Gaz

One Outs (http://myanimelist.net/anime/5040/One_Outs)
one of my favorite animes ever. i'm a big fan of mind games, strategies and gambling in general, so i do like what the main character, Tokuchi Toa, is doing during whole series. using his intellect he is overcoming people with impressive physical abilities. it shows us that baseball is not the game when you can win only by using your muscles, you also need to analyze the situation and build win strategy much more than in other kind of sport. 
when my friend recommended me this he said: "hey, you should watch it! it's even better than DESU NOTO". well, yes, the deduction part is better, but the main plot is pretty weak, like in the most of sport's animes. but still it's an awesome anime.
also i can recommend this is for guys who likes korean drama Liar Game. both (Liar Game and One Outs) mangas are from the same genious mangaka - Shinobu Kaitani. so if only anime wouldn't be enough for you, you can read the continuation in manga. and i hope you will enjoy it as much as i did
 
edit: also decided to add an opening theme, because it's great! but completly in different mood than anime lol Pay money To my Pain FTW!
 

カメレオ(kameleo) new mini album "5/5" will be released at 2013/12/11 (3,939yen) <-- i.e. "thank you thank you"
 
[CD track list]
01.5/5
02.(p´^`)σつんつん(lyrics & music & Vo.HIKARU.)
03.カタルシス(lyrics & music & Vo.Daisuke)
04.嘘ばっかり(lyrics & music & Vo.Takashi)
05.不適切な関係(lyrics & music & Vo.Kouichi.)
06.スーパー☆ボーンズ(lyrics & music & Vo.Takeshi)
07.カメトーク
 
[DVD track list]
01.新宿。 (PV)
02.ニート姫 (PV)
03.検索結果0 (PV)
04.始まりの歌 (PV)
05.サンドウィッチLOVE (PV)
06.君となう。 (PV)
07.ダメ男 (PV)
08.ごめんなさいっ! (PV)
09.5/5 (PV)
10.カメレオ忘年会

^ Ii'll probably be one of the few people to give a positive review on the album, because seriously guys, this band never deserved all that hate you all serve 'em ——— and by the way, I am sooooooooo Pollyanna-tier special  ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆
 
I should note that this is probably the first time you're that thirsty, you generally restrain yourself to leaving glittering optimistic reviews no matter how crappy/unnecessary their releases turn out.

living through those 9 days without shovelling ur special flake attitude in every gazette thread must be s f hard for you

that pedobear rilakkuma is really cute

still better than this:

Awesome

that pedobear rilakkuma is really cute

I understand that you feel like people is overdemanding, and there is no way your point is invalid in an abdsolute way. But as you said this site exists thanks to the passion for japanese music, passion that even drove you to invest money on the site's continuity. But please, consider that if there's people talking about this in this thread it's because they also care quite a bit about MH  and want it to be a better place. This is not about making you feel bad about how "bad" MH is now, it's about the people that likes it a lot wanting it to be a better place tomorrow. I undesrtand it's frustrating but I could bet nobody in this thread wrote to piss you off. But it's the risk you go into when running a service for everyone for free. You run into the expectations that offering any service and the problems of it not being a business, but I gess that's a tale for another night.
 
 
 
This it's true. It allways amazed me how many moderators/admins/people with exotic colors on their names were and how small/none impact this had on the forum level of manteinance. But there are 7000 people here. Fucking 7000!. About 30 are active and invested in the site at most (not counting fancy colored names, just usual yellows) and one of those holds about 70% of the actitity of the forum probably more if we talk about debate activity. 
 
This is ridiculous. Moderation looking at their bellys is an issue, but the shame is on almost everybody that is not Trombe or a frequent uploader, with a couple of exceptions I gess.
 
And we can not blame it on the download leeches. They would never make this commuty interesting. If they annoy us, there are ways we can clean them out of this place. But that would not make any difference if we, "invested veterans" don't do something to make this an active, interesting community.
 
I tried to do my part when proposing the CD purchase coordination threads and the collection threads wich I abandoned due to the lack of interest in the first case and the overleeching and ridiculous amount requests form people with 0 messages and such on the second one. I left those ideas that may have helped, so blame on me. I will try to come back to them and think about more things that I can do to boost actitivty. But no one can do that if the rest of the MH that wants it to be interesting don't support it. Let's do this together. There is no other way.
 
As people has shown their will to fix the mod issue in this thread, i see it hypocrytical of us not to open a new thread or discuss elsewhere ways we regular users could make MH better.
 
On the staff side of things, it's all about motivation. Few motivated people can do more than an army of e-personalities that don't care at all. Motivation runs off quickly, so rotation is key. Get involved, set a tone of debate that is good. Care.
 
About what MH is or what we want it to be, I don't think that's an issue at all. Forum are user driven. The topic is asian music. The active commutity will drive the frum to a more specfic field. But before we need an active community willing to drive MH somewhere.

A lot of you have asked what Deadeyes-star is. In short, it'll be a Japanese music database. It's purpose is to close in the gap between english speaking fans and the Japanese music scene.
 
For years I've used JaME and other related websites to try and track down bands, stay up to date on new releases, and find information on their releases. There really is no definitive place to find all this information. There's Last.FM, JaME, Visunavi, grassthreads, and even YouTube. Deadeyes-star aims to combine the best of all these resources into one, and building a community around it.
 
Above you'll find a lovely screenshot of the first sneak peek at what the website will be when its first released. One of the problems I've made, is holding everything off until I had everything complete. Well - in reality this method will never work. So the plan is to release the website in stages, with each stage building up off the other adding new features and fixing bugs as we move along.
 
The second problem we made, was trying to keep everything a secret. From now on, everything will be announced publicly. I've even come to terms that this is a project I can't pull off by myself. Right now the team consists of me and Manda. I work on the actual develop and coding of the website, where manda focuses on the design and graphics. We'd like this to grow to help in development.
 
Soon, I'll make another post to recruit for help if you think you or anyone you know may want to join in on the development side of this.
 
 
For the time being, if you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask away!
 
Kai

more important thing is reorganisation in the moderation team and make forum more active than it is now. we don't need a lot of changes right now, imo. let's wait for the mods' decision about the main problem and not push on them with all things at once.

more important thing is reorganisation in the moderation team and make forum more active than it is now. we don't need a lot of changes right now, imo. let's wait for the mods' decision about the main problem and not push on them with all things at once.

Being one of the people who's been here for years, and being one who listens to kpop at that, I still think this isn't a good idea.
 
This forum is supposed to be about Japanese music, right? We already have a section where we upload rock music that isn't necessarily Japanese, but it still is Asian. Isn't that good enough? Also, it's been years since this forum was only about all the VK. I get most of my Japanese rock music from this place, and I haven't been really listening to VK in years.
 
There are a lot of blogs and websites out there sharing Kpop music. Now I'm not against listening to kpop, but it would result in a surge of kpop kids who, if you've seen anything at all, are pretty much brain dead (not everyone, but I'm sure you know what I mean) and you'd get threads full of oppa oppa ooppppaaaaaaa. Aren't there already enough websites for this? Call me narrowminded or ignorant or anything you'd want for that opinion, but as someone who's seen enough of the kpop world, I'd like to see Monochrome as some kind of website that still keeps to its original idea.
 
Besides, how could we have split forums for every genre for instance, when so many rock bands are such a mix of thousands at once?

I was expecting a preview of a song. I am disappointed.

да кому тьі нужен?)

Sorry, I'm a little slow with the requests orz
Studying for university eats up all my time. However- Here is the first one!
 
http://youtu.be/hKKnxkXVjaI
 
eccentric marxist

寄生サレタ体ノ一部 取リ出シテ覗イテ
Kisei sareta karada no ichibu
One part of the infested body
Toridashite nozoite miru
I remove it, peek underneath and
ミルノソノ中 ハッキリトシタ夢？現実？
Sono naka hakkiri to shita yume?
What I see inside, is it a lucid dream?
Genjitsu?
Reality?
取リ出シタ体ノ一部 抜ケ殻ハアナタニ
Toridashita karada no ichibu
One removed part of the body
Nukegara wa anata ni ageru
アゲルノソノ中ハッキリトシタ夢？現実？
The flayed skin is for you
 Sono naka hakkiri to shita yume?
Inside of what I give you, is  it a lucid dream?
Genjitsu?
Reality?

ミ・エ・ナ・ク・テ・モ ト・ド・カ・ナ・ク・テ・モ
Mi・e・na・ku・te・mo
If・we・can't・see・it
To・do・ka・na・ku・te・mo
If・we・can't・reach・it

見世物の視覚的感情 あなたに渡せない物
Misemono no shikaku-teki kanjō
The visual sensation of things
Anata ni watasenai mono
Things that can't be carried over to you
空間の世界が合わせ合う あなたと一つになる為に
Kūkan no sekai ga awase au
The spatial world remoulds
Anata to hitotsu ni naru tame ni
In order to become one with you

未来は無くても気付けば 温もりの中で遠く
Mirai wa nakute mo kidzukeba
If you care if there's no future
nukumori no naka de tōku
Far away in the warmth
為すべき事も出来ずに 君がゆえにとても言えない
Nasubeki koto mo dekizu ni
Unable to do what you ought to
kimi ga yueni totemo ienai
You simply don't dare telling us
 
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The 'marxism' in this song is mainly atheism. (Looking for a soul inside the body, questioning the existence of god altogether.) But there are also some references to materialism. (The visible things)
I think the text by Marx that might have inspired kon to write this are the theses on Feuerbach.

С биологической точки зрения на клеточном уровне все постоянно умирает (и регенерируется) и таки да, в какой-то мере всё умирает с рождения, а нормальный или ненормальный организм - это субъективщина, норма относительна, тем более сейчас.
медик в треде

I actually thought Lucid was a half-decent bad Unsraw rip-off which itself is a tremendous step forward for Western VK, but then again the singer seems to only speak Japanese. Instrumentally they were doing more things right than any Scandinavian piece of shit vk band has ever done. And I love the singer :'D This I realise might not be everyone's thing because the performance is rough as fuck and a little bit campy perhaps, but I thought he had more charm than any other western vk vocalist thus far. Shame that they went to hiatus and the singer has moved to Japan as well iirc

you can also find some mangas here
http://bakabt.me/
http://www.nyaa.se/

JAPAN
JAPAN
JAPAN
JAPAN
JAPAN
CUZ I'M FUCKING WEEABOO #SWAG
 
who is suckface?

This is what i got for google images after typing in suckface. Hope this helps answer your question... 8'D
 
 
Have you ever blacked out?

That's all hindsight. The music has and always will continue to come from only a few places. Everyone else on the internet reposts those new releases. All the "blogs" and "communities" that you saw shared a lot of the same fans, and were all redundant because there was nothing you could do on a blog or another forum that you couldn't already do (with more people) on MH, last.fm, Jpopsuki, Otonomai, etc.
2012 put an end to stuff like visual kei blogs, and communities centered around those blogs died. What put the nail in the coffin was the death of MegaUpload and the resulting backlash from other cyberlockers. This pretty much wiped out entire archives of VK. People with blogs that got hit hard decided to stop updating. New fans figured it would be a waste of time to start one up because now these sites are getting more aggressive with taking infringing links down. The age of VK blogs came to a pretty swift end by the end of 2012/beginning of 2013.
When you look at the DL section and see "less VK", that doesn't necessarily mean that VK fandom is decreasing. What you're actually seeing is more "not VK", because the entire landscape has changed so that redundant communities no longer exist and there are a few centralized hubs to go look for all things Japanese now. MH has had to grow to keep all types of the Japanese fandom alive - and it evolved of the will of the members here. Isn't that just awesome?
 
 
 
Which is why Nyasagi is right, even though the second part of that statement is opinion that I can't support as fact (even though I agree). There's a lot of stuff being shared. A lot of stuff. It may be music you aren't interested in but that doesn't mean that there aren't things being shared. Sharing here had to explode because as I said before, there aren't many other well-established places to do it. I can only think of one, actually, and they're about as lowkey as we are.

http://youtu.be/DdGFY-_e8PU
 
Curse

灯りも無く　風が痛む
Akari mo naku   
Without a light
kaze ga itamu
The wind hurts
迫る部屋が　耳が痛い
 Semaru heya ga       
This narrowing room
 mimi ga itai
Gives me earache

助けてくれなかった君　人は全て儚き弱者
Tasukete kurenakatta kimi
You didn't save me
hito wa subete hakanaki jakusha
All humans are fickle and weak
悲劇が回り始めると　君のあの眼差しが
Higeki ga mawari hajimeru to
As the tragedy starts to repeat itself
kimi no ano manazashi ga
That gaze of yours is...

悲痛を変える　断片の夜たち
Hitsū o kaeru
Transforming my sorrow
danpen no yoru-tachi
Those torn up nights
終わらない　許さない
Owaranai
Endless
yurusanai
Unforgiving
恨み抱いて　絶命した
Urami daite
Bearing a grudge
zetsumei shita
I ended your life

No my Curse　あの時の傷も
No my Curse　ano toki no kizu mo
No my Curse　And the scars of that day
目の前で君が微笑んで
Me no mae de kimi ga hohoende
When you laughed right into my face
Cross you
No my Curse　反響が止まず
No my Curse　hankyō ga yamazu
No my Curse　The echo is unfading
涙の両手が犯していた
Namida no ryōte ga okashite ita
I did it in tears with both of my hands
Cross you