鐘ト銃声 (Kane to Juusei) new mini-album "小林アキヒトの一生「泣」" to release in March

Someone on Twitter said he looks like jigsaw ahahfhgdhfgd

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i (ex gulu gulu) maybe?

basically

That bow reminds me of the one Kyary Pamyu Pamyu wore to Coachella some yeàrs back.

there was a recent controversy over the cover they published on their Twitter account where they use the image of a real case with real victims.
What do you think?

https://x.com/kaneto_info/status/1885209697978032283?t=IiDdfQV4m0ANgqv6fPLUnA&s=19

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Not necessary and crass? Sure. On that, I can’t exactly blame people for getting a bad feeling about it. Still, people were making it seem like they posted a photo of someone’s body, when it was really just a diagram.

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Basically only overseas fans doing their judgement and cancelling again. That’s such waste of time and no one cares! They will keep their activities in Japan and not caring about what non Japanese fans will think about.

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Upon researching a little further, it seems that both Japanese and Western VK fans were complaining about this.

The controversy might be coming from the fact that police dismissed the deceased man as a peeping tom with a toilet fetish, but certain aspects of how he was found led people to speculate that he was actually murdered.

So given that, and the fact that they used this image to promote a ticket to a demo recording leads me to believe that the new single may take inspiration from this case. Now, will they portray it with nuance? Probably not. Probably something about writing their main character Kobayashi Akihito into a situation where he spies on women inside of a squat toilet.

This is probably a big part of why people might be angry, but the fact that Kaneto are a band that people like to shit on doesn’t help the situation.

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Well it wouldn’t be visual kei if someone weren’t being provocative and pushing boundaries…

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vkei- known since day one for offending cultural norms of Japan
Kane to Juusei- post pic of a perv who died in a sewer
Vkei fans- surprised pikachu face

Yes, its in bad taste but its also from a band who has a main character who is shocking af.

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