Manabu

Well...at least Yoshiki kept the tradition of getting naked for every cover

Really happy to see them getting exposure in the US as well as the singer greatly improving in his accent and pronounciation but...this is quite a boring song to enter with as well as some truly awful lyrics, to the point where you wouldn't be surprised if they were wrote in 10 minutes

Never heard either so I'm going by the 2 samples provided from each

The Black Swan:

Pretty much nothing new, the guitarists do a good job of showing off and playing some complex stuff that works in the song and doesn't distract but the vocalist and standard neo sound lets it down, I've never heard Nega but it seems Jin can't really get either right, clean or harsh vocals. Whilst this may be down to the production and mixing both songs sound quite empty 

Kamomekamome:

Whilst the music doesn't stray much from the standard 'hardcore' sound they still provide some interesting parts, the twin vocals work really well and although the vocalist may on occasion be a bit flat his vocals are decent as well as the songs being pretty catchy!

With that in mind, my vote goes from Kamomekamome, these band battles are so much fun! Lets hope for some more interesting battles CAT5

visual_jrock's twitter says new look but I don't see any difference to there former one

The only difference I see is minus 3 masks...

Wow :/ I thought these guys would actually go on to have a decent career, such a shame :/ 2a is one of my favourite releases

88kasyojunrei, whilst very good from a technical view have too much going on in their music and it can end up sounding messy

Mejibray on the other hand seem scared to go out of their comfort zone and have an average vocalist

So I went Double KO! 

Sonic Mega Collection Plus, I'm too impatient to wait for sonic 2 to arrive for my megadrive

Mario Kart Wii, I suck at every racing game bar this and CTR. This is the only one I haven't played yet

Was optimistic and whilst it's not bad, it's not really interesting or anything new for them

Also, someone rocking out whilst eating pizza makes me cringe, did they really need open mouth and chewing shots

 

 

Don't know whats up with the dragon ball super stills. What do they not have the budget for it or something? Or could it be that the project was rushed, which I'm founding out is a common thing in japanese anime/film. Mostly film.

 

From what I've read and seen Super was quite good in the first 4 episodes, given that a major complaint on episode 5 (bar the poor animation) was that it just went over a lot of stuff that already happened I'm guessing they're already starting the filler lol

I also completely agree with Another, I also like how the gore is done, I find a lot of anime show before and after (danganronpa) whilst Another tends to give you before, now and after

Recently finished:

Howls moving castle- Still not getting the Ghibli hype and I found this so poor, the animation and art is great but everything else was so lazy, nothing is explained, it just seemed like 'cuz it's magic' was their excuse for not explaining anything.

Magi: The labyrinth of magic It was ok, I liked the setting as well the struggles of those in poverty but the characters were pretty generic, is it worth watching the second season?

D-Frag (rewatch)- Still fantastic and still just as funny, didn't get really serious or lose it's comedy like a lot of recent comedy anime's do

Watching:

Mushishi- Beautiful art and enjoying the episodic style as well as the depth to all the spirits

Gangsta.- LOVING THIS! They're pretty much doing everything right with this, flashbacks are well done with good timing and length as well as filling in the blanks, nice animation as well as a gritty feel to it, every episode leaves me wanting more

Chrono Trigger (DS)...

It's probably a bad rom or something wrong with my r4 but my game always froze during the first time you time travel, I'm stuck playing it on the snes, either way it's a great game and a fantastic choice!

I spent a good 2 hours getting every ending on 'the uncle who works at Nintendo' and now I'm on Persona 3 Portable

Pretty standard, the chorus saves it but it follows the same pattern a lot of their songs do, that 5 second talking intro is so cheesy though

Last album I think they tried to do too much and went a bit too far with experimenting so maybe they've toned it down this time

Kinda disappointing, brand new rainbow wasn't fantastic and only had a couple memorable songs, now it's just some mini album compilation? I thought Aiji's rivalry with Angelo would spur him on to do more!

I was just wondering that too. Seems like they've steadily changed directions since he departed. Not sure if one effected the other or not, but still an interesting coincidence.

They're an interesting band in terms of formation, looking at the studio videos they released, the guitarist that replaced Sho doesn't seem to record any guitar (it could've all been off screen but I can't imagine why they wouldn't show it)

Ugh. What happened to them and Before My Life Fails. Disappointed.

HNIB debut album was so amazing...

Even saints have misunderstandings and mistakes is still one of their best songs, direct solaris is a step in the right direction though

Anyway, the sample sounds pretty boring, seems they've got kinda downhill since sho (?) left

My latest cover, Say Anything. Please enjoy

Hey all How about you take a listen to my music? there's some variety but it's mostly piano based music, I also do Jrock covers!

Complication from Durarara

as well as Jessica by Dir En Grey

and here's an original

Feedback is welcome, please enjoy

Recently finished the first season of Digimon (wow that aged badly, really poor animation as well as music)

Started watching one piece, didn't like it so sticking to the manga

but my main is Trigun! As good as it is and as much as I enjoy it, there really doesn't seem to be much plot or storyline

Going by the 2 samples, I have to say Chanty. Neither of the bands are doing anything particularly new or unique but Chanty do have a unique singer and although both styles are pretty common in western music, Chanty are a breath of fresh air with how many bands are playing stuff like Pentagon

Are they fans of auncia/Ansia? They use a lot of parts I've heard in their songs for example, the intro of koibana and decadence are very similar

Ap®il- I thought they were really going somewhere and had a lot of potential

Juliette- Never released that much but I loved everything they did, the vocalist wasn't anything great but the guitarist was fantastic

The riff sounds like a slowed down version of 'Vampiregirl'

Didn't realise they'd been going that long, didn't they recently get a new member as well? 

A big shame though, all very talented musicians

My band mate is insistent on doing a cover of Acidman's Alma and he's happy to do Ansia's Lien, chalking that up as a conversion

Not as good as 2a but still great, love the bridge