Biopanda

lmao

Looking forward to this!!

rarezhut exclusive ver-meer releases

Ahh, that's what messed me up then. I randomly see posts from them on facebook and assumed that the physical store was still around.

Nah. tbh... xenon was just a revamped version of the Cure shop that closed two previous times. It was a little silly. Having been around that community in Little Tokyo for so long... it was laughable to see them close, put items on sale, re-open and then spike the prices of items they sold for dirt cheap before. When they closed this time... they didn't say they were closing but rather "re-locating" but there was no announcement of location plans etc etc. I knew they were going down hill when they stopped doing as many livestreams (and eventually none at all) and when they did have events, less and less people showed up. That's one thing that upsets me about the crowd over there. They're in it for the wrong reasons. If I wasn't a huge fan of a band, I went anyway. The more people who go and support, the more likely they are to bring other bands etc etc. But people were like heeeeeey i don't really like rhedoric that much so nah. Okay well kiss Xenon goodbye then. I mean they flew thousands of miles to basically play in a garage to like 25-30 people MAXIMUM. Basically everytime Cure/Xenon closes.. Anime Jungle buys them out and opens another location. I kid you not... Anime Jungle has like four individual spots in that mall area. It's not Little Tokyo Mall anymore... it's Anime Jungle Mall built with the tears of 5 die hard vk fans. LOL

Oh there's also a "Harajuku Fashion" store in there with like 5 accesories and things that are either too small or too hot to wear in california ever. :'D 

KazHa is over

All of Morning Musume are over at my house. Wow, international Japanese hangout day. The best day.

The singer is tiny.  Our corgi Keiju made friends with their drummer

Also, I wonder what the ex members of Dir&Gray are doing now. I'd like to see where they got the name from

All I know is that their vocalist became the second vocalist of Kneuklid Romance (known as 雪乃 in that band). They're mentioned as ディルアングレイ here https://www.vkdb.jp/KneuKlid+Romance.html

But it's safe to assume that guy already retired long ago. And I got absolutely no idea who the other members are :/

Yeah, Biopanda and I had a whole discussion on it because we were curious to who this band in these early 90's livelists were lol. We even found an alternate name for the band, as well as a demo on Niconico.

Since the lead guitarist was a Zi:Kill roadie, perhaps if there is ever a chance to ask Tusk, he's probably know.

I'm being serious because I'm authentically curious where the name came from lol.

I guess Dir&Gray could've been one of those cases of a band that used to be a little popular but was sort of forgotten (kinda like Mi'ze:lia, the first band of Mitsuki and Takemasa from Kiryu), or perhaps were popular among the musicians, but not the fans. 

Because you'd think if they contributed to the name of Lareine's "Dir en Gray", and the band "Dir en Grey", you'd think they'd be more well known.

Gackt is god, Gackt is... Gackt.

And naked Gackt is Gackt's holy spirit

Perhaps it was a little too powerful, @Gaz  Well, I left y'all with most of the rarez anyways XD I just wanted my 90s white-kei tapes :v

i wonder if i put my fav number (69) in the bid will i also get lucky hmmmmm

69 is a pretty good power number as well, so it's worth a try

Loved the stream, everything went super smooth and I loved that you played a song out of each release!

can't believe i dropped in a split second before it ended lmao

Is that that satanic clown band

The one and only.