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@disposable The font choice kind of makes me angry in a way I can't quite explain.

Title says it all. It'd be nice to have a tag to wrap a lot of text or images in so people can choose whether to show them at a given time.

Strictly speaking, a few of these have already been reproduced/translated before, just not as they were originally presented in the booklet.
https://musicbox-trans.livejournal.com/9538.html
https://musicbox-trans.livejournal.com/15012.html

new world

視覚の奥、突き刺さる
太陽が語りかけた
足場無き足場へ踏み出す事が始まり
見栄と虚勢で構築された塔を
躊躇なく登る軽やかな足取り

後悔に唾を吐いて
素晴らしき過去を想う
足場なき足場へ立つ事が始まり
眼下に広がる「イカレタ世界」
微笑を浮かべたまま今、飛び降りる

心、折れて死に往く理由ではなく
全て望んだ結末
苦しみ悲しみを感じる筈なく
新たな世界への憧れ

Welcome to the new world.
目の前、映るは冷たい土ではなくてここではない世界
Welcome to the new world.
目の前、広がるは絶望の縁ではなくて光満ちた世界
To the welcome false world.
真っ赤な太陽、堕ちていく亡骸を見て微笑を浮かべた
Welcome to the new world.
目の前、映るは「冷たい生」ではなくて「始まりを告げる死」

Welcome to a opening named the end.
Welcome to the new world.

[P]agent

I forgot myself...
anger...

割れた硝子、刻まれた深い傷
平等に扱われる事の無い･･･

前触れ無く地に降り立つ厄災は
舌を出し、嘲笑いながら全て･･･

崩れる現在が･･･
人は悪しきが吐く呼吸となる

あぁ、宇宙が落ちてくる

屠る。
傷は地球よりも深く
慟哭も闇へ堕ち
頬を伝う涙に優しさはなくて
残酷な痛みだけ

風化し記憶から消える痛み
泣き叫ぶ声も堕ち
希望さえ洗い流すモノクロの雨
止むことなく降り続く･･･

疑想深愛

心の中に潜む闇が言った
『糞塗れの愛と同化しろ』と

イミテーション
ポーズ
ライ
フェイク
ラブ
身を毒で制す（歪んだ時間）

指先でなぞる
無垢な愛を
焦点がズレてる濁った瞳で

イミテーション
ポーズ
ライ
フェイク
ラブ
身を毒で制す（歪んだ時間）

この手で掴むのは偽善か？
自問自答し身悶えても取り戻せない優しい記憶達

陽はまた頭上に昇るか？
不安で想いが潰れて･･･
渇いた口唇から出る言葉が見える

イミテーション
ポーズ
ライ
フェイク
ラブ
身を毒で制す（歪んだ時間）

理性のネジが緩んでいる
来る筈のない明日を待つ
闇に溺れる
真実も知らずに･･･

指先でなぞる
無垢な愛を
焦点がズレてる濁った瞳で

recurrence.

最後に見た君の顔、寂しげで俯く
後悔は陽の光を遮り影を落とす

代わり映えのない日々は『振り返るな』と促す

色褪せた君を手にし、眺める事が罪でも･･･

移り変わる季節の中、君を想うよ
白黒に褪せた思い出を手繰り寄せ
幾億の星の下、僕は祈るよ
『光溢れる日々を』と･･･

The legends over at Scape Forums have a thread where they share and host scans of old 'zines. Unlike the Archive.org hoard, this collection largely IS visual kei and there's plenty of good shit in there. Have a look and be sure to thank them for all their hard work!

The Magazine Project

Here's something I've been experimenting with since getting in a proper book scanner: scanning old music magazines that are currently expensive and...

-scape- (www.scapeforums.com)

For the unaware, Archive.org has a number of scanned issues of various music magazines, including SHOXX, Fool's Mate, Rockin'F, and more. It's not an incredibly fleshed out collection but if you're looking for something in particular, it's a great first place to start.

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A"magazine"+subject%3A"music"+subject%3A"japanese"

For "worst", I think this has to be my pick...

It would be nice to see the reactions I've recently used in the picker for post reaction emoji. It's a searchable interface which is nice, but the heart emoji I've taken to using is kind of buried/inconvenient to get to. Is there a way to add a "recent" tab among the others like people/nature/food/activity/etc?

@Tokage Yeah, I think I remember seeing something about how the photo was "appropriated" from a Japanese photographer. Looked it up real quick and this was the exhibition: https://kobayashi-shinichiro.com/photo_gallery/haikyo-yugi.html

I just checked my Desert scans and ryo is credited for "art works" on that release as well... no photographer named. With that in mind it does honestly draw the other covers into question, but hey, they still look awesome

GULLET's covers (aside from their debut single) were apparently all hand-drawn by ryo and they look awesome IMO.

It may not be a rational fear, but I'm somewhat worried that if I were to post about what I'm most looking for right now, I'll be making it harder for myself :') The last grail item I obtained for myself was this, though - took years for me to get.

Goku - OTO-ONI

Tracklist & reviews for 「Goku」 by OTO-ONI. 音鬼「獄」曲・情報・レビュー | vkgy (ブイケージ)

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@brainimpediment Everything ryo touches is gold. My favourite HOLLOWGRAM track as of late has been Paint in water color, although I think the single version has a better mix.

Taiban has tags like "Misshitsu kei (密室系)" available for use in tagging posts, except I can't actually tag a thread with that because there's apparently a 15 character limit per tag.

Title says it all. I doubt this is desirable since it pushes actual accessible recent posts off the list.

EDIT: I notice these scheduled threads don't appear when logged out, so it's probably not a bother for the average user thankfully.

For me Plastic Tree (the band itself) has aged like wine - I'm honestly not that big of a fan of their old stuff but their later work is right up my alley. I find myself returning to their インク live "demonstration" album, just a really strong showing from them overall IMO.