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Thank god im not the only one with countless humble bundle and steam sales stuff i never played lol.
 
seems kinda useless to always buy stuff D: b

You simply got to love how everyone is totally NOT interested in this band and still they comment ♡
I really really like the preview.

^I took this the last day that actually felt like summer. Good times.

Ok it's working now.
Edit: ...And it's not working now.
 

best news.
 
i searched for the first one so long and already gave up now. doesnt seem like it will ever appear at auctions.

and so it begins.
 
at least they list a valid reason this time.
 
also on a side note: Five kinda annoys me. (znt)

Before I tell you and Gaz to unbunch your panties and take it to PM, I want to address the part I've bolded. I want to do this because there's a misconception I want to clear up and it's something that's been proven to work on this forum.
Sharing your music with people who actually care involves three things: music, sharing, and people. The problem with it when restricted solely to visual kei is that the sharing is inconsistent. Some people hoard the rare music and it eventually becomes lost and no one can ever hear or find it again. Some people share everything freely. If you want to find other people who like the same music you do, you have to make it freely available. But even more than that, there has to be discussion about this music. There are two very underutilized forums in the Artist and Review sections whose purpose is to facilitate discussion. If you wonder why the type of visual kei you like seems to get no attention, go look for all the topics people have started about it and look at the last time someone uploaded an album by one of those artists and wrote a review for one of those artists. It's probably been a while hasn't it? Now switch gears and look at a lot of the K-Pop fans (a good majority of which came from visual kei) and estimate the size of the fandom in comparison to VK. It seems so much bigger because they all talk about it!
The key here is "out of sight, out of mind". I'll touch on that later.
But first, let's jump into some MH history. The year was 2010. Overseas attention for visual kei was on it's way out, as Champ touched on earlier. Activity was declining on MH because a lot of fans were jumping ship to the next fad, but there wasn't any musical spheres here to keep them interested. Thus, people spent less time here as they spent more time exploring new music. CAT5 and I had a problem with this. There is an entire musical scene outside of visual kei in Japan that was getting the shaft and we wanted to fix that. We started by first uploading a lot of new music to the download section. That had limited success. The turnover rate was so fast that by the it hit page two or three no one checked it out anymore. Out of sight, out of mind. So to fix that shortcoming, we tried something new.
This was an effort on the part of a lot of people, many of which went uncredited and who I will thank now because I don't think I ever formally did this at one point. CAT5, Aion, lukrecia, and I started "The Non-Visual Recommendation Thread" which grew to be a 30 page behemoth of a topic filled with sample releases by different bands in Japan that were all non-visual. The idea was that if it was always at the top of the forum and being constantly updated, people would check it out from time to time and find things they liked. There were some issues with it (disappearing posts, MU dying, etc.) but it had it's intended effect of people finding new artists that they wouldn't know that they liked. Because we made a place for it and occasionally wrote reviews in the section, we got all three components we needed: music, sharing, and people.
We expanded this base by starting the end of year lists at the end of 2011. CAT5 and I devised this as an idea to talk about really great albums we liked that didn't get the attention they deserved, got a lot of attention and deserved to be talked about more, or weren't even Japanese but was just great music overall. We got a lot of great feedback from lots of users because it was a combination of visual and not visual artists. There was something for everyone. The topics got hundreds, if not thousands of views and even attracted the attention of some artists we praised. This got more people listening, and more people talking.
Then the staff decided to do something really crazy and split the download forum about a year back. There was always talk about splitting it between visual and non visual music because of reasons, but we were hesitant to do it because we always felt the visual forum would just eclipse the non-visual forum and the latter would die off. By mid 2013, there were enough people here that enjoyed the latter for us to give it a trial run and see how it went. It was only supposed to last for two months. But because there was a clean separation between the two, non-visual music would no longer be buried in the unified download section as it once was. Visual kei music also benefited from this as well. Now that both were easily available for view, people began checking out more non visual kei music. Instead of failing, it's grown and now there's more of a balance here than there has ever been before.
So the moral of the story here is that if CAT5 and I had never decided to do something about the lack of attention non visual music was getting here that fateful day in 2011, MH wouldn't be the way it is today. If you want to promote your preferred style of visual kei, you have to discuss it. And continue discussing it and generate interest in it. Talking about how it's dying is a start but actually talking about the music is better. Music doesn't ever die until people stop listening to it, and the fastest way for that to happen is to have no one be able to hear it and have no place for anyone to talk about it.
Now I know this isn't directly on topic but I feel that it addresses the point being made in this topic accurately enough to belong here. Now you two go play nice.

Edit:
 
picture got reported and removed lol.
 
Edit 2:
 
lol now they are upvoting random other pictures. dumb people
 
mh army
 
pls upvote
http://www.last.fm/music/Winner/+images/100432771
 
thanks :

german dates
 
http://www.mlk.com/one_ok_rock/2088-tour_2014

It looks cool, but it seems basically like a more streamlined and simpler version of MyAnimeList... I can bet that there's no real reason to switch from MAL to this :/

YO are you for real?
I'm like hella excited now, Digimon is my shit and the original was my favorite of all time. you don't even know how many people I have to go tell about this shit... they're gonna lose it like I am right now XD

"Digimon Adventure 03" was announced today (im just going to call it that because.)
 


 
much excite.

first single was really good so looking forward to this. but two SE´s _.-

first single was really good so looking forward to this. but two SE´s _.-

Never thought that would be the case, but Barakamon easily became my favourite of this season.

Never thought that would be the case, but Barakamon easily became my favourite of this season.

their new mini album "SACRIFEAR" will be released at 2014/10/08 (5 songs, 2,700yen), which will be sold in advance at their one-man live "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE" at Shibuya RUIDO K2 at 2014/09/20
 
that new mini album will include their song "RAVEN SCAVENGED RUBBISH"
 
 
btw they will hold their live tour since Shinjuku RUIDO K4 at 2014/10/07 and up to Ikebukuro EDGE at 2014/11/01

Theres so many good mangas, so thats kinda difficult for me. Also i dont really like comparing entirely different genres.
 
The first thing that came to my mind is Holyland, though. Reread it quite some times.

Yeah, I'll check if I can get it. A few websites are off limits for me too though, but I've bought from Mnet before without a problem
 
Edit: I checked and I can get it through Mnet. I'll do it one of these days if that's ok with you?

probably a really long shot, but im searching for someone whos able to buy at any of the korean digital music stores.
 
found some release i want and its not on itunes. failed horribly to buy it on any korean store.
 
either they dont allow me to reigster (even with a proxy, because you need a cellphone or whatever), or im able to register but as a foreigner im unable to use any of the payment methods that are offered on the site.
 

theres just one for me and thats HAL from juliadoll. will never ever get over the fact that he retired after juliadoll disbanded (except that one revival live).
i always loved his voide and juliadoll is my alltime favourite vk band too.

damn, been a long time since i was so excited about a dog release. so amazing preview.

I had no idea Sarah Jessica Parker was in one of their videos!

Why not use PS3 Media Server? That way you don't have to worry about converting.
http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/