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he's supposed to be a BAAAAABY, guys loll. Does their cover art still sell that gimmick?

@plastic_rainbowSug Life is and always will be on my top 5 japanese albums ever! But check the newer songs on this live, they sound really good with Kenzo on drums, specially Swallow the Night and Silent Picture! Also, have you heard their unreleased song 'black bane'? it freaking ROCKS! Maybe it's more on your taste:
 

I LOVE GARIRON!!!! as you can tell from my username (i just left out days cuz it felt too long lol)
i still need to watch this whole live. somehow, they still make me happy even tho i don't like their new music as much. my love for them will never change...

In regards to the "nobody seems to care about non staff reviews" comments, it's been my observation that members simply respond to whatever compels them to do so - and that's pretty arbitrary. It has nothing to do with it being staff or not. However, I will note that ORZ, as a group, usually makes it our goal to post content that we believe would be of interest to the community based off of literally years of experience/trial & error -  and even with a concerted effort like that, we're not always accurate. Also, threads having 0 responses can't always be interpreted as no one being interested - often times people might feel it sufficient to just like/react to a post instead of elaborating on their thoughts. And then some people simply like to read and move on. You also have to take thread views into account, as every topic on the first page of the regular review forum (except for 1) exceeds 100 views - and considering our active userbase, that's hardly trivial! Not to mention all of the guests and lurkers we have! So rest assured that there is interest, even if it's not always immediately visible! 

I was considering it, but I'm holding back for now,  as 1- people don't seem to have all that interest in reviews that are not from the ORZ, neither really want to interact in the review section, and 2- This was a remarkably weak year in jrock, VK specially. Half my faves of this year are best albums or smh like that, lol

fuck me and the 20gb worthy of dvds I downloaded last week

I like it too, but I agree. I feel like the highs of the album are REALLY good (群青, The Awakening of Revolution, Believer's High, 響心identity, Epilogue and 宙言), while the lows are really underwhelming (Refrain, 心灯-こころび-, S.O.S., I'm a loser).

just did mine, but it was hard. VK sucked balls this year

just did mine, but it was hard. VK sucked balls this year

I'm tempted to buy their first album. This is pretty good. Now which concept are they going for next? Oshare-kei or darker music? Heavier songs suit Bero's voice better.

Only listened to it once so far and had a good first impression, pretty dynamic stuff again. Not really a fan of the cleans vocals sounding that unnatural, I understand they are going for a modern and polished sound, but in some parts he sounds like a vocaloid

@ZeusPlease do! I wanna hear more in depth opinions about it, the 2005 vk vibes are too strong on this one

Loll yeah they know what they did... always.

ClOsE SecOND: sharer, but in purposefully shitty quality. "Sweetie, just buy it yourself if you want to see a music video that has more than 15 pixels (: "

2V-ALK and Muggles' Mansion blew me away this year.
 

I don't think anything Japanese ever came close to these three, sadly.

There are definitely other releases that I've enjoyed, but, to be perfectly honest, FABLED NUMBER's "ILLUMINATE" album is the only one that's really left a lasting impression so far this year. 
 

ぞんび's bokura wa minna shindeiru

A9's "Pendulum". Another one is "Xenomorphic", by Jiluka.

Sure did, man. The whole soundtrack is goddamn AMAZING. Mitsuha's theme, Date, Nandemonaiya, so many great tracks!

yeeeeah I watched it a while ago and it was adorable. the RADWIMPS soundtrack only made it better too.

Good cuz I hate taking the stairs.

Umbrella never slips under my radar :-)

lmao, reminds me when I used to call every anime Naruto to mess with my little cousin...
"hey man, what's the name of that Naruto you're watching?" "Any new good Narutos?"
he would be all "I already told you 219187 times Naruto is an anime, they aren't all called Narutos" lol