like it.

I echo your sentiment. Suicide Ali were very promising and one of my favorite 'darker' groups.
If I had to speculate, one theory is that they were unsatisfied with their music. They kept remaking their own songs, which feels to me like they had ideas for these songs that they were having a hard time bringing to life. This can be really discouraging.
They were also signed to Starwave/DL. I know GPK and Spectrum-X stopped activity because they hated working with Kiwamu so much. Perhaps Suicide Ali were a victim of this as well. I wouldn't doubt this, especially since there were no official statements from the members.
Or, as you said, they may have just wanted to fade away...I do find it strange we haven't heard anything from any of the members since.

I felt based on Deep Sanctuary, Kamijo was a really great fit for them. I think it's because I hear elements of the three original vocalists in his voice; Klaha's 'smoothness', Gackt's general tone and slight nasality, Tetsu's power and vibrato. If they ever get back together in an official sense, I'd really like to have him on the records. Though, I thought all three did well, so I wouldn't be disappointed about any of them.
In a general sense, I find it a little strange that despite their immense popularity, there haven't been a lot of other acts that have tried to recreate a similar sound of any of their eras (at least, that I know of). They've got a sound that is uniquely Malice Mizer. On one hand, I think it's great they're still so prolific, on the other, I'm sad we haven't had more music like it.

Necroing the thread, but it seems I'm the only one with a first hand account on him and maybe this can put OP's mind at ease if they're still concerned.
I used to speak to Yohio regularly when I was 16 and he was 13. He was incredibly nice then. Maybe him being interested sex is true, he was quite flirty when I spoke with him but in a sweet way, not creepy. He was also very serious about his music and a skilled guitarist, especially for that age, and practiced vk back then too. So I don't believe rumors that he uses vk as a way to get laid. Of course, we were both kids and people can change. But if someone told me he used vk as a means to get easy sex from fangirls, I wouldn't believe it.

Vo.Hal (ex-Minus Jinsei Orchestra)