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month five of my Ichini obsession
Feb. 6th, 2024 02:53 pm Nah i'm still tryna figure this out. Back in the VK days, they were always up there in any say, top 5 bands that weren't MUCC and Merry. I amassed a decent amount of plays, and I bought most of their albums, not to mention a live. But for some reason, i listened to them last October and it's turned into a ridiculous going on five month long binge fest where they're constantly on the top of my weekly, monthly, and last year's charts. I also took advantage of CDJ's proxy shopping (which is srsly awesome btw) and bought their two compilation albums with most of their MVs included, plus the rest of the lives I didn't have. Which i think was five.
Some of my sugoi obsession is Wataru bc his singing was really something else lol. Probably one of the best vocalists from that era for sure, and so different from like, a Hizumi who is very technically sound and controlled. But Wachi is like the singing equivalent of a parkour athlete, careening off all his various vocal effects. The way he jumps from his dark lower register into a much brighter mid-register honestly makes him sound like a different person sometimes. Plus, he was honestly really good live too. And generally pretty serious about singing, like he didn't do a bunch of weird antics. I found out that he did have a vocal coach too. I never heard him have breathing issues. And even in XII Party when part of his middle register was shredded, he was actually able to sing around it.
But the other thing is that, idk who was primarily responsible for their composing, but their songs are so well constructed. They're memorable and catchy without suffering from some of the murky sludge that a lot of VK was known for. I don't have great things to say about their "let's sound like Diru" era, that was apparently a thing for every single freaking band that signed with Free Will, ironic lmao. Merry did it too for awhile. But even songs from that era were fairly salvageable, mostly thanks to Wachi.
The only thing i can figure out is that i didn't get super into them back then bc i didn't really know anyone in the band besides Wachi, and he only landed on my radar bc of the choking incident lmao. Apparently he was also arrested for having a weapon at an airport. Well, he was also fairly prolific on Tanuki too. Got his n00ds leaked. Aside from all THAT, he seemed like an interesting guy lmao. He's kinda funny now, like he said recently he couldn't talk about his past on some radio show he was doing bc it was all R-rated.
I watched some random interviews and comments on YT too and whew he has a really low speaking voice, it's kinda incongruous with his appearance bc he's easily the shortest in the group. There were also some comment things where he literally said nothing the whole time, didn't even change expression. I also never saw him smoke in the BTS stuff, though i saw all the other members do so. That would also be unusual for that time period.
So anyway lol
Some of my sugoi obsession is Wataru bc his singing was really something else lol. Probably one of the best vocalists from that era for sure, and so different from like, a Hizumi who is very technically sound and controlled. But Wachi is like the singing equivalent of a parkour athlete, careening off all his various vocal effects. The way he jumps from his dark lower register into a much brighter mid-register honestly makes him sound like a different person sometimes. Plus, he was honestly really good live too. And generally pretty serious about singing, like he didn't do a bunch of weird antics. I found out that he did have a vocal coach too. I never heard him have breathing issues. And even in XII Party when part of his middle register was shredded, he was actually able to sing around it.
But the other thing is that, idk who was primarily responsible for their composing, but their songs are so well constructed. They're memorable and catchy without suffering from some of the murky sludge that a lot of VK was known for. I don't have great things to say about their "let's sound like Diru" era, that was apparently a thing for every single freaking band that signed with Free Will, ironic lmao. Merry did it too for awhile. But even songs from that era were fairly salvageable, mostly thanks to Wachi.
The only thing i can figure out is that i didn't get super into them back then bc i didn't really know anyone in the band besides Wachi, and he only landed on my radar bc of the choking incident lmao. Apparently he was also arrested for having a weapon at an airport. Well, he was also fairly prolific on Tanuki too. Got his n00ds leaked. Aside from all THAT, he seemed like an interesting guy lmao. He's kinda funny now, like he said recently he couldn't talk about his past on some radio show he was doing bc it was all R-rated.
I watched some random interviews and comments on YT too and whew he has a really low speaking voice, it's kinda incongruous with his appearance bc he's easily the shortest in the group. There were also some comment things where he literally said nothing the whole time, didn't even change expression. I also never saw him smoke in the BTS stuff, though i saw all the other members do so. That would also be unusual for that time period.
So anyway lol
