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While I don't think she is nearly as bad as some other stuff in this thread... I WILL ACCEPT ANY EXCUSE to post D[di:] music. I love her. This song is 13 years old ;_; But she looks so pretty in the video. <3 And here's another lady who deserves a mention.. 香奈 (Kana) Except, I can't stand her. Maybe she could sing if somebody wrote a proper melody for her. Maybe.

I know I really like "kiss o'kill", though I can't remember what it sounds like right now. Kind of feel like blasting some Ayumi classics now, lol. I did like what MEJIBRAY was going for with "Hiai", but I felt like it should've been twice as long. Currently at work, can't type Japanese. Shuffling my iPhone, which currently has a bunch of songs I liked that I haven't heard in a while. 1. And - Suicidal dance 2. Dolly - Ryuuseigun -Shooting Star- 3. AYABIE - Paradise Paradox 4. Sid - Rain 5. amber gris - ugly crawler 6. Wakeshima Kanon - Shoujo jikake no Libretto ~Storytelling by solita~ 7. DIAURA - Whiteness 8. LM.C - Loud_Mucker_Complex 9. And - Tokage 10. D'espairsRay - MAZE As much as like some of those other songs, I'm going with MAZE. That TSUKASA drumming combined with .. something that sounds like a hand drum? I dunno. Drums are not typically my favourite instrument but I really loved how they were used in this song.

episode 3 thoughts

For me, the vocalist is the most important. I can forgive an instrument player who is not quite perfect (if I even notice at all), but if the vocalist has a voice I don't like, or if they are off key in a bad way, or if their delivery is boring, etc, I just can't listen to the band at all. And if there's no vocalist, I'm not interested in the first place. I voted "unlisted" for least important, but my real answer is "it depends". Some bands could drop their bassist and you wouldn't even notice, while others heavily feature their bassist. Bands that have violinists should feature violin in most of their songs, otherwise why do they even have a violinist in their lineup? (By the way, if we wanna be grammar nazis, the question should probably be "most/least important MEMBER in a band", since the options are people's job titles..)

I get super pissed every time I look at my profile and I see that ＳＣＡＰＥＧＯＡＴ scrobbles have been auto-corrected to ＳｃＡｐｅｇｏａｔ, which is THE WORST. But if you click on ＳｃＡｐｅｇｏａｔ, you get auto-redirected to Ｓｃａｐｅｇｏａｔ. wtf

I got my Platinum trophy for Severed. Started out totally in love with that game, but towards the end, the battles got a little more frustrating than I like. Almost quit. BUT I persevered and 'got good' and triumphed over the ugly eyeball monsters. My right finger, wrist, and forearm all hurt though. Too much fast rubbing of the Vita screen. I'm now relaxing with Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star... or I would be, if it didn't take the Vita 10 hours to download it.. Fun fact: Severed game size = ~250 MB Hatoful Boyfriend game size = 1.5 GB + 1.5 GB patch??? it's a visual novel with zero animation or voice acting.. obvious dumb PSN problem here

Will refer back to an earlier post I made I would add that I was playing P4 Golden in English, which only had English voice acting, and I hated the voice acting. (To be fair, I hate almost every English-over-Japanese dub I've ever heard) I think I was mildly amused by some scenes, but that wasn't enough to get me to finish the game.

Since you mentioned FFXV, I now remember how boring that game's UI looks.. especially in comparison to P5's UI. One makes me want to stab my eyes out, the other makes me want to sleep. Ahh, those soothing white/grey/blue tones..... zzzzzz The art style in P5 (i.e. character design) looks pretty good, it's a shame I don't like the series. I do wish FF games would stop trying to look hyper realistic and go for something more stylized like P5. ... having said that, I also wish people wouldn't compare the two series.. yeah they are both JRPGs but the "gameplay loop" is totally different. Too bad they are coming out so close to each other.

I skimmed through that P5 gameplay video.. my first time seeing any P5 gameplay. Holy hell, that UI looks like a mess. Like the text for an action looking like "CHanCE!" with both black & white letters.. eh... looks way too busy, but I applaud them for making it look unique.. Also, it's interesting to see some Catherine-like platforming, haha.

brb burning my iphone Seriously, though, this kind of shit is inexcusable. Years ago I experienced something similar, but much less damaging, when I allowed Microsoft Windows Media Player to scan my mp3s. For some reason, it took all the album art named "folder.jpg" (which, at the time, was basically every piece of album art I had) and converted them into tiny hidden thumbnail pictures. I also lost my entire music collection one time, due to some weird error (or maybe virus?) that caused Windows Disk Cleanup to delete every single file in my hard drive. ... so now I have an external backup drive. Anyway, if you still have to use iTunes, you should go check the options again and make sure everything related to Apple Music, iTunes Match, or iCloud is disabled. Also, it's worth doing this check everytime iTunes gets updated. You never know what kind of shit Apple is up to.

天井と管 天井にむかってつぶやく 「僕の命をつなぐこの管 ぬきとってみたい」 でも　きっと届かないんだ 叶わないこと　報われないこと 君との境界線 身体をなくしても君を抱きしめたい 「俺はお前のかわりに生きていたい そして　あの娘のキスで呼吸がしたい」 うんざりさ　甘い毒のような水 いったい誰が笑えるというの 許せないこと　壊したいこと　多すぎて 理性をなくしても　ただ生きていたい 君のそばで 君とレンガの家をたててみたい そして狼から身を守りたい うんざりさ　黒い熱のような空 いったい誰が笑えるというの I highlighted the stuff I'm not sure about.. His singing is about as clear as his writing. T_T Very sad song...

That's me, sort of. I haven't liked listening to Western/English stuff for the past 12 years. I'm not going to go crazy and say "all Western music sucks, JROCK 4EVER!!!!!", it's just not what I prefer to listen to. I imagine it is the same for all my friends - they just prefer to listen to Western stuff. They can acknowledge that an Asian musician is talented, but they aren't going to go out of their way to download/buy/listen to the music. I am guessing that trends have a lot to do with it as well. When all of their friends (except me) listen to Adele, Beyonce, Drake, or whatever the hell is popular these days, it's just easier to go along and like the same things. This also explains why they can be into BABYMETAL, PSY, whatever Kpop, etc despite the language barrier. Aside from Korean speakers, nobody knew what the lyrics to Gangnam Style meant, but it was still a huge worldwide hit. This is the reason I started up my lyrics site - to help people who can't read/understand Japanese sing along to Japanese songs. Actually one of the biggest reasons I started getting into Japanese music, before I knew any Japanese, was that I found the language attractive-sounding and fun to pronounce/sing along to. edit: As for racial bias, I haven't really noticed it, but that could be due to nearly all of my friends/family being Chinese..

Hmm, since I got all up in VK in 2010 I've been ignoring non-VK stuff I didn't know before, so there won't be anything "new" in here. Also, since the thread says "bands" I guess I will exclude solo artists. BUGY CRAXONE Tsubakiya Shijuusou (椿屋四重奏) HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT Tokyo Jihen (東京事変) Yousei Teikoku (妖精帝國) ATTACK HAUS REDЯUM fra-foa GO!GO!7188 Janne Da Arc ... not sure if they count as VK or not, but I'm struggling to get this list to 10.. lol, 7 out of 10 have female vocalists maybe 8, cuz ATTACK HAUS had a backup female vocalist.

wow, yeah upon closer inspection it looks really rough. you did a good job with that song, can't see any mistakes .. I'm at work so I can't listen to it right now, but here's my guesses for your question marks 1st 二人で植えたあの花が 2nd looks right 3rd / 4th 明日目が覚めても (you wrote 日 instead of 目 in front of the 3rd mark) i will attempt track 4 later!

Looks doable, but yeah, I would follow along with the song to make it easier. I will let @plastic_rainbow try it first =)

Very true, I support this suggestion. I'm going to continue spoiler-tagging stuff from the latest episode.. I almost got spoiled by this thread yesterday (I don't watch it until Monday nights), because the "activity stream" shows the latest post... (episode 2 discussion)

I would like to take the opportunity to thank SCREW for bestowing upon us the musical masterpiece known as FUGLY. We were not worthy. (not joking, that is my favourite SCREW song)

Very unexpected.. I had just listened to their 2 newest mini-albums last month, after letting them sit untouched on my hard drive. I thought they were pretty good, definitely an improvement from before.

I've been playing the new Vita game Severed. On the surface it looks like a game that I would hate.. first-person dungeon crawler? bleehh. But the game is quite fun and addictive. Combat consists of strategically swiping the touch screen to damage monsters and parry their attacks. The coolest part is "severing" - when you kill the monster, you get a chance to cut off their limbs (or other body parts), which you then use to upgrade your skills. Great art style as well (it is made by the team behind Guacamelee - support Canadian devs!!). So far, highly recommended for any Vita owners, if there are any around here..

Nioh demo now available on PS4 I was curious about this game, but the general impression seems to be "Like a Souls game but harder" .. no thx But maybe the Souls fans around here would like to try it.

???.... Wagakki Band releases are posted in General tho....??? But you do bring up some interesting points as to why they are not VK. I get the argument against Yousei Teikoku. They are not part of the "VK scene", so to speak, so they shouldn't be categorized as VK. (I'll still consider them VK in my heart, tho)

Hmm. To give an example on the flip side, Aldious gets posted in "Visual Kei" downloads, but I don't see what makes them more "VK" than Yousei Teikoku.. I personally wouldn't call Aldious VK.

This is probably a very stupid question but I'm a noob. What makes a band/artist qualify as "visual kei"? Today I've been staring at Yousei Teikoku (妖精帝國) a lot, and they look pretty VK to me, at least in their current 5-member formation (they were a duo for a long time). However, their music gets posted in the "General" download forum. Pros: - rock/metal/gothic genre - sometimes gothic-ish costumes - sometimes dictator theme (flag-waving, military-style costumes, "Doctrine" and "Propaganda" in album titles) - makeup & hairstyling Cons: - signed to "anime/game music" label Lantis - female vocalist with male band members (??? there aren't many VK bands with mixed genders) - probably not affiliated with any other VK bands (I'm guessing. I don't follow twitters and gossip and tours and what not) - .... i dunno what else Sample photos Sample PV Just curious what other people think.