Umi_Niwa

I can't put it as eloquently as some of you guys did, so here's a short list of random memory fragments:
 
BUCK-TICK's song GALAXY reminds me of a particularly good new year's eve party, tho at the same time reminds me of my girlfriend at the time and how everything was so good (obviously I'm single now), so you can say it's a kind of ambivalently bittersweet and/or melancholic feel.
 
I bought the Smile album by Boris while on a trip in Scotland, so listening to it (especially the more moody and droning tracks) makes me recall the slightly chilly and rainy days my family and I spent there, the long drives looking at the awesome green hills and mountain scenery while raindrops beat against the car windows.
 
Listening to Merry's Peep Show album always makes me remember the awesome time I had on my first "let's go to another country and see a gig!" type of journey when me and a bunch of friends went to Germany by train to see Merry's concert. Fun times, even despite the br00tal train ride, lol.

I don't think changing the staff will change the state of the forum in itself, but I think it could be a step in the right direction and it's a visible change that will improve the forum's morale.
 
Speaking of visible changes, perhaps changing or improving the current forum theme and the forum banner would help to refresh MH and revive moral. (Personally, I've always been a fan of rotating banners).
 
 
However, we can sit here and talk about cosmetics all day, but visible changes aren't truly substantial changes. I think what this forum needs most of all is a solitary purpose. I feel as if everyone wants mh to change, but every seems to have different ideas (or no ideas at all) on what they want MH to be. If we establish a clear identity and singular goal, then we can proceed from there.
 
Ask yourselves this, what do you consider MH to be? A VK forum? A J-rock forum? A Japanese music forum? A forum for kpop and VK? What are we exactly?
 
 
Personally, I've always viewed MH as a Japanese rock forum. Sure, we've always had an abundance of visual kei fans here. So with that in mind, I've tried to do my part to share, discuss, and promote non-visual bands with the hopes of cultivating appreciation for Japanese rock as a whole and not just one scene in particular. That's what I've been trying to do personally, but to be completely honest, I have no idea if the rest of the staff shares my sentiments.
 
That's why I ask you all, before you jump and try to change the staff, I urge you all to come up with a goal, a singular purpose that you all can devote yourselves to as part of the staff. If you guys have no goal, then you're not going to get very far. I think that's the problem with the current staff. Everyone means well, but we've kind of lost sight of what our goal(s) should be.
 
When you guys come up with a purpose, a goal, or some kind of mission, then I will gladly abdicate my position to anyone you deem worthy. But as of now, with no goal in mind, we don't really have much of a standard to judge the current staff by other than their activity level - to which you guys have stated will take much more to be a mod.
 
So, once again. I'll charge you all with this task. Decide where you want to go with MH. Decide what you'd like MH to be. And from there, develop a criteria that you think the staff should be able to meet. If I don't meet the criteria, I will gladly step down.
 
I'm all for reconstruction. But before you guys start detaching pieces and putting them back together, have a clear vision of what you want to build first. Let's see a blueprint and then go from there.
 
At the end of the day, I'll do whatever is best for MH.

"Goddess" actually, calling her a God would be insinuating that Cher is male, which at this stage in time neither is correct.
 
I cant really fault her for wanting to carry on working and making money. but there comes a time where enough is enough and its really time to put down the mic and bow out gracefully.
In Cher's case she hasnt done that, all this plastic surgery, botox injections and face lifts. Here you have someone who seems to be obsessed with chasing her youth and 'trying' to look younger so she might appeal or looks more appealing to her listeners more. 
 
 
Better then my fave?? So what is my fave? you seem to know so much more about me then i know about myself when it comes to personal musical tastes.
 
 
 
On a more positive note though, at least shes stopped using that godawful autotune. But i still think she needs to retire. 
 
NOT THAT I LISTEN TO OVER COMMERCIALISED POP TUNES ANYWAY

Just saw this now. 
 
I actually am pretty much disemboweling Aoi Mochi and RoseOfHizaki. Y'all bitches better pay homage to the true God of this world.
 
The album is amazing, better than your faves tbqh. 
 
And Nick you know BETTER than to mention that whiny dog in this thread.

In order to motivate my ass to work on this, I've created the following DS category/suforums here on the forum. The intention behind this, at least for the moment, is to continuously post updates on the development of DS as well as get feedback from every one here.
 
I want this to be a fairly open project moving forward - and am even open to anyone actually helping me develop DS. I've moved from using a custom developed CMS to using PyroCMS - which frees me up from having to code out core features which was eating up most of my development time.
 
Some of you may ask "Why not just use WordPress or Wikimedia?", and the simple answer is - control. DS will be more than just a database of Japanese bands and music. It'll be a community that revolves around you - the user. There are a ton of features and ideas that I'd like to push out that would be very difficult to do with WordPress (and especially Wikimedia, which I honestly feel is a horribly outdated platform).
 
So, I'll keep this first post short. I'll post more threads going over DS, provide screenshots of its current progress, and so on and so forth.
 
See you in the next post!
 
Kai

deadeyes-star. It's basically a huge database that kai and manda are working on. I don't know what I can tell and what is supposed to be a secret, so I'll let kai explain it (since I suck at explaining anyway).

There is a small weakness in the current mod team from my perspective not mentioning what being said above. None of them live in Asia which means there will be no mods active for 24/7 or at least in Asian daytime. Sometimes I see a misplaced topic or something that is not right on MH (including my own mistakes), but I can't report it to the mod team immediately.

You're cute
 
Here you see me thinking about the greatest question in life:
To fap,or not to fap.
xD
 

why do you think anyone here needs to see this giant dumb list of bands w/o any further information whatsoever

Haha, awesome shot. Congratz on getting married, though! I wonder what percentage of people on MH are married? maybe 0.1% XD

lol
Ok I just had to show myself on a bigger scale n_n

lol
Ok I just had to show myself on a bigger scale n_n

MWAHAHAHA THAT WOULD BE MEEEEEE <3 XD
 
ah yes my hellokitty umbrella ;w;w;w; <3 the fluffing best umbrella EVER

i need SOU, damn it.

да кому тьі нужен?)

I live with these three cats in my apartment. It's great cuz I don't feel me alone, ma sweeties often make me happy ♥ ♥ ♥
 

 
That's the big boss in the house
She's a Maine Coon cat ^__^

 
She's also a Maine Coon with odd eyes & she's very cuddly ♥

 
And here comes my Ragdoll cat with blue eyes. ♥ 
She's almost 7 months old and still such a little doll (cat). xD

my cat's baby picture

 
 
he used to be such a badass kid. now he's turned a holy man.
 

 
no not really he just like necklaces and my friend put that on him.

Zeus loves to be pet.
 

 
And he loves nachos.
 

Lol he sounds like Kouki in the verse, but I don't really mind. When the chorus comes rolling in it becomes apparent that Byou is the most boring and monotone "big" name VK-vocalist, and any novelty is welcome to shake things up a little. 

Trying to code a CMS in OOP. Pretty a humble beginning, though.
 

This is an illustration for Sakurai's 80s song cover.

Since I see a lot of post on this topic I thought I might share my stuff as well...













This one is a live graffiti


I love drawing people, but I especially love drawing the images I see in my head, like this Asagi drawing. Hope you like it.
 

Am I the only person here to think that V.K should only be a japanese thing because they do it so well? Its like being a weeaboo, a few people do it great where as the majority are just bad and get hated on but everyone.
 
Theres nothing wrong with wanting to be like your idols though. though when you enter V.K you need a whole lot of stuff, not just talent and skill and it seems that Westerners arent born with the same 'ear' or the same creativity as Japan,
 
Thats not to say that there arent any great or good western bands - there are millions. but for a western band to try and do V.K it just makes me cringe so bad inside.
 
Ive only listened to seremedy, even though the production and mixing of their album/singles were perfect (thanks to Yohio's dad/contacts) but I fail to really see what was so great about them, I didnt like the vocals and I dont think very highly of Yohio even though id go as far to say id bang him when hes dressed like a girl but hes trying so hard to be Hizaki I rather then trying to be more original that i find him boring and rather spoilt as the studio and all the contacts that are pushing him onwards in the industry are his dads.
 
Leave V,K to Japan!!

wtf is up with these band names
i don't care though, because it's Ban
and Ban is special

Prince - Purple Rain