Is Ruka as miserable at LSN lives as he is Nightmare lives?

[TheZigzagoon 670]

Just watching the multi angle footage of Ruka from Nightmares 2009 budokan appearance, I'm just wondering if he's just this way at Nightmare lives or does he do this with LSN too

[Saishu 1589]

I had a DVD of Nightmare’s Ultimate Circus Final live, which I believe was in 2004. He looked miserable even then. I think he was just playing the part of the stoic performer, but I’ve never seen him outside the context of Nightmare. 

[TheZigzagoon 670]

17 minutes ago, Saishu said:

I had a DVD of Nightmare’s Ultimate Circus Final live, which I believe was in 2004. He looked miserable even then. I think he was just playing the part of the stoic performer, but I’ve never seen him outside the context of Nightmare. 

I know a lot of visual Kei is about putting on an act, and it very well could be an act, it just makes it hard to be a fan of his regardless xD In their second budokan DVD (the one I referenced) he does nothing but stares at his feet, it makes his multi angle shots incredibly boring when compared to the rest of the band 

[Saishu 1589]

19 minutes ago, TheZigzagoon said:

I know a lot of visual Kei is about putting on an act, and it very well could be an act, it just makes it hard to be a fan of his regardless xD In their second budokan DVD (the one I referenced) he does nothing but stares at his feet, it makes his multi angle shots incredibly boring when compared to the rest of the band 

I was going to compare Ruka to Shinya, but at least Shinya is still animated, even with his blank expression. My understanding is that Nightmare wasn’t the best environment after a while, at least in recent years up until the hiatus. Maybe he was projecting how things were all along. 

[diryangrey 121]

on twitter they uploaded like fifty pictures of him smiling & interacting w/ the audience at the BiS/BiSH LSN lives back when that happened, so i'd guess probably not lol