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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.

Hi everyone!
 
I used be a huge visual kai fan yeeears ago (mostly angura and guniw tools&co tbh) and I posted somewhat regularly in here
 
Then my interest slowly fizzled out and I stopped following the scene around 5+ years ago. 
 
Now I don't really know how and why, but a few days ago I ended up listening to some of the very few angura songs i have left in my laptop and I was like whoaaaaa!!!!! and I fell for it all over again (if you're wondering it was 彼岸空 by 千(cen) who did it, pls give me more stuff by them cause that's the only song i have lol) 
 
The timing of this is somehow unfortunate as I moved across the planet about one year ago and I left most of my music collection back home. I'm trying to slowly build back what I used to have but most of the blogs/links are dead so I apologize in advance for bumping 7+ y.o. topics asking for reuploads lol
 
Outside of the angura bois I also don't mind some good ol' VK as long as it's, like, good lol so please update me on what I missed in the past 5+ years!
 
Cheers!
 
 
 
 
 
 

According to my downloads folder, I installed a Wario dating sim last year and I keep forgetting about it and I need to play it at some point

As covid-ninteen looms over us all,
quarantined, stuck with laptop at hand.
I manically search for vk content to enthrall,
spend time to search for lives, band after band.
 
As I comb through YouTube and Twitter accounts,
to amass my download catalog;
I come across this cute thumbnail, I pounce-
...only to see a guy jacking off his dog.

It's such a small band that defined the whole genre

Hi, I love oldschool vk, so I decided to create an account here.
I'm interested in the beginnings of this genre and subculture, I hope to learn many new things about oldies. I'm crazy about Buck Tick and Luna Sea, but I really enjoy all vk

 

The title was accurate and I still wasn't ready for that.

Imagine if he gave this much attention to his music

no, Asanao, when they say "vk men are known to molest bitches" they don't mean that.

To quote myself,
 
 

That's the excuse Kisaki used in court I heard

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"

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"

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"

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"

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.

I went with what albums I think are the best VK albums, not necessary my personal favorites.
Amphibian - DOPPELGÄNGER (1993) L'arc~en~Ciel - Heavenly (1995) GLAY - pure soul (1998) Dir en grey - Gauze (1999) Luna Sea - Mother (1994) If I went with my personal favorites, it would more or less look like this:
Aura - THESAURAS (1990) Color - 激突!! (1989) BAISER - 華 (1999) BY-SEXUAL - Culture Shock (1990) Decameron - 名曲アルバム (1990)

Haha, that's good to hear! I remember fighting on Yoshi's Island(?) and it was equally chaotic, completely losing track of who I was using or where my character was. Still fun nonetheless. Love Pokemon Stadium and Fountain of Dreams as well! I also like the Wario stages (Gamer and WarioWare), Big Blue, and Mario Galaxy. Oh, and if you're ever looking to play Smash, I'd love to play with you sometime! 

Yeah, Smash has always been in a precarious situation. I remember when everyone said that Smash 4 would be the last one... Marth is a good choice for a main! He's always been pretty consistent. As for Byleth, I wasn't particularly interested in her because I'm not a Fire Emblem fan (actually tired to get into the game and wasn't big on the gameplay tbh) and we have so much FE rep already. That being said, I'm not upset or anything about her addition, she seems to have a cool gimmick for her moveset so she's not just another sword wielder. 
 
Aw man, 8 player smash is wild. Yeah, sometimes I play on The Great Cave Offensive (love that stage as a huge Kirby fan) and Palutena's Temple with 8 other people. Usually just CPUs because I'm lacking in pals but one time I was at a friend's house and we managed to make it 4 people versus 4 Amiibos. It wasn't too chaotic until we got switched to Smashville and had no clue what tf was going on or who was winning. It was fun yelling at the screen confusedly as everyone went flying in all directions... Good times. My favorite stages are Hanenbow, Halberd, Pokemon Stadium, Fountain of Dreams and Dracula's Castle. How about you?

Well I'm glad that someone else actually remembers and likes NOISY CROWDS. They're so underrated imo

Delayedthony Albumtano here, the internet's most quarantined music nerd
 

I'm, uhh, guilty of having this mindset myself so this was interesting to me.
 
 
I currently live in a small bedsit and whenever anyone walks past my room and I'm listening to something I would consider "weird" (which is... most of my music, not to sound all #notlikeothergirlsuwu but whatever), I turn it down and put my bed covers over my laptop mic so they don't hear it. I really gotta break that habit. I mean... yeah, so fuckin' what if I like Moran? As I'm sure many here will agree, they kicked ass. So what if I wanna listen to something completely different to Moran? Even if it's not my usual genre, it doesn't matter... that's what I tell myself anyways but the truth is, I care way too much about what others think of me. It ain't good.