MarkOfSacrifice

  

18 hours ago, Elagabalus said:

Lol now I'm interested in some history lessons 

What was a mistake? Hahaha

 

I forgot to quote a post in my last post but I was referring to the TikTok screenshots from this post:

 

On 12/2/2020 at 11:14 AM, Katt said:

Some of the worst shit i've seen in the VK fandom in a while is from tiktok. 

 

9 hours ago, Katt said:

The guy who made this post is still semi-active here, he still lurks but he's a total weirdo. Before he deleted his reddit it was mainly weird gross weeb shit and stuff like "Where am I able to buy anarchist pins?", "Darling in the franxx blah blah". I was able to snag some screenshots before his account was deleted and it's entertaining to say the least.

 

Oh God not more please. That shit is a mistake.

 

Also not to go off topic but why exactly do people dislike MEJIBRAY? I always wondered that even though they were one of my first VK bands.

Bruh, I just lurk the forums mostly and I haven't seen much elitism. Jaded people, yeah since VK is super niche (especially in the West). If y'all want some shitty VK fans, just go on Twitter or TikTok.

Welcome to the forum!

Currently playing through Vampyr and Observer. Gonna get back to playing NieR Automata (first time ever!) after my semester ends.

5 hours ago, Elagabalus said:

I prefer deep songs 

Sometimes about fantasy but still close to emotions 

Honestly as long as its lyrics are touching I don't mind if its rap, folk, or alternative

You might find Madeth Gray'll or Schwardix Marvally interesting. They're a bit more niche though and have a very distinct sound to them.

Last music related thing I bought? I managed to snag a photo set from Kamijo's 20th anniversery that was a CDJapan exclusive ages ago. Pretty happy with it.

This is surreal already.

UPDATE

 

-Added stock from various bands (90+ CDs)

-Lowered prices on original stock

-Added pictures of ALL merchandise I'm selling (except that VAMPS CD)

-If buying an autographed CD, shipping will be free 

Bump. Updated items for sale

On 11/28/2019 at 7:18 AM, Zeus said:

A better idea would be to poll us for the info. You aren't going to find what you're looking for easily enough.

 

Oh? So to maybe take a forum-wide poll and supply data from people from MH and what they bought from what years? Not a bad idea but my project would need to be edited by quite a bit..

Are bumps allowed? If so, bump

 

 

Some stuff I got from Anime Weekend Atlanta, mostly. Seeing as I don't really have separate pics for everything, I'll just post my entire AWA merch haul with non-VK stuff blanked out. 

 

-Phantasmagoria and Rentrer en Soi/Phantasmagoria Cure Posters

-X-Japan Pin

-X-Japan Stickers 

-Gackt Necklace

-Mana poster 

-Moi-meme-moitite clear file

-Vidoll concert DVD

-LARIENE - Doukeshi no Bukyoku single (CD and DVD)

-Moi-meme Moitite sticker

 

 

 

8 hours ago, BrenGun said:

I guess it's an endless search...

 

Should the numbers really to be "true"??

 

 

I would say, search for popular j-metal bands which were popular in the 80ties-90ties. 

And then just add fake sale numbers.

 

 

I found this

https://spinditty.com/genres/The-50-Greatest-Japanese-Metal-Bands-of-All-Time

 

And I must say, their top 50 is something I would agree with.

 

 

Wikipedia also has for some older bands oricon charts sales listed ^^

Yeaaaah, it can't be falsified data. It has to be real data. Thank you, though.

 

3 hours ago, saishuu said:

this is hardly anything, but this website used to track the sales of some older visual kei bands (using Oricon numbers). hope it helps! http://oriconv.seesaa.net/

 

2 hours ago, nekkichi said:

I might be wrong, but I believe oricon used to sell their extended chart archives with sales data back in the day, you should look this up (might not be relevant anymore since last time I had interest in that was around 2009 at the latest.)

 

also oricon hasn't tracked digital sales until recently, so only their physical media data is accurate.

That's the type of stuff I was looking for. I don't have to use recent bands since I was planning on doing 90s bands anyway. I'll have a look through this. Thank you!

Alright, so I have a final project for my computer science class and I decided to code a J-metal/Visual kei database that generates popularity/top 10 lists (I equated number of sales to popularity for simplicity's sake. The band with the highest number of sales in year 199X would be the most popular band that year).

 

My question is if there's some sort of way I could access old Oricon charts or if there was a database that had the amount of sales of visual kei/J-metal bands. I'm hoping to use this data for my final project.

 

Really would appreciate some help. Thank you!

6 hours ago, YuyoDrift said:

Hey, welcome to the forum!

 

I'm a member from the Midwest myself (well, used to be).

Have you attended any other anime conventions in that area like Anime Central or Anime Midwest in Illinois, Anime Milwaukee in Wisconsin, or Youmacon in Michigan?

I've never heard of Anime Weekend before, but we do have members from Atlanta that might have.

 

Take a look around if you've never lurked our forum before, and make yourself at home.

We have a bunch of topics that you can take part in and plenty other users to chat with that enjoy listening to those very same artists/bands.

 

Shoot any of the staff here (including myself) if you have any questions.

Hope to chat with you soon!

Heya! Thanks for the welcome! I've only attended Indy PopCon, Indy Comicon, and Anime St. Louis. I know that there's apparently a visual kei meetup/panel at ASTL every year but it just so happens there was none this year :<. I've heard of the rest of the cons though and I plan on going to ACEN next year hopefully.

4/1/2020: Hey guys, after doing some research and taking pictures as well as organizing ALL my CDs. I finally put together a spreadsheet and a Google Drive with pictures to everything I'm selling! Pictures of Raphael merch remain in the image alone. Important things to note is that the magazines are no longer for sale and that I have lowered the prices on everything. I'm hoping to downsize on all of this stuff and find it a good home. Autographed CDs are first two images in the Google Drive.

 

I'm open to negotiation about prices, shipping, and discounts if buying certain/multiple items. 

 

Oh, I also have some anime merch here I'm trying to get rid of too if anyone's interested. Gintama, anyone?

 

Visual Kei CD Spreadsheet

 

Google Drive w/pictures of stock

 

Autographed CDs are first two images in the Google Drive.

 

Bands

 

-Golden Bomber

-UNiTE.

-DIAURA

-Hana shounen Baddies

-Arlequin

-DoginThePWO

-The Kiddie

-Sex-Android

-Plastic Tree

-ZORO

-Alice Nine (A9)

-Solpha

-DyIng messagE

-L&Ds

-Canzel

-Sid (and one AKi CD)

-Raphael (VHS/Photobooks)

-VAMPS 

 

Payment & Information

 

I'll take payment via PayPal only. Buyer will always pay shipping unless buying a large amount of items or an autographed CD.  Also something to note is that I live in Indiana (midwest USA). Keep this in mind seeing as this will affect how much shipping will cost. Comment below or message me if you're interested in purchasing anything!

 

EDIT as of 4/1/2020: If buying an autographed CD. Shipping is free.

 

Cheers!

 

---

Raphael Merch

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone! I'm a 19 year old visual kei/J-metal fan from Indiana, USA. I got into visual kei some time last year by accidentally stumbling upon Grieva's Wish PV through a game called Board Game Online. After attending a visual kei panel at Anime Weekend Atlanta a couple of months later, I only became more fascinated by J-metal and visual kei as a whole. I'm a massive fan of Kamijo, Malice Mizer, Moi dix Mois, and Dir en Grey (surprise) and I'm also looking more into indie bands such as Dear L'Novel, Vallquar, and Madieduor. 

 

At the moment, I'm just eagerly waiting for AWA 2019 to get to meet Mana-sama in person.

 

Cheers, everyone! Great to be here!