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Summary of NHK article : 20 year old woman Uran Hirayama found dead in apartment in Chiba on the evening of the 9th after police received a report from a friend that Uran had sent her message hinting at suicide. Marks were found that suggest pressure was applied to her neck, but cause of death is being investigated. 30 year old male Keisuke Kawasaki arrested on suspicion of assault. Source: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20171210/k10011253701000.html Tweets posted from the twitter account formerly used by Uran to expose various LINE conversations and intimate details of her relationship with Setsuna, updated by the friend who tipped off the police after the incident confirming that the suspect in the article is Setsuna and the victim is the same Uran: The tweets written here suggest that the plan was initially a double suicide, as Uran had detailed it to the person updating the account and gave her the login info. Please note that the gomikuzu_x twitter is NSFW.

this tweet is from their roadie Yuma - they made it at 6 am on the 8th, which means they made it in about 6.5 days...

I had the same experience! I saw them 3 times because they did a tour with lynch. and SuG. I had no desire to see SuG but they were, to my surprise, much more fun to watch than vistlip, who I was originally mildly excited for... Tomo's lack of presence dragged vistlip down a lot for me. Yuh, Umi, and Tohya were fun to watch, but Tomo didn't give off any energy at all. It was too bad...

fun fact, 卍 is now being used as slang among young people that has nothing to do with the buddhist or nazi meaning it just expresses some form of excitement like "yay" generally, among other stuff: https://johotreasure.com/archives/3363.html so you're going to be seeing it a lot more

i'm in AB, originally from SK though... i've accidentally met 1 vk fan in both provinces. that's it. there's got to be more in Edmonton since occasionally bands got to the local con but i haven't been personally. i know hella toronto/montreal fans online, though!

Well, he passed Hamamatsu 19h ago, which is roughly the halfway point, and made it to Shizuoka. Looks like he might make it. I have to say I'm disappointed his actual bicycling isn't being better documented...

what about their stuff as highfashionparalyze? (it's the same fucking band idc what vkdb tells you ok) this project got much better when they balanced improv/compositions further towards compositions imo the nagoya kei true fan initiation is going to see gibkiy live and having kazuma blast all the microscopic hairs out of your ear canal by blowing a whistle at full force into the mic

This single is now their best selling single. It's also charted longer than any of their previous singles. Although the opinions here are lukewarm on the single content itself, let's put that aside for now... They haven't been able to top MIRRORS in sales for 6 years, and they've done it with a release whose premium edition was essentially a full-length live blu-ray with a bonus single attached -- this is pretty impressive because DVD/BD sales are usually harder to push. With their top single being their most recent and their top 4 selling albums all being from their return to their more visual kei roots in 2014 onward (AVANTGARDE, GALLOWS, D.A.R.K., SINNER-EP) they've really made a comeback after their slight downturn in 2012/2013.

they're like an ok tanuki-kei band i guess, idk if i actually like their music or i just like the gimmick so far hope this bitch gets a chair for their oneman bc he's gonna need it

thank you very much to @emmnyfor alerting me to this clownery In a bizarre PR move, tensai. member Karuto will bike (as in, on a bicycle, not a motorbike) from Osaka to Tokyo to promote their free one-man at Ikebukuro Black Hole on 12/11. His journey will begin at noon on December 1st from Like an Edison Osaka. There are various rules and stipulations, the first involving how much money he'll be taking with him. His credit cards will be confiscated, and he will be given 10 yen x the amount of retweets that the embedded tweet receives. At the time of posting, that's about ~16,000 yen. [Rules] ①He must arrive at the goal within 7 days of departure. ②He will be given missions to earn money during his trip. ③He will distribute tickets for their show to fans he meets along the way. ④Money will be taken from him if he neglects to tweet before he goes to bed. ⑤He must visit designated stops. ⑥Their "super roadie" Yuuma will be sent with him as part of his roadie hazing on guard duty.

Pretty much no. The only time anything other than individual foreign fans came up that I can remember include: -Jrockanonmeme on LJ making Aoi flip out on twitter -Dir en grey overseas tour rumors and happenings; like the incident where coffeebunnies posted pictures of herself with the band at a strip club on LJ -Tanuki/gossip translation tumblrs being mentioned here and there, particularly in regards to Satsuki drama (which directly involved foreign fans) It seems like unless our venues of discussion kick up a huge storm and involve both Japanese and foreign fans, no one cares.

I'd say a healthy dose of both, lel Honestly, something like this would be the absolute dream. Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to read this, I'm so glad it went over well! Eventually I'd like to write about the old roadie/mentor system in VK (but it's been a pain in the ass to research), or do an archive of the older legends/rumors of VK (easy to research but probably going to take 100,000 words to write it all out), it was very encouraging to see that people were actually interested in this piece since it was my first crack at this kind of thing.

I've been wanting to write some of this stuff out forever because I'm a huge digital packrat and I like to archive these types of things... I don't think any of this has been written out anywhere before, but I'm not sure how much people actually care about the fan culture part of VK here, especially the Japanese fan culture, and especially the online Japanese fan culture. But, just in case any of you are also level 50 Turbo Nerds I thought I should post it here. I hope this is a sensible place to put it?? this piece is WAY too long for how lame the subject is and i'm so sorry tl;dr: tanuki is old as fuck and there used to be another tanuki and forums are dead, long live tanuki edit: fixed a number i screwed up

This is the recommended procedure for gifts so it's the best choice unless the band is so small your dude is gonna be working his own merch table. Not sure about flowers, though. Usually the big stands get delivered to the livehouse and the livehouse presumably displays and then disposes of them.

as flip as nekkichi's answer was it's also not wrong lmao (except #AKisinnocent). the EP had a number of interesting guest bassists (J, YUKKE, TSUYOSHI from PTP, Hitoki, and OUTRAGE's bassist) but they didn't do anything with them, and the title track was extremely zzz. polished but dull? i'm with Ro in saying BLACK OUT DESTROY is the only standout on the EP if you're considering checking it out but... you could also just skip it.

the whirl's re-record is crazy good. underneath the skin is probably my favorite lynch. release overall and while i mostly loved the melt rerec, i didn't really care for the alien rerec, so i wasn't sure what to expect. but i think they did a great job. usually i prefer lynch.'s B sides over their A sides, especially since their A sides in particular are written in a specific kind of way for a specific kind of crowd motion/interaction (clapping/fist pumping > headbanging > chorus with sing-along part). but i prefer CREATURE over BLOOD, which hasn't really stuck with me at all. SINNERS-EP was a mild flop for me and this follow up is not my favorite single ever either. (still better than BALLAD tho) also i didn't realize MH was so down on AVANTGARDE btw, it's second to D.A.R.K. for me but easily outdoes most of their previous albums lmao

Translated Issei's comment bc it's rife for drama

i've been curious about this band because of the tomo lookalike and other totally superficial reasons but this does not sound good. a little better production value would go a long way here... did they do their recording and mixing inside of a tin can? the flaccid "emotion~~" in the bg is so sad...

Update: Drummer An to be hospitalized for a minimum of two weeks due to compression fracture. The band apologizes for the unfortunate situation; An reports that his pain has settled down but that he will cooperate with orders for recovery. Upcoming dates still TBD.

Accident occurred when the band's vehicle collided with another on a highway when the band was headed to Tokyo after a show in Osaka. No life-threatening injuries but members and staff were injured from the crash and are cancelling the events listed above. Events after 11/4 TBD.

i actually hate this name, i hate Gock-Ack or whatever too for the same reason other shit that sucks: -??? (hatena) -single letter bands. S M and D can smd good: -lapslock band names -NEW SODMY

trailer for the bluray... i can't believe the sex shimasu yo pulse_ MC is part of the trailer lmfao

^ i highly recommend the whole original underneath the skin mini even though there's been a few rerecords from it. might be my favorite lynch. release, and they have a different quality with hazuki's old voice.

bless u it's only a sample but i can tell this is the rerecord i needed even if i didn't know it until now. fuuuuck