Ikki

For me, it's either or

This will be the last haul I will be sharing with you all before MH closes.

I didn't know that WANDS had reunited. From what I heard, I like the new material on this album, but I don't really care much for the reworked versions of the older WANDS songs. The self-cover songs aren't bad, but I'm so use of hearing Show's and Jiro's vocals on those tracks for almost 20 years, that it feels odd to hear someone's sing them.

I don't know when the last time I posted one of my hauls, but this is practically everything I bought since July. Wizard - Bribe of Love Wizard - Bribe of Love 2 the Raid. – ウラメシヤ (Type A) GLAY – Ashes.EP (Limited Edition) AILE – CURE FEATHER ~君へ届きますように~ AILE – LOVE FEATHER ~君へ伝えたい事~ BLÜE – BREATH (Limited Edition) Shelly Trip Realize – PRESENT V.A. – LOOP OF LIFE V MAZOHYSTERIA – two Loves V.A. – CANNONBALL vol.2 弾丸 NO LIMIT(Dangan NO LIMIT) – BULLET (Limited Edition) Dog in the PWO - Hotdog Misaruka - Animus II Misaruka - Animus III Mirage - Risk en Eve Fanatic Crisis - Mask (First Pressing) Vidoll - Puzzle Ring (Type A) Pierrot - Celluloid D=OUT / Daizystripper - Onizakura I didn't realize I had the back side of the case showing until after I uploaded this picture. Mirage - Ryuusei

I don't know how accurate my numbers are, it looks like the following for my VK/J-rock collection: 940+ CDs (albums, singles, mini albums, maxi singles) 30+ VHS tapes and DVDs 30 Vinyl LPs, EPs, and singles 10 Cassette Tapes 5 Autograph boards 15 Posters 40+ Magazines 50+ photos (most of them being 1st generation VK bands) 10+ flyers I don't know the exact numbers for my CDs or my VHS/DVDs because my bookcase is a hot mess 99.9% of the time and I still have a cardboard box that has about 100 CDs sitting next to it. If I included the rest of my CD collection (mostly J-pop, K-pop, glam rock/glam metal artists), I would have about 200+ more CDs in my collection on top of my VK/J-rock collection.

My recent Rarezhut purchase that I bought myself for my birthday. The second and third picture is what I got from the "Lucky Bag" while the first picture was my main order.

I can't remember if I have posted the CD, yet, but this my recent VK haul. The Dead Pop Stars - Stream Genkaku Allergy - Live DVD #3 (I didn't realize I had the back side of the case up and upside down on top of that.) I really hope Sceana hasn't released anymore of these DVDs for Genkaku Allergy since this one was expensive to track down.

Not too much this time around. Most of it's KPOP related. Dog in the PWO - アンハッピードッグデイズ (Limited Version) Wink - Night Tempo Presents THE SHOWA GROOVE EPs The majority of TRAX's discography. Just missing the Scorpio and Rhapsody releases. H.O.T. - I yah! (Taiwanese Pressing)

I haven't been able to post what I have purchased recently because I've been working 12 hours/7 days a week since November. Too lazy to post exactly what I got. The Dog in the PWO single is extra copy of one that I already owned, but I haven't opened it to see which bonus cover was included. Also, here's my recent KPOP trash haul just because no one asked for it.

Be warn, I have crap taste in music. Also, this list took me forever to make. VK: Kamaitachi BY-SEXUAL Strawberry Fields Aura GLAY Color Decameron Baiser La'Mule Lareine Aion NéiL Panic Channel KuRt Vasalla Ladies Room Tokyo Yankees Wizard Kuroageha Irokui Lolita 23q SuG D=OUT MASK Gilles de Rais Dog in the PWO DuelJewel Aliene Ma'riage Japanese Metal/J-rock (some of these bands can considered VK, but I don't consider them VK): Loudness EZO/Flatbacker G.D.Flickers Ziggy Sharam Q A-Chief Earthshaker Grand Slam Gastunk Passion Rose The Street Sliders Pink Sapphire Shady Dolls Wands J-pop: Morning Musume KAT-TUN Dream (the original line-up releases) SweetS C-ute Namie Amuro K-rock: Sinawe TRAX The Buzz Boohwal EVE Crash K-pop: Girls' Generation KARA Twice BTS Red Velvet Wonder Girls H.O.T Baby V.O.X Western Music: Hanoi Rocks ABBA New York Dolls Mott the Hoople Iron Maiden Judas Priest Cinderella LA Guns Faster Pussycat Megadeth Exodus Power Trip David Bowie Slade Prince Bauhaus The Cure The Cramps Chicago Deep Purple Rainbow Clara Moroni (aka Cherry, Leslie Parrish, Priscilla, Vicky Vale, and a tons of other Eurobeat artist aliases.)

Small haul of oldies, but goodies. test-No. - test-No. 004 Malice Mizer - Beast of Blood Malice Mizer - Voyage Redian Mode - Hysteric Eliphas Levi - 黒死館 V.A. - 革命～Voice of Rebirth～ Je*Reviens - univers～未知なる扉～ Flatbacker (EZO) LPs Strawberry Fields VHS tapes

Nothing too crazy other than I bought a boat load of Glay CDs because I've been on a Glay kick the past couple of weeks. Fatima - M:I-44 Fatima - Downer Glay - The Frustrated Glay - One Love Laputa - e.m.a.d.a.r.a Glay - Beloved Glay - Unity Roots & Family, Away Glay - BEATout! Fatima - Noble King Snake Fatima - SSB Kneuklid Romance - Puzzle Kneuklid Romance - Love Song Dog in the PWO - Doggy StyleX

I'm really sad I couldn't choose oyaji kei for my favorite type of visual kei. I'm also with everyone else with the last question. Maybe you could have mixed some more mainstream or other types of vk acts from that period into the selection pool or include a wider generation range of artists by including some earlier era vk acts and/or some recent vk acts.

Gaz is now forever going to be replace by someone that's been in a band with Okamoto Ryoji and Oonishi Hiroyuki whenever Malice Mizer or Kneuklid Romance do their one off revivals? First Sakura, and now Kaede. It amuses me to see this as a fan of both Zigzo and test-No. to see this as a pattern.

The only VK-related movie I ever watched was Dynamite Tommy's Attitude and I own it because why not have a horrible movie with a bunch of musicians from the first wave of VK or the late '80s Japanese hard rock scene that can't act what so ever. I don't know how many people here have seen it, but it's one of those movies you have to watch to see the how much of a hot mess it is as it is super hard to describe what's going on 90% of the time.

I wasn't really a huge fan of Matina, I always prefered bands that were from Soleil and Tears Music/Enamel/Key Party more. The bands from Matina that I did enjoyed a lot were Madeth Gray'll, Mist of Rouge, and Vidoll.

Kamaitachi tapes; two of them are supposed to be live shows and the rest are demo tapes. Decameron - Merry Christmas for you demo tape Decameron - 30th Anniversary live distribution Kamaitachi concert dvd Decameron PV vhs VA - Face of Soleil II Cats in Boots - Kicked & Clawed Cats in Boots - Demonstration D'erlanger - Basilisk D'erlanger - La Vie En Rose

Just a quick post of my most recent haul before I go to work.

Here's my newest haul. First off, all of my factory seal buys. Genkaku Allergy limited live dvd Lareine - Blue Romance Eliphas Levi - 冷たいアトリエの魔術師 Shulla - XII [tweleve] The rest of the haul: Various Vasalla and NéiL CDs Various Madeth gray'll CDs Some more Lareine CDs VA - Face of Soleil Mazohysteria - Tight. Deep and Violent Gauzes - 揺篭 + bonus DVD Seamonkey - ちょうちんふかし (First Pressing) Sleep My Dear - ReMIRAGE GLAY - 灰とダイヤモンド (Extasy Pressing) With Sexy - Colours A bunch of La'Mule photosets

To be honest, I have gotten more friends, although most of them being in their 40s or 50s, in real life for being a fan of Loudness and EZO than VK ever did for me. However, VK did manage to snag me my boyfriend of 15+ years. It's hilarious to tell people that we started to date because I had pictures of Dir en grey and Malice Mizer hanging in my locker in the 8th grade and my SO overreacted when he noticed because he was a closeted VK fan and thought he would never find another VK fan in our tiny, country bumpkin town. We ended up getting a lot of our close friends into VK during high school, but I'm pretty sure most of them don't listen to anything related to VK anymore.

Just a tiny haul this time around. I have a really huge haul coming within the next couple of weeks, as long as it doesn't get stuck in shipping limbo.

I went with what albums I think are the best VK albums, not necessary my personal favorites. Amphibian - DOPPELGÄNGER (1993) L'arc~en~Ciel - Heavenly (1995) GLAY - pure soul (1998) Dir en grey - Gauze (1999) Luna Sea - Mother (1994) If I went with my personal favorites, it would more or less look like this: Aura - THESAURAS (1990) Color - 激突!! (1989) BAISER - 華 (1999) BY-SEXUAL - Culture Shock (1990) Decameron - 名曲アルバム (1990)

Waaaay back in 1998, I first discovered visual kei while I was staying at my then 21 year old sister's dorm room for the weekend. This was the first time in my life I was ever on the internet. I was searching on Yahoo or some other very 1998 search engine for Pikachu/Pokemon stuff since as a 9 year old kid, I was crazy about Pikachu. I some how managed to stumbled upon an English languaged Dead Pop Stars fansite and was really weirded out that one of the members (Kenzi) was a huge Pikachu fan. I totally forgot what visual kei was after finding that site until a year later. So in 1999, we finally had a computer and internet at my house. Also, I was now super into Digimon and was active in a lot of the Digimon EZ Boards that were around. On one of these forums, I had two forum besties that were into visual kei. One was a HUGE Glay fan and liked all of those visual kei bands that were more mainstream/not over the top looking groups. The other one was more into groups like Malice Mizer and Dir en grey; the more over the top the group's look was, the more she liked them. The one that was into the more over the top groups one day sent me a link to La'Mule's song "Inspired" that was hosted on someone's Geocities website. I remember it took me over an hour to download the 96kbps mp3 file. Oh the pain and the horror of dial-up internet. But after I was able to download the song, I couldn't wait to listen to it since I thought La'Mule looked so cool and really wanted to like the band. I don't remember my reaction was because that was like 20 years ago, but it was a positive one as I am still a huge La'Mule fan and I managed to stick with visual kei for all of those years. I just try not to interact with the fandom that much in the last 10 years due to the toxicity that some times reeks the vk fandom.

幻覚アレルギー - ゲリラライブ会場限定 MERRY - VIC 〜VIDEO ID COLLECTION〜 Zoro - Nishiki Royz - The Best 2009 - 2019 MASK - 合わせ鏡の裏の仮面 V.A. - 狂乱激突 BOX 1990 La'Mule - fit to naked the heavens AILE - SOLE FEATHER～たった一人の君へ～ JUSTY-NASTY - RAIN KuRt - 純潔詮議支離滅裂 Two double sided La'Mule flyers

Here's my hauling I've done since December. Dog in the PWO - 星月夜 (Type A) Blu-BiLLioN - Unlimited World (Type A) Dir en grey - The Insulated World (European version) Dog in the PWO - DOG inTheSUPER BEST【初回盤A】～10th Anniversary Edition～ Girugamesh - Music (European version) The Gazette - Ninth (European version) Phobia - 妄想ノ虜 Penicillin - Limelight Penicillin - UNION JAP Panic Channel - Ray (Limited Edition) FANATIC◇CRISIS - [ONE -one for all-] Cynthia - SENSUOUS Shulla - 架流空路 Shulla - 炎上烈火 Shulla - 金縛り天国 (Regular Edition) Shulla -【茶番劇】其ノ壱 Shulla - いたずら (not pictured) Hime Ichigo - Loudly Riot (Type A) Hime Ichigo - 西九条秋の空 Hime Ichigo - re:alice Hime Ichigo - 姫苺白書 (Regular Edition) Irokui - 間喰-あひだぐひ- La'Mule - 情景ノ都 Rouage - Self-title album (First Pressing) Two Kamaitachi DVDs La'Mule - 浮遊月～唯我乃寄性経典～ (still factory sealed) D=OUT - 金魚蜂 (This my replacement copy since my first copy ended up getting broken during shipment. It was really sad.) La'Mule 結界 1999 tour booklet Rouage - Bible (Vinyl) Ladies Room - Toy Girl (Flexi Single) Rouage - Children (Vinyl) Bunch of early Rouage stuff Gastunk Mother Tour 1988 tour booklet