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now that i can think for two seconds: he was arrested on an "antisocial act" charge and will be restraining from activities as an artist while the label works with the police. fucking WHY AKINORI

Akinori was arrested on 11/22nd for an undisclosed reason. (12/20: marijuana possession. He has now left lynch..)

this is one of those things that will instantly turn me off a band forever because all it does is gouge the fans you currently have/fuck with their emotions rather than actually gain you fans, so yeah see you never

^ it's actually ridiculously overpriced, but apparently it costs them 5000 yen per unit to make?? is it printed on gold leaf or what. and sure enough it was limited to 1 per person in the end... but i'm still attempting to get one. anyway, tour's over so here's the video roundup. 11.08 Sapporo - THE FATAL HOUR HAS COME 11.08 Sapporo - MIRRORS 11.09 Sapporo - GREED 11.12 Sendai - MAD 11.12 Sendai - ALL THIS I'LL GIVE YOU 11.15 Shibuya - VANISH 11.15 Shibuya - BEAST 11.17 Nagoya - Happy 30th Birthday AK they announced Kings & Queens III, this time with showings in Osaka and Nagoya. K&Q is a series of events where they play their softer songs as a dinner show of sorts. basically, suit daddies

here's some unmentioned osare bands i remember from the depths of my teens. idk if anyone else here was a member of the oshare_kei community on LJ but it was a race to the bottom to find the most underground osare bands at all times. it was hell. Eimy Parfait P*Route duraluMin Jack11 Pawn Bagi-bogi Maruru Lilac Berry

5 years ago lynch. put out MIRRORS which is one of their flagship songs now... idk that's all i got 10 years ago Yumehito joined Ayabie and probably worked to tear the band apart ever since SMH Ruvie halted activities

why do all these girls on these message boards keep posting about noodles

uh, hey K_M, i was just kidding. bandmen are angels and tanuki doesn't real.

^ they picked way small venues for Osaka/Tokyo/Nagoya, I don't know what they were thinking considering they scaled up the size for almost everywhere else. i'm sorry you missed it! Hazuki announced that he's selling an 80 page photobook with a 2 song CD for his solo shows in December. http://www.artoy.co.jp/hazuki-souen.html tracklist is 1. keibetsu (an original song for the show) 2. THIS COMA (souen ver.) presumably both piano/vocal only since that's the show theme. there's no net sales which is bullshit, ya girl is hoping it's not suddenly going to be one per person because a friend offered to pick one up for me.

^ translation she's calling Noah out for lying to her about Avandick being invited to playwith bigger bands lol

If his first name is fair game alright, but since she dropped his last name in another tweet I was erring on the side of caution :x Noah's being really tacky and just treating this as petty internet gossip. Threatening a lawyer (presumably to take advantage of Japan's crazy libel laws where you can sue someone even if what they say is true) is also pretty shitty if you're gonna pay for it with Betty's cheki money.

@emmny u got it. this girl needs to buy some fucking punctuation tho Addendum, there has been drama about Avanchick selling high numbers/giving tickets away and banning people (including Ayataso, the girl above) from shows on tanuki because of inter-fan drama nonstop so a bunch of former Avanchick gya are going buckwild on this girl's twitter if you look at her retweets. Since the line gets a little blurry between news/gya talk here I'll keep it short but they're quite eager to see their American performance canceled, Ayataso practically doxxed Noa (I left out his real first name bc I think it's a little dicey to include but his whole name is out there because of this), his Yuuga impersonation was apparently done from another account and he did it to multiple people. @Uglymouthno problem, this is a doozy so i'll probably only touch any super juicy bits anyway lol

i'm double posting like a dick, thanks for the great translation @Uglymouth, but this part is slightly mistaken and it's an interesting look "behind the curtain" for VK i hope you don't mind if i offer an alternative and elaborate: "I was told to fucking do some eigyou to get some more fans, so we sent DMs and even did romantic eigyou. Well, I did it all while telling myself maybe that kind of eigyou is needed these days..." eigyou literally means "work/business" but in the host world (and in the vk world bc same thing) it means the way you build relationships with your customers to keep them coming back and spending regardless of your actual feelings toward them. there's friend eigyou, girlfriend eigyou/romantic eigyou. those in-store pictures where bandmen are posed lovingly embracing their fans and nearly kissing them are known as "excessive eigyou".

this drama is popping the fuck awf Kiryu retweeted an ex-Avanchick jouren blasting Noa for selling fans high ticket numbers at inflated prices, posing as Yuuga and DMing people... then she dropped his real first name.

the current threat level for terrorism in MH is: KAWAII

^ hope u got 7000 bux

i just saw this thread in the recent activity box so let me drop a few of my favorite links http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/ weblio's example translation corpus is highly underrated and i use it all the time for professional translation work because it has examples from daily conversation, business emails, novels, history books, contracts and law, etc etc. you can input English or Japanese, so if you need to know how something is expressed in Japanese or don't understand the meaning of a Japanese construction, try pasting it here and see how it's been translated by others. i started using this when i did shitty 12012 blog translations and i never looked back http://jn2et.com/JLPT.html if you're studying at an intermediate+ level you might find that Japanese explanations of grammar constructions are much more useful for understanding the minutiae between similar constructions, i used this one a fair bit in conjunction with jgram.org & japanesetest4you.com. http://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/ http://nihongo-e-na.com/eng/ a good ass portal site for Japanese learner resources to close and as a semi-introduction, hi, i do freelance jp>en translation and i just completed a "high level" japanese course at Nagoya University. i'm definitely not a master and still have plenty to learn myself but if there's questions feel free to post them there and i'll see if any texts i have can provide a satisfying answer -- i'm sure other learners will happily pool their resources too. i'm pretty good at バンギャ用語 too if you're trying to read naughty messages about bandmen in forbidden message boards, so if you have questions about that i'm happy to help here or via PM lol 9月に名古屋大学でいわゆる上級日本語コースを修了したのですが、 ご質問などありましたらそのコースの資料などを使って答えるように頑張ります♪

yo did Nihit always not follow Kai and 39 on twitter or is that new 👀🔎

lynch. announced they'll be performing at COUNTDOWN JAPAN, a pretty major multi-genre event. i'm gonna be honest i'm worried, the only other visual act is Golden Bomber.......... otherwise we're just midway through the tour for THE NITES OF AVANTGARDE, i'll just aggregate the good stuff in one place for anyone who wants to know instagram live videos 10.20 Osaka - THE OUTRAGE SEXUALITY 10.20 Osaka - KILLING CUNT 10.22 Kagoshima - EVIDENCE 10.22 Kagoshima - NEEDLEZ 10.23 Fukuoka - DAMNED 10.26 Kyoto - F.A.K.E. 10.29 Takamatsu - KILLING CUNT 10.29 Takamatsu - NEEDLEZ 10.30 Hiroshima - DAMNED (Halloween outfits) 11.03 Hamamatsu - Happy 42nd Birthday Reo 11.04 Yokohama - EVIDENCE 11.04 Yokohama -PLEDGE Halloween Costumes (Hazuki as TDK Joker, Reo as Brandon Lee from The Crow, Yusuke as a spooky scary skeleton, Akinori as Rob Zombie!, Asanao as a Killer Clown, staff as whore grab bag)

the issue is moreso that overseas/digital success doesn't really equate to financial gain or success with the "core" fan, the fans who attend shows. it makes sense after all: if you're attending lives, you buy the tickets (maybe more than one), depending on things you might be negotiating and working with the fans from other bands for spots/ticket purchases/etc, you buy the merch and plaster it everywhere, you develop the band's "culture" like the furi (whether making it or participating in it), you buy the CDs etc. etc. etc. etc. and you use SNS to talk about all of these things. because of this the live-attending fans can be dismissive of net gya/ongen gya (girls who buy CDs but don't come to shows) as ~not real fans~ which is obviously dumb as hell but the fans that go to lives tend to be the $$$ and can very much get all Regina George about it. having a lot of net/ongen/foreign fans isn't bad at all but if you can't match them with bodies at shows, it won't necessarily endear you to event organizers etc. in the same way... and people will shitpost about you.

killaneth was mocked frequently for having low audience turnout and a lot of net/foreign fans (i.e. not people who go to shows) so i think emmny is on track about one of the issues. and yeah someone in the band must really be sick of this shit if they're willing to cancel shows that far lol RIP killaneth i was mildly interested in u

i shared their posts with my friends, family and neighbors so you johnny comelatelys have nothing to worry about act 1. denial act 2. startling admissions

we need another death thread RIP KAWAII_MINPHA