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    suji reacted to Cantavanda in Lareine   
    Hello! I have copy number 14 of the DVD. It contains a concert, but actually much more. Two PVs (Fleur and ROMANCIA), the Fleur is much better then the VHS release we only have, it contains many many pictures in a slideshow that were released nowhere else, over 100. It also contains a slideshow of lots of unseen concert footage, but with just a song over it. And it contains excerpts of yet another major era concert, with about 15 seconds per song, it has Billet in that! The only live Billet footage there is.
    This DVD just shows as a love letter how much love KAMIJO has for his fans, he didn't have money to print any more copies probably, because he had to print more compilation CDs at that time like Imperial Concerto, but it's still a big love letter.
     
    Good news, I PUT A PART OF IT ON YT!!
    Share it like widefire guys.
     
    But I love this DVD so much, it's my favourite part of my collection besides their 1st demo tape (100 limited), and I want it to keep it's huge value among collectors, being sold for 100s the rare times it shows up, so I'm not going to put anymore online.
    BUT I'm going to make an entry of this DVD in Discogs with a detailed tracklist guys
    I'm already doing a lot for the fanbase by giving info and that one vid, cus there's litirally NO info at all about this at all on the internet besides the Puresound entry. Oh yes, if you have this DVD, YA BETTER NOT SHARE IT TOO  It must stay valuable.
     
     
    And OMG I read your long post about their disbandment! This made me sooo sad.... I already knew some of this but not with this much detail! I always knew LAREINE had so much love for each other and their fans, even though I hear people sometimes say KAMIJO is an asshole. Or even a few posts before that they didn't like each other LOL.
    APPLAUSE RECORDS was the only reason why LAREINE could still make music, I'm so grateful KAMIJO made it when he still had money in Fierte era. And their late era music has so much gems! Imperial Concerto, Sakura, Drama, 愛されていた日々-Ever Love-, 月の狩人, basically the whole Winter Romantic EP, but there's a lot of just good and some decent tracks too so that's why people think it. But I've listened to NEVER CAGE and Imperial Concerto sooo much times, hundreds that I love it all hahaha. Only 眠れぬ恋は真珠 I actively dislike and avoid. It might be one of the worst LAREINE songs ever lol.
    I didn't know they actually COULDN'T find a drummer, that's soo sad! 😢
     
    Also almost ALL releases of LAREINE after 2003 are expensive ASF and rare and rarely show up: NEVER CAGE, the main album of that time is rare, the three versions are all three rare, normal, Deluxe and Limited... The main singles: Trailer, Sakura, Drama and Sakura -Second Season-, 雪恋詩, 道化師の舞曲 and Cinderella Fantasy are rare too! It's exeptional that these are on puresound at the moment actually, they're KINDAAA overpriced, but are still expensive items. And let's not talk about Best Album Ballad and Fleur, Imperial Concerto, Winter Romantic, Deep Forest, 白蝶 and 女王という名の貴公子 that are each worth over 100.... A prime example of releasing REALLY GOOD music on limited batches of prints. They actually also had a revival of the Fleur fanclub magazine in 2004 that had a few issues, these seem to be so rare that I've never ever seem them on sale. Heck, even the Fleur magazines from the major era BARELY go on sale...
     
    I'm dreaming of ever seeing a Bara wa live performance, question: Did they perform this and Billet in their late era concerts? Or songs like ピンクの傘 and パリは秋色 from Fierte, two of my favourites and sooo underrated. Sadly these four are not on the THE LAST OF ROMANCE I DVD main concert.
     
     
     
    And some good info:
    I'm working on a huge LAREINE fansite! With scans of every release booklet, a full discography AND miscellanous items like the many many message CD/VHS/Tapes, lots of information, magazine and book scans! It's sitll in early stages so no link yet, but I will make a topic and a new LAREINE thread here (this one's from 2007 lol) when it's close to done and presentable!  Using a paid domain and a very good Wordpress theme with many plugins. I think I am very fitted to make the website since I own almost every item ever except the FC magazines that I barely own.
     
    Inertla thank you so much for your post!! Can I use info of it in my site? I will credit you! This might also be my favourite post on this whole site lol!
    Bye
     
    Also if anyone is wondering why Reine de fleur I and II sound so weird, it's because it's a compilation of pre-BLUE ROMANCE LAREINE except for Detest Off Doll and a version of Féerie. KAMIJO's voice was completely untrained in some of the songs on it. When I first started listening and downloaded Reine de fleur I and II I was also very confused by this LOL. I put on 季節風 and Dir en gray at random and was like "WTF??" lol
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    suji got a reaction from Mei in Dir en grey stan pretends to be Kyo, scams wife's family for millions of yen   
    It's not even Halloween yet, and there's already some trickery or treating going on!
     
    A man from Nara had been arrested on October 22 on suspicion of fraud after reportedly scamming his in-laws for thousands of yen by impersonating Kyo, the frontman of Dir en grey and Sukekiyo. 39 year old Yoshikazu Kasahara was able to fool the family of his common-law wife into believing he was the prolific singer and scammed them for what would amount to 54 million yen (roughly 515,268 US dollars). He had previously been arrested three times (!!!) for scamming a previous lover's family for a total of around $24k and for assault.
     
    A longtime fan of the band's, Kasahara was apparently so committed to this gimmick that he even told his mother 10 years ago and gave her concert tickets to see "him" perform, when in reality he was actually unemployed. He even got identical arm and neck tattoos as Kyo himself and would find time to leave home on the days that Dir would be performing. He would even state that Dynamite Tommy, the owner of Free-Will, had taken his bank book, which is why he frequently demanded money. 
     
    Link to the translation summary done by our very own @cvltic
    Original article - Livedoor
     

     

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    suji reacted to Ruri in Naziploitation in Visual-kei   
    the only other genre i know of that has an abundance of ambiguous nazism is black metal, and it's funny to think that it shares that in common with squeaky-clean azn femboy pop-rock
  4. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
    suji reacted to Tokage in Naziploitation in Visual-kei   
    ganguro ao sakurai
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    suji reacted to Zeus in Naziploitation in Visual-kei   
    I wish I could find this picture right now, but when Chanty popped up on the scene they did it with blackface. That's what turned me off the band entirely. But did they mean anything with it? Probably not, because they live in a pretty homogeneous country and they don't have the cultural conditioning to understand why it is wrong. I would say they lack that conditioning so much, it wraps around the continuum and becomes something so foreign to them that it's not even shocking. Does that make any sense?
     
     

    I agree with some of the points you made, but not with the conclusion. People do edgy shit all the time for attention. That doesn't mean they actually believe what they're doing. Visual kei bands appropriated nazi imagery years ago, but that doesn't mean they are automatically all neo nazis. Most bands have never appropriated this imagery, so by your logic most bands aren't neo nazis! We're going to need Akane-level outbursts on twitter saying they hate gays, jews, and blacks, or lyrics or interviews that say as much, before I would be willing to point to a band member and say "yep, that's a neo nazi right there".

    If you wish to educate us some more, exactly who is it that you are thinking of and what proof do you have? Proof is the coin of the realm here on MH.
  6. Yikes
    suji reacted to Vera_Arianna_von_Hilvety in Naziploitation in Visual-kei   
    You dont seem to have the slighest idea of what Nazism was, is and will be. You really should read something!!!
     
    First, deniying the Holocaust is EXACTLY what neo nazis do. And Visual Kei Artists, do so, as posted by the japanese guy that lives in germany.
     
    Second, IMPERIAL JAPAN WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ALLY OF GERMANY AND THE WHOLE AXIS IN WW II BESIDES ITALY !!!!
    How do you not know this???!!
    THE ALLIES threw 2 NUCLEAR BOMBS to japanese cities full of people. 
    Third: Swastika is originally indo-aryan (vedic) symbol, before it became buddhist, iranic (scythian) and Pagan (european) symbol.
     
    Visual Kei artists are secretly neo-nazis, and they are angry at ex-communist and ex-allies countries.
     
    Is this good or bad? well, depends of who you ask. Same goes for capitalists/communists.
  7. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
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    suji got a reaction from itsukoii in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
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    suji got a reaction from platy in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
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    suji reacted to colorful人生 in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    Since all the memes are being mentioned again, I guess I'll "come clean" =P and add some of my own thoughts.
     
    I was Harambe, Ditto, and Saishuuuu. Even during times when I found myself occupied with other stuff in my life, I couldn't help myself from memeposting on the forum.  Moving on, there was always this pervasive cynicism creep that became really obvious during release dry spells which would lead to reddit-posting and oddball topics. While a bit annoying in retrospect, the discussions were always fun to some degree, whether I was participating or just observing the chaos. 
     
    // 
     
    Honorable Mentions:
     
    @hiroki @Mihenno @JRD @platy @chemicalpictures @nostalgia @Jun_ @CAT5 @paradoxal @Tetora @Yukimoto @Pretsy @Raburr7 @ricchubunny @fitear1590 @Karma’s Hat @suji @Gesu @kyoselflove @yakihiko

    I mean the list goes on, but some of the many individuals on the forum I had pleasant experiences with.
     
    @Raburr7 and I have had a back-and-forth since March of 2013 trading music and whatnot, and got brief glimpses into what he was doing in his life the past 6~ish years.
     
    @hiroki @Mihenno @paradoxal
    With the occasional other individual(s) (sorry if I've forgotten), we would have dubtrack.fm sessions in the host-kei room, which upon reflection were really cathartic for me. They were always really fun.
     
    On a related note, @hiroki for several months straight met up with me nearly every day (if I recall) on that same Dubtrack channel to discuss music, life, etc. Unknowingly, you helped me through one of the more uncertain periods of my life. I can't thank you enough.
  11. LOVE!
    suji got a reaction from sutululu in Tsuzuku bullying other members of Mejibray?   
    ~ at least this isn't about them banging each other or anything ~
  12. I feel ya..
    suji got a reaction from Total Saikou in What song fits your mood for Monochrome heaven closing?   
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    suji reacted to Arkady in What song fits your mood for Monochrome heaven closing?   
    I prefer to say my farewell with a bittersweet laught, so I'm choosing "Dance my Generation", since the "End of an era" theme is fitting.
     
     
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    suji got a reaction from The Moon in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  16. LOVE!
    suji got a reaction from Serox in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
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    suji reacted to WhirlingBlack in Staying in touch   
    You need to add your four numbers as well for the discord name!
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    suji got a reaction from Total Saikou in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  19. LOVE!
    suji reacted to Ikna in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    Haha, yeah, that was quite a wild ride. Also when it turned out that Kisaki was an abuser and pedo… thanks to MH I lost all the respect I had left for him, lol. 
     
    –––––
    RIP Mh. Took me a while to write something…
     
    I know I didn't post much at the end, because I took a break from the internet and especially social media. I don't know if people really recognize me, since I am here only sporadically, despite being signed since a long time. I admit, I like lurking more than actually talking to other people. I still took part in some discussions and being the weird introvert that I am, I usually regretted voicing my stupid opinions afterwards. In the end I didn't delete any posts though, because I feel that's part of forum culture, owning up to the bullshit you say, even if it's cringe and letting it stay on the internet. Some disputes and lovely banter here was funny though and it fills me with a strange fuzzy feeling to know that i have been part of some fandom drama. It's like being part of an old folk tale, you know? Now I wonder how much of the drama will be even remembered in 10 years…
     
    Honestly, a year ago or so I believed MH would stay for much longer, since the forum managed to outlive most other de-centralized communities and websites. Seems I was wrong and it comes to an end sooner than I thought. I know there's a new community on discourse, but I have to admit, I don't like social media sites and centralized web hubs and places. I think discourse is a better alternative than having nothing, but MH's UI was miles better. MH also feels so much more personal… I cannot explain it. I just don't really feel the same thing when I go online on sites like reddit, facebook, etc. Everything's quite dull and surface level, particularly on FB.  VK fandom communities on other sites are also rather meh…
     
    Anyway, before I start writing bullshit, I just want to thank all the people who kept the site alive for more than a decade. I discovered a lot of great bands and music here, some of the discussions were entertaining to read. Hope you are all doing fine, despite the train wreck of a year we had.
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    suji got a reaction from Lestat in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  21. LOVE!
    suji got a reaction from inartistic in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  22. LOVE!
    suji got a reaction from WhirlingBlack in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  23. Like
    suji got a reaction from Jigsaw9 in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
  24. kuusou
    suji reacted to Tokage in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    one time at sakuracon i walked into a back room and i saw the entire mh staff team peeing on each other. 
  25. LOVE!
    suji got a reaction from CAT5 in Monochrome Heaven Memories   
    M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

    they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

    PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
    PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
    PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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    Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
     
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