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That'd be great! 
It doesn't have to be long. It can just be happy 1 year anniversary, where you're from, etc. 
Please PM as soon as possible with the messages! She wants to have an idea of how many people are participating in advance.

All right XAA-XAA fans!
The one year anniversary is coming up and the girls are planning on making message books for the members (I'm imagining it's one per member) and we'd like as many people as possible to participate.
 
So if you are interested in writing a message (one message for each member!) please send me a PM with your messages and I'll forward it on to the girls organizing the message books.
There will be no translating of English messages (I don't have time) so I'd recommend keeping it simple. 
The cards are about the size of a business card--so not that big. Please keep it relatively short!
 
Please send me a message by ??? (I'll update this when I get a reply about it--for now let's say the 29th). As soon as possible is preferred!

All right XAA-XAA fans!
The one year anniversary is coming up and the girls are planning on making message books for the members (I'm imagining it's one per member) and we'd like as many people as possible to participate.
 
So if you are interested in writing a message (one message for each member!) please send me a PM with your messages and I'll forward it on to the girls organizing the message books.
There will be no translating of English messages (I don't have time) so I'd recommend keeping it simple. 
The cards are about the size of a business card--so not that big. Please keep it relatively short!
 
Please send me a message by ??? (I'll update this when I get a reply about it--for now let's say the 29th). As soon as possible is preferred!

Big HMV order came in the post today to catch up with a lot of things:
a crowd of rebellion - Calendula a crowd of rebellion - Daphne HenLee - Los "Dance" Angeles MUCC - T.R.E.N.D.Y. SiM - CROWS WANIMA - Can Not Behaved!! WANIMA - Think That... WANIMA - Are You Coming? wrong city - RESET NOR REPLAY  
And a couple of other recent odds n ends:
ONE OK ROCK - 35xxxv DELUXE EDITION (autographed) ザアザア - 雪時計

Can ya'll just make a 'VK sucks' section on the forum so all these damn threads can go there?

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

well i didn't think to pick it up when I saw them lol so a friend grabbed it for me♡
 
I also was finally able to buy an ensoku towel after 3 years of going to see them. 
They've been sold out every single time I went to see them up until earlier this month.

Oh yeah it does it.
It does it every night ;]

Everyone always says that there are more shitty bands recently....every genre/music scene around the world has plenty of shitty bands in them. And like...I'm pretty sure there were also a ton of shit bands in 90s VK...back when it was all magical and perfect, blah blah.
 
I've been a fan of VK for a long time and I still love some old bands but I also love some new bands. I think now more than ever people in VK can express themselves more freely.  Instead of back then where it was all kinda....the same :/ Now bands are taking more chances and trying out new things; everyone be like, EW MY GOD IT'S HORRIBLEzzzzz.
 
But yeah I can totally see people not really into it anymore because it's stressful as fuck haha ;D
(totally worth it)
 
Also... you're never to old for VK!
 
Okay, I'm done.

Interesting question!

I was into visual kei for many years. I witnessed the bumpy transformation from 90's visual kei to 00's visual kei (although it wasn't as prominent and 9 year old me didn't really know what was going on...I was just in it for what free tunes I could get) and one noticeable part of this transformation was how many online fans didn't move with it. Those that loved the old goth style of the 90s continued to but as the scene moved away from that sound and style they found less and less artists that appealed to them until they quit the scene entirely. This transition seems to happen every ten years because I'm witnessing it again. There's another transition occurring but lots of bands are going in many different directions. I bet in a few years we'll see the birth of new sub-scenes again like oshare-kei that we use informally to describe the new sounds that form (and I can see them forming around bands that use dubstep influence, alt-rock bands, "traditional"-influenced bands, etc.).

As for me, I haven't cared about visual kei in years. There's an undeniable sound associated with it that appeals to all of us somewhat but the scene is saturated with a lot of bands that play very similar music. After ten or so years of listening to the same bands play the same kind of music and watching the progression of visual kei slow to a glacial pace, I got bored. @CAT5 at the time helped me to get adjusted to the other side of Japanese music, which in turn helped me to appreciate different artists in the visual kei scene which were doing things a little differently but we're still pretty cool. It also gave me perspective on just how small this scene really is. In a way, I came full circle back into visual kei but the artists that I enjoy and the amount I'm into it certainly has changed. Now I'm really into a lot of the alternative rock visual kei bands, nagoya-kei bands, or otherwise visual kei oddities that don't fit into the metalcore spectrum.

After thirteen years I can say that there's always bands in visual kei that sound different from the rest of the competition. @emmny mentions deadman and how influential they are as an "old band" but remember that deadman and Aliene Ma'riage were contemporaries! At the time, deadman was playing music completely new to the scene and look where it's got them. It's always easy to look back and say that yesterday's bands are better than today's bands because of x reasons but hindsight is always 20-20 and time has a way of preserving only the best. I feel like we won't really know if the scene's improving or dying for the next few years but I have more hope for the future of the scene now than I did a few years ago. 
 
It's really about how far you want to dig to find it and how willing you are to give new things a chance. And this is coming from someone who barely listens to any new visual kei.

the vk scene is so vast that it's only as interesting as the amount of effort you put into finding bands that interest you. for me, it really is as simple as that. as someone who unabashedly invests a lot of time in exploring new bands, i won't even pretend to know enough to make generalizations about "vk" as a whole. (but evidently these days listening to 3 bands is more than enough for ppl to prophesize that vk is dying, has died, etc.)
 
anyway i don't listen to 80% of current vk bands that i happen to know of, but whatever i'm listening to haven't gotten any less interesting/relevant to me, nor have new discoveries gotten any less exciting.

マイナス人生オーケストラ -- 凡人だもの。
I'm so pumped to have a new Minus Jin-Say Orchestra CD(ง •̀_•́)ง
It's so hard to get a hold of stuff I don't already have lol.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

マイナス人生オーケストラ -- 凡人だもの。
I'm so pumped to have a new Minus Jin-Say Orchestra CD(ง •̀_•́)ง
It's so hard to get a hold of stuff I don't already have lol.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

well i didn't think to pick it up when I saw them lol so a friend grabbed it for me♡
 
I also was finally able to buy an ensoku towel after 3 years of going to see them. 
They've been sold out every single time I went to see them up until earlier this month.

my copy + 6 friends/acquaintances copies of XAA-XAA's yukitokei
I was a bit surprised to see it's not in a jewel case like all their other release have been.

well i didn't think to pick it up when I saw them lol so a friend grabbed it for me♡
 
I also was finally able to buy an ensoku towel after 3 years of going to see them. 
They've been sold out every single time I went to see them up until earlier this month.

@kyoselflove glad to see the cheki I got you are safe and sound (even if you tell me they arrived it's nice to see a pic that i didn't take of them to be sure hahaha) 
The one with half his face red my friend has nicknamed the banshee because he just kind of screams REALLY LOUDLY randomly (srsly you hear it over the music it's hilarious) and i think that cheki kind of captures that perfectly :')
 
 

Sel'm & Ensoku's newest \m/
 
Also the GNz-WORD CDs I mentioned before are here 

@kyoselflove glad to see the cheki I got you are safe and sound (even if you tell me they arrived it's nice to see a pic that i didn't take of them to be sure hahaha) 
The one with half his face red my friend has nicknamed the banshee because he just kind of screams REALLY LOUDLY randomly (srsly you hear it over the music it's hilarious) and i think that cheki kind of captures that perfectly :')
 
 

Sel'm & Ensoku's newest \m/
 
Also the GNz-WORD CDs I mentioned before are here 

@kyoselflove glad to see the cheki I got you are safe and sound (even if you tell me they arrived it's nice to see a pic that i didn't take of them to be sure hahaha) 
The one with half his face red my friend has nicknamed the banshee because he just kind of screams REALLY LOUDLY randomly (srsly you hear it over the music it's hilarious) and i think that cheki kind of captures that perfectly :')
 
 

Sel'm & Ensoku's newest \m/
 
Also the GNz-WORD CDs I mentioned before are here