saiko

You've got to tell this to Retsu asap before his lack of self-confidence kills him and Dimlim altogether. 

Nekkichi being honest and other 99 things I want to see before getting shot in WWIII

An interesting and rare insight into your honest feelings. Thank you. 

My girlfriend lives in Tokyo and it was my first time being back in Japan in three years. From the second I got out of the airport, I could instantly feel the difference between Tokyo and Osaka, but I went to spend time with her, so I didn't care. We did a lot of fun, proper couple things together like go to Tokyo Disney Sea and Tokyo Tower and I ate a LOT of delicious food. I missed real Japanese cuisine, like okonomiyaki and such. I only ended up going to two lives because the bands I wanted to see weren't in Tokyo for the two weeks I was there, but I did end up seeing ゆくえしれずつれづれ and KAQRIYOTERROR on Christmas Eve (a very unique experience seeing such groups, especially as a foreigner) and JILUKA on my birthday, which was also Ricko's birthday live. The JILUKA live house was TINY, so it felt quite intimate and Ricko instantly noticed me as a foreigner and pointed right at me in the middle of one song and gave me a huge smile and thumb's up. Sena did the same a bunch of times. They talked a lot and I could only understand about a third of it, but the live itself was still a lot of fun. Afterward I got to see the side of VK that I didn't see when I was in Osaka before since I saw mostly metal bands (NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST, Deviloof, Dir en grey) where there was a huge queue for cheki and girls standing on the side of line holding up their unwanted cheki from members they didn't like. It felt a bit sad, and I thought that if Boogie or Zyean walked by, they'd be saddened by how few bangya wanted their cheki. I still find the concept of cheki itself a bit weird, but it's what sells the most and gets the band the most money. In the end, I ended up buying the live-exclusive blanket and muffler (the blanket is tiny and the muffler is actually misprinted, with the logo on the wrong side) and the XND t-shirt, which netted me a DVD for spending over 4000Y. I haven't watched it yet, but I can only assume it's something I'll only view one, at max.
 
I could go on and on, but I don't want to bore. It was memorable and I didn't want to leave.

Always

@saiko I'm pretty sure they've even been on Utaban at some point - the same variety show that's featured artists like Gackt and Morning Musume in the past lol - think it was around 2003 when they kinda seemed to have 'peaked' (around the time the Kami no Inu album came out)
 
As for these videos - they must be from some of their veeeery early days. In one of them they show a picture at the end that looks like some kinda album/single cover but I don't recognize it. Thought it could mb be their first 'official' ep from '97 but the cover's entirely different
 

I'm kinda still lurking here and flustered to read this ☺️ 
Actually I'd love to get around to be active /post translations again sometime but my time became very limited since then. 

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Yeah can't wait for an angel to come and say "how did you spend your teenage years" to only respond "crying myself to sleep" 

Literally I've just watched the 'Creature' PV and thought the same!

bless u and ur knowledge @saiko

I'd really love to make a tab for you, but unfortunately I don't have the time to sit down and do that. I'm very busy with my own exams and band stuf...
 
Perhaps we can make it up together! I've just given the song a listen and found that the bass line sound almost very clear throughly. Also, it's bpm is really chill (120 bpm), and it is clearly written in the D Harmonic Minor Scale (that means the bassline was written using only the notes D, E, F, G, A, Bb, C#). So, if you sit down with your instrument and listen the song with headphones in a quiet room, and focus in that harmonic context, you shouldn't have much problems working it out.
 
Perhaps you would like to write down what you come to hear in a GuitarPro tab and send it to me to check it out for any mistake that could happen.
 
Once it's finished we could share it here with the rest of the monochromians!

I'd really love to make a tab for you, but unfortunately I don't have the time to sit down and do that. I'm very busy with my own exams and band stuf...
 
Perhaps we can make it up together! I've just given the song a listen and found that the bass line sound almost very clear throughly. Also, it's bpm is really chill (120 bpm), and it is clearly written in the D Harmonic Minor Scale (that means the bassline was written using only the notes D, E, F, G, A, Bb, C#). So, if you sit down with your instrument and listen the song with headphones in a quiet room, and focus in that harmonic context, you shouldn't have much problems working it out.
 
Perhaps you would like to write down what you come to hear in a GuitarPro tab and send it to me to check it out for any mistake that could happen.
 
Once it's finished we could share it here with the rest of the monochromians!

I watch this video at least once a year and it still gives me the chills to this day

vk is a phoenix. it dies and is reborn every 10ish years.

yeah I doubt they would have ever predicted that hide's corpse would be posthumously used to sell mcburgers 

why not? they are a guilty pleasure

Where?

Everytime i write a post and i find it turning into some tl;dr clusterfuck/unintentional essay, I've gotten into the habit of automatically opening up notepad and saving it there just in case.

This is gold! I hope the time has come for those anal-retentive """fans""" to share their old Dir stuff!

It's actually interesting, but I don't feel they "hit" it...

I wouldn’t say it’s terrible. Granted, even though Mejibray isn’t the most...liked on here, they’re not that bad of a band and I really like them with Meto being my favourite.
 
But yeah, Mejibray Cage is meh compared to the godlike status of Diru Cage

think of Lin as a crappy sequel to a popular film. their modern sound doesn't compare to that of the classic kote sound of Phantasmagoria, especially with the lineup change in the 2nd half of their lifespan.

morrie and kiyoharu are legit professionals and still got the pipes. Great performance!!!!

God, how I wish