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gulu gulu has announced on their official Twitter that they've been trying to get in contact with kazari, but no luck. They went to his home and nobody was there. 
Their live today will still take Place but without kazari. 
 
Furthermore, I've not seen a thread on this but at their one-man in January, ai announced in a MC that they are to release a CD during spring. They never specified date or month, but it is very likely in April/May. The band hasn't posted this on SNS or talked about it elsewhere, so it's difficult to pick up unless you're there, I guess. 
 

gulu gulu has announced on their official Twitter that they've been trying to get in contact with kazari, but no luck. They went to his home and nobody was there. 
Their live today will still take Place but without kazari. 
 
Furthermore, I've not seen a thread on this but at their one-man in January, ai announced in a MC that they are to release a CD during spring. They never specified date or month, but it is very likely in April/May. The band hasn't posted this on SNS or talked about it elsewhere, so it's difficult to pick up unless you're there, I guess. 
 

gulu gulu has announced on their official Twitter that they've been trying to get in contact with kazari, but no luck. They went to his home and nobody was there. 
Their live today will still take Place but without kazari. 
 
Furthermore, I've not seen a thread on this but at their one-man in January, ai announced in a MC that they are to release a CD during spring. They never specified date or month, but it is very likely in April/May. The band hasn't posted this on SNS or talked about it elsewhere, so it's difficult to pick up unless you're there, I guess. 
 

gulu gulu has announced on their official Twitter that they've been trying to get in contact with kazari, but no luck. They went to his home and nobody was there. 
Their live today will still take Place but without kazari. 
 
Furthermore, I've not seen a thread on this but at their one-man in January, ai announced in a MC that they are to release a CD during spring. They never specified date or month, but it is very likely in April/May. The band hasn't posted this on SNS or talked about it elsewhere, so it's difficult to pick up unless you're there, I guess. 
 

gulu gulu has announced on their official Twitter that they've been trying to get in contact with kazari, but no luck. They went to his home and nobody was there. 
Their live today will still take Place but without kazari. 
 
Furthermore, I've not seen a thread on this but at their one-man in January, ai announced in a MC that they are to release a CD during spring. They never specified date or month, but it is very likely in April/May. The band hasn't posted this on SNS or talked about it elsewhere, so it's difficult to pick up unless you're there, I guess. 
 

So I guess they've got no plans on touring the US again

So I guess they've got no plans on touring the US again

we stan self awareness x

Based on gya twitter, they currently don’t like western fans showing up in Ikebukuro and telling everyone they’re “half” when they’re 75% French Canadian, 25% Irish 

why hasn't @Seelentau ever publicly spilled this tea before?  

the swedes

I also will react to this topic.
 
I've listened to more songs on their youtube.. and all their previous songs are just  bad, shit visual kei music.. not even amazing rock quality, just typical boring visual kei, with no heart with no feelings just.... no.
 
 
but the new song...
The beat, the melody, the kinda vocal sound...
It all mix nicely together as a perfect mix.... it really though your heart.
Truly 10/10 song.
And believe me it is. 
 
Lately I only listen to masterclass rock music. music who is played by bandguys who are longer in the music world as those young dudes. music of people who know what music is.  I follow lot's of "legend Japanese rock stars (which most of you never did hear off tho lol)"  
So because of that I became very picky of what GOOD music is. 
 
 
However, I call this song really a master piece. it's a perfect song, easy to like, it touch your heart.
vocal fits perfectly to the melody....
 
 
But by listening to their previous songs,, I kinda doubt their their album will only contain this masterclass songs. 
 
 
If they will release more music like this... then I surely will support them.
I'm looking for this kind of visual kei bands, who really put everything into music.
 
 
if you dislike this kind of sound,
well then. you really don't have a good taste for music. 

i.D.A stands for "i don't acknowledge [her]"

It might sound weird from a western perspective, but visual kei is like the straightest and most homophobic music scene in Japan. We tend to look at visual kei with western eyes and mix its cultural aspects with things that belong to the western culture. Fanservice and provocations used for shock value put aside, the androgynous aesthetics of visual kei band rarely expressed anything related to gender identity and especially sexual orientation. 
After all, it started with people like X Japan who admittedly were inspired by glam rock bands and way of life, which I would find hard to connect to sexual orientation. Visual kei early bandomen were mostly chinpiras, bosozokus (bikers) and the likes. They really incarnated the somewhat glamrock aesthetic of riding bikes getting drunk, banging girls, etc. Of course X had their own decadent/romantic taste that made them different, and a lot of influences changed the scene over time. However, visual kei is still remains 99% driven by social outcasts looking for pussy and very rarely by something else.
In Japan we also have onnagatas, who are kabuki actors specialized in female roles that are again 99% straight. Bandoman with feminine looks call themselves onnagata, not josou (crossdresser), implying that the cultural source behind their looks is not connected with crossdressing but just playing a female role in a band,  but again this something that might be hard to completely understand it taken outside of Japanese culture. For example Izam, the king of all onnagatas, married more than once and has more tha one child, and outside of his role in Shazna he rarely did anything ambiguous, just like the kabuki onnagatas out of stage. Both media and fans are everything but respectful of privacy, but I've rarely seen Japanese articles or message board questioning bandomen sexual orientation. That's because the number 1 reason people do visual kei is because the girls like it (well, liked it, I am not sure this is the trend with young girls anymore). 
Soft Ballet/Ken Morioka are closer to Soft Cell/Marc Almond so I would not even count them as visual kei even though they had some influence on it. And of course, there are exceptions as you mentioned. The chinpira bandomen of the 90's almost extincted and younger generations bandomans are usually anime/game otakus. They grew up with different influences and values, and it would make sense if the current incarnation of visual kei instinctively appealed to more people with sexual orientation/gender identity concerns, especially after Japan started talking about these issues in a less obsolete viewpoint.

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kyo is angry because he's a tiny hobogoblin

we love to see it!

I highly doubt they ever returned, I think it was pretty obvious washow records or whatever they were "signed" to was just an affiliate/sublabel of ains 

芸夢 translates to 'Y'all foreigners aint gettin this'

wow racist much?

2020 - the year ains will reign over the vk scene again. KINGS 

2020 - the year ains will reign over the vk scene again. KINGS