Tokage

he'll yeah

mr sandman man me a sand make it the cutest man car door hook hand

Junji Ito collection was so offensive, I find it hard to look forward to this. Some things simply shouldn't be animated. Can animation really add something new to Uzumaki? I don't think so. (will still watch it tho) 

I'm a bit apprehensive after Junji Ito Collection, but it's Production IG, so it has the potential to be good. I still have a hard time believing his work can live outside of manga, though. The live action movie was pretty meh as are all the Tomie films.

I'm sceptically optimistic. Whenever I look forward to anything like this I end up disappointed, but one of these days, surely it will turn out fine lol...

I like the one's Jig mentioned, plus Virge's album too. But if you weren't into Phantasmagoria at one point, you probably wouldn't like that either.

Here's a list so far:

https://vk.gy/search/releases/?release_name=&artist_id=&artist_display_name=&upc=&jan_code=&label_id=&label_involvement=&start_date=2019-01-01&end_date=2020-01-01&medium=cd&format=full-album&venue_limitation=&press_limitation_name=&notes=&tag=#result

Looking back, I actually forgot about a lot of things that came out this year too. I also enjoyed some songs off of D'erlanger's album, and I liked Scarlet Valse's album too.

damn that's actually a really fucking small list if you leave out all the alternate editions

@Peace Heavy mk II That reminds me, I still haven't given the MORRIE album a shot! Not much oyaji-kei I liked this year so far... D'ERLANGER was my only hope but their album was reaaaaaally weak.  

kicking myself EVERY DAY because I only know 49....

bonus test of courage: they all have to be dentaku cds

banned for mentioning the devil's lettuce

in fact i meant 'word smoking'.....

Getting high of them "J's, huh?

In general there's just sooo much generic repetitive trope-y stuff that's on the  level of juvenile 'tfw no (boyfriend/girlfriend)', 'BULLYING and also WRISTCUTTING', "this one goes out to all the FREAKS & OUTCASTS \m/ \m/" and 'FUCK YOU MOM & DAD' stuff on the one hand, or that ''teens react to living in a society" kinda stuff on the other. I've been somewhat lukewarm about Mamireta from the start for example but BOIIII, their lyrics are just... hot garbage lol

The ones I generally tend to find myself enjoying are the lyricists who try to go for more 'out there' subject matter just by virtue of being straight up goofy (like Dokusatsu Terrorist w/ their songs poking fun at just about everything, Sandwich de 120pun? w/ their stuff about girls having bombs implanted in theri vaginas & stuff like that), at least somewhat unique within the context of the scene (like The Gallo's WW2-related songs, Inugami Circus Dan, early Metronome and their weird cyber buddha stuff) or those with at least SOME sort sense of poetic imagery & wordplay (Plastic Tree, Temari's stuff in general) even if it can still come across a bit hackneyed at times (that might also be cuz in some cases it feels like translators seem to intentionally try to go for the fanciest sounding words their thesaurus gives them just to make stuff sound deeper tho) 

Hnn, I'm really not concerned about the world around me since I don't really think of lyric influence huh (yikes). But I do also suppose I'm still newish to the VK scene, I was more or less in my bubble for about 15 years lol
I've really enjoyed the majority of lyrics I've translated, I'd say, but my judgement also most definitely isn't quite there since I don't really feel affected by any of it despite there being the bad themes 🤔
The overly silly lyrics don't really keep me very interested, it's nice once in a while but I like my... bad dark themes lol
Some translations are for sure very unnatural, but to be fair there's also a lot of "translations" out there. Which I personally do hate because it misrepresents the original meaning of the song, and I'm a complete nutter for lyrics, I absolutely love it when there's a proper line of thought put into the lyrics that makes you think. Well, it is what it is

Thanks guys ^___^
 

I figure a good chunk of the kirakira + anison + vocaloid stuff I listen to is tokyolite/gya teen angst or disney-tier cheese, but the melodies are mainly what do it for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Why choose extremes? Moderation is the best approach. 

Vegetarians would praise your slogan to eat less meat an more vegetable. XD

The GazettE will recycle it in 2.5 years anyway, so this is valid

^ i fucking laughed hard as hell

I quite liked it to be honest... the longer tracks are the best elements of the album and just for clarify, funny or not, I won't join the train "GazettE will recycle it in who knows what year" because I listen to both of them and they are different musically, even if belonging to the same genre... it's a question of shades imo.

Shin Godzilla was so good. Can't wait till they can begin producing new Godzilla movies in Japan again. If the plans they've talked about gets going it's gonna be insane. "World of Godzilla", a cinematic universe akin to MCU where they will produce a film either every single or second year based on the monsters from the original Godzilla universe. I can't wait for the ball to start running on that one.

It's sad the americans can't produce films 1/100th as good as Shin Godzilla. For some reason they continue to put emphasis on boring human beings and, for most part, their uninteresting families. The best American Godzilla movie is only as good as the worst Japanese Godzilla tbh.

Shin Godzilla was great. Lots of awesome cinematography and dialogue. Wish I could say the same about Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Bleh)

@cheesy_VK_Freak well, it is after all just how I see it, but to me it feels right because the colours match exactly the colours of auras and it would explain the extra empty  chair to complete the 7!
Unraveling (♡♡♡ Jesus it was 2013? Been that long already?) I can't say much else about than that it seems to be about child abuse - the boy is isolated from the family and the one that's abused the most, by mom. The kids write on the paper with crayons "mommy is scary", drawing a scary picture of her, etc, and you see it's her acting off at the dinner table (she and the girl are seen to evidently react to hearing noises from upstairs from the brother)+it's her that goes into the room to abuse the boy later on (and put them to sleep under plastic bags, clearly taping down the boy down). There's the few flashes of the x-rays with a broken collar bone and broken arm as well.
I'm going off a limb and guessing that the boy isn't the child of the father like the girl is. I feel like at the end the dad is taking the girl the hell outta there, but didn't care to take the boy with him, being either unaware of him or not being his dad and plain not caring? We don't get to see his reaction to the sounds upstairs during dinner, so I'm not sure. Also as they are leaving the boy isn't locked into the room as he seems to otherwise be. The girl also waves happily to mom, as if keeping up appearances
They're not married at least I imagine since I don't see any wedding rings. I wonder if they have a kind of custody agreement where the girl lives with dad, and the dad visited with the girl while the boy lives there full time - or if he did a let's gtfo.
In short, basically never believe me if I say I don't have much to say about something, I can really ramble on

@SubThatSong Wow, thanks for your insight! I kinda thought she killed the kid, but during the last shot you see him so I was like: ehh? Was this all imagination?

LOL

@cheesy_VK_Freak Np! If they didn't show him at the end and the plastic wriggling a bit while it's taped down I would've thought the same tbh!

it might be a case of several decade long building leases expiring with no funds to afford a renewal under the current rent prices idk

At least for KRAPS HALL, it was a more general venue that was mostly stopped at by touring VK bands if anything. AFAIK most of the vk-catering venues (at least in Tokyo) are doing just fine.

i love tame impala

*screenshots the entirety of that thread & sends it to all your future employers & educational institutions* 

; )

Love it!

wat

Legend! Total respect & R.I.P.

What are your favorites of his? Mine's a tie between Blade Runner and The Hitcher, followed closely by Hobo with a Shotgun.

@spockitty It was before she could find a stable source of income by becoming a polician in italian parliament, she had to hussle, poor thing.

@Arkady wow, just wow, this is so bizarre

We've always been in the weird timeline

i can hear the entire fucking thing from my window oh god help

*replace w/ Metallica*

It's been happening for years. Funny how you talk about something and a few days later you get ads for it. I make it a point to turn off my WiFi when sleeping or with friends tbh. People getting outraged because it's finaly been spelled out is dumb. 

edit: wait. Sex toys with wi fi? Why...? 

@platy so you can control the speed / intensity for your partner(s) while not in the room with them, e.g.  still doing stuff while away on vacation or something.

Possibly for "Bezos hacked my bussy" scenes too. "Work Hard. Have Fun. ;)" 

Likely because Facebook/Google are censoring any negative press. Remember, anything that's given to you for 'free' is anything but.

Call me paranoid, but I will never put an Alexa or Google Home in my house. It's bad enough that my phone is listening to me when I'm getting it on with my wife. Don't even get me started on all these 'smart' devices monitoring our stats and sending it God knows where.

It's also very sad to think that this creepy, privacy-assaulting, Orwellian technocracy will be all our children know. It doesn't seem like there's anything stopping it 😞

Because Moi dix Mois is mainly all the same style and instrumentation, while MALICE MIZER songs and albums are super varied and with a lot of different instruments and sounds.

MALICE MIZER also has more dynamic and fresh composition, while a lot of Moi dix Mois is more repetitive. It's because in MALICE MIZER, there were professional arrangers and helpers with the compositions, especially for the merveilles album, while in MdM, Mana does most alone.

I could probably take on Yomi from Nightmare. He's only 4cm taller and 2kg heavier than me, making him just about the smallest J-rocker I can think of. Height and weight is the most important factor for me because I'm very short and thin. For example, Masashi from Versailles would knock me the fuck out. Idk how heavy he is but he looks pretty strong and he's over a foot taller than me 😮

P.S. I love this thread idea. Please do it.

pro-wrestling match against Kiwamu with a plethora of foldable plastic chairs

throwing barrels at Kyo classic Donkey Kong style