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bingo_a HIghkey completely forgot about this place and what I was even doing with it oh well lol. My year in media has been really weird bc like, in the first half it was all dramas, so much dramas, but then for some reason, music nostalgia hit in July and i got RE OBSSESSED with Hilcrhyme, which is actually just TOC so it was him i got obsessed with lol. And even though i've mostly kept up with all his releases and whatnot, I didn't keep up with the lives, so i ATTACKED CDJ and bought a whole bunch, including some albums I was missing and stuff with DVD lives bc he's such a great performer. I haven't even watched them all because...even though my plays were insane for three months, then I hit a block of good dramas.
Namely I Am Nobody and Love YOu Seven Times, which were excellent and I was sad when they ended. But then in October, another storm of nostalgia for old music faves happened, this time for 12012. Yes, Visual Kei band 12012 that disbanded almost ten years ago now, and whom was oddly polarizing in the fandom, and I rarely admitted how much i actually stanned them and especially vocalist Wataru who was eventually maligned by the neutered VK i-fandom bc he was arrested for choking a girl.
Ofc since my own VK heyday, I know a lot more Japanese and have found out A TON OF SHIT about VK that ifans had zero idea of lol. I mean, he is a bit of a dodgy character since he took part in Harcon and was also previously detained or arrested not sure for being caught with a weapon at an airport.
BUT, he was still an excellent singer by VK standards and his Tanuki reviews were /quite/ good lmao. So between my ridiculous stanning of his singing and the fact that 12012 made honestly really good music, my plays have gone super out of control. I proxy-shopped for their best-of albums as well bc it included all their MVs. I regret nothing. ~~~~~
It is funny though, despite rarely talking about how much i liked them (stanning Wataru was taboo back then), i was sekritly collecting most of their albums and lives. I even had a few singles. Needless to say i've been watching and listening on repeat.
VK is a bit weird now, but there are still some good bands releasing stuff, like XAAXAA for example.
Namely I Am Nobody and Love YOu Seven Times, which were excellent and I was sad when they ended. But then in October, another storm of nostalgia for old music faves happened, this time for 12012. Yes, Visual Kei band 12012 that disbanded almost ten years ago now, and whom was oddly polarizing in the fandom, and I rarely admitted how much i actually stanned them and especially vocalist Wataru who was eventually maligned by the neutered VK i-fandom bc he was arrested for choking a girl.
Ofc since my own VK heyday, I know a lot more Japanese and have found out A TON OF SHIT about VK that ifans had zero idea of lol. I mean, he is a bit of a dodgy character since he took part in Harcon and was also previously detained or arrested not sure for being caught with a weapon at an airport.
BUT, he was still an excellent singer by VK standards and his Tanuki reviews were /quite/ good lmao. So between my ridiculous stanning of his singing and the fact that 12012 made honestly really good music, my plays have gone super out of control. I proxy-shopped for their best-of albums as well bc it included all their MVs. I regret nothing. ~~~~~
It is funny though, despite rarely talking about how much i liked them (stanning Wataru was taboo back then), i was sekritly collecting most of their albums and lives. I even had a few singles. Needless to say i've been watching and listening on repeat.
VK is a bit weird now, but there are still some good bands releasing stuff, like XAAXAA for example.
