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  1. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
    redaudrey reacted to nekkichi in random thoughts thread   
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    redaudrey reacted to nekkichi in random thoughts thread   
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    redaudrey reacted to Tokage in 8P-SB suspends activities   
    IMAGINE KOICHI HAVING TO GET THAT FUCKING TATTOO LASERED OFF NOW LMAO
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    redaudrey reacted to monkeybanana4 in 12012 restart activities   
    12012 will restart activities. Further details on future activities will be announced later.
     
    宮脇渉 (Wataru)
    https://twitter.com/wataru_12012
     
    酒井洋明 (Hiroaki)
    https://twitter.com/hsakai12012
     
    齋藤紳一郎 (Shinchirou)
    https://twitter.com/s_mokichi
     
    塩谷朋之 (Tomoyuki)
    https://twitter.com/tEnya_solioquy
     
    須賀勇介 (Yuusuke)
    https://twitter.com/yusuke_suga
     
    川内亨 (Tooru)
    https://twitter.com/12012_toru
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    redaudrey got a reaction from wildjokerleia in Cat lovers in VK?   
    Jun from Braymen posts about his cat on twitter more than anything else
    @jun_braymen
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    redaudrey reacted to 薔薇の末裔 in Sexuality matters within VK   
    It might sound weird from a western perspective, but visual kei is like the straightest and most homophobic music scene in Japan. We tend to look at visual kei with western eyes and mix its cultural aspects with things that belong to the western culture. Fanservice and provocations used for shock value put aside, the androgynous aesthetics of visual kei band rarely expressed anything related to gender identity and especially sexual orientation. 
    After all, it started with people like X Japan who admittedly were inspired by glam rock bands and way of life, which I would find hard to connect to sexual orientation. Visual kei early bandomen were mostly chinpiras, bosozokus (bikers) and the likes. They really incarnated the somewhat glamrock aesthetic of riding bikes getting drunk, banging girls, etc. Of course X had their own decadent/romantic taste that made them different, and a lot of influences changed the scene over time. However, visual kei is still remains 99% driven by social outcasts looking for pussy and very rarely by something else.
    In Japan we also have onnagatas, who are kabuki actors specialized in female roles that are again 99% straight. Bandoman with feminine looks call themselves onnagata, not josou (crossdresser), implying that the cultural source behind their looks is not connected with crossdressing but just playing a female role in a band,  but again this something that might be hard to completely understand it taken outside of Japanese culture. For example Izam, the king of all onnagatas, married more than once and has more tha one child, and outside of his role in Shazna he rarely did anything ambiguous, just like the kabuki onnagatas out of stage. Both media and fans are everything but respectful of privacy, but I've rarely seen Japanese articles or message board questioning bandomen sexual orientation. That's because the number 1 reason people do visual kei is because the girls like it (well, liked it, I am not sure this is the trend with young girls anymore). 
    Soft Ballet/Ken Morioka are closer to Soft Cell/Marc Almond so I would not even count them as visual kei even though they had some influence on it. And of course, there are exceptions as you mentioned. The chinpira bandomen of the 90's almost extincted and younger generations bandomans are usually anime/game otakus. They grew up with different influences and values, and it would make sense if the current incarnation of visual kei instinctively appealed to more people with sexual orientation/gender identity concerns, especially after Japan started talking about these issues in a less obsolete viewpoint.
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    redaudrey reacted to colorful人生 in 8P-SB 3rd album "richardland" release   
    hey
     
    fixed that for ya
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    redaudrey got a reaction from jon_jonz in ゴールデンボンバー(GOLDEN BOMBER) new album "もう紅白に出してくれない" release   
    my friend translated it here: https://gb-lyrics.tumblr.com/kubigaitai !
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    redaudrey got a reaction from Miku70 in ゴールデンボンバー(GOLDEN BOMBER) new album "もう紅白に出してくれない" release   
    my friend translated it here: https://gb-lyrics.tumblr.com/kubigaitai !
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    redaudrey got a reaction from R/O in Cat lovers in VK?   
    Jun from Braymen posts about his cat on twitter more than anything else
    @jun_braymen
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    redaudrey got a reaction from ShTon in Cat lovers in VK?   
    Jun from Braymen posts about his cat on twitter more than anything else
    @jun_braymen
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    redaudrey got a reaction from Katt in Rich people in vk?   
    Kiryuuin Shou from Golden Bomber recently revealed that he has 200 million+ yen in his bank account
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    redaudrey reacted to inertia in Tanuki rumors (about vk artists)   
    Hi. I’m one of the really old fans. I visited Tokyo in 1995 and came back to the US (NYC) with a pile of Luna Sea CDs and VHS tapes. At that time there was nothing about Luna Sea or visual kei on the English-language internet. Actual nothing. Well, the internet barely existed, it was just transitioning to websites from bulletin boards. I made some mix cassettes and handed them out to my friends.
     
    Around ’96 or maybe ’97 I checked the internet again, and now we have something: California sisters Freda and Joannie’s website Rockin’ Heaven, and the X Japan ML on cohprog. It was tiny at first, like maybe 100 people. This was the entire Western VK fandom. We had all discovered Japanese music either on a trip to Japan, or through a Japanese friend.  A few of us were so noisy about talking about other bands who were not X that the Jrock ML was formed, so we took our OT over there and it exploded. There was no file sharing or international online stores at that time. I created a page to bring something like tape-sharing classifieds online, a manually updated list of people who had stuff to trade and what they were looking for. We copied cassettes and sent them by postal mail. It’s laughably low-tech compared to nowadays, but suddenly we were all listening to multiple bands instead of just our one gateway band. The Jrock ML membership and traffic was exploding week by week. There was one loud and cynical French guy who was really into super-obscure bands and claimed that he went to Japan and was friends with bands, but nobody knew whether to believe him or not. Word of mouth was definitely a thing — I gave my little sister a few mix tapes when she went to college and she came back for break cursing me out for those tapes, because all her friends had fallen in love with them and now she had to listen to VK all the time.
     
    I think it was around ’98 that we started to see some improvements in bandwidth and webpages that let us take it to the next level. There was a guy in Singapore (Paul? maybe?) where they had better wiring, who first started putting up a few tiny RA and RV files on a site, and he had one of the early message boards too. By this time I was out of school and my circle of friends and I were working in the early internet, which gave me access to equipment, software, and bandwidth that almost nobody had at that time. My friends were installing the actual wiring and servers to build the NYC internet, and uh… while they were at it, they stashed an old computer somewhere to be our own FTP server. We put up my files (I had a ton of stuff because I’d been running the tape-exchange listing, and also I bought stuff from the Japanese stores in NYC) and allowed other people to upload their own. I added a message board which was originally supposed to be for requests or whatever but it took on a life of its own as a discussion place.
     
    Maybe ’99 or 2000, CD Japan opened. The fandom was growing exponentially and everyone was trying to explore new bands, and even tiny indie bands were getting fan bases. Lots of people were putting up file sharing sites, using multiple GeoCities accounts to create these huge octopus sites. We started to have meetups IRL. Go (JrockNYC) and his friends had a cover band and put together some meetups around NYC. Cameron was in Tokyo and writing on Glam Japan, and some of us were traveling to Japan too. A few people went to that huge concert that Luna Sea did, Dir en gray had fans going, me and a bunch went to Lareine’s last tour in August 2000. (I met Cameron there for the first time)
     
    By maybe 2002-ish most of the file sharing was happening on the P2P networks, and Livejournal was becoming popular. I moved to Tokyo in early 2002. Go was living in Tokyo too and documenting the scene on JrockNYC. It would be nice to read it again but I don’t think his old stuff is on line any more. This is getting to the time period where there are lots of people who were around to remember, so I’ll leave it.
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    redaudrey reacted to Karma’s Hat in What genres would you like to see more of in VK   
    Instead of having the scene go around appropriating gimmicks I'd just rather have it go back to what it used to be. It's not like anything has happened in rock music in over ten years other than metalcore dying and a collective turning back the clock to feed on nostalgia, which then as a result synthesised what he have now with our impression of the past. It happened in vk too sort of with nu-metal coming back and bands getting darker and edgier, but it petered out finally once AINS was gone and now what we got is r-fucking-shitei and raido cutting themselves in music videos. The best thing that I could hope for is bands like that we got with that wave but just better, and with more (post-)punk and definitely less metal. I think a lot of band guys miss this old school attitude and music too from what I can tell from interviews, and yet they seem to be hopelessly inept in realising it. I guess they can want what they want but if the gya ain't buying it, they ain't going to do it. And since we're here I wouldn't mind something going were bands like La'cryma christi, Luna Sea, L'arc and Eins:Vier were going at their most ambitious but this will never happen.
     
    Either way I want something darker, visceral and ambitious done with the genre's already existing foundations instead of some fucking flavor of the month metal gimmick. I mean come on that's just terrible.
     
     
     
     
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    redaudrey reacted to mystic azar in Moi dix Mois new mail-order live Bluray DVD, "Deep Sanctuary VI ~MALICE MIZER 25th~ Anniversary Special" release   
    If you were really guilty, then you shouldn't have uploaded the Blu-ray in the first place.

    This fandom reeks of entitlement due to so many people thinking they're owed a live recording simply because it is"at such a disgustingly high price".  And it's not just this one release I'm talking about. Well guess what? It's a Blu-ray so of course it's gonna be more costly than a DVD. There are many reasons that can justify the price of this release. First, this is their first release in nearly 18 years (I'm not including anything released by Nippon after their hiatus). Second, if anyone knows Mana, then you should know that he's not a cheap date. Thirdly, if you truly love the band, then you wouldn't be complaining about prices; you'd be supporting them. I understand not everyone is able to do this, but you also wouldn't be whining to get the full live uploaded either. You should've saved up for it then.

    Finally being able to buy a new item from MALICE MIZER was an exciting experience. All I could buy before was old and used. There were some items still in the original packaging, but there wasn't really a sense of pride in buying something that hit the market nearly twenty years ago.
     
    If you love a band, please out of respect, buy things from said favorite band. Do it so that they can create more things for you to enjoy.
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    redaudrey reacted to nitta in Janne Da Arc officially disband after 12 years hiatus..   
    Good to see other artists pay their respects.
     
    I want a tribute album though.
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    redaudrey got a reaction from meikyoushisui in The.picnics will go on hiatus and singer is suspended   
    The.picnics is an alter ego band of ensoku, so yeah, this is a joke lol
  18. OHHHH HOoONEeeY
    redaudrey got a reaction from returnal in The.picnics will go on hiatus and singer is suspended   
    The.picnics is an alter ego band of ensoku, so yeah, this is a joke lol
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    redaudrey got a reaction from Masato in The.picnics will go on hiatus and singer is suspended   
    The.picnics is an alter ego band of ensoku, so yeah, this is a joke lol
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    redaudrey got a reaction from colorful人生 in The.picnics will go on hiatus and singer is suspended   
    The.picnics is an alter ego band of ensoku, so yeah, this is a joke lol
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    redaudrey got a reaction from suji in The.picnics will go on hiatus and singer is suspended   
    The.picnics is an alter ego band of ensoku, so yeah, this is a joke lol
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    redaudrey reacted to yomii in Bands that get a lot of undeserving hate?   
    can we stop discussing this lmao
  23. I feel ya..
    redaudrey got a reaction from Neigedesmannes in Visual kei among friends   
    I had the same experience in my Japanese minor in college. People liked anime and dramas, and if they liked Japanese music it was either jpop or normie jrock. Though I was lucky that the one time my school offered a Japanese music course was while I was there! But even in that class I was still the only vk fan...
     
    But that aside, I always found it pretty easy to meet vk fans online and even those can be turned into IRL friendships usually. I’ve never really wanted to introduce it to people who weren’t already fans of it anyway.
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    redaudrey reacted to NekoHime in 影喰イ (Kagekui) new mini-album "哀 (Ai)" release   
    There are many people on fb/instagram too who are throwing shit on them with a bloody mouth and it's fucking annoying. Most of them don't even know the band and acting like they're personally attacked. 🙄 So bad, being so butthurted about a thing they don't even related to.  For God's sake there are even bigger bands using real stories/tragedies for their songs/themes and nobody gave a shit. 
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    redaudrey got a reaction from Ioto in Your last music-related buy!   
    Amazon.jp is a million times better than cdjapan - their shipping takes usually only around 36 hours to reach me in the US and it still costs the same or less than CDJ’s airmail...
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