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Pretty sure I bought it from Amazon.co.jp way back in the day. I think it only goes up through 2012/2013, so it's pretty out of date but still an interesting read.

I own that book and don't remember it mentioning specifically anything about the ideology of why bands were placed in certain categories, but I believe it's just by formation year. I had been planning to do a listen-through thing for a long time as well, but I can definitely see the non-chronological part being a little annoying from an evolutionary standpoint.

https://vk.gy/releases/omnibus/61996/1-completion-10th-anniversary-memorial-album-1993-2002/

This huge V.A. album/book is my white whale. Limited to only 30 copies (most likely fan club or mail-order), it's existence to begin with wasn't even known until a copy showed up and was immediately snatched up on mercari for a criminally low price. Many of the songs on the CDs were only ever released on demotapes or impossible to find CDs and the book is probably the only way to completely unravel the largely mysterious 01 Completion label. This was something that I would literally spend thousands of dollars to get my hands on, but it's never shown up since. Any of the many, many live VHSes released by 01 Completion are also my holy grails, but I've never seen a single one show up for sale in the past 20 years so...

It's really tough, but I'd say that Greece Grace's β and γ tapes are the ones that I go back to the most. They only ever released just a handful of tapes, but had a dreamy and ethereal atmosphere that I've never found elsewhere.