chris

morrigan new look overall reminds me of those guys from final fantasy 7 advent children
 
i'm listening to the new cd now and i love it as always but i agree that it sounds like nothing new, most of their stuff sounds really similar (not always a bad thing i guess).
 

i miss them already.
 
started fucking wit nanaki. it feels very bittersweet now especially wif the news and all 

i've been kind of avoiding reading too much of people speculating (only skimmed over the 6 pages here really).
people online seem to be in one of two groups and it's just ugh stop.
(those groups:
- "hope they don't come back they've been shit since (insert year)"/"hope they come back with better songs because everything new is shit"
- NOOOOOO THEY'RE LEAVINGGGGG FOREVERRRRRRRRR MY HUSBAND COME BACK I'LL DIE)
 
i went to some recent lives and the niigata live was definitely depressing with all the people crying (although dropping to your knees and screaming and refusing to move is a bit fucking ridiculous, some people) but understandable since it was the first one with no encore and everyone was kind of shocked. the band definitely didn't seem happy there. fukuoka live after 5 days rest since sendai they looked in better spirits for sure.
i think they'll keep up the no encore until the tour final but maybe for the final play an encore.
hoping/expecting some big announcement at the tour final or at least at the fc tour final in july. until then i'm avoiding speculating too much on what i think they're doing.

i've been kind of avoiding reading too much of people speculating (only skimmed over the 6 pages here really).
people online seem to be in one of two groups and it's just ugh stop.
(those groups:
- "hope they don't come back they've been shit since (insert year)"/"hope they come back with better songs because everything new is shit"
- NOOOOOO THEY'RE LEAVINGGGGG FOREVERRRRRRRRR MY HUSBAND COME BACK I'LL DIE)
 
i went to some recent lives and the niigata live was definitely depressing with all the people crying (although dropping to your knees and screaming and refusing to move is a bit fucking ridiculous, some people) but understandable since it was the first one with no encore and everyone was kind of shocked. the band definitely didn't seem happy there. fukuoka live after 5 days rest since sendai they looked in better spirits for sure.
i think they'll keep up the no encore until the tour final but maybe for the final play an encore.
hoping/expecting some big announcement at the tour final or at least at the fc tour final in july. until then i'm avoiding speculating too much on what i think they're doing.

i've been kind of avoiding reading too much of people speculating (only skimmed over the 6 pages here really).
people online seem to be in one of two groups and it's just ugh stop.
(those groups:
- "hope they don't come back they've been shit since (insert year)"/"hope they come back with better songs because everything new is shit"
- NOOOOOO THEY'RE LEAVINGGGGG FOREVERRRRRRRRR MY HUSBAND COME BACK I'LL DIE)
 
i went to some recent lives and the niigata live was definitely depressing with all the people crying (although dropping to your knees and screaming and refusing to move is a bit fucking ridiculous, some people) but understandable since it was the first one with no encore and everyone was kind of shocked. the band definitely didn't seem happy there. fukuoka live after 5 days rest since sendai they looked in better spirits for sure.
i think they'll keep up the no encore until the tour final but maybe for the final play an encore.
hoping/expecting some big announcement at the tour final or at least at the fc tour final in july. until then i'm avoiding speculating too much on what i think they're doing.

i've been kind of avoiding reading too much of people speculating (only skimmed over the 6 pages here really).
people online seem to be in one of two groups and it's just ugh stop.
(those groups:
- "hope they don't come back they've been shit since (insert year)"/"hope they come back with better songs because everything new is shit"
- NOOOOOO THEY'RE LEAVINGGGGG FOREVERRRRRRRRR MY HUSBAND COME BACK I'LL DIE)
 
i went to some recent lives and the niigata live was definitely depressing with all the people crying (although dropping to your knees and screaming and refusing to move is a bit fucking ridiculous, some people) but understandable since it was the first one with no encore and everyone was kind of shocked. the band definitely didn't seem happy there. fukuoka live after 5 days rest since sendai they looked in better spirits for sure.
i think they'll keep up the no encore until the tour final but maybe for the final play an encore.
hoping/expecting some big announcement at the tour final or at least at the fc tour final in july. until then i'm avoiding speculating too much on what i think they're doing.

i've been kind of avoiding reading too much of people speculating (only skimmed over the 6 pages here really).
people online seem to be in one of two groups and it's just ugh stop.
(those groups:
- "hope they don't come back they've been shit since (insert year)"/"hope they come back with better songs because everything new is shit"
- NOOOOOO THEY'RE LEAVINGGGGG FOREVERRRRRRRRR MY HUSBAND COME BACK I'LL DIE)
 
i went to some recent lives and the niigata live was definitely depressing with all the people crying (although dropping to your knees and screaming and refusing to move is a bit fucking ridiculous, some people) but understandable since it was the first one with no encore and everyone was kind of shocked. the band definitely didn't seem happy there. fukuoka live after 5 days rest since sendai they looked in better spirits for sure.
i think they'll keep up the no encore until the tour final but maybe for the final play an encore.
hoping/expecting some big announcement at the tour final or at least at the fc tour final in july. until then i'm avoiding speculating too much on what i think they're doing.

morrigan new look overall reminds me of those guys from final fantasy 7 advent children
 
i'm listening to the new cd now and i love it as always but i agree that it sounds like nothing new, most of their stuff sounds really similar (not always a bad thing i guess).
 

I think I'm in the minority here but I've enjoyed all their recent releases. Not as much as their past work like 420 and their .whatever minis. 
 
It it is a shame because I see their talent and they are one of the more impressive bands out there in the scene right now but if they need a break, go for it. Just don't pull a 12012 and Malice Mizer and never come back. 

this song belongs here

this song belongs here

Yeah...no.

Literally all people not interested in Western VK need to do is not respond and the threads will die on their own.

I saw Brand X already put it on their site ~ I didn't notice it on other stores yet

too lazy to take/post pictures, maybe i'll put them later.
edit: i found old pictures and added them here
 
 

i mostly just have predictions of mejibray since they consume my days off and everything in my bank account, leaving nothing for any other band
 
- mia does some kind of collab or solo project outside of mejibray and nobody really cares
- he also has at least 3 new prince outfits that are difficult to tell apart
- somebody gets sick and the schedule is in danger somehow
- at least 5 new cds and 3 new dvds
- two more tours after the one in may already announced
 
in terms of other bands i wanted to predict initial'L flopping more than already but someone else covered this
 
hoping to see malisend members in new bands but not holding my breath

for me the main point of all their announcements is THEY ARE FINALLY DOING INSTORE WHERE I CAN TAKE PHOTO WITH THEM I WILL BUY 10 COPIES OF THIS DVD.
actual dvd/cd content is pretty irrelevant compared to that.

welcome~~ nice to meet you my fellow mejiloving new friend

i'm from scotland.
while living there as a kid/teenager i visited these places during family vacations:
- england and wales of course but never ireland for some reason
- france
- spain
- netherlands
- germany
- norway
- malta
- greece
- cyprus
- USA (only florida, for disney)
- india (and bahrain if it counts that the flight stops there on the way)
 
on my own (alone because i have no friends) while i lived in scotland i visited
- also england and france
- sweden
- japan (for 3 week vacation only in tokyo)
but england and france and sweden were only to see lives because no japanese artist ever goes to scotland. i think vamps and dir en grey have been there.
 
then i moved to live in south korea for a year and i visited all over korea (well not all over north korea, only to the DMZ. organised trips to north korea are never when i can be off work. but you can see pretty much all the good stuff in south korea within a year even if you're working a lot because it's a small country).
while i lived in korea i visited hong kong for a few days. but i didn't really like hong kong much, i only went there to go to disney land.
and i went to japan maybe about 10 times within a year. to tokyo, osaka, fukuoka and sapporo. in weekends and vacation times. i was living not so far from busan so i could take a ferry to fukuoka pretty easily.
 
then i moved to japan.
in japan i've lived in tokyo, nagano prefecture and yamaguchi prefecture.
i'm trying to visit places all over japan now (but only when it's convenient for lives or instores. i'm not spending money travelling around different cities just for sightseeing. but spending money travelling across the country for mejibray is fine).
so far in japan places i've been to are:
- tokyo
- the place around mount fuji where every tourist goes
- osaka
- kyoto
- nagoya
- places all over nagano when i lived there
- places all over yamaguchi while i'm living here
- fukuoka
- kitakyushu (because it's between here and fukuoka and sometimes i end up having to work there. there are no lives or instores there)
- hiroshima (and miyajima)
- sapporo
next month i will go to sendai for the first time~
i miss korea a lot sometimes even though i love japan.
 
i think the first time i went to japan for 3 weeks in tokyo i brought/spent about £2000 and stayed in a business hotel. i mostly ate convenience store food and travelled by train or subway.

when i first saw those photos i was thinking 'i wish the whole band had done this look, i want to see this koichi awww'. but then i remembered how tsuzuku would look like that.

too lazy to take/post pictures, maybe i'll put them later.
edit: i found old pictures and added them here
 
 

when i first saw those photos i was thinking 'i wish the whole band had done this look, i want to see this koichi awww'. but then i remembered how tsuzuku would look like that.

i always assumed it was just "oooh hot guys" as has been mentioned already. like a lot of people don't really care too much about the music or talent and just want to be a fan of whoever they think is the best-looking at the time and their taste in men's looks changed.
 
personally i've been a casual k-pop listener for a long time but i'm not a huge fan of k-pop. i enjoy some of the music in a casual way like i'd listen to it while i'm doing something else and buy some CDs but i wouldn't go out of my way to buy merchandise or know the names of all the group members i'm listening to. also i lived in korea for a year and you can't avoid it there and i ended up with a lot of k-pop in my head all the time that i ended up liking. i went to one k-pop show when i lived in korea and it was possibly the most terrifying experience of my life. the show itself was fine from what i could see of it (being in a crowd of 30,000+ people waving their arms and phones in front of me) but k-pop fans in general are just scary..
if i'm going to be INTO a music group though i'd rather spend my money and effort on artists who play instruments and write music rather than artists who memorise dance routines and pretend to sing half the time and are pretty much forced on the general public by big companies with money. i don't have a problem with enjoying pop music, it just feels less worth my money to me to actually go to shows.

I checked out all the other band battles, I think this is the first VK band vs indie band type. It is more likely for the Mejibray haters + "indie bands are better" mentality to outweigh the Mejibray hardcore fangirl/boy-ism. Plus the effort in the visual aspect isn't really considered.