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@VkBrutaliaNheyyy dude I'm in Japan, too!
 
I'm in Osaka, and I don't plan on doing any heavy shopping until my last day (end of next week, that's when I expect to be back in Tokyo), but I still managed to find a lot of interesting things at the Osaka branches of Closet Child and PureSound.
 

 
Fun fact about the DEZERT album: it's sealed and the price tag was ¥3,000! Lately, from what I've seen, flippers are trying to sell it for ~¥10,000. I got the regular edition because I think the cover looks better than the pink one.
 
Also sealed: R-shithead mini album (¥1,000), and the A/D types of the 己龍 singles (¥100/each, from Closet Child). The type C 己龍 single on the other hand, is not brand new and it cost me ¥600. I'm clearly an idiot for going to PureSound first! (lol)

@VkBrutaliaNheyyy dude I'm in Japan, too!
 
I'm in Osaka, and I don't plan on doing any heavy shopping until my last day (end of next week, that's when I expect to be back in Tokyo), but I still managed to find a lot of interesting things at the Osaka branches of Closet Child and PureSound.
 

 
Fun fact about the DEZERT album: it's sealed and the price tag was ¥3,000! Lately, from what I've seen, flippers are trying to sell it for ~¥10,000. I got the regular edition because I think the cover looks better than the pink one.
 
Also sealed: R-shithead mini album (¥1,000), and the A/D types of the 己龍 singles (¥100/each, from Closet Child). The type C 己龍 single on the other hand, is not brand new and it cost me ¥600. I'm clearly an idiot for going to PureSound first! (lol)

probably the worst thing about living with other people is when the food you buy magically disappears....

It was fine until the obligatory key change, then I was like "ugh byeee"
 
Atsuki looks fucking hot without makeup tho. Chizuru looks great both with and without makeup.

It was fine until the obligatory key change, then I was like "ugh byeee"
 
Atsuki looks fucking hot without makeup tho. Chizuru looks great both with and without makeup.

Aaaand EU-Tour with the new Album announced already^^
 

 
F*** YEAH!!! *___*

Heresy! Encores are an integral part of setlist planning. I say this as someone who have spent way too much time writing setlists for bands I like. They can provide a necessary break to not cause an abrupt break in the flow between styles (see Dir en grey doing their Marrow of a bone tour busting out MISSA material during the encore), as a way to build tension and expectation and to just allow the band a chance to breathe so they can have energy to squeeze out a few more tracks instead of perform a measly 15 songs.

That was incredible! I can't wait for this.
 
And thank god they no longer look like elf zombies

The full details
 
New look
 

 
 
Type A
 

 
 
Type B
 

 
 
Type C
 

 
 
Regular Edition
 

 
 
 
The song Uchuu Yuuei was played on Radio Nack5 on 2017.05.12 

I bought a (second-hand) copy of アヲイ's フテキゴウな林檎 that has a signed tray card. It was only ¥500 so that's cool! Can't remember if I have anything else that's サイン入り.
 
... oh wait there's also an autograph card that I got with a (again, second-hand) copy of R指定's オカルト地獄 but I don't know where it is lol.
 
dunno if it counts but also an autographed sheet that came with MERRY's Modern Garde with cartoon drawings of the band members, but the signatures look photocopied.

I have d'espa 's autographs as well. Zero wrote they were shooting for their 20th anniversary.
 
He lied.

I bought a (second-hand) copy of アヲイ's フテキゴウな林檎 that has a signed tray card. It was only ¥500 so that's cool! Can't remember if I have anything else that's サイン入り.
 
... oh wait there's also an autograph card that I got with a (again, second-hand) copy of R指定's オカルト地獄 but I don't know where it is lol.
 
dunno if it counts but also an autographed sheet that came with MERRY's Modern Garde with cartoon drawings of the band members, but the signatures look photocopied.

I bought a (second-hand) copy of アヲイ's フテキゴウな林檎 that has a signed tray card. It was only ¥500 so that's cool! Can't remember if I have anything else that's サイン入り.
 
... oh wait there's also an autograph card that I got with a (again, second-hand) copy of R指定's オカルト地獄 but I don't know where it is lol.
 
dunno if it counts but also an autographed sheet that came with MERRY's Modern Garde with cartoon drawings of the band members, but the signatures look photocopied.

I bought a (second-hand) copy of アヲイ's フテキゴウな林檎 that has a signed tray card. It was only ¥500 so that's cool! Can't remember if I have anything else that's サイン入り.
 
... oh wait there's also an autograph card that I got with a (again, second-hand) copy of R指定's オカルト地獄 but I don't know where it is lol.
 
dunno if it counts but also an autographed sheet that came with MERRY's Modern Garde with cartoon drawings of the band members, but the signatures look photocopied.

Can we all acknowledge that flying out to Japan to see Mejibray live in order to give a "credible" opinion is rather absurd?
 
"I don't like this band."
 
"But you didn't see them live."
 
"OF COURSE I DIDNT! THEY PLAY IN VENUES THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM WHERE I LIVE! WTF?!"

That's pretty much our job, yea :v

OKAY. 
So I've been dying over this band for the past 9+ months and I'm just now posting in this thread :') With these guys I don't even know where to start. The first song I heard by them was Fiedel from their Fourth Wall album  (thank  to an 8tracks playlist) and I was like "holy shit who are they I have to look more into them". I then listened to Fourth Wall, Elegance, then Hallelujah (thanks to everyone's hooblah about it here) and that's when my love for this band had fully resonated. Over the months I listened through their entire discography backwards and got real, I mean real familiar with their sound....
 
To the point that I cannot choose a favorite album by them. Right now it may be Rhapsody in Beauty because I just love how much distortion they implement into the tracks on that album (and most of my favorite favorite tracks on it). Or Zeitgeist because that album is so perfect and concise to me.
I do agree that their pre-2010 releases have not grown on me fully just yet, and to (melt) into/holy are my least favorite post 2010 releases. There's definitely gems on that album but I don't know. There's something that they've developed in the most recent years that I am utterly obsessed with. I love these guys. I have to see them live. That is my mission.
 
I'm also going to add that I adore Yusuke. He's brilliant and I love his voice and screams. His very occasional English (loved that someone mentioned that infamous ice cream line, it gets me everytime) I enjoy too. They are simply fantastic to me.  Also squeeing at those pictures of Sho and him, they have to be my favorite bromantic pair (along with Kent from LR). I think that's enough of my idiotic fangirling for now, until the next release! 

SuG - I was a fan, I bought every releases, even their first live DVD super limited or something (I can't quite remember today xD) and then I got bored, it went downhill, I sold everything. XD I continue to enjoy songs like Vi-vi-vi (so fun) and butterflY BoY but they are basically out of the map for me today. I even tried BLACK because everyone here was super hyped, and it did nothing to me (I should have post this in 'explain the hype' thread tbh). I did enjoy uwakimono's EP tho, it was solid. I really don't know what to expect from them and I don't want to bother.
 
Serial NUMBER - I gave up after I got my 01 teach album. They were one of my favourites, and this album and what come next was a huge disappointment. Plus, Kazune left and he was my favourite member ;-; and then everyone left yolo. I know they've kinda refined their sound on their two latest EP but still, it's not as appealing as before for me. Maybe their next album will fulfill my expectations? Otherwise, I'll just stick with my old stuff.
 
ゾロ (Zoro) - I was an fan, a late fan so I missed some limited releases but whatever, I managed to get everything until Core (included). Core was already so-so, and what come next was a giant wtf. I dropped Zoro. I still have an immense pleasure to listen to APOLLO, or COSMO. I still hate Tatsuhi, that will never change xD I can't stand this guy xD
 
彩冷える (ayabie) - the struggle, like Vidoll (after Deathmate -included-). When you love the vocalist but can't bear the songs he's singing because it's shit for you, you know what I mean? this.
 

 
Oh it's not only VK?
Well, Paramore, Within Temptation, Dover - they're S.H.I.T today.

It'd have to be Ayabie.
 
The band was just not the same anymore without Aoi (I say they managed without Ryohei) as their vocalist.
 
Virgin Snow Color is still their best work ever, and they'll remain one of the best in my memories as a complete band.

avelcain
 grieva 
 rentrer en soi
nega

Dunno about you guys, but every time I see people calling VK art I let go a tiny, but sincere chuckle

can't help but feel that this whole debate is much ado about nothing 
 
if you're living in japan and regularly go to lives then you're entitled to give your opinion on their lives. if you're an international fan who voraciously gobbles up all their releases (legally or not) then you're entitled to evaluate the quality of their recorded music. the problem only arises when this discussion bleeds into the neighboring terrain of 'how does one objectively judge a band's quality?' or 'what's the proper way of enjoying a band?'--which never fails to generate 5 pages of same old thing that impresses no one in particular...
 
then there's the question of how much instrumental value you are actually of to the band, which is related but entirely separable from the first. it's def true that the actual impact of someone ordering a 3000 yen album from CDJapan on the band is probably a lot less than they think, but that doesn't reduce the weight of their opinion on the band's recorded music. critics all over the world are paid to do exactly that: to give their opinions while remaining pretty much monetarily irrelevant.

well as a useless baka gaijin I guess I'd better quit listening to vk and following vk bands and buying vk bands' CDs and merch and just giving a shit about vk at all then, if I can't go to lives ever, even though this is 2017 we're living in and everything gets consumed internationally these days through this magical invention called the Internet

Y'know what I'll bring this up with the rest of the staff. I mean, you're right, we gotta come correct and all! Correctness is everything.
 
Also, those bataaaaaaaaaaar dudes are bullshit personified