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I really like your new hair CAT, I think it suits you

One kittyafro coming up ~ I now think that you look better with a bit longer hair, CAT!

Some selfies of me looking,..rather expressionless, ha
 

Some selfies of me looking,..rather expressionless, ha
 

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I do buy stuff here and there, but I don't buy multiple versions of one release. I feel like it's sort of a rip-off, so I always just go with one version (usually the reguar).
 
 
Depends. I never understood why people want chekis so badly, to be quite honest, so I'd never spend money on them. What I do buy though is mostly posters and tour shirts...that's it really. I do like catching picks and drum sticks though, I see it as a nice souvenir from a concert! (even though I've never actually caught one because I'm a midget)
 
 
No, I can't understand what they're saying, so I don't see the point, haha.
 
 
No, I wouldn't. I feel like following them in the street seems like a form of harrassment? It's hard to explain but when these people are outside just minding their own business I feel like you should just let them do that once they give off signals that they don't want to be bothered. It's different if the artist approaches the fans themselves though.
 
 
Nope.
 
 
I don't think it does? Of course I have songs that can cheer me up or get me off my feet, but not much more than that. I never dressed or changed my personal life due too music.
 
 
Yep! I'm not planning on moving there, but I would love to visit one day to see some of my favourites live and do some sightseeing as well.
 
 
I'm not interested in gossip surrounding the bands I listen to. I really don't mind if someone has 200 love children all throughout Japan or if they spend all their money on cocaine, as long as their music is awesome! (unless it's extremist cases like them supporting neo-nazism or smth of the sorts lol)
 
 
Sometimes I think "hey, it would be fun to hang out with the guys from cinema staff because they seem pretty funny", but that's it really. Friendships come naturally after all, it's nothing that can be forced.
 
 
Sadly I lack any form of musical talent for being in a band, haha. I think I'll just stick to enjoying music instead of (poorly) attempting to make it

Visual Kei and Japanese pop/sub cultures in general seem to have many intense fans or fan communities that live and breath the art-form or artist in question.
 
I think it would be interesting to discuss just how heavily we follow our favorite bands, and what lengths we go to in our appreciation and / or worship.
 
As for me, I am a pretty big fan, I like to get all versions of singles / albums, and full discographies of  favorite bands, even Best albums... I follow on Ameblo, browse Twitters when I can`t sleep. Like to know which Kanji all band members use in their names, etc... As for picks (plectrum), Cheki, etc... For my favorite band I love these, but for other bands I couldn`t care less for plectrum, etc... I will just give them to people who seem to want them. Band-shirts I always long for. I guess my own style is influenced by VK too...
 
Here are some questions to get the ball rolling on the conversation, feel free to answer them and / or type a little about how much you follow VK bands!:
 
1: Do you buy multiple versions of releases, or buy at all? (Judgement-Free-Zone)
 
2: Do you collect cheki or other non-music related items from bands?
 
3: Follow them on Ameblo, Twitter?
 
4: Would you follow them on the street?
 
5: Dig through their trash? (Judgment-Free-Zone)
 
6: Does Visual Kei or other forms of your musical taste influence your style or personal life?
 
7: Desire to move or visit Japan influenced by music?
 
8: Do you read dirt-sheets of bands, like rumours, gossip, etc...?
 
9: Ever fantasize about being friends with band members? (JFZ)
 
10: Do you want to be in a Visual Kei band (or any other kind of band)?
 
 
Feel free to speak of other genres and your fandom as well if you please.

Finally started Kill la Kill. The first episode was pretty promising, so I'm going to continue this one for sure! /also pervert guy somehow reminds me of the new pokemon professor from X and Y, lol.
 
Next on the list is Durarara (or whatever it's called), Kyoukai no Kanata, Norigami and Psycho Pass.

Most bands have terrible lyrics anyways, so I think if I actually understood all of it, it might even lessen my enjoyment of certain bands. For example, I think D's lyrics are extremely cheesy, but musically they can be pretty on point at times. However, if a band's lyrics are good, or at least interesting in some way (as is the case with 9goats blackout and Plastic Tree for example) then it just makes me enjoy listening to their music even more. (Bonus points if their lyrics unexpectedly turn out to be royally fucked up while their music sounds sort of bouncy.. Looking at you, every Eiji project ever)

With a price like this + what you get for it I might pre-order it, this is VERY interesting.

Pretty effing promising if I do say so myself xD I might just have to get this for myself as well since it's coming out just a few weeks before my bday
 
I wonder what "great escape(alternate ver.)" will sound like?

11. Yoshiki is black

11. Yoshiki is black

lbr it's a sads disrespect album with that covering artists line-up

You just don't get it, right?
 
You do realize, that visual kei is a genre where most of the stuff is pretty much borrowed from others? All the musicians are normal people and it's perfectly normal to be influenced by their idols, which is exactly what Yuuki does and there's nothing wrong with it.
 
You really can't be so naive that you think everything Lycaon does is "T3H M0ST OR1G1N4L TH1NG 3V3R." I'm sorry to break it to you, it isn't. You act like every member of Lycaon is shitting gold and diamonds. Lycaon is a fairly generic visual kei band, and they haven't done anything that original so far. But does that prevent you from enjoying their music? Of course not. Even though I'm perfectly aware that Lycaon isn't the most original band of the decade, it's still my favorite band.
 
By referring yourself as a "Lycaon LOYAL TRUE fan" you must be implying that I'm a bad fan for not being a delusional fan girl gasping at the awesomeness of everything they ever have or ever will create. If that's the case I'm really happy that I'm not a "LOYAL TRUE fan."

11. Yoshiki is black

11. Yoshiki is black

how does this fool have any fans left?

9. Yoshiki has finally completed his research and is now able to revive hide from the dead