Well, might as well say Hi first

[shiroblanc 5]

Hi guys,

 

Hmmm…I haven’t wrote a forum intro in more than a decade now, well, let’s see how this goes.

 

I was a 90's kid who got into J-Rock in the beginning of the ‘00s when I upgraded to electric guitar, at the time, it was Glay, L’arc en Ciel and Dir en Grey that dominated the scene. Slowly, I got pulled towards the lesser known stuff like Malice Mizer(at the time that is), Raphael, hide, Due le Quartz and a few others that I forget now. I spent a great deal of fun with VK during those years, a couple of friends and I formed a band and we used to rehearse with J-Rock(and J-Pop) music. My favorite bands at the time were Malice Mizer, Glay and Dir en Grey (but over the years Malice Mizer became the victor).

 

I haven’t been catching up for the past 7-8 years due to the change in musical style and that the old stuff were kind of getting lost in the sea of new VK hype, also for the fact that I was moving towards University and my hobbies subsequently changed. During those years I have discovered new gems every once in a while – Acidman, Versailles, Maximum the Hormone and Tsubakiya Quartette, so I guess I wasn’t completely cut off.

 

While watching Malice Mizer’s Merveilles l’espace a few days ago, the nostalgia crept back up, and I found myself wanting to catch up with everything that I’ve missed out so far, the love for J-Rock and VK somehow revived itself after all these years.

 

So in the meantime, I thought I’d drop by and say hi to the community; it appears it’s become way bigger than how I remembered it, and I’m glad it is so. So if there’s anything I’m missing out on, I’m counting on you guys to fill me in

 

Yoroshiku,

 

Shiro

[YuyoDrift 1540]

Osu.

 

Take as long as you need to, as I feel that the people on this site are more welcoming than others.

 

I myself took some time off, and have spent the last year revisiting/catching up on some of my older bands, as well as previewing the new bands now.

 

Forewarning: The scene is different, but some aspects are still the same. Nagoya Kei for the most part has remained the same, and Neo-Visual (do they still call it that?) took over the mid/late 00's. 

 

I was a big GLAY/Malice Mizer/Laputa fan when I first started too (Albeit I was very young) and have seen the boom of Neo-Visual take place, and honestly it's been 70/30. These last few years have seen a big list of disbandments from the greats and there's room for the newer gen to grab hold.

 

Have fun catching up and again, welcome to the site.

[CAT5 9075]

Welcome (back?) to the forum!

Enjoy, and if you need any recommendations, there's plenty of those to go around!

[desparejo86 160]

OG visual fans FTW. Malice Mizer is still the one.