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Alt. important announcement: Official X-Japan Brand Chastity Belt.
 
Yoshiki quoted as saying: "With this tool, you too can experience our next album. No release!"

Alt. important announcement: Official X-Japan Brand Chastity Belt.
 
Yoshiki quoted as saying: "With this tool, you too can experience our next album. No release!"

Alt. important announcement: Official X-Japan Brand Chastity Belt.
 
Yoshiki quoted as saying: "With this tool, you too can experience our next album. No release!"

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Alt. important announcement: Official X-Japan Brand Chastity Belt.
 
Yoshiki quoted as saying: "With this tool, you too can experience our next album. No release!"

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Dir en grey are prolly so popular/hyped 'cuz they were at the head of the whole nu-metal/metalcore-inspired wave of VK which started somewhere in the 2000's, just like jduv86 said. Many bands have since copied their style and they were also one of the first visual-related bands to achieve some form of overseas success as far as I remember.
 
As for Babymetal, I genuinely have no idea. I feel like at least some portion of their fanbase is only there ~ironically~ or whatever, like with artists such as Lil B. They certainly have that whole novelty factor thing going with their metal/idol pop mix, at least.
 
I personally never understood the whole hype surrounding bands like FACT or ONE OK ROCK. I like one or two songs by each band, but I genuinely don't see what sets them apart from any other acts in the current post-hardcore scene...

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

Cooking With Yoshiki book confirmed for release, featuring over 20 recipes inspired by each X-Japan member.

20th Century Boys
Akumetsu
Junji Ito's stuff
Gantz (like Gaz, minus the final arc. FUCK that shit)
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Suehiro Maruo's stuff
Kamen Rider Spirits
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
The Drifting Classroom
 
Some of Shintaro Kago's things are great as well, some of it is a bit too extreme for my tastes

that feel when we will never see a VK doo-wop band (((((((

I'm very picky with anime and manga, so not a whole lot:
 
Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa
Suehiro Maruo's stuff

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

wow who would have thought it'd be possible to gather so many shitty bandnames on one album

lmao this is karma for him pretending to be disabled so much