Tokage

klaha never had anything to do with mdm tho

i already did sweaty ; )

Over my dead body.

Turtles in Time, Battletoads and that kinda thing's alright, I agree. I guess there are some other ones which are cool too, like Ninja Warriors Again for SNES

I'm mostly just really bored by Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage fr SNES atm, even though like.. everybody seems to LOVE it

I enjoyed it. Getting yo ass kicked is never fun.

Looks like it's time for you to look at the overseas titles.

Night Slashers was fun to play and the Power Rangers one too.

Oh yea, Double Dragon III for NES is my favourite. It's super difficult. I struggle to finish the first stage most of the time, but that just the thing that makes it fun.

Those spiderman and x-men games were pretty boring, even as a kid I thought so.

Told me it's going to be okay v__v

A SMILE YOU CAN TRUST

I've never had a foot massage before ayy

lots like we got us a HATER over here

No, but seriously, what's with the obsession? 

Keep up boi.

Right now its that Chile Frappuccino.

u kill me

thats why they call this place monochrome HEAVEN sweaty.......

thats why i dont release my final lists until the VERY last moment, ryuutaro's album has thrown my list off, and i expect a bit more tweaking until like, christmas, LOL.  fuck u december albums!

I feel u Shayan. December might very well drop a few bombs on me as well.

u gotta post that shit when the mf ball drops

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka_//_Sonic_Titan

hey they have a wiki im surprised!!

"Noh Wave"............................

DFKM THAT WAS SO LIT COME ON GIVE EM SOME CRED FOR IT

wow i love mana-sama's music *_*

Bonjour!

The only japanese autism musician who I know is the composer Hikari Ōe, and yes mental "ailments" is still  a taboo in Japan , only few musicians talk about this subject like Ryo the singer of Baroque and Kannivalism who suffered of adjustment disorder.
He had written  his autobiography Utsu-byo Rocker (Depressed Rocker),  in his book Ryo describes his grueling struggle with the illness in five chapters each called 'Mental Breakdown', 'Adjustment Disorder', 'Life in Hospital', 'Return to Society' and 'Life and Death'.

You also have Fukase the singer of the jrock band Sekai no Owari he was interned in specialized institute for treat his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

I guess we may also add ex-D.I.D. to that particular category, as IIRC he's been diagnosed with BPD if I'm not mistaken. 

it's still kind of sad that such things are so stigmatised over there, but at the same time, I guess they still are to some extent in the rest of the world as well, so...

The major problem is for many asian countries (Japan, China, Korea, Philippinnes,Vietnam, Hong-Kong,Singapore etc...) they associated that with weakness, guilt, and shame.

For them say to their familly or friends they suffer of mental "ailments" they will "lose their face" infront of them and in asian societies when you 'lose your face" you lose your social standing, reputation, influence, dignity, and honor, so for "save their face" they prefer keep that for them.

I hope one day they will change their point of view about that.

kamijo into this specific fucked up taxidermy bat 

also obligatory yuuki from lycaon transforming into a goat and/or kiyoharu

I'll see what I can do.

we should, this was a nice method to discover band.

'say the guy who didn't scrobble a thing over a year XD

collecting funds to get professional help for people who care about those who use last.fm in 2k17

collecting funds to get professional help for people who care about people who care about those who use last.fm in 2k17

http://cosmosphere-official.net/

but seems that lately they have a vocalist again. 

closest thing I know is NoGoD releasing an instrumental track in all their albums lol VK probably requires a frontman to get interest from the bangyas

Hizaki's solo work is all instrumental. But if you don't like his style, I suppose that won't do anything for you.

My #humbleOpinion is that vkei bands tend to stick to 5-member lineups because it looks good in promo pics and it means more checkis and ~personalized~ merch they can sell, so having no face of a band wouldn't work.

i miss them...

Mysterious Band. They just vanished off the face of the earth. 

Never heard about Rinda doing art stuff, would love to see that though!

remember when they used to appear in kids' shows in daytime television and the kids were scared of シャラク? good times!

lmao yeah i remember seeing some shit like that... the good videogame boys.... our angles....

i remember his red mustaches... oh god

glyceride was fucking hilarious

Sad to hear. I kinda dropped it after around ep 5-6 or so, and never had the will to continue watching. So...yeahhh.

That’s why I’m watching all the 80’s and 90’s horror OVA’s and movies. 

I want an alternate timeline where after DUM SPIRO SPERO the DEG guys just go even more completely mental and release something like this (note the saxophone feature! :D)

https://drughonkey.bandcamp.com/track/cloak-of-skies-ft-saxophone-by-bruce-lamont-of-yakuza

God I wish Kaoru would inexplicably get into Kayo Dot, Yakuza, Leprous or whatever

Thx for this status btw, cuz now I remembered how great Narcosatanicos are, when trying to search for rock stuff with sax.  

yeah, I wish Shaka would come back as well 😞 too bad his projects never go anywhere

I doubt that Shaka ever will come back, he seems to live a happy live. 

bandman gets older,

bandman get married...

And I guess, to be still in a vkei band while you are over 40ties can be tiresome. 

bring the granddads back from retirement 2k19

Hmmm well alrighty then...  

Full needs to eat too, you know! 

I'm actually missing quite a few stuff so I'll put in an order with him when I happen upon some money next time. 

i wish he'd make some bandcamp compilation of all those Guniw Tools singles already lol

definitely wanna see this happening, the instrumentals done by plastic tree were so good, and plus it would be an interesting mix. if this were to happen i'm thinking the visual aspects of art-kei would be most fitting for the music.

Best status update of the year, take my meaningless praise. Leda u know what 2 do next

bring me the instrumental 9goats blackout-type stuff

@cheesy_VK_Freak well, it is after all just how I see it, but to me it feels right because the colours match exactly the colours of auras and it would explain the extra empty  chair to complete the 7!
Unraveling (♡♡♡ Jesus it was 2013? Been that long already?) I can't say much else about than that it seems to be about child abuse - the boy is isolated from the family and the one that's abused the most, by mom. The kids write on the paper with crayons "mommy is scary", drawing a scary picture of her, etc, and you see it's her acting off at the dinner table (she and the girl are seen to evidently react to hearing noises from upstairs from the brother)+it's her that goes into the room to abuse the boy later on (and put them to sleep under plastic bags, clearly taping down the boy down). There's the few flashes of the x-rays with a broken collar bone and broken arm as well.
I'm going off a limb and guessing that the boy isn't the child of the father like the girl is. I feel like at the end the dad is taking the girl the hell outta there, but didn't care to take the boy with him, being either unaware of him or not being his dad and plain not caring? We don't get to see his reaction to the sounds upstairs during dinner, so I'm not sure. Also as they are leaving the boy isn't locked into the room as he seems to otherwise be. The girl also waves happily to mom, as if keeping up appearances
They're not married at least I imagine since I don't see any wedding rings. I wonder if they have a kind of custody agreement where the girl lives with dad, and the dad visited with the girl while the boy lives there full time - or if he did a let's gtfo.
In short, basically never believe me if I say I don't have much to say about something, I can really ramble on

@SubThatSong Wow, thanks for your insight! I kinda thought she killed the kid, but during the last shot you see him so I was like: ehh? Was this all imagination?

LOL

@cheesy_VK_Freak Np! If they didn't show him at the end and the plastic wriggling a bit while it's taped down I would've thought the same tbh!

In general there's just sooo much generic repetitive trope-y stuff that's on the  level of juvenile 'tfw no (boyfriend/girlfriend)', 'BULLYING and also WRISTCUTTING', "this one goes out to all the FREAKS & OUTCASTS \m/ \m/" and 'FUCK YOU MOM & DAD' stuff on the one hand, or that ''teens react to living in a society" kinda stuff on the other. I've been somewhat lukewarm about Mamireta from the start for example but BOIIII, their lyrics are just... hot garbage lol

The ones I generally tend to find myself enjoying are the lyricists who try to go for more 'out there' subject matter just by virtue of being straight up goofy (like Dokusatsu Terrorist w/ their songs poking fun at just about everything, Sandwich de 120pun? w/ their stuff about girls having bombs implanted in theri vaginas & stuff like that), at least somewhat unique within the context of the scene (like The Gallo's WW2-related songs, Inugami Circus Dan, early Metronome and their weird cyber buddha stuff) or those with at least SOME sort sense of poetic imagery & wordplay (Plastic Tree, Temari's stuff in general) even if it can still come across a bit hackneyed at times (that might also be cuz in some cases it feels like translators seem to intentionally try to go for the fanciest sounding words their thesaurus gives them just to make stuff sound deeper tho) 

Hnn, I'm really not concerned about the world around me since I don't really think of lyric influence huh (yikes). But I do also suppose I'm still newish to the VK scene, I was more or less in my bubble for about 15 years lol
I've really enjoyed the majority of lyrics I've translated, I'd say, but my judgement also most definitely isn't quite there since I don't really feel affected by any of it despite there being the bad themes 🤔
The overly silly lyrics don't really keep me very interested, it's nice once in a while but I like my... bad dark themes lol
Some translations are for sure very unnatural, but to be fair there's also a lot of "translations" out there. Which I personally do hate because it misrepresents the original meaning of the song, and I'm a complete nutter for lyrics, I absolutely love it when there's a proper line of thought put into the lyrics that makes you think. Well, it is what it is

Thanks guys ^___^
 

I figure a good chunk of the kirakira + anison + vocaloid stuff I listen to is tokyolite/gya teen angst or disney-tier cheese, but the melodies are mainly what do it for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I like the one's Jig mentioned, plus Virge's album too. But if you weren't into Phantasmagoria at one point, you probably wouldn't like that either.

Here's a list so far:

https://vk.gy/search/releases/?release_name=&artist_id=&artist_display_name=&upc=&jan_code=&label_id=&label_involvement=&start_date=2019-01-01&end_date=2020-01-01&medium=cd&format=full-album&venue_limitation=&press_limitation_name=&notes=&tag=#result

Looking back, I actually forgot about a lot of things that came out this year too. I also enjoyed some songs off of D'erlanger's album, and I liked Scarlet Valse's album too.

damn that's actually a really fucking small list if you leave out all the alternate editions

@Peace Heavy mk II That reminds me, I still haven't given the MORRIE album a shot! Not much oyaji-kei I liked this year so far... D'ERLANGER was my only hope but their album was reaaaaaally weak.  

''YO HOW ARE WESTERN FANS DIFFERENT FROM THE FANS IN JAPAN'' - every single western vk interview

It's definitely something that is really noticeable, neither do they make an effort nor the questions are good, in 99% of the cases

Few times I felt it was a good read is usually made by japanese outlets/interviewers

One example comes to mind was this series of interviews, really interesting questions and lengthy answers: https://www.shiinamio.com/special

I also think its different if you can interview them face to face, Which happens in 99% of the japanese cases. Then bands also reply longer and better. 

also you see often the interviewer reply such as, oh is this so? why?  and suggestion kind of response.

but something it also feels as they don't wanna really promote themselves to overseas audience. because a bunch of interviews also have been done face to face by overseas media.

So maybe, if doing an email interview, its better to ask if you can respond to their answers to Which they reply again. 

Or to tell them to give proper amswers to promote themselves really good.

But that's something I wanna figure out in the near future.

LOCO

lmaaao this took me out 

wtfff, thanks for sharing that..the whole new album is awesome straight into sepia hell.