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My non-cursive hand writing looks a bit like YuyoDrift's
 

My non-cursive hand writing looks a bit like YuyoDrift's
 

I think the song is boring

A countdown has begun on Pay money to my pain's website and they will surely reveal something in 6 days ! 
 
Here is their website : 
http://www.paymoneytomypain.com/top.php

I tried WinMX again after some years and it was crap. Searches all returned garbage files no matter what I searched for. Then the solution that I found on the WinMX forum was a waste of time because OpenNap was unpopular and no one shared Japanese files using that connection.
Utatane is pretty dead as well.
I think no rare Jap stuff anymore on p2p.

They don't use the umlaut on their name on the website either. Maybe at one point but not anymore.
 
And Kagrra, added the comma to signify when they went major from what I understand. But it's a part of their name officially so a lot of people feel like that's the correct way of writing it.

But that was also how fans wrote his name in fan letters

Do these bands like lynch or the GazettE use some sort of song title generator that gives random english one-word titles in all caps?

They're just another typical idol group now

Here's the thing about vk news though: there's no 'original source'.
 
For major and relatively well known bands you can rely on visunavi, NAVER, various 'matome' and news purveyor accounts on Twitter. But otherwise it's down to stalking thousands of bandmen - something which I have literally attempted on my main Twitter account. The result was me getting spammed with 30 tweets every 10 seconds, and THEN I had to sift through the crapload of awkward selfies and useless tweets talking about weather and food. I don't recall, but maybe 0.01% of the feed was useful news? In any case I abandoned that account shortly after because it was unusable.
 
There are also other avenues like LINE accounts, bandmen's ameblo, and 2chan as mentioned. Or you can try typing 始動 and 解散 into twitter search and refresh it every 10 seconds.... if you have that much time. In any case, what a lot of people don't seem to notice (and this is the point @filth_y was making) is that Trombe also posts news that don't "officially" exist on the Internet except maybe, in a bandman's private reply to a fangirl's tweet (I've witnessed this at least twice), or as a casual afterthought in a label staff's ameblo post. (In the latter case, I talked to a band's shikiri and even she wasn't aware that the band would be releasing a CD that day..). Yes, some MH members may have done this before - but to do it consistently for an insane number of bands is a whole different animal.
 
All of this aren't even considering the facts that: (i) these news are in Japanese, so let's not trivialize it as as copy-and-pasting. Translating and formatting it into a news post is a bitch if you consider the volume of news Trombe puts out; (ii) Trombe posts news of bands he doesn't even care about on a regular basis, some of whom comprising members that no one here has even heard of, much less having an interest to follow and post news of.
 
I'm on no one's side at this point. None of this is a defense for what Trombe did, nor is it a suggestion that he should be immune from punishment if he has contravened the rules. I just wanted to provide a corrective to previous comments suggesting that by picking 1 or 2 bands each we will communally be able to cover the ground that Trombe did, as if it was as easy as sitting together and doing some Ctrl C+V while having cereal in front of your computer. Let's just say I'm not that optimistic, because I can't imagine someone, or even a group of competent and extremely free people, going to the lengths Trombe did. Hopefully more people can appreciate the scope of the dirty legwork he has done for MH ("appreciate" as in "understand clearly", not "prostrate yourself"). And before any accusations come my way: I have contributed news of bands I like (including translating full-length interviews of them), and will happily continue to do so. Let's just see what happens.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

^
 
No, but really, Trombe did a lot of work none of us wanted to do on our owns. His posts became a convenience for most of us. However, I'm sure the mods of the forum know this and it probably wasn't an easy choice to suspend him for whatever reason it was for. While Trombe contributed a lot to this community... He is not THE community. I'm sure the mods have justified reasons for their choice as a whole with the communities best interest in mind. 
 
So please, I understand being upset for losing that contribution, but don't forget the other things MH has to offer and how hard the mods work to keep everyone happy to the best of their abilities 

i'm sad to see that it has come to this.
 
not gonna take sides since I hardly know the details of the drama, but no matter how you look at it this is a blow for people who actually care about the 'no 1 curr' bands, or random ad-hoc sessions, or what live-limited cd is being distributed in sendai next weekend. whether the news is of quality is for the audience to judge; however without an appreciable volume of news filtering in there's nothing left to know about, much less to judge. and regardless if you like trombe, or however questionable his motives may be, it can't be denied that he's been a great service to not just you and me but the international vk community since it should be patently obvious that every self-professed 'vk news source' out there is basically a c+p of what's posted in MH.

Same here... both tears and period

Okay, I plan to buy this regular edition if it's possible.

regular edition is planned to be released through stores (only including live scene)