YuyoDrift

I fucking knew this motherfucker did something to that scarf lol now they're all under his spell.
 

My hopes for Final Fantasy games are usually high, but I just remembered how forgettable Final Fantasy V was (which is ironic). I got the game last year, but I haven't played it in a while because it just didn't grab my attention enough to want to continue. I can't even remember what the plot was about. I remember there was a guy called Bartz who meets this princess called Lenna and he likes her (duh), then there's this crossdressing pirate woman called Faris and an old dude named Galuf but I can't for the life of me remember what they actually set out to do besides... whatever it is they do in cliched fantasy plotlines. That's it, it was just cliched. If I were to give you the most trite, overdone fantasy plotline I could think of, it'd probably be that of Final Fantasy V. Oh, and Bartz has a chocobo named Boco that he abandons I think outside a cave somewhere and we never see him again. The fact that I'm more worried about a chocobo than I am about the fate of this game's world speaks volumes.
 
Actually, I just looked up what happens to Boco. We do see him again but later. I'm still appalled at Bartz's terrible chocobo care skills. Wtf, man? I take better care of my race chocobos and the only reason I breed those is to earn me fame and fortune. For shame, Bartz. For shame.

Whoa, @spockitty you just helped me find the original song to this lol
 
 
I was a crazy fan of these compilation albums more than 10 years ago.
Never knew that it was Eiko Shimamiya's ひぐらしのなく頃に.
WOW, so I have heard of her apparently lol.

Not sure if it was discussed in previous pages, but one artist that shot up in popularity during as early as 2000 was Hitomi Yaida.
I always praise her, as she was one of first to play around with that heartfelt and artistic form of music that other artists after her like YUI, Aiko, Miwa, and Ayaka still use years later.
 
My favorite song of hers will always be Mikansei No Melody from her 2002 album i/flancy.
 
 

Hahaha it's so bizarre hearing this. I'll stick to the original, thanks XD
 
I definitely will add them to my Infinite List Of Artists To Listen To™! But also plz stop? I can only be dragged into five musical directions at once, and trying to dust off my love for acid jazz will shave off another hour of my sleep schedule  
 
Can't watch the videos you posted @colorful人生  

This is pretty dope!
 
 

Whoa, @spockitty you just helped me find the original song to this lol
 
 
I was a crazy fan of these compilation albums more than 10 years ago.
Never knew that it was Eiko Shimamiya's ひぐらしのなく頃に.
WOW, so I have heard of her apparently lol.

Surprisingly I was never into anime, despite my best efforts, so I got to know 99% of my jpop separate from that wave. I think the only artist I found because of anime was YUI with her Bleach song, I think it was Rolling Star? And then Maximum the Hormone (also from Bleach lol) but that's hardly pop.
 
I know that both KOKIA and Eiko had some anime stuff, but only because of the cover art lol I liked them both because I've been a huge Enya fan since childhood and they have a similar vibe ^^ KOKIA THO MAN, I could wax poetic about her music for hours~ 
I, on the other hand, never heard of MELL. lemme get on that!
 
Let me link you some of my Eiko's favs: 
 
 
Yeah, funny how @YuyoDrift knows all but Eiko while I only know her of this selection LOL 
 
 
DUDE, I love chiptune/glitch/and just about any genre of electronic music probably but I digress. 
 
I found she way before he signed up with Pony Canyon and was still posting his music for free on his website. I had vested interest because he's actually from Poland and it blew my teenage mind that my fellow countryman can make music that I'd actually like to listen to  coloris and chiptek were my life back then. 
 
I couldn't tell you what he was compared to, sry, my music knowledge is as vast as it is shallow. 

Eiko Shimamiya, MELL, Mami Kawada, and KOTOKO were all part of the same I've Sound generation which produced a ton of the major anisons, visual novel songs, and techno/trance stuff at the time. I'd reckon the I've Sound omnibuses are my most-listened-to albums because they're fantastic on long commutes. 詩月カオリ (Kaori Utatsuki), Mami Kawada, and KOTOKO are my favs of that generation.
 
 

Hah, I realized I asked about this thread, found it and then forgot to post what made me search for it in the first place ^^;; 
 
ANYWAY I think I went in a bit different direction with my jpop journey back in the day than you @YuyoDrift. It's not 90's, but I suppose still pretty old lol I used to listen to hella lot KOKIA, Eiko Shimamiya, YUI, antennasia and kinda on the other end of the spectrum BOOM BOOM SATELLITES, capsule, she (not really japanese, but signed on in Japan), DAISHI DANCE. Namie Amuro, Kumi Koda, Ami Suzuki and Urata Naoya were also somewhere in there but in single songs. 
 
And onto what I wanted to post:
 
 
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Well the first five Aldious album titles started with D. Yoshi likes her alliteration.
 
Re:no butchered more than a few Rami-era songs but R!N sounds capable of handling them. I'm hoping this means older songs return to the setlists. It reminds me of Nightwish. Anette couldn't do the Tarja-era songs to save her life. When I saw them, the set was entirely from the two albums they did with her. After she left and was replaced with the much more capable Floor Jansen, old songs began to return to the set list because she COULD do them properly. So the same may happen here.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Aldious has chosen R!n as their new vocalist. R!n had been sharing vocal duties on the band's 3 month Japan tour with Saki, formerly of Cyntia, where they alternated nights singing. But all the emphasis seemed to be on R!n despite the fact she had never been in a band before (she won some singing contest) and Saki was a veteran singer.
 
Official news: https://aldious.net/contents/258597
 
New band photo.
 

 
No one knows when this picture was taken, since Toki is pregnant but it could be she is hiding her bump with the guitar.
 
R!n certainly could do the old material justice. Below is a clip of them doing "Spirit Black" and she came very close to Rami. Now let's see what the next album sounds like.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15WUKBazz98&t=800
 

LOL I'm ded

I'm going through my Facebook nuking any trace of my thoughts because I'm not in the business of digital archaeologists of the future digging through my records because they have a bone to pick with me, and I'm surprised by how much the ancient contents of my news feed are a graveyard of dead links. Some of the links don't even indicate what the content originally was, and there are some links that look live and lead nowhere. It is interesting how we take for granted that things stay around on the internet, but clearly only certain things stay around. It will be troubling in the future to go back and find news articles about events that are happening today if companies can purge articles from their website once they figure they aren't making enough money off of it. 

Not to mention they can leave a permanent stain on your skin if affected by the sunlight and there are a few cases of people dying because of them.

man, why would you do this. love yourself~

I think they may be referring to the fandom as a whole, which I suppose MH would fall into as well.
 
If I'm reading this right, you're trying to make distinctions as to why VK (and the artists we follow, more specifically) is appealing by old/new fans, and want to specifically correlate the various reasons provided down to the 2 sexes (stay back you others, we don't know what they mean yet)?
 
I don't think the answers will be so cut/dry as "X" likes this, and "Y" likes that , as you think they'll be. Too many factors at play.

Dude these musicians need to start getting smarter about using this stuff. What form of cannabis was it, if I may ask?
I know that Japan is HEAVILY promoting vape pens as an alternative right now, and it's legal to sell them, just not stuff itself.

I hope they embrace this and rename themselves to NOCTURNAL BUDLUST.

@Gesu I've never heard that slogan before in my life lol.
 
Bros before hoes has gotten me into so much shit, I'd rather forget that this was ever a thing. Same goes for dicks before chicks.

@secret_no_03 This is correct. Brazil has had the highest concentration of Japanese immigrants in all of the world for some time.
 
I did some digging a while back cuz I found out that I'm either 1/5 Japanese or Chinese on my mom's side. Apparently Mexico had a large migration of Japanese and Chinese immigrants at some point, and most of central Mexico eventually became mixed race in some way (mom is from there too). If you know the singer Ana Gabriel (1/2 chinese), then you can pretty much guess what my mom actually looks like, as she's been asked on the street if she was related to her lol.

@secret_no_03 This is correct. Brazil has had the highest concentration of Japanese immigrants in all of the world for some time.
 
I did some digging a while back cuz I found out that I'm either 1/5 Japanese or Chinese on my mom's side. Apparently Mexico had a large migration of Japanese and Chinese immigrants at some point, and most of central Mexico eventually became mixed race in some way (mom is from there too). If you know the singer Ana Gabriel (1/2 chinese), then you can pretty much guess what my mom actually looks like, as she's been asked on the street if she was related to her lol.

EDIT: I am so fucking brainfried and said something really stupid because I misread the post.

You hear that gaiz? We going to hell, then prison.
 
Edit: You'd think that Hanson guy who had an account here would make an appearance lol.

As the title suggests, what's one thing that happened to you that you've never had happen to you again?
Would you like it to happen again, or are you hoping it never does? Hehe.
 
Before you kill the thread by saying something like getting laid or being happy, try and give yourselves credit on the luck you've had and name the weirdest or funniest story you have. Inb4youstillpostthatshit.
 
 
 
For me, one thing that I had happen only once in my life was getting 3 Pizzas delivered to my door, and I got them for free. No idea where the mistake was made, but I didn't order any and my brother took the pizza (he thought I ordered some) from the driver before I knew what happened. I felt bad for the driver, so I called the store to let them know he made a mistake. They were so pissed, they asked me if I took any bites of them yet 🤣. Pretty sure the delivery guy had just quit or something, and we were lucky enough to get 3 random pizzas. 
 
Never got a call back from the store, so we ate that shit up, it was so good and free-tasting lol.