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Yoshiki's been getting those fat staxx as of late (Wanda coffee commercial). ｄｅｋｉｍａｓｈｉｔａ. Pretty tame, I'd give it a 2/10 on the Cursed Yoshiki Scale. Apparently it's the sequel to the previously mentioned CM where he plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but "remastered" [actually a cool arrangement tho ngl]

Just got Beat Hazard and it's fun as hell! I haven't played twin stick shooter games in a while so it was a huge nostalgia blast. Playing with all the Piko-piko stuff I have backed up makes me feel like I'm living in the future. Also makes Kote stuff feel like 10x more melodramatic than it already is, a feat only accomplishable by having to desperately dodge a bunch of rockets that fire giant lasers at you while you listen. I also bought Beat Hazard 2 and I nearly had a heart attack when I played with ナショナリズム by ∀NTI FEMINISM. When that guitar solo hit, shit got so real. I'm still jittery from all the strobe effects and ship barrages!

Yeah, as you can guess with my avatar, 新宿ゲバルト was my Piko-piko gateway band. One listen to 青春 and then my addiction began lol Uyuni is such a crackhead, he needs to be institutionalized. I lowkey respect him for being so based though

I found some of the lyrics to Gnarled Pity by SHILFEE AND THE TULIPCOROBUCKLES and when Full said "Can work wanders when you're down to underground/still want a babyfood in selfishness world, irritation for me" I felt that 😭😭😭

Bruh, I slept so flippin' hard on the entire Piko-piko scene because I thought that electronica/chiptune wasn't my thing. I just passed it all off because I thought it wouldn't suit my taste, as I have a history of not being fond of electronic music such as EDM. Turns out, Piko-piko is actually my thing, and I can't believe it took me this fucking long to appreciate some good quality electronica. Now I'm into 新宿ゲバルト, FLOPPY, COSMO-SHIKI, サンドイッチで１２０分？ and am slowly easing myself into GalapagosS, ADAPTER, and Metronome. Sometimes I marvel at all the close encounters I had with cali≠gari over the years yet I never got into their music until like a month ago. It's almost like a bad stroke of fate or something, like all songs I heard back then turned out to be all the ones I don't like even now, and the wildest thing is that I don't dislike a lot of a lot of their songs, just a teensy-tiny handful which-coincidentally-mostly includes the ones I was first exposed to (for anyone curious, 暗中浪漫, トイレでGO! and Bluefilm [which I kinda like now]). If I had listened to... like, literally any other cali≠gari song sooner, I would've been a Garist years ago! I wonder what kind of timeline that would've been in... Also slept on Pura quite a bit until recently, only listened to a few songs of theirs that I liked, but like a month or two ago I listened to 絶望の丘 which instantly became one of my favorite songs. So I checked out Puppet Show, and Goddamn that album has been AOTY every year since '98, we been knew. So I've been listening to as many new Pura songs as I can and they really suit my emo mood, plus Ryutarou's voice is a gift from God. Slept hard on Megamasso (only listened to like, St.Lily) until I heard the disband news like 3 years ago which made me listen to their albums and damn, you don't know what you got until it's gone

Yoshiki is the king of cursed images. Sometimes I lie awake at night, still thinking about why I was born in the timeline where this happened

I have been laughing for the past five minutes over this photo of Asagi and Tim Burton together it's just so cursed like--why does Asagi look like he wants to die? Why does Tim Burton look like he just shat his pants? Fuck, my vision's going black, my lungs hurt oh my fuck I think I'm gonna die of laughter [Edit: I did not die of laughter but now my head hurts like hell from the oxygen deprivation]

Actually pretty good ngl. And honestly, Yoshiki's piano work is the best part of the song.

Same reason why history classes don't need to elaborate on why Hitler is a bad person

It is currently real emo hours

How could you say something so controversial yet so brave?

記憶と空 [Memories and the sky] (Malice Mizer) What would you say is your worst quality?

Low key stan Hage Shuuji [cali≠gari] Arisu is iconic (Missalina Rei) God I used to listen to DYNAMITE GIRL everyday (BY-SEXUAL) THE most iconic duo in VK, DO NOT @ ME (Sister's No Future) Been diving back into their discography recently (NOISY CROWDS) Noi'X though, they hold a special place in my heart Speed-id is a mood It'd be a crime to leave out my all time favorite! (Malice Mizer) A trip they are, Noir Fleurir

Still play on my 3DS that is almost as old as a 5th grader, my new and shiny Switch lite, and quite a few games on my PC. Also have an NES classic, an Xbox (1st. Not an Xbox1, but like the first one) I play old, region locked and oftentimes untranslated emulated games on, and a gameboy advance.

I'm curious to see the age demographics of MH. I bet it will mostly be Millennials followed by Gen Z, then Gen X. I know that the definition of which generation starts when is murky but I choose only the most reliable source, Wikipedia! That being said, if your birth year intertwines with two Gens (like 1996) choose whichever one you identify most with. I'm Gen Z. Honestly, going by all the revival lives and stuff in the VK scene, and the slow transition to digital mediums like having music on Spotify and doing lives and interviews on Youtube, I feel like I was born in the right generation, 100%. How about you?

I unfortunately have yet to meet a bandomen irl myself but I did talk to this one guy who met Shina at a Noi'X revival live and said he was a cool guy. He didn't even bump into Shina by accident or pay VIP, Shina left from backstage when the CD seller called him down because a big Noi'X fan was there. Shina was very thankful, shook this guy's hand, and said lots of nice sounding stuff in Japanese that went over the dude's head, generally acted very kind. When Shina was onstage, he knelt down to hold hands with members of the audience, including the dude. And after the live was over, Shina gave him the setlist as a keepsake. So yeah, Shina gets some cool points. @Cantavanda told me that enjoyed his meeting with Kamijo, he was nice and enthusiastic to meet Canty and the other fans [IDK if you'd classify Kamjio as problematic because of his history of rampant cultural appropriation tho]. An old pal of mine met Mana-sama when modelling for him and said that he's actually a pretty down to earth guy who was very respectful and kind to the models. A lot of the fanaticism surrounding him is dumb but he apparently is a very respectable fellow worth at least a bit of appreciation.

Chicken noodle soup? That's shit's just ramen for white people

Well then, welcome aboard! And those are good choices for your favs!

Hey guys! Do you still need an English translation for 銀色馬車? I've actually translated Noir Fleurir's lyrics before (if you want a sample: https://shinryureviews.wordpress.com/2017/08/19/おもちゃのミーシャ-song-translation/) so I kind of know the territory. They're also one of my favorite bands ever! That was my first ever translation a few years ago so I can promise you that I'm way better than I used to be! Will take me a few days but it looks to be about my level. I like this song a lot. It has this concept of a "dark fairytale", which is pretty cool! Translation sample: 凍り付いた檻の中で震えていると 一人の妖精が月へ向かう馬車に乗せてくれた 僕は忌まわしい外の世界を怏んだ The still prison shakes from within and A single fairy rides past the moon in a silver carriage [and/so] I curse this disgusting outer world Dark indeed...

I got laid off, can I get an F in the chat? Not too big a deal because it's a temp. lay off and once this whole Corona business is done, I can go back to work with my raise and normal hours intact, but still... I hope the government's Corona bucks will make up for it

FULL's Engrish is on another level, I swear. Why tf he got that mumble rapper flow though

PVs that feature white people awkwardly walking around with blank expressions on their face [bad stage direction? Like seriously, make a facial expression guys] while the band either acts edgy or goofy in the background [it's jarring in a funny way] Behaviour archetypes in general. Real sick of needing one cute member, a cool/edgy member, a normal member, a cloud coo-coo lander, etc. per band, we can have multiple per band or none and it'll still be cool Inside the part of song, the English is created for purpose of great surprise for the reason of the japanese being all too much used to the people it is Bäñð Ñāµ3§ þĥæť løôk lïkê 5hīß～日本語が必要はない～ Going full goober as soon as they go major Obligatory looks like "wedding outfits" Lyrical tropes like "瞳の中で”, ”目に映る”, ”新しい世界”, God I could go ON. They're like the VK version of "Tonight, tonight, I'm gonna love you baby"

Technically my top 5 is all the main MM albums and then an MDM or Közi album chosen at random, but I'd rather the end-all-be-all as a diversified list. Low-key in this order: Merveilles by Malice Mizer カタルシス by Közi Niwlun by Guniw Tools 第5実験室 by cali≠gari Jealousy by X Japan Might switch out Jealousy with Terre (BAISER), depends on my mood.

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