Ito

Oh hi there!

This hasn't been posted in in a whiiiiiile

this was a thing:

Some really quick thoughts on tracks that I liked:

Glad to know I'm not the only one that felt this way. This release just felt wholly underwhelming. I honestly thought that Death in Reverse as a standalone functioned single worked better than this entire album. Requiem for Hell (the song) just felt so entirely long winded and I'm not sure the riff they build off of in the climax is even all that great. That said, I would love if they piled on more distortion so that the song felt more heavy than it actually does. I just felt like they were trying to capture this whole swirling in to chaos vibe and the overall sound just wasn't dense or chaotic enough.  ( would have loved for them to pull some of the energy from the closing track off of Rays of Darkness.

Ely's Heartbeat and The Last Scene are both overall very pretty songs, and I honestly enjoy them, but they are rather forgettable.

I 100% agree with your statement that Mono's formula has grown stale. I don't think anyone can dispute that they can still create very pretty music, but we want it to be interesting as well. I can see myself spinning this track as background music from time to time, but that is probably it.

I've only check out one of pg.lost's albums, but I dug it. I'll have to try their new one.

8 hours ago, Bear said:

Been a fan of pg.lost for years now, and I'll be seeing them live with Alcest and Mono at the end of next month. Gonna be an evening to remember for sure.

Now that sounds like a hell of a show! Alcest's Kodama is in the running to be one of my top albums of the year.

7 hours ago, Gaz said:

also new season looks like shit. the only thing i'm kinda excited about is Drifters. Kouta Hirano ma mang <3

and maybe that Occult;Shit might turn out to be worth checking.

 

well at least i still have to check Mob Psycho 100 and 91 Days ^__^

Pretty much my exact feelings lol. I just worry about Drifters since we all know what happened last time Kouta's manga was translated to anime form before he was finished.
The Great Passage is possibly the only other show that has my interest...that said, it it might be a balancing act with the maturity that I am hoping it has and also it not being boring lol. 

That delay between venue release and store release is brutal. Here's to hoping we hear it before the store release.

1 hour ago, Atreides said:

I saw a visual kei panel at ACen 2013 that Ito (I believe it was Ito) was hosting.  Didn't get around to actually checking the site out until 2014 because laziness reasons.

Yup, that was me!
I'm glad that it you ended up making it to the site though, even if it was a year afterwards lol.

1 hour ago, YuyoDrift said:

 

Ito's panel at ACen is litterally the only reason why I go anymore.

 

In 2013 he was babbling on about how great it was, and I joined to see what all the fuss was about.

He was right lol

I'm glad I can still give you a reason to go LOL. Seriously though, I still hope you have fun outside of just my panel. I will be submitting my panel request for 2017 this weekend.

1 hour ago, Atreides said:

Yeah, I haven't been to ACen since 2014 myself.  I probably won't be attending anymore, as I'm too busy and getting a little older.  It was fun while it lasted though.

Maybe the kid in me has never died, but I still love going. Acen is one of my most enjoyable weekends of the year...though a huge part of that is because I've gotten in to cosplay photography in a big way.

1 minute ago, Tokage said:

On the day of the eclipse I saw a cloud shaped like Yoshiki's face in the sky, that night I dreamt about Monochrome-Heaven.

Did the cloud hurt itself and decide to dissipate early?

Art

I still need to go through the list, but holy shit September has been a good month for music. So much good new stuff, both Japanese and not.

Been a while since I posted a pictures, so here's my current rig:

I have since added some RGB lighting stripes, so I will need to get some new shots lol

Just finished Re:Zero, Space Patrol Luluco, and Flying Witch.

Re:Zero was a fucking mess. I'm shocked I managed to get through it all. I could rant for probably a solid hour as to why I think this show is bad, but I will spare you all. If you enjoy it, you enjoy it.

Luluco was a fun in a brainless sense. Honestly, I think the gorgeous animation is what kept me around.

Flying Witch was fairly boring. I had been watching this one with my fiancee for the first few episodes, but I downgraded it to a before bed show because it helped put me in a sleepy mood. Literally nothing happens in this show. Another one that I am shocked I finished, but for very different reasons that Re:zero.

On 10/3/2016 at 7:27 PM, Flame-X said:

I met the original owner of the Tainted World site. I think his username was Spike720 or something. But ya, he went to the same college as I did and was introduced to him by an old friend of mine. After a few meetups, he told me about the site, so I went in and stuck around.

Close, Spike760 lol

Still loving this format, dude. Keep it up.

I'll have to check out the CD now lol

I don't know, man, that Valluna feels less like homage and more like copy to me. If you are going to be the blatant about it, might as well have just covered it.

Bummed I am just seeing this thread now. I -really- like your style. The varying thickness of the lines are just lovely and there is an impressionistic flavor to it that just clicks for me. Makes me want to commision something from you.

1 hour ago, Biopanda said:

 

Sick. I sometimes wish I lived in a place where I could justify RWD.

Can we please crowdfund this?

I feel like I have entered in to grumpy old man territory this month, as there was really nothing here that I really enjoyed.

::waves gun in the air:: now get off my lawn!

Welcome to the forum! Also, Saku nailed it.

On 10/15/2013 at 9:06 PM, Ito said:

In no particular order...God this is so hard...and I am sure I am forgetting an important one lol.

 

• toe
• FAKE?
• School Food Punishment
• the god and death stars
• FACT
• Lynch.
• ATATA
• sgt.
• Abingdon Boys School
• CogeNdshE

And because I have a hard time choosing, here are some honerable mentions: 

Hidden Content

Jumping on the updated trend:

• toe
• envy
• mono
• KEEL (arguably not VK?)
• the god and death stars
• Lynch.
• Kinoko Teikoku
• Uchuu Konbini
• Boris
• School Food Punishment

This is shaping up to be damn promising. I'm hyped.

Honestly, I don't much care about having it recorded - I kind of like it being ephemeral. Only come if you want to

I dug it! I like how different it was for your standard cosplay video - more of an experience video and I really liked the vibe...though you should have gotten a shot of a certain panel
(I also spotted a couple of friends in your Acen part)