Champ213

Not to turn this into a Kiwamu topic, but back then when I was working for VisualZero/ASTAN, we though as a matter of politeness we would communicate with him in japanese (he does speak english, but obviously not perfect). I was a 2nd-year-japanese student, and just like everybody else in that group we were working for free, without profit, and I sat down and translated the eMail correspondances into japanese in my free time. And all I got was a rude remark that my japanese was "weird." Obviously not unintelligible, because he didn't ask any questions about things he didn't understand, but it just wasn't perfect. Well yeah, neither is his english, but you don't see us complaining. XD And obviously my japanese probably was weird back then, but one still could be more polite and at least appreciate the effort, lol. And there are lots of stories of him being rather moody and demanding, so I don't think it's all rumor.

It's not Kiwamu that is organizing the (overseas) concerts, but US/EU tour agencies, and as Chianti said, there are stories that many of those don't want to work with Kiwamu anymore because of bad experiences. I don't know how true that is but as somebody who once translated for a small group that cooperated with Kiwamu I have to say: I don't think it's implausible.

It will probably also mean that their plans to make it big abroad will be somewhat hampered. Doesn't rumor have it that Kiwamu pissed off almost every vk-relevant european tour organizer? XD

I added Kei Kunihiro to the playlist, it will take about 20 minutes until it shows up in the player.

I guess then this is no longer a rumor. Moving to news section.

The scary thing is, if you listen to the whole playlist in a row, it actually makes Maria Cross sound like a musical genius. He's by far the most tolerable one there. XD

... the old "CRAPPY songs to cure people from rare indies bands obsession" thread from TW.net? Well, this shall alleviate your pain a bit: http://www.mixpod.com/playlist/45095507 (These is what I could think of off the top of my head. I hope to expand it in the future again. XD)

So, did it work or not? I can change the setting for you as well, but I would like to know if the setting really was set to "Yes" already. Because if it said "Yes" in your UCP and "No" in my admin panel, then something else is screwed up and I need to investigate further. ("No" is the default setting for this board btw, so unless you already changed it after we transferred the accounts from Zetaboards then it would be the setting that is to be expected. I'm assuming that your overlooked that setting and never changed it to "Yes", which is why your sig never showed up except in your profile since the move from Zetabords.)

Actually, Chianti is right. When I check your settings it says you have set the option "Attach my signature by default" to "No". Go to the User Control Panel > Board Preferences > Edit Posting Defaults > and check the button for "Attach my signature by default" to Yes. So no, you sig isn't deleted and never was, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see it in your profile.

If this wasn't made by SuG, but Metronome or something similar, fanboys would be all over it.

That's pretty cool indeed. But that wasn't one of the combinations I was worried about anyway.

When I was 8, I listened to David Hasselhoff. Other than that, I'm very loyal to my loved bands. I might loose interest in a band and stop following their new stuff, but songs I really liked years ago, I will still like today.

If it's a cover of the Gackt song I think I might laugh to death. Lol. But yeah, it's unlikely to be a cover, not as a title track of a new single. And it's not like there aren't 294648 other jrock songs called Jesus or have it Jesus in their title, so I wonder why people are so disturbed by it.

If it's a cover of the Luna Sea song, I will personally kill them. I seriously doubt it is though.

The economic importance of tourism in Kerala. I still have the pics I looked up on my Photobucket:

Why were people suddenly commenting on this anyway? I mean, the departure of the 2 members and posting of this thread occured MONTHS ago already. *is confused*

Passwords and eMail were reset when we reset when we moved to this forum. I'll pm you a new password for your old account.

Are these re-recordings? Re-masterings? I mean, all songs have been released before, but some of them are so old they would have to be at least remastered. "is not TRUE(version S)" indicates some sort of re-recording or new version, but I wonder about the rest.... Anyway, still looking forward to this.

Extremely stupid I would say.

Lots of hiking, no smoking and no fast food. Haven't seen the inside of a McDonalds or Burger King in over 10 years. But especially hiking. Preferably up and down the hills.

My new year's resolution: I want to ban a few people from TW.

Look on the bright side. At least she didn't think that white people are white so that they can camouflage better into the snow. POLAR BEARS ARE WHITE TOO, RIGHT??

Here you go. But yeah, it seems that for any genre that you find in the "west", there are at least a few japanese artists that do it too. From viking metal to... err, yodeling. Obviously you have to broaden or modify the definitions in some cases (as we discussed with Neo-Folk earlier), and sometimes there might only be a very few artists in a particular niche genre. Personally I found the melodic death metal scene to be somewhat lacking, things like Serpent or Shadow of Tranquility. At least they are somewhat eclipsed by the more prominent power/heavy metal stuff. Then again I never really looked deeper into it. There are gazillions of bands from that genre all around the world, and since origin is of no concern to me it's not that I would have difficulties finding something for my taste.

Seems like the problem is solved?