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*song breakdowns, not mental ones

Katsura sensei is God of Manga. Kudos for doing the few realistic harem anime out there, and also for adding a non-stereotyped comic-relief gay character in I"s.
 
Blurry Eyes is the motif behind my entrance into Japanese music.

Mask always reminded me of Hide's solo work

Etsu is probably Kiryu's best work to date

Sometimes one imagines that every past time was for worse, like for example, cartoon artists would have much less freedom than today and wouldn't ever think in adding clever or naughty twists into their cartoons... but hey, humans were and will be always humans. So I, as much as I love the Disney's late 20s and 30s, really appreciate the wild aesthetics of the Fleicher's.

Yesss. I’ve grown to really appreciate the early Fleischer Popeye cartoons in particular. Total cream of the crop.

Fleischer cartoons were pretty psychotic

Fleischer cartoons were pretty psychotic

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Didn't he say something about having functional dysphonia  (or something like that) back when Nightmare announced their hiatus? And yeah, I agree that his voice was nice. It was different. He was  supposed to be resting during their hiatus, but he came out with Take No Break almost immediately and he still sounds awful. 

BUCK-TICK - Dress (Trinity Blood)
SID - Ranbu no Melody (Bleach)
vistlip - Yoru (Akatsuki no Yona)

12012 - cyclone ( romeo x juliet)
also a diru one's but I don't remember which one

Nightmare : Alumina (Death Note)
Nightmare : Raison d'être (Claymore)
Nightmare : Lost in Blue & Naked (Mouryou no Hako)
Nightmare : DIRTY (Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro)
Buck-Tick : Kagerou (Kagerou)
Buck-Tick : Kuchizuke & Gekka Reijin (Shiki)
Luna Sea : Limit (Endride)
Luna Sea : Ran (op of the drama Toshi Densetsu no Onna 2)
Luna Sea : I for you ( op of the drama Kamisama, Mou Sukoshi Dake)
Megamasso : Twilight Star (Major)
Kra : Kizuna (Yu-Gi-Oh ! 5D's !)
ViVid : Real (Mobile Suit Gundam AGE)
ViVid :  Hikari (Magi : The Kingdom of Magic)
Sid : Anniversary (Magi : The Kingdom of Magic)
Sid : V.I.P (Magi : The Labyrinth of Magic)
Sid : ENAMEL (Kuroshitsuji : Book of Circus)
Sid : Glass no Hitomi (Kuroshitsuji Movie: Book of the Atlantic)
Sid : Rasen no Yume (Shoukoku no Altair)
Sadie : Juggernaut (Mazinkaiser SKL)
Plastic Tree : Namida Drop (Garasu no Kantai.)
Plastic Tree : Sink (Kindaichi Case Files)
MUCC : Mother (Naruto Shippuden)
MUCC : Classic (Nanatsu no Taizai : Seisen no Shirushi)
Matenrou Opera : Chimeishou (Orenchi no Furo Jijou)
D : Kaze ga Mekuru Page (Shinsengumi PEACE MAKER)
Sug : gr8 Story (Hitman Reborn)
Sug : R.P.G.~Rockin' Playing Game (Fairy Tail)
An Cafe : Kakusei Heroism ~THE HERO WITHOUT A "NAME"~ (Darker than BLACK : Kuro no Keiyakusha)
An Cafe : Ryuusei Rocket (op of the drama Fuma no Kojiro)

From the top of my head:
 
A9 - Akatsuki (Meine liebe ~wieder~)
A9 - Cross game (Yu-gi-oh! 5D's)
A9 - Ikuoku no chandelier (Meine liebe ~wieder~)
An café - Jibun (Duel masters versus revolution)
Dir en grey - ~I'll~ (Urayasu tekkin kazoku)
Kiryu - Jou no ka (Cardfight vanguard G: Z)
Nightmare - the WORLD (Death note)
Nightmare - Over (Croket!)
Sid - Monokuro no kiss (Kuroshitsuji)
Sid - Enamel (Kuroshitsuji)
the GazettE - Shiver (Kuroshitsuji)
 
Some endings included. I don't know of dorama openings.

X Japan - Forever Love (X)
BUCK-TICK - Gessekai (Nightwalker)
Kagrra, - Kokyou (Kinnikuman Nisei ULTIMATE MUSCLE 2)

OPs/EDs sans-what's included already
 
HERO - Tenohira (Fairy Tail)
DaizyStripper - Zetsubou no Freesia (Yu-gi-oh! ZEXAL)
vistlip - Nearly Equal (Yu-gi-oh! ZEXAL II)
vistlip - BLACK MATRIX (Senjushi)
ViViD - ~Yume~ Mugen no Kanata (Level E)
ViViD - Blue (BLEACH)
Sadie - Toge (Togainu no Chi)
An Cafe - Kakusei Heroism ~The Hero WIthout a Name~ (Darker than Black)
Chrome Shelled - Yasashii Uso (Chrome Shelled Regios)
 
I could mostly pull those from the top of my head. I forgot "Level E" existed... Pretty forgettable series, lol. 
 
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Wow, I forgot about a lot of these
https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2145301774341937801
https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2145414214323123501
https://matome.naver.jp/odai/2146840574849138401

Plastic Tree - Mirai Iro (Yugioh 5Ds)
MERRY - Saihate no Parade (Over Drive)

Ahhhh, I love this song a lot! Dir en grey has such a special place in my heart.

You're doing it for the wrong reasons then. Realising things like that in the way you're describing is just a part of growing up imo. Of course "geeky" stuff like obsessing over music or anime won't be enough to fulfill you. But that doesn't mean that it's "worthless". You'll have to transgress the thought that all this stuff makes up who you are, that's not a helpful perspective. But the fact that these things are a part of your life in the way they are is actually interesting and says a lot about you.

Don't forget Zan had a completely different composition compared to the version we got. 
I'm also curious to their early version of Tsumi to Batsu that was cut out of the video for their budokan performance

Ayabie was hot stuff when a lot of us initially entered VK circa 2007-9.
I used to listen to them a lot, and also watch a lot of their live shows.
Today, ten years later, most of their stuff suffers a lot from Ryohei and Aoi's terrible skills at playing guitar and singing respectively (if you can call that "skills" lol), so it's so barely listeneable to the point where I wonder why it happened that they became so famous, both in the Japanese and western fandom...
Although, Daikei will always be a true gem. It sounds very genuine and well-done still today. Never heard something alike before and after. A very interesting tune along Gothic Party Speed Session and Japanese Low-res caramel town.

soan project alone >>>>>>>>>>>> the entire indie vk scene ca. '17 - 18 no matter how much you loathe idol-kei™ tbh.
 
ninth is a much better album than 3* full releases before dogma (*four if you count traces)
 
anyway the thing I liked most about 2018 VK is that guy's family sounds fresh again if you take a 7 year break from listening to it, same with withering to death by deg.
 
dexcore were cute.
 
once 2019 releases start rolling in with old artists forming new bands it will get better.
 
tbh nothing ever compares to the 2006-2008 VK drought when a lot of promising indie acts were picked up by universal which averaged them to death and failed to find new audience for the mess that came out of it.

What kind of psychology is that?

I agree with all the reasons mentioned above. The state of MH is affected by a multitude of factors. The state of filesharing, the state of the VK scene, the season, aging fanbase, and so on.
 
However, one thing I've noticed that has had a serious effect on our community over the years - and something that rarely gets mentioned - are the individual attitudes of our members. Now no community is perfect, but I've noticed that there's a subset of users here who seem to pride themselves on being "bitchy" and "petty", and seem to have set their hearts on being divisive - the kind of users that would rather talk shit about other users than discuss music with them.
 
Most probably don't think of themselves as part of a community here, but the fact is - we're a community because we all have a common unity - J-rock and Visual Kei. So when you have users injecting divisive elements like the ones I just mentioned, it becomes cancerous to the community as a whole. I've seen users here continually hold other users in contempt for shit they did YEARS ago. I've seen users start shit with other users for no reason. I've seen users intentionally set out to "burn" other users just to seem "cool". I've seen users intentionally stalk and harass other members. I've seen A LOT being staff here for over a decade.
 
Hell, even I've been thrown under the bus by certain members here - and if anyone knows me, I've always strived to be as understanding, agreeable, and diplomatic as possible - as a staff member, fellow fan, and friend. But regardless, there are people who are purely intent on being divisive - even when you approach them with good intents. But for what? Who does that help? Who does that serve? It definitely doesn't help the community at all. 
 
I can't tell you the amount of times people have come to me personally and explained how they want to participate here, but they're afraid of getting bitched at for having a different opinion, or attacked for any odd reason. Many people have left the community for these very reasons as well. I'm pretty sure some people get off on being an asshole or a "sassy bitch", but that shit ain't cool to people who just wanna come here to fellowship with other J-rock fans in peace. We all got lives outside of here (which are difficult enough as is), so the last thing any of us want to do is log on to see some GROWN-ASS ADULT with the maturity of an emotionally neglected 13 year old project their own misery on to others. That shit ain't it.
 
And yeah, lest anyone want to call me out as a hypocrite -  I READILY admit that I've played my part in the divisiveness and the nonsense in times past as well, and I take 110% responsibility for it. I'm not innocent either and I'll be THE FIRST to tell you that I ain't perfect. Far from it. But the point of this post is not to place blame on anyone or to call anyone out. It's simply to call awareness to the fact that we all contribute to the state of this community on an individual level as well. Our individual contributions have a resounding effect on the whole, like a ripple effect. As staff, we can enforce certain rules here. But we cannot dictate the attitudes of the members here. We can't dictate how you choose to interface with the community here. We cannot dictate the state of your heart. Nor would we want to do any of that.
 
I simply want to point out that the actions we take here, no matter how meaningless or miniscule they seem, DO have an effect. And based on those actions, the state of our community will either be tilted in a better direction or a worse direction. It's up to yall to decide.