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I got a malformed box

Brand new and sealed, only cost $45 after shipping!
I bet someone who got it brand new from CDJapan two years ago paid $120 for it.

Dr.秒-byou- has joined AvelCain at their one-man live "釘、御札、午前二時…(kugi ofuda gozenniji)" at TSUTAYA O-East at 2015/08/29
 
 
their new maxi single "紅-べに-(beni)" will be released through fiveStars and at their live since Ikebukuro EDGE at 2015/09/19 (2 TYPE, 1,080yen each)
 
[track list]
01.紅-べに-(beni)
02.過食症(kashokushou) (included in live-limited edition)
02.×月×日、懺悔、寡黙ナル君二…(×gatsu×nichi zange kamoku naru kimi ni…) (included in fiveStars edition)
 
 
聖子-seiko- first one-coin single "ヒマワリノウタ(himawari no uta)" will be released at 2015/10/14 (1 song, 540yen, limited 500)
 
 
btw they will hold 聖子-seiko- birthday one-man live "ウシロノ正面ダァレ？(ushiro no shoumen dare?)" at Ikebukuro EDGE at 2015/11/22 and their one-man live "磔(haritsuke)" at Nagoya MUSIC FARM at 2015/12/24
 

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne!

Chrono Trigger (DS)...

I don't usually translate lyrics, but I felt particularly inspired by this song and it didn't seem too difficult to do. I did this fairly quickly (15 minutes) so it may or may not be slightly inaccurate, but I trust you'll get the meaning of this song. Feel free to correct me.
Kanji & romaji available here
 
 
 
"Red Bathroom"
 
Let's make red rain fall Let's swear "forever" right now   From me to you, as I have feelings of instability   I want you, I want you, I want you Please look only at me I'm sorry, I'm sorry I killed you because I love you I want you, I want you, I want you Please accept me   *squish squish squish*  Dig it out With this, you only belong to me, right? Disconnecting pieces. Does it hurt? La la la la I want you to look only at me I'll decorate the room with your eyeballs I'll put out your leftover pieces on garbage day   In the bathroom, singing a song, painting it red in a secret ceremony As you lie there unmoving and covered in red, I copiously pour something white on you In the dead of night   Why shouldn't I kill people? Dad and Mom didn't teach me Even I fell in love with somebody Though this is the first time I felt this way If you won't understand, I don't want you Die die die die   My favourite white shirt got dirty Let's bury anyone who interrupts us in the garden With this, we are alone In the sweet dead of night   That girl looks good too. I want to kill her.   The unending rain, I'll fall in love again In the red rain, I'm alone again In the dead of night

So happy that I finally have the chance to play this game!!!
Wanted to buy the Resident Evil HD Remaster too, but it wasn't available at the GameStop I went to...Gonna have to order that online.

So happy that I finally have the chance to play this game!!!
Wanted to buy the Resident Evil HD Remaster too, but it wasn't available at the GameStop I went to...Gonna have to order that online.

So happy that I finally have the chance to play this game!!!
Wanted to buy the Resident Evil HD Remaster too, but it wasn't available at the GameStop I went to...Gonna have to order that online.

I still just can't delete my last.fm. Not now when I just achieved over 100 000 scrobbles. I will keep using last.fm forever, even if I don't like the new last.fm.

preordered the limited edition of Disgaea 5 over the weekend!

Siren 2 Official Art Book.  It has more images of sceneries and backgrounds than I thought it would, which of course is still nice~
 

Dengeki Playstation magazine including the top 200 characters in memory of Playstation's 20th year anniversary!! : DD

ギルガメッシュ - Real my place

What do you mean?
Last.fm is supposed to be a service that relies on it's users. They fund themselves through aggressive and intrusive ads, CBS and the largely defunct and useless subscriber status which gives their users even more useless additional features. This isn't enough to fund larger scale activities partly because Last.fm was early to the party but made a bunch of core mistakes which stunted their growth and made them unable to capitalize on opportunities thanks to competitors Pandora and Spotify, who bankrupted their piggy bank of ideas. All in all, it's a dying service that had a niche in user-generated statistics over an extended period of time. There is no good alternative to last.fm in this way but even so they seem to not give a shit about what little services people are interested in, because the scrobbler is broken half the time and people have to invent hacks to keep their lists consistent, which by the way they just royally fucked up with this migration. The only thing I used last.fm for was to generate suggestions for me based on my personal library, because it's hard to find good services that match recommendations on visual kei bands. Scrobbling and keeping neat lists was secondary. And I got a lot of use out of the site in the last five years until they removed all the features I used and replaced them with inferior versions of them, if they still exist. There are all these new statistics but I don't care about them. Knowing the trend of artists I've listened to by genre is interesting visually, but unless this somehow improves my recommendations all the new visual additions don't justify the removal of all the old working features. I've had this problem with them for years and I remember the last time they did a minor overhaul of the site. Sure people complained but it wasn't this bad or this unanimous. And for some reason despite all the new features they dropped on us I don't see a single thing about improving the way that Last.fm matches artists together, which could use plenty of improvement IMO. Since everything I used the site for is gone and some half broken crap put in it's place, there's no point in staying with a half broken service run by developers that don't value user feedback because if they did they would have relented and reversed the site 24 hours after the "beta" launch. Even I didn't force the new skin on our users by removing the old skin, making it default, and then somehow breaking Monochrome Heaven in the first place all while telling you to quit your bellyaching, that the "Download" section would be back but not any time soon, and that there is no reversal option. I left you with a choice. The only thing that matters to them is the bottom line and that bottom line is how many people are using their service, how fast is their service growing or shrinking, and what can they do to maintain profits. If members, even free members, are leaving in droves that's bad press. It doesn't attract new people to the site. If enough people stop using Last.fm it will speak loud and clear and they can either decide to give us what we want or kill their service.
And perhaps some other website will come along and fill the demand for a website that delivers recommendations based on personalized user-generated listening habits that's organized well and is easy to use.

Cool report! I saw them a few nights later (6/24) in Seattle.... so I'll respond with some thoughts from that show if nobody minds.
 
I had no time to get excited for the Mono show because it happened very last minute for me. A few friends and I were in town visiting and the day of the show I was on my phone at lunch looking for something fun to do that evening and exclaimed "holy shit, mono is playing tonight!" (Of course they had no idea what I was talking about... I could only convince one to go with me after describing what kind of music they played).
 
The show in Seattle was at Neumos in a pretty cool/young part of town. Seemed like a good place for live music, though a couple of the bars and the balcony were inaccessible because the turnout (while not as low as in Milwaukee apparently) certainly was nowhere near capacity.
 
 
Pretty much sums up the band right before Mono (I don't have a lot of thoughts on the local opener, they weren't bad but they didn't leave a big impression). It only took about four minutes of that band before we ditched the club to find some margaritas at a nearby bar for about an hour. Luckily the re-entry rules at Neumos were really laid back.
 
As for Mono themselves:
 
I really enjoyed hearing some of the new record(s) live. Their live CD with the orchestra is probably my most listened to Mono album, so I was worried it might feel a little hollow with just the four of them trying to recreate all the noise they make, but I didn't find myself missing the string sections during the show.
 
I didn't enjoy the fact that the two guitarists sat down for almost the entire show. I'm pretty tall (6'4") and the stage was a pretty average height at the club I watched them in... and I still couldn't see much of those two except for the tops of their heads as they stared at the floor/their guitars. The drummer was really the only person on stage making any sort of attempt to connect with the audience.
 
 
I definitely don't enjoy doing that so their sitting down was a big buzzkill for me. It all sounded really good (wasn't too loud where I saw them... which I was thankful for) but I didn't really leave thinking I would tell anyone "oh you have to see them live!". I'd recommend you go see Mono, but I'd warn you that you won't feel more connected to the band afterwards... you'll just have had the experience of listening to their songs on a scale you can't at home.
 
I chose Ashes in the Snow in the poll because I'm a sucker for that glockenspiel and it was very powerful in person. I thought the set-list was pretty well chosen; I mean I selfishly really wanted them to play Halcyon (Beautiful Days) but I can't be too upset they left an over 10 year old track off the list.
 
I've seen post-rock shows where the band literally didn't say a word, so I was happy one of the members did pick up a mic at the very end of the show and thank everyone for coming in (frankly adorable) inexact English.
 
My friend I dragged along on the Uber ride back to where we were staying: "You could tell me they played 3 songs or 25 and I'd believe either one."
 

I was out of town five years ago the last time MONO made it to Wisconsin and I have been kicking myself ever since. I thought that the likelihood of them making it back to my tiny midwest state was slim to none. Well, let’s just say that my excitement was palpable when I found out that this band would be making the trip to a venue only about 15 minutes from my home.
 
I am not sure about everyone else, but I always find it more fun to have someone else to chat with in the downtime between bands (and also to laugh at my hilarious headbanging). Since tickets were very cheap and the venue was so close, it was easy to convince my girlfriend as well as a couple of other friends to join me. The three of them aren’t exactly as in to post rock as I am (to put it lightly), but all of them enjoy MONO to some extent. Besides, I knew they were in for a treat.
 
The show was at one of the most well known venues in Milwaukee,: The Rave. I have been there several times before and I have never really enjoyed the location, but I had only really seen shows on the main stage. MONO was set to play on their smallest stage, which was downright tiny. The disappointingly low attendance - maybe 100 tops - made it understandable, but it’s kind of funny to see a band you have loved for a long time relegated to such a small stage. Also, it was very low, almost abnormally low...the kind of stage height that would would work great for a sitting show, but not a bar venue.
 
We walked in maybe a couple minutes after the opener, Holly Hunt, had started playing. According to their Bandcamp, this guitar and drum duo “...capture the meditative power of repetition [and] the ecstatic joy of tempered variation.” I’m not sure about that. but what I can say is that I have never experienced something so boring yet so loud. To put it bluntly, this opener was bad. Sludge/drone/doom isn’t something I spin every day, but I do enjoy it on occasion...but not this time. I know the point is to be repetitive in this style of music, but your repetition still needs to be interesting. I heard some of the most bland riffs that long overstayed their welcome. 
 
A single song seemed to span about 10 minutes with no breaks in between. And it was Loud. Offensively loud. I thanked god I had earplugs, as the droning guitar still felt loud even with them on. Now let’s talk about the charisma of the band... Nothing says excitement like playing more than half of your show with your back towards the crowd looking at your amp...   Perhaps all of this wouldn’t have been so bad if there was a quieter place I could retreat to and talk to my friends, but the only choice was to endure. About 40 minutes later, the noise finally broke, a few people clapped and cheered, and I was finally able to remind myself as to why I came here.
 
MONO took the stage with decidedly little fanfare. No talking, no hyping - nothing. It is about the music. They launched right in to “Recoil, Ignite” off of Rays of Darkness, which is perhaps my favorite song of theirs and a hell of a way to start. While little was going to getting in my way of enjoy this epic song, suddenly a huge problem became apparent - the low stage. If you have seen MONO before, you know that a good deal of the time the guitarists are playing sitting down. Well, once you mix this with a low stage it makes for a very difficult viewing experience unless you are one of the few pressed up against the stage. Due to this “difficulty,” I eventually gave up trying to peer through gaps in shoulders and heads and spent my time with my eyes closed just soaking it all in. Considering I always enjoy closing my eyes at shows and letting the sound wash over me, perhaps this wasn’t a terrible thing (even though I was pretty damn irritated at the time).
 
Mono followed  with “Unseen Harbor.” I found the first half of the song to be a little lacking without the orchestra that accompanies the band on the recorded track, but that ending climax was just as lovely as ever. It is mind blowing how calm a beginning on a track can be, almost a little boring for me to be listening to a music venue, only to be devastated with the pure intensity of the later part of a song. It’s hard to put in to words, but I think that juxtaposition just brings a certain power to the music that really makes it emotional.
 
“Kanata” brought some relief with a somber piano after the ending climax that came before. Then in to “Where We Begin,” which I must admit, I don’t find to be an overly interesting track. The band rounded out the night with two tracks from “Hymn to the Immortal Wind,” “Ashes in the Snow” and “Everlasting Light.” I kind of wish they have switched the two song as I feel like the ending to “Ashes” would leave much bigger final impact to the show and allow me to leave with my skin crawling with goosebumps.
 
While I had hoped they would played more from “Rays of Darkness,” the concert was spectacular. Mono’s playing was nearly flawless and the band has such a great chemistry, which is amazing to behold as their interactions are so subtle and without word. Only a few things kept this concert from perfection...with a slight shifting of the track order and different venue, I think the goosebumps would have never left my skin. If you ever have a chance to see MONO live, do it. While I love their studio releases, it’s hard to emulate the pure force exuding from their live performance.

KEEL - パレード

I appreciated Yoshiatsu when he was in Since1889....

THE NOVEMBERS - ewe

DEZERT - さぁミルクを飲みましょう。

DictavE - BOTTOMLESS INFERNO
DictavE - cruel/Lorelei
DictavE - 独裁
 
and holy shit i got sooo lucky when i bought them cuz they only got ONE COPY of each CD with them so if i wouldn't have been the first person to buy something i don't even wanna think of it...
and good lord they are AMAZING live and they are deff the heaviest band i've seen so far! 8D
 

The cat is Toro Inoue from Doko Demo Issho, and are you talking about the one next to it??
That's Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.

Nevermind, I found a new replacement! Nakamura Asumiko, one of my favorite manga artists.
Also, I'm glad that I'm posting here because then I actually clean up my desktop a bit, haha.

Siren 2 Official Art Book.  It has more images of sceneries and backgrounds than I thought it would, which of course is still nice~
 

Dengeki Playstation magazine including the top 200 characters in memory of Playstation's 20th year anniversary!! : DD

Siren 2 Official Art Book.  It has more images of sceneries and backgrounds than I thought it would, which of course is still nice~
 

Dengeki Playstation magazine including the top 200 characters in memory of Playstation's 20th year anniversary!! : DD