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I thought this was the 'Unpopular Opinion' thread for a second there

I thought this was the 'Unpopular Opinion' thread for a second there

I thought this was the 'Unpopular Opinion' thread for a second there

Can't this happen more often. 

I just got the live DVDs of Kamijo's concerts. I can't stop laughing at how the video quality turns to shit once the camera get a shot of him and his heavily glittered coat LMAO 

Isn't that just what they look like during daylight?

where is all the Visual Kei figurines at? I want a little Kamijo, I want a little Hizaki, I want a little Yoshiki , I want a Meto

where is all the Visual Kei figurines at? I want a little Kamijo, I want a little Hizaki, I want a little Yoshiki , I want a Meto

where is all the Visual Kei figurines at? I want a little Kamijo, I want a little Hizaki, I want a little Yoshiki , I want a Meto

where is all the Visual Kei figurines at? I want a little Kamijo, I want a little Hizaki, I want a little Yoshiki , I want a Meto

You can also just say which band you have spent the most on, there's no need to be embarrassed on buying things that makes you happy.

It's 14A so no. There is some blood as you would expect from a gunshot but not a rainfall like in Evil Dead

Are those heels even ok to horseback riding in?

Are those heels even ok to horseback riding in?

when the title is in Japanese and your car's audio system only gives "???? ??? ???" as the title, so now you are memorizing the number of question marks rather than the actual kanji -.-

when the title is in Japanese and your car's audio system only gives "???? ??? ???" as the title, so now you are memorizing the number of question marks rather than the actual kanji -.-

So who actually has successfully said they are leaving MH forever and actually never came back?

So who actually has successfully said they are leaving MH forever and actually never came back?

So who actually has successfully said they are leaving MH forever and actually never came back?

So who actually has successfully said they are leaving MH forever and actually never came back?

So who actually has successfully said they are leaving MH forever and actually never came back?

Here's the thing about vk news though: there's no 'original source'.
 
For major and relatively well known bands you can rely on visunavi, NAVER, various 'matome' and news purveyor accounts on Twitter. But otherwise it's down to stalking thousands of bandmen - something which I have literally attempted on my main Twitter account. The result was me getting spammed with 30 tweets every 10 seconds, and THEN I had to sift through the crapload of awkward selfies and useless tweets talking about weather and food. I don't recall, but maybe 0.01% of the feed was useful news? In any case I abandoned that account shortly after because it was unusable.
 
There are also other avenues like LINE accounts, bandmen's ameblo, and 2chan as mentioned. Or you can try typing 始動 and 解散 into twitter search and refresh it every 10 seconds.... if you have that much time. In any case, what a lot of people don't seem to notice (and this is the point @filth_y was making) is that Trombe also posts news that don't "officially" exist on the Internet except maybe, in a bandman's private reply to a fangirl's tweet (I've witnessed this at least twice), or as a casual afterthought in a label staff's ameblo post. (In the latter case, I talked to a band's shikiri and even she wasn't aware that the band would be releasing a CD that day..). Yes, some MH members may have done this before - but to do it consistently for an insane number of bands is a whole different animal.
 
All of this aren't even considering the facts that: (i) these news are in Japanese, so let's not trivialize it as as copy-and-pasting. Translating and formatting it into a news post is a bitch if you consider the volume of news Trombe puts out; (ii) Trombe posts news of bands he doesn't even care about on a regular basis, some of whom comprising members that no one here has even heard of, much less having an interest to follow and post news of.
 
I'm on no one's side at this point. None of this is a defense for what Trombe did, nor is it a suggestion that he should be immune from punishment if he has contravened the rules. I just wanted to provide a corrective to previous comments suggesting that by picking 1 or 2 bands each we will communally be able to cover the ground that Trombe did, as if it was as easy as sitting together and doing some Ctrl C+V while having cereal in front of your computer. Let's just say I'm not that optimistic, because I can't imagine someone, or even a group of competent and extremely free people, going to the lengths Trombe did. Hopefully more people can appreciate the scope of the dirty legwork he has done for MH ("appreciate" as in "understand clearly", not "prostrate yourself"). And before any accusations come my way: I have contributed news of bands I like (including translating full-length interviews of them), and will happily continue to do so. Let's just see what happens.

If you aren't checking out new bands regularly then it's your fault for not having enough bands to look forward to. If you are but they all don't match you music style (which seems unlikely with the bands you listed), then there isn't much you can do about the lack of releases. 
 
I only check out new bands every now and then or when youtube decided to bombard my recommended videos list with J-rock bands. I don't really wonder what happened to it, it seems fine IMO. It is still there after all and it seems like there is always new bands popping up.