seikun

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It's here:

Thanks for uploading^^

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Thanks.

If you could share OST from Pokemon's first season that would be awesome.

Sorry I don't think there are OSTs for the TV shows, only singles with the opening and ending themes. I do have OSTs for most of the movies, though, although not the first one.

Oh, I see. Well, thanks anyway.

I see non-religious people stick to their own bubble about as much as their counterparts. Everyone has anxiety to dispel when their worldview is challenged in some way...

What I want to believe based on knowing the general clientele in my area (I can speak only for chicagoland) is that these anxieties are further softening on both sides over the course of this generation, and In fact very few people - even those of my parents' age group, are bothered enough to 'demand' any standard of sensibilities one way or the other in their friends/neighbors/community. This is the ideal because faith by definition shouldn't carry the need to confirm your bias with others, but a congregation is a community after all, and people support each other in times of doubt the best way they know how.

Either way, the last line is fairly put - man's faith could be described as a vast delusion or as a point of great merit to the strength of his character depending on the effect it has on his/her actions. 

"Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities that are not seen"

you just kind of reminded me of this Bible phrase lol

access to recording equipment and daw's has totally changed the game. i think so much of the 'old indie' sound has credit due to the last era of straightforward recording techniques, before drum triggers, melodyne, and softsynths became the new staples of record production.

it hurts the most when i hear a new band who's got something interesting going on creatively, but its packaged in this gloss of fake drums, self-recorded and surgeon-ed production. atleast the cheap recordings of decades before had an essence of life and passion to them. maybe thats hopeless nostalgia....

Very interesting comments.

I don't know the technicalities in this but I find something really endearing in this kind of sound quality.

Agreed with colorfuljinsei about the synthesizers. Don't get me wrong, I love when a band incorporates lush synths, but the majority of 2010s VK that uses synth always seem to resort to that grating, cheap sounding synth like this. Lots of bands (Royz, anfiel, LONDBOY, i.Rias, 0.1gの誤算, and maaaany more) are guilty of it and it's an immediate turn-off for me.

Eh, I always liked how his voice progressed. I was once talking to a guy about Kamijo, and he said his voice is like wine; gets better with age. I agree with him personally, but I guess it's mostly down to opinion.

A lot of vocalists in VK hold their voice "fake deep"  in their throat when they sing. It's like a character voice, just a popular way of singing for a band in this scene.

I'd sooner switch the cause and effect, -and say that it's more likely his vocal style would cause injury to his voice over time- than for past injury to have caused him to sound like that in the first place.

lmao comparing kamijo's voice to wine must be the best compliment for him, fits into his noble prince fantasy perfectly

I would also have to disagree with you, I buy a lot of cds and I do understand some people do not have the $ and thats okay but when you use that as an excuse to justify only downloading thats not okay. I use to avidly share on here but when i see posts like this i feel used because people only care about the downloads. Bands work hard for their music. They want to do what they do for a living and if everyone downloads most likely we can expect a disband. Especially vk... vk doesnt have a big audience(compared to other styles) so these bands need all the help they can get. My stance on this is... do what you can for the band, ull b surprised to know that colecting cds is pretty fun. More sales = more promotion = more tours = world tours. You think gazette got a world tour because everyone illegally downloaded? Bands need sales otherwise theres no funds to support any kind of tour or even feed themselves.

Availability of Japanese music on the net is what gave VK bands the possibility to expand the horizons of their music in the world. Not everybody has the money to buy  music from Japan or the means to do it but illegal downloading never stopped people from buying original stuff once they had the money as it is the aspiration of most people once they get a job that allows them to do so.

I do that just like before but it doesn't shows the screen; it shows the url >.<

That's strange, can I ask you to post about this in the help section so I can have one of our sysops look at it for you?

I'll see to that. Thanks for the suggestion.

@inartisticAre you sure about the ふ kana used to be representing the "U" sound? (う)? Because, from what I've read on the Japanese sound shifts, the は row Kana used to be pronounced with an F sound, and the pronunciation of ふ was the only one that stayed the same, wherewas the other Kana in the は row were

 almost completely changed throughout history, and now kind of represents H sounds unless used as a particle. (Basically, the transition for, say the Kana へ would have been Pe > Fe > He/We/E (The We part obviously being obsolete) I'm not trying to correct you, or anything. I'm just wondering where you got your information from, because I'm curious to learn more, actually, since I read a lot about archaic forms of the Japanese language, since a lot of the Vkei vocalists I listen to pronounce things in older ways and use obsolete phonemes. 

@AimiGen7Tbh my knowledge about the subject is only cursory--basically from trying to figure out song titles like seikun was. (I didn't even know about the “shifts” you mentioned! Pretty cool.) Here are a few links that mention it, and hopefully you can find something a bit more concrete.

http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/historical-kana-usage.html

http://amaterasu.tindabox.net/guide/OJ.php
http://nihongo.monash.edu/j_oldkana.html

@inartistic From what I see, the only source above that has any romaji (Romaji is pretty much the only way to represent the sound shifts xD) is the first source, and it assumes that ふ was once pronounced as Hu, which is quite incorrect. For some possibly complicated linguistic reason, all the "h" Kana were once pronounced with an F (as I mentioned earlier) and it just happened that while all the other Kana went through pronunciation shifts, now being stuck inbetween starting with an H sound, a W sound (in the case of は), or just being a plain vowel.

Though I will give credit where credit is due on the thing about the name Kaori once being spelled as and pronounced as Kawori. They're quite right on that.

But yeah, in essence, Japanese has never really had a "hu" sound. 

I guess the best way to describe the Japanese sound shifts is with the Iroha poem. I'll put down the pronunciations and what time period they would be used in:

Old Japanese:

Iro Pa Ni Popeto, 
Chirinuru Wo.

Wa ka yo tare so

Tsune Naramu

Uwi no okuyama

Kepu koyete

Early Middle Japanese:

Iro Fa Ni Fofeto

Chirinuru Wo

Wa ka yo tare so

Tsune Naramu

Uwi no okuyama

Kefu koyete

Late Middle Japanese: 

Iro ha ni hoheto

Chirinuru Wo

Wa ka yo tare so

Tsune Naramu

Uwi No Okuyama

Kefu Koyete

Early modern Japanese: 

Iro wa ni woweto (In theory, it'd be like this, but in practice, the line at one point could probably have been Iro wa ni hoheto. The changes are gradual, so this is theoretically how it would have been, but not practically)

Chirinuru wo

Wa ka yo tare so

Tsune Naran

Uwi No Okuyama

Kyo Koyete (Some time during the middle Japanese period, some words with the ふ kana were being pronounced with a yo sound, sort of. IDK really how to explain it though)

Alternatively, Early Modern Japanese could have been also pronounced as:

Iro wa ni oeto

Chirinuri wo 

Wa ka yo tare so

Tsune Naran

Ui No Okuyama

Kyo Koyete

And here is the modern pronunciation:

Iro Wa Ni Oedo

Chirinuru O

Wa Ga Yo Dare Zo

Tsune Naran

Ui No Okuyama

Kyo Koete

Thanks for the replies.

I found the picture on Twitter when searching for any information about L'yse:nore's members these days and that picture was posted by a Japanese person. The guy in the middle pretty much looks like L'yse:nore's vocal. Someone typed ミサ but my Japanese is poor so I thought that person was referring to the guy in the middle.

Link the tweet please

If you type リゼノアon Twitter it will show up.

You're not obliged to watch them. It's an invitation. You can save your time to leave a comment if you don't want to watch.

I knew it. I knew it would be him out of all reactors! 

Ok but Eternal Silence?

Actually I don't mind seeing normals watching vk. Thanks for sharing.

Since I learned Japanese in Japan it's difficult for me to explain it lol, so I'll just go ahead and copy-paste from a website (the de in your example is different from the example @Peace Heavy mk II gave)

1. Assuming that you are invited to a party tomorrow. You are not sure what is the required attire. You can ask the host the following...

明日のパーティーはジーンズ で いいですか。
ashita no pa-ti- wa ji-nzu de ii desu ka

Meaning: Is wearing of jeans alright for the party tomorrow?

2. Your colleague lost his wallet on the way to the office. When he meet you at the office he asks you for help to lend him some money. You are not sure how much you should lend him and ask him...

50ドル で いいですか。
50 doru de ii desu ka?

Meaning: Is 50 dollars alright for you?

So, in your case "yasai de ii", just means vegetables are fine. Or that you're okay with eating veggies. It's very similar to yasai ga ii. Although the nuance is slightly different. 

the above comment is correct, but just to expand, i think you can consider this "de" as part of the particle's functions as a limiter.

for example, you may have seen things like

一日で終わる (finish in a day[, and no more])
CD二枚で2000円 (2 CDs will be 2000 yen[, and no more])
３０分で行けます ([you] can get [there] in 30 minutes[, and no more])

similarly, assuming it's a statement and not a question, 野菜でいい is "[i'm] good with vegetables[, and no more]". if it is a question, "are [you] good with vegetables[, and no more]"?

the nuance of ~でいい contrasts with another common expression, ~でもいい ever so slightly.
野菜でいい means you truly are ok with vegetables and nothing more.
野菜でもいい means you're ok with settling for vegetables, but there's an implication that you'd actually rather have something else. if you wanted coke but they only had pepsi, you'd likely get asked ペプシでもいいですか。and not ペプシでいいですか。

Thanks for all the comments.

I understand the idea in the でいい construction, but I have always wondered what this で means given that most online courses leave out essential information. If I can't understand a word I can't make progress, instead I'm just repeating words and phrases like a robot.

I thought this で was the one that indicates a state as in 詩人で先生です (Being a poet I am a teacher.) which makes sense to me. I mean the uses of で explained above in this expression could belong to this category of particle で (indicates a state).

Just do what most stinky bandmen do and text a dick pic with the phrase "Chinchin Binbin"

I thought エロ meant erotic.

エロ  the plain meaning is erotic, but it also matters in how you use it tho.

I guess you could translate it somehow like this. 

Japanese bodybuilders are always so erotic💗.

Japanese bodybuilders gives me always a dokidoki. (dokidoki=heartbeat)

Japanese bodybuilders give me always  a wakuwaku feeling. (wakuwaku = horny)  

Japanese bodybuilders are always so hot   (Hot as heath hot, so 熱い)

Japanese bodybuilders make me always feel muramura  (muramura  = horny

Then people understand that a Japanese bodybuilders turns you on 😘

But my male friends... they use often "sexy"  or "yaritai"  if they feel horny. 

here some more stuff around the topic of sex. 

https://bondlingo.tv/blog/love-and-lust-in-japan-all-the-phrases-you-need-to-know-for-love-and-sex-in-japanese/

https://japanese999.com/how-to-say-horny-in-japanese/

But it really matters how you use it.

same for

Yaritai -  I wanna do it  /  I wanna have sex / I wanna have sex with you

I don't think straightener matters that much tbh. a round brush + strong hair dryer combo does the same thing, and has been around for decades ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But during the early and mid 90's their hairstyles were a mess XD

lol I think it's the trends of that time to blame, not bands or their (lack of) straighteners

You guys misspelled 'Pokemon GO'

No, I firmly mean religion is destroying the world. Religion is not good because it promotes unfounded ideas as universal truths and then they cannot be questioned and people do whatever it takes to defend and impose those unfounded ideas.  Mnay o these ideas and premises affect people unjustly like LGBT people and women.

By "the world" I'm sure you mean "human civilization" considering this rock we live on doesn't care what we teach our kids on it.. while THAT is an arguable possibility, it's really misdirected because "religion" as a concept is what formed our civilization in the first place. In the end it doesn't matter if we still call it "God" or not, it's a colorful explanation of the human condition through the ages. I am not religious but I recognize that the community around me wouldn't have been born without it. I'm sorry I definitely feel you, there is so much in current affairs to be in outrage over, it's just not conducive to swing the bat at "religion" when in fact there are droves of devout religious human beings who's ideals DO stand alongside yours in the better treatment of others.

Thnaks for replying.

I took the file from the legendary Evil-en-lucifer.blogspot a few years ago and it was titled Chi ni chi ni ki ware, but I noticed other files and songs were also wrongly romanized.

http://jisho.org/search/%23kanji 飢 according this source, 'uware' sounds like a truth...

I think that site is reliable.

Thanks for the help^^

I had no idea about some things you mentioned. But just letting imagination fly a little bit I would like an Under-Code these days. Especially one bringing bands in the line of Phantasmagoria or early Vidoll...

I don't personally think he'll do it. I think he'll try to open a new label with a new band. Kisaki has a.. less than savoury past, we all know that, but I don't think that really ever would stop him. I mean, he was arrested of all things and yet still came back.

The only problem is, all the former undercode bands have moved on. Vidoll became Gotcharocka, Riku has his solo project, etc. And personally, I don't think the fanbase would be open to Kisaki opening a new label, and open to a bunch of new bands. 

The Vkei scene has changed a ton since 2011. Some for the better, some for the worse. The way it's changed wouldn't allow Kisaki to open a new label. VisualKei is in it's lower years, and has been stagnant. We haven't had a Vkei boom like the one in 1986-1993, or the 1996-2003, there isn't as much hype for new bands,  and the whole scene has moved on from the "big exciting indie super-label". There was that kind of hype for Rockstar Records, but we all know how that turned out... I personally do think a modern equivalent to Undercode or something would really benefit the scene, but it doesn't feel like it's going to happen. 

Basically, the odds are stacked against there being another Extasy, Free Will, Soleil, Matina, or Undercode. They just don't really make them like they used to..

I see. He looks so different, hard to recognise.

Yes! Also played in BABYLON, and a billion other bands !

Wow, BABYLON. That's even older. I wonder how old he is...

Thanks for that piece of information.

I have the omnibus it's on. The booklet has the hiragana pronunciation as かみばっ (Kamibatsu)

Thanks for the replies^^

Oh, so "Kamibatsu" is the correct name then.

ば and ぱ; バ and パ can be easily confused sometimes.

The other song title that troubles me is 久遠の命 which is commonly translated as "kyuuen no inochi" but some online dicts say it's "kuon no inochi".

Visual Kei bands make song titles such a puzzle >.<

It's Shinbatsu, meaning divine punishment  

Awesome. I have always been interested in some VK band names and their meanings. Finally one of them is solved for me.

Thanks!

You're welcome. Just be sure to take this interpretation with a grain of salt because I could be wrong lol. (I literally just typed "Lyse" into google translate and it came out as Danish for Bright, and Nore looks like Noire, so, it seems to make sense lol)

That's true, but still the translation makes sense.

Oh, so he's the vocal of Vampire Rose. His singing ha improved a lot. Mising Eremia here.

Thank you very much for the quick reply^^

He also runs a bar. It seems like Vampire Rose is just a for-fun side thing for him

I found a video of his bar from a western girl.

I see. It's hard to find annything related to the word.

It kinda sounds like Hysteria, so maybe it's a misspelling of Hysteria?

Maybe. Although it is pronounced ヒスカリア...

I like the song, but like I said before, the PV sould have been filmed in a run-down building and a forest nearby to dramatise the story told in the song. That is what older bands did . That set they used is boring, claustrophobic, overused, it helps tell no story and doesn't suit La'veil MizeriA's look.

Is Kiwamu the owner of those sets?

Kiwamu pretty much does everything himself when it comes to filming any Starwave PV. That's why they all have the same sets and lighting. 

I wish he could try a little harder, since La'Veil MizeriA deserves more than just the generic sets they have at the Starwave Studios. 

I agree on this 666%

nussing. I think it flows better, even though it's painfully incorrect, lol

Not native but nothing for me, lol. 

Bruh I didn't even know he said "nothing". All this time I've been saying "missing my darling" 

Two of them are active in STEREO.C.K.

After the disband of Kagerou Yuana had joined the band boogieman when boogieman he join the band STEREO.C.K, the line up of STEREO.C.K is on vocal Sena (ex-Sel'm), on guitar Yuina, on bass Kazu (ex-Kagerou) and on drum Amon (ex KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND).

Kazu was the bassist for DIMMDIVISION then he join the band the god and death stars created by Aie (ex Deadman, ex the Studs.....) he also formed STEREO.C.K and he is session bassist for some band like The THIRTEEN.

And for Shizumi at the end of Kagerou he became drum teacher then he rejoined the band Lion16 but I don't know if this band is still active or not 

I had forgotten about Boogieman!

I checked out STEREO.C.K and liked the songs I listened to. They sound very much like old VK, but with a tuch of Kagerou's style.

Thanks for the info!

Depends. As an "artist" who paints both traditional and digital you can make both look great. Both media have heir pros and cons and digital really isn't that much easier, nor objectively shittier. Sometimes it takes even more time than painting traditionally (also 3D animation isn't easy peasy either, you have to really learn it).

I think the problem is more that modern animes are produced fast and cheap and there isn't much time invested to make it good from the get go (see the enhanced BluRay releases, while the initial premier on TV is the crappy alpha version).

The industry has become pretty unforgiving (you either loose a lot of money or you win a lot) and studios try to cash in as best as possible, hence they produce way too much in shorter timeframes. Hell, most animators nowadays work themselves to death with 12+ hour workdays, yet earn almost nothing. They need to puke out these new episodes like a machine. I think there was recently an animator who died because of overworking.

I second this ^

As a digital and traditional artist, I can say digital can mimick the charm of traditional just as well. You just need to find that artist or studio who has the time, budget and love for their work to get something magical. You can find some fantastic looking anime every season, but you have to sort through hundreds of soulless  cash grabs first

I have seen Dragon Ball Super has changed the palette of colours they use for characters and they lately resemble real paint more because before the colours made the characters look dort of plastic, but still, I dont think it has to do with skills or even time but with the techonoly itself.