anakuro

Oneness's GO!! in all types with Like an Edison and ZEAL LINK comment DVDs.
XAA-XAA's Doshaburi no Kanojo x5 (my copy, friends' copies) + my in store tickets
GAGA's second press of the single in the limited purple cover.
Random free CDs that like an edison gave me.
Also, not pictured, but I bought Oneness' tour pamphlet and some cheki partially in order to get a two shot with Syuma (it was totally worth it), partially because I wanted those things.

I always though My Eggplant Died Yesterday was a hilarious name tbh

I always though My Eggplant Died Yesterday was a hilarious name tbh

yes on cocklobin, GHOSE and Heartless
 
 
The band that stings the most is Belmosaic. I love XAA-XAA a ridiculous amount but I miss Belmosaic just as much. I still regret not being able to go to their last live (._. )

What anakuro said. No one's expected to buy any number of copies; people just do whatever they want. It's one CD purchase per event if you wanna go -- and most bands actually make you purchase multiple copies or multiple types to get instore tickets, but GALLO doesn't do that. You can also get multiple photos and autographs at any given instore for having more than one ticket, and while most bands will only have an autographing OR a photo event, GALLO pretty much does it all at every event. Basically, I'm more inclined to spend my money when it's worth it, and they make it worth it.
 
Also, just for whoever mentioned the tokuten ("privileges"?) -- I honestly don't give a crap about them. XD I just like instores.
 
Besides, the title track on INCUBUS is about the financial relationship between vk bands and their fans, so the humor's not lost on me.

She's going to plenty of their in store events. You have to buy one copy to get one in store ticket. But she does sell the extras as much as possible. I do it too too a lesser extent: I have 5 copies of XAA-XAA's newest mini-album reserved.

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a regular release based on the release date being before the actual two mans. But yeah it's a pain in the ass getting ahold of Minus' stuff, pretty happy with what I do have... 
 
 
 
hopefully we can go together ＼(^o^)／

She's going to plenty of their in store events. You have to buy one copy to get one in store ticket. But she does sell the extras as much as possible. I do it too too a lesser extent: I have 5 copies of XAA-XAA's newest mini-album reserved.

yes on cocklobin, GHOSE and Heartless
 
 
The band that stings the most is Belmosaic. I love XAA-XAA a ridiculous amount but I miss Belmosaic just as much. I still regret not being able to go to their last live (._. )

THE GALLO's "INCUBUS", ten times

yes on cocklobin, GHOSE and Heartless
 
 
The band that stings the most is Belmosaic. I love XAA-XAA a ridiculous amount but I miss Belmosaic just as much. I still regret not being able to go to their last live (._. )

yes on cocklobin, GHOSE and Heartless
 
 
The band that stings the most is Belmosaic. I love XAA-XAA a ridiculous amount but I miss Belmosaic just as much. I still regret not being able to go to their last live (._. )

First and foremost, D'espairsRay (even though they did have a 1 day revival, but I need one I can see them! XD)
 
cocklobin
GHOSE
NAINE
Zodia
Heartless
 
 
I have to stop myself here, there are really too many. 

More Ensoku CDs~!
A bunch of Aya
And actually as a bonus: the free CDs XAA-XAA (ザアザア) was handing out at KANSAI ROCK SUMMIT (I got Tsumetai from Reiya and Dokusou Orchestra from Roji).

He would. 

I've only been to two lives outside of Japan (The Candy Spooky Theater in Boston in 2007 and Ayabie in New York in 2008)
Bands used to come within traveling distance but I was really young back then so it was impossible for me to go most of time. (D'espairsRay.......)
 
I went to a lot of lives when I studied abroad in Tokyo from September 2012 to August 2013 but I don't think I ever kept track of every single live I went to. I can work on compiling that another time.
 
Last summer I went back for three months (5/24 - 8/20) and kept a better record so I can start with that.
 
5/2014 
25th - Souiumono/Ayabie/Minus Jin-Say Orchestra/REIGN/Grieva/ @ Ikebukuro EDGE 31st - GALLO/Elm twoman @ Birth Shinjuku   6/2014 1st - SAVAGE oneman @ Ikebukuro EDGE 6th - BORN oneman @ Shinjuku LOFT 7th - GALLO oneman @ AREA 13th - Chanty/REIGN/ALSDEAD/xTRiPx/etc @ AREA 14th - Lycaon oneman @ Shinjuku Blaze 18th - Avelcain oneman @ O-West 20th - GALLO/The Velvet/Dada/Venom/The Black Swan/etc. @ Ruido K4 23rd - Zoro/Gigamous/Wing Works/REIGN @ Ikebukuro EDGE 24th - Dangan no Limit/Zoro/Memento Mori/Monolith/Souiumono/etc. @ AREA 25th - Marble Head/GALLO/Elm/Sibile Bashir/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 30th - The 3rd Birthday Free Oneman @ Shinjuku Birth   7/2014 1st - SAVAGE/SCAPEGOAT/+10 no name bands including melvel @ Shinjuku Birth 5th - GALLO/Sibile Bashir/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 6th - LuLu’s restart live (plus Avanchick as the secret band, Danger Gang and 8 other bands, and Maria......) @ Ikebukuro Cyber 8th - SAVAGE/Arlequin/etc @ AREA 9th - REIGN/Arlequin/Gigamous/Nihilizm/Shounenki/etc. @ AREA 11th - GALLO/REIGN/Arlequin/AvelCain/Lin/Avanchick/etc. @ Shibuya REX 13th - SAVAGE/Avelcain/CELL/etc. @ Urawa Narciss (I only made it on time to see Avelcain and CELL though) 16th - The 3rd Birthday/SAVAGE/Scapegoat/the:0/etc. @ Shinjuku Birth 19th - REIGN/gossip/Nihilizm/one more band? Gigamous I think? @ AREA 21st - VRZEL/Shedia/a billion session bands @ Shinjuku Birth 24th - 2nd awake/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 26th - BORN oneman @ Shinjuku BLAZE 29th - GALLO/Misaruka/BUG SCREAM/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 30th - SCAPEGOAT/ALSDEAD/Nihilizm/The Black Swan/Avanchick/xTRiPx/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE   8/2014 1st - GALLO/SaTaN/Avelcain/CELL/etc. @ Meguro Rokumeikan 2nd - Test-No./dieS/Dear loving/the tissue. @ Takadanobaba Club Phase 3rd - GALLO/D.I.D/Poltergeist/Shounenki/Rozero/etc. @ Takadanobaba AREA 10th - 2nd awake/Log/Squair/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 11th - LuLu/etc. @ Shibuya REX 12th - GALLO/Ensoku/Minus Jin-Say Orchestra/Moran/Anli Pollicino/XIBALBA/yazzmad/Misaruka/Lin/DEEP RAVE/Pan-d-ra/GIGA FREAKS/etc. @ Saitama Kaikan Hall 15th - SaTaN/The Velvet/etc. @ Ikebukuro Chop 16th - SaTaN @ Ikebukuro Live inn ROSA 17th - GALLO/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 19th - GALLO/CELL/Sick2/yazzmad/etc. @ Urawa Narciss     Some memories 6/7: Jojo singing the first opening for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure at the beginning of the encore. Also moshing with Jojo and Hikaru during Mimizu. It's usually just Hikaru but Jojo got down with us since it was his birthday. He got his ass tossed around like a ragdoll. 6/20: I felt like I was about to throw up the entire live, and I particularly felt horrible during Gallo's set but I tried to have as much fun as I could. The band definitely noticed as I got both Hikaru and Wajou's picks and some worried looks that evening. I left after their set and ran into the former vocalist of a band I liked in middle school and talked to him a bit. 6/25: Marblehead entered the stage from the back of the room and walked through the audience while the bassist was holding the vocalist by a leash. It was so wtf but I quite liked them. 7/6: Taa dumped a crate of ice cubes on us then we went straight into Dekiai Kuranke and everyone was slipping everywhere. Taa also climbed up to the mezzanine, dove on us, and we carried him back to the stage, and then sat on my head and almost ripped out my earring. Oh Taa.... 7/26: During the encore Ryoga stage dove directly on me and my friend knocking us down to the floor and landing right on top of us. He kicked me in the face as he got himself up and used my friend's chest as a step to get himself back on stage, and when he got back on stage he spat water on us. Thanks dude. 8/10: I was dosen for 2nd Awake and when Aika came down to two step with us during Contradiction he tripped over my feet and almost fell on a bunch of gya in the second row.  8/12: HaL got off stage during one song and started crawling and flipping all over the seats in the front-left section of the venue trying to get people to sing for him.

I'm officially over 100 lives v(._.)v Also my tumblr username has changed so that link is probably broken. Anyway adding on to where I left off...
 

  Lately my main bands I go see & am most interested in are ザアザア (XAA-XAA) マイナス人生オーケストラ (Minus Jin-Say Orchestra) えんそく (Ensoku) クレイドル (Cradle) ワンネス (Oneness) I'm pretty much stopping going to see
サウイフモノ (Souiumono) 少年記 (Shounenki) Best memories since my last post...
2014.08.09: I got to see Belmosaic one last time and it was so good and so much fun even if I had no clue what the furi was since it was my second time seeing them. A girl lent me her towel and the gya were so fun and nice afterwards. They kept using English too. 2014.8.30: got a two shot with Syuma. We'd never met before. When I came up for the twoshot he asked me, "Misha?!" Yes, that's me!!  2014.12.3: XAA-XAA's first oneman, the curtain opened up and Junko, their mannequin, was just strewn EVERYWHERE (also caution tape everywhere) and it was just so funny. Also it was really nice showing up and the gya who I had met at Belmosaic remembered me. 2014.12.31: Mido was dressed as a shrimp almost the entire countdown live. Bye. He also got worried about me not doing the circle mosh (I saw them five times that week, I did it every other time) for godon at the countdown live. Sorry bro My feet hurt... 2015.4.8: It was just such a good line up and fun from start to finish--8 hours went by in the blink of an eye which is impressive. EVIST's members are dressed as monsters and they came down and scared the gya. It was awesome. 2015.5.6: Being in saizen when Jin-Machine was covering a Minus song and all the girls around me having to look to me for furitsuke lolol 2015.5.23: Kazuki from XAA-XAA climbed the pipe and hung like a monkey from the ceiling while singing for about half a song. 

I can understand it's appeal.
 
Having been exposed to a ton of it over the past 3 or so years thanks to sites like plug.dj and turntable.fm, I can say that a lot of it is fun and catchy. I think it's interesting that they've taken that whole pop-group aesthetic and managed to keep it appealing, since it's become mostly passé in the west. I also think it's cool that kpop producers seem to keep up with all the pop-music trends while drawing from several, older eras of pop music at the same time. It's a very, subtly unique blend of sounds, but I think it gives them a bit of edge up over a few other mainstream pop scenes.
 
With that said, I don't feel like there's enough substance in it for me to incorporate into my regular musical diet. I've also never been able to establish any significant emotional connections with the music. It can certainly be fun to indulge in at times, and the music videos are usually pretty entertaining, though.

I'm really happy to hear so many people are digging them. They're a mess and hilarious in so many ways but musically really solid and have been the most exciting thing in vk for me personally since their firt oneman. Here's to hoping they keep growing
If anyone wants to grab doshaburi no kanojo I'm going to be getting three for other people so I can swing getting another couple I haven't orderd yet because I'm waiting on in store details to be announced so pm me if you're interested!

More Ensoku CDs~!
A bunch of Aya
And actually as a bonus: the free CDs XAA-XAA (ザアザア) was handing out at KANSAI ROCK SUMMIT (I got Tsumetai from Reiya and Dokusou Orchestra from Roji).

More Ensoku CDs~!
A bunch of Aya
And actually as a bonus: the free CDs XAA-XAA (ザアザア) was handing out at KANSAI ROCK SUMMIT (I got Tsumetai from Reiya and Dokusou Orchestra from Roji).

Happy birthday lovely @anakuro and @evenor! : 3
And to you, dear: @jinnangel24!

happy birthday anakuro

Happy birthday @anakuro!

Happy birthday to our dear  anakuro !!!

And also to evenor (27) and jinnangel24 (34) !