I would have seriously paniked at the cell data situation lmao
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1号(Yuuri)がSNSでFight Opponent Recruitment project
“Rorschach Nishi-Ogikubo Fight Fest 2025” 11/11 @ Nishi-Ogikubo BETTYRoom
A fight promised afterwards, you say? I know that people have talked about spontaneous bandmen fights happening before, but if they’re going to duke it out in full costume and makeup, I’m low-key kind of here for it.
So I rely on my e-ticket to let me know that it’s at 4:30. Should have double checked Twitter, because it’s actually opening at 4:00. Oh well, I’m still mildly hungover so I don’t care where I stand.
But, as it turns out, they have decided to not let people in until 4:25 anyways. So I get a spot in the third row, between the vocalist and the left side of the stage. My brain isn’t working great, so I think initially that a girl behind me wants to switch spots, but she is probably asking who plays first. Dumb me. I understood people at the bar better when I was drunk.
[2nd/A] Rebellion is first, and they are…okay. During the first song, Saizen bends over to take their hits but only a couple of girls in the second row give some half hearted bumps. Only half of the second row and Saizen have any intentions of moving or headbanging. So I figured that I’d give me neck a break. Some parts of the next song sound painful live. A couple of those Saizen fans were sure enthusiastic, though. Guess that means that furi can make a band sound better.
Dokubari take the stage, the rebranded Hakidame with a new vocalist, Inori.
They haven’t abandoned their old songs, though. They open with Kokkuri-san, the furi coming back to me from last year. Inori has a deeper voice than En did, sounding more like a vampire and less like a cartoon (the only comparison that came to mind, I know it sounds bad). During Freak Show, Inori heads out into the crowd, passing by people windmill headbanging for their lives. Kabane takes his turn as well, but only really walks directly to the other side of the stage.
I check out their merch, but unfortunately no day of cheki. Here’s an Okiku acrylic stand instead.
Ran come on, and they have a support vocalist as Taichi is still mentally unwell.
Seems like half a band, really. One guitarist gone, support vocalist. Even the drummer looks like a support because he doesn’t fit the visual theme at all.
I could have sworn I’ve seen that support vocalist somewhere, but I’m blanking on exactly which indie band.
So of course, there are technical issues. During the first song, Needle, he taps the microphone to test if it’s on. He tries singing into it, nothing. So he grabs the wired microphone on the left side of the stage and picks up where the song left off.
After finishing it, he chats up the crowd a bit, announcing that they’re ready to play another…”ah, ikenai. Daijoubu desu ka?”
The remaining guitarist and drummer are looking at something in the sound equipment. Another minute later, and we’re ready.
The enthusiasm is mixed. A lot of superficial participation, but most of the third row didn’t know what to do with the hopping from side to side during their closer, Anonimisu.
And not one punch or scratch has been thrown yet. Weak fight, bros.
Kumori no chi are next, can’t say I’ve ever heard of them before. So going in totally blind/deaf.
A lady in a Lolita dress has brought two pre-school kids to the show. Hope they have ear protection. Their fans are carrying little parasols that are fancier versions of the little umbrellas that Orseas were selling.
And they definitely are the more out of place sounding band here, with a set of jazz rock all the way through, whereas all the other bands have at least a decent selection of heavier songs. Still, they were decent.
It’s Rorschach Inc’s night, still natural that they’d be closing off. Before they come out, the bassist peeks his head out and a fan standing right in front of him has a member specific shirt with his face on it. Best missed photo op ever. Expectations vs reality
It’s a sea of light up rabbit paddles, as they open up with Villian track Tokyo Underground. Next, they play the newer song, Metro.
After they play their newest single, during Kaibutsu-kun, Yuuri gets the crowd to part to do a VK wall of death (basically, put your arms up and hop towards each other), and asks for a second one before jumping down to join us.
They finish off with Watchmen, inviting the vocalists of 2nd/A Rebellion, Dokubari and Kumori no chi to the stage to help sing it with them. Is this a fight, or a sing along?
Getting a few cheki and saying that I had fun to two members of Kumori no chi that I pass on the street, I decide to grab some Ramen, knowing that I have a looooot of writing to catch up on from last night.
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Hahaha that’s Allen, he was also the ex.drummer for Serenity in Murder now, he’s been supporting Kirito’s solo stuff for a while too. He’s half American but either born/raised in Japan iirc, but yes 
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Fucking reports of Lunafes always drive me mad man. What do u mean u were at a venue with BT and TK plaing older songs and Uver covering ROSIER and Mucc in ONE DAY
(obligatory disclaimer: this is a joke I was smiling reading this idk I feel like all somed literacy is lost and feel like clarifying everything lately) but actually if I get to travel to Japan I would really like to try scheduling it close to a Lunafes now that Summer Sonic has been lollapaloozified
Don’t really follow most of the bands you follow but I must say the reports are always entertaining and well written regardless
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Also I still have to take a closer read at everything, but thank you so much for all your detailed write-ups so far! So insightful and objective too 
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So you buy a ticket for that price and with the ticket the drink can be bought? I feel I read about this whole “buying a ticket and use it to buy the desired whatever” a lot of times when it comes to japanese experiences. Is it that common? And why? Doesn’t it make things overly complicated? Why not just buy directly without the tickets?
Is that a really a thing, never heard about that?! 
Do they sometimes actually fight or is it just more like a playful “tussle”?
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They made custom drink tickets, it was more like little keychains with the members faces on them. But any one could be given to any member. They said that one reason why they wanted it that way was so that the members could pace out their drinks instead of them being pre-poured for them.
As for the fights, it would be more like “these two guys had beef with each other, so they fought”
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All dead dieS fest 11/12 @ Club Citta
So we’ve got a relatively small collection of fans outside. 70 A tickets are called before moving on to Bs, of which I’m the first to actually be there for number call.
First thing I noticed is that this live actually has food. Burgers and spare ribs, to be specific. Will have to try.
They also have DJs going in between sets. Several tables without chairs are set up on the floor. To the left side, there are a few rows of chairs for people to put their stuff on or just chill. Maybe they’re anticipating that the average age here may skew a bit higher given a couple of the acts tonight.
Eight merch stands are set up on the periphery of the room, only dieS and the superlative degree are actively selling right now. Hard to believe that this place held over a thousand for Petit Brabancon last year.
We get started at 3:00, starting with MUNIMUNI.
There are some ladies to the back right of me doing some furi to their walk on SE, so I copy. The lady in second row glances over and sees me doing it, so she offers me the spot until umbrella. Sure!
But as it turns out, MUNIMUNI is not really a furi band. They’re really more of a “vibe to the music” type band.
DieS comes out for the final song to provide guest vocals, leading the crowd in calls of “Ai!” “Shiteru!”
The DJ in between sets is more of a karaoke singer, with a music system that he pre-sets. I didn’t really recognize his first, but his second (after telling a story of his wallet. IC card and phone going missing last Christmas and being returned by an older man) was a cover of Dejavu by Luna Sea.
Afterwards, we can hear umbrella’s sound check, and he decides to try singing along to not great results. A cover of Get Wild 89’ by TM network later, umbrella are ready to start.
I had an opportunity to see them last month. No, not in Japan. In Toronto of all places. JM Fest invited them for a two man show, which would be on a Thursday in early October. I had a ticket ready to go, but I figured that the more I spent out in Toronto, the less I’d have for Japan. Plus, I didn’t even know about the show until ten days before because like any other shows that seem to happen in Canada, nobody seems to find out about them unless you follow the anime community.
But that’s neither here nor there. I’m here now, that’s what matters. They come out, Yui strumming the opening melody of Kuda.
Along with Yoru no Curtain, nobody seems to be doing any furi for umbrella either. Guess it may just be one of those nights.
For dilemma, we finally get some movement from the crowd. Yui abandons his guitar for the new single, Rev and setlist mainstay Witch? where he makes himself dizzy by spinning around in circles. They close off with Slow Rain, guitarist Shu playing until the very end as the other members walk off.
I go and grab a DVD and a single Yui cheki before deciding to also grab a tshirt from the event. Only 2500¥
コバヤシシャラク (Kobayashi Sharaku) is up next, the vocalist of Metronome’s solo project. He comes in with a black cape over a black yukata, dark makeup and teased black hair, looking like some kind of goth samurai.
He awkwardly fumbles with his iPad, page of notes, towel and water bottle. The audience chuckles, leading me to believe that this “I don’t know what I’m doing” act is all a part of the shtick.
After a couple of songs (one of which I can swear sounds like a Metronome song), he pauses for an MC to tell us why he decided to opt for katakana for his stage name instead of his regular kanji for this show. He’s speaking quite fast so I have a hard time understanding, but it had something to do with a cat.
It was then that I decided to go grab food after I buy a quick Sharaku cheki. His staff is not sure if the Setlist will make it onto Twitter.
I head out to the burger stand, and they mention my Lunatic Fest wristband that I still haven’t gotten around to removing because I didn’t buy scissors. Turns out, one of the guys at the stands is fluent in English, so it just defaults to English at that point. I talk about when I came last month and that my first show when I landed was Metronome.
The bacon cheeseburger was decent. Maybe a little dry. Could have used ketchup.
I head back to the room, and the vocalist of MUNIMUNI has set up their stuff. I buy a band cheki and compliment him on the performance.
Next up is Test-No, a non VK band with a considerable VK pedigree. A former drummer of The Gallo and Kneuklid Romance? The guitarist and bassist of By-sexual sharing vocal duties?
While I’ve never specifically listened to them, they’ve definitely “rocked” the hardest out of all of the acts up until this point tonight.
Quickly getting a ten minute charge, I head back and take my spot for the next three acts.
The superlative degree are a band formed by scene veterans two years ago. Featuring the former vocalist of Syndrome, the guitarist of Close, guitarist of Secret, bassist of Hush and the drummer of Jurassic.
They don’t have a huge selection of original songs, so I’m sure that what they played would have been from their two EPs. They were also the only band to opt out of the livestream tonight.
They definitely had the best reaction so far tonight. By this hour, everyone who wants to make it out is probably here by now.
Still, I’ve had absolutely no problem getting second row for every act here. I’ll be holding on to this space for the next two though, as the competition might start getting tougher for Deshabillz.
*looks around*
Maybe not.
Still some gaps in second row. If anything, it looked like it cleared out a bit after superlative degree.
Deshabillz are a legacy band. They’ve been around on and off since 1992, and only the vocalist Shun has been a consistent member.
Hakai no Utage, their final song had the front row hyped up, frantically clapping and headbanging.
It looks even more dead here after their fans have cleared out. We have almost two solid lines for ZIZ. I’m sensing a trend here.
Közi doing the first couple of songs without guitar, until he picked it up for Invader and had it for the rest of the set. Occasionally doing some guitar antics like playing behind his head for a few seconds.
Pretty much as soon as ZIZ is finished, the karaoke DJ comes out again and calls on Matenrou Canou of MUNIMUNI to provide vocals for Malice Mizer’s Gekka no Yasoukyoku, sounding kind of like an amalgamation of Gackt and Klaha.
He follows it up with a rendition of Rosier by Luna Sea, Matenrou Canou doing air guitar. He tries to get Anata by L’arc en Ciel going, but has to start once due to technical difficulties and once more after dieS’s sound check interrupted it. I don’t want your sound check, I want Anata!
I went into dieS totally unaware, but they made it very easy to follow along with many of the songs. The right guitarist is the same session guitarist that Deshabillz had. All dead dieS probably had the most enthusiastic furi all night. They also played Sa.Va.GE nightslave. It’s just a pity, because while the songs were easy enough to follow, finding them again has been near impossible seeing as how I can’t locate it on either Spotify or YouTube (side note: would *not* recommend searching on YouTube for a combination of some of these song titles + dieS)
They ended off with a session song where they invited the vocalists off all projects, including the karaoke DJ to sing verses of the first dieS song they played.
All in all, super glad I came. The opportunity to get up close to all of the bands outweighed the fact that I wasn’t super familiar with most of their discographies.
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Kane to Juusei “Adaptation Experiment” 11/13 @ Higashi-Koenji 20,000V
So this is the only time that I can say during this trip that I explicitly changed my mind about going to a show once I had actually gotten here.
My initial plan was Mud Friends at Zepp DiverCity. For a C ticket that would have put me near the back of the main floor. MUCC, PLC and Waive performing a set each. I’m willing to bet that MUCC would have played a very similar set to Lunatic Fest, plus a couple other songs they’ve been playing a lot of recently.
I’m willing to bet that PLC and Waive will perform very similar sets in two days.
Wait a minute, didn’t I have a dilemma like this last year? Three bands vs one?
But the real compounding factor here is that the KtJ live seems to be more significant, in that this is their second show with their new members. It would be interesting to see exactly how they handle it.
So really…whether I went to that or not would hinge on the quality of ticket I got for this one. I apply on Oct 30th, and hope for the best.
The result?
A11.
Yeah, I think I know what to do.
I get there around 5:15, about 75 minutes away from the door time, but they are holding 2shots.
I decide to spend the price of one 2shot on omikuji envelopes, that contain photocards with the possibility of winning a free 2shot. Got one.
So basically, 12 free photo cards
After heading out for a walk, I head back for 6:15 to wait for tickets to be called. There are, uh…not a lot of people here.
They’re making everyone with extra bags cloak their stuff, saying that they don’t want anybody’s stuff on the floor. I mean, good policy. Usually bands/venues do that when they anticipate a packed show.
Awkward.
I’m counting…48 people in this room twenty five minutes after doors. B tickets? Tickets still available day of? Far cry from their heyday of being able to fill this place no problem last year. Now, this is their second show with their new members, so maybe Monday had a larger turnout. Still can’t help but really feel like this is a full restart.
If one needed proof of the power of fan attachment to individual members here, look no further than the comparison between tonight vs two weeks ago at Ebisu Liquidroom. Don’t have specific numbers for that, but it was about as respectable as most of the shows I’be seen there. Easily 400-500. Like Uru and Eishin’s fans came out in full force and then just evaporated into the atmosphere afterwards.
Their goal is to play the Kinema Club at the end of January. Let’s hope they can get more than 100 people, eh?
Anyways, on to my spot. I grabbed my coveted centre second row spot. The two ladies in front of me in Saizen even left a small gap open for me to position myself behind. 10/10 placement.
They come out to Satsuki, not sounding quite as impressive as they did at Ebisu Liquidroom.
Next is a series of Setlist mainstays that they pretty much always play, followed by Rusubandenwa and Haikei no Sora.
Chill has been using the barricade to get closer to the audience, putting him directly in front/over top of me several times in the show.
After Manatsu no Tobira, they stop for an MC where Chill says that it’s the first time that they’ve played that one with the new lineup.
They then introduce the three new guys, Toge on Guitar (former Jack Caper and akuyaku ), Kiriha on Bass (former Kiroyoubi) and Yukito on Drums (former Jassy and Shiva).
He calls for the next one…Watashi no Shinikata? Already? Are they closing the main set?
As it turns out, no. They have two more in the main set, the rarer song Shitsu-Shitsu and then Kanzen Ikusei Keikaku Bibouroku.
One thing I see though, a setlist
Do I dare to try getting closer? Or should I just wait?
Encore call wraps up and the guys head back on to talk some more about upcoming touring and recording plans. After a bit less than 10 minutes, they head into a jam session for a few minutes before starting up Tokyoto Mushoku Kobayashi Akihito (28), as one does at a Kane to Juusei show.
They close things off with an extended version of S.V.R.S.E.X. that includes a few rounds of saizen ramming and many, many rounds of headbanging.
Now…was my bet right? What did I give up??
Fuck.
Oh well, can’t win every bet.
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Battle Chimera Volume 3 -Defeat Mamireta!- 11/14 @ Otsuka Live House Hearts+
Back to the same place I went for Yoshi’meer’s birthday last year. A26, pretty damn good.
I score second row centre, and of course people are circling for spot trades. For real this time. A lady asks me to switch for Tinkerbell Hatsuno, which I have no idea who he is, so okay…
Someone else just asks me which band I’m here for. Answer: all of them. Not giving up for anyone else.
Deigan are as to be expected. Gritty, distorted, heavy sound for most of the set. Half of Saizen didn’t know what to do for some parts of the songs. Furious cheering/barking for members in between songs and during walk on/walk off both in front of and behind me. Oddly enough, I’m feeling less sore after they’re done.
Z Clear seem to have gotten more popular than last time I saw them. Because there seems to be at least the first three rows solidly for them vs last year’s row and a bit during the 2 man with Superknova. Maybe signing with Starwave has boosted their profile outside of Hiroshima.
They seem to have at least updated their image to a more “casual street fashion” band with more prominent hair and neon paint splattered overalls and jackets.
They tease the intro for Oujama Shimasu behind the curtain. Opening with half of Hatchou Hidari Mawari, which is a “loop song” where they chant a bit about Mamireta and do fast paced furi, and then they go into Junkie as their first full song.
Playing a selection of others, their oldest being 2022s Misanga, they close off with their newest single Diner (getting flags out for some unique moves like moving them in a Z shaped movement) before finishing Hatchou Hidari Mawari.
Tinkerbell Hatsuno starts a soundcheck of sorts by teasing a song behind the curtain, leading his row and a bit, as well as a few stragglers in the rest of the house to wave their light sticks.
I know absolutely nothing about the guy. He seems to be a combination of comedy act, idol, VK-adjacent flyer designer, etc.
All I know is that I tried searching his full name, and this is what popped up.
Because you what now?
Recording is allowed for this portion of the show. First we get a song about what seems to be getting lost in a conbini, then one about riding the train to the tune of Taylor Swift’s We are Never getting back together.
He then calls out his first guest, Rusty-kun, a man with an absolute Chad, bordering on Hapsburgian jawline. After their first song together, he addresses the audience.
“Thank you…for coming to our concert…I just want to…go to Starbucks”
Thanks, I’m sure all two or three of us whose English is better than our Japanese appreciated the shout out.
The next song seems to be about Starbucks. He then invites another guest on to replace the first one, Ito-san, and one more song on his own before saying his farewells.
I’ve taken back my second row spot for Mamireta.
The curtain opens, phone messages playing, to find not Batsu kneeling on the centre platform, but the drummer, Morita, smiling in this deranged manner. He heads to the drums, and Batsu comes out, answering the imaginary phone and starting up Neko ni nari kirenakatta inu. Shiin: Mushi is next, Batsu’s “mene” line really getting the atmosphere and getting me pumped up for the furi.
I sound sarcastic, but I’m really not. Moshimoshi utilized some pretty fun, unique furi. Batsu keeps grabbing his crotch. Morita looks even more animated/metally unstable while playing his instrument than Batsu does.
After a few more, including a part where Batsu pretends to jerk off with a water bottle aimed right at me, we get Oujama Shimasu followed by Tonari no Seki no Hiwa-chan.
Final report tomorrow
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I can’t believe it’s over so soon!
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CrossRoad Fest 11/15 @ Makuhari Messe Event Hall
So, last night here. It’s been really fun, but I think I’m out of steam for shows for now. Looking at this lineup, it reminds me of the old Sweet Trance shows in 2001/2002 held by Sweet Hearts Management at the Nippon Budokan. Waive, Fairy Fore, La’cryma Christi, Plastic Tree, Psycho le Cemu. We’re only missing Pierrot and we have ourselves a full revival of the old gang. This seems very much like a spiritual successor, 23 years later.
Still, that hasn’t meant it’s been free of drama. Fans were furious over a combination of factors. The lack of food and drinks beyond vending machines (at least, not unless you pre-ordered), no re-entry policy, the fact that they wanted the set times to be a surprise so that people couldn’t adequately plan their merch buys or if they wanted to arrive late or leave early. We’re getting old! They said. We can’t deal with random set times. And what’s with taking 30 minutes in between sets?
So they released the set times. And people were like, this day is too long! Can’t you do something about it?
So they shortened the amount of time between sets. But are they taking that from the transition time, or the setlists?
Spoiler alert: …
Summary
the setlists.
So…yeah.
Getting there around 12:15, I figure this gives me plenty of merch time. Well…yes, and no.
The first thing I notice is how long the La’cryma Christi lineup is. Looking around, Official Goods over here, Shazna and Waive over there. Where’s D’espairsRay? Until I look around the other corner and….
So I figure might as well get La’cryma out of the way. One towel later, and it’s time to brave D’espairsRay. We get down until we’re half way between the tables and where I started, when we stop. I have a sneaking suspicion as to why, as the first band seems to be starting inside…but part of me didn’t *want* it to be true.
So I could really care less about Fairy Fore, and based on their merch line (or lack thereof), no one else does either. So I stay. Here’s what they played.
I start chatting with the other fellow foreigners in line (of which are at least half of us). Two from Switzerland, one from Germany and one American. They don’t really know what’s going on either. One of the Swiss girls runs to the start of the line to see what’s up…and it’s what I feared.
Out of “respect” to the bands playing inside, they shut down all merch sales until they have stopped playing. Leaving us a half hour window once Fairy Fore ends to get anything.
Which, could be done, right? Five minutes before the set is done, they come down through the line to give us all a number. The line disperses a bit. So we get top priority, right? Because the people here were first, right? Noriko-San passes us by, being pushed in a wheelchair.
Not exactly. There’s a line forming of people who just got out of Fairy Fore. They call the first seven numbers. Then six minutes later, another seven. We’re at 65 here. But we can’t help but notice the new line still inching forward. So we’re thinking “they haven’t even called ‘20’ yet, and these people who just got here are sneaking in between the numbers. And they’re …just letting them?
So I’m like “screw this, I’m checking out Shazna and the official goods”. I return with 10,000 left exactly. The German girl I was in line with is talking to the staff member, and *then*, they finally start calling number by number. But by then, the rest of the stragglers have all gotten in first.
My number is called, so I’m like “Finally!”
Only acrylic stands and photos left.
Oh well. Time to run for Psycho le Cemu.
Psycho le Cemu come out in their Frontiers costumes, and Daishi wielding this big Buster sword like he’s Cloud. The announcer giving them a member introduction and a brief skit to start off the set, and they open with Blade Dance, as they give their best idol group impersonation.
It’s Gekiai no Merry Go Round, and we have half a band again as Leda and Seek find their instruments while Aya and Yura-sama are still demonstrating the furi for the audience members who weren’t there for 2003. Ai no Uta is next, and we have a full band again. The lights go red, and Murderer.Death.Kill starts up, sparklers on stage going off about half way through.
After a brief MC, Daishi calls for the last song, Kimi ga iru Sekai off of Resistance. So all in all, 2/5. They repeated the *good songs*. A win on my bet, in my eyes.
Playing a medley of American hip-hop and Japanese pop songs over Waive music videos seems a weird choice.
D’espairsRay decide to start teasing us behind the curtain with Born.
They come out, looking exactly like their newest promo photos. Opening with TRICKSTeR, the response is a lot stronger from the crowd than I expected seeing as how D’espairsRay weren’t necessarily the most popular band back in their day.
Redeemer is next, triggering the stage sparks from both the bottom *and* top.
The middle of the set sees a return to older songs, as we get Forbidden and Infection. Their fourth album gets a token song too, as they play Human-Clad Monster. Hizumi gives us a brief MC before closing off the set with MIЯROR.
During the wait for the next band, I decide to go grab a vending machine drink and then pick up a piece of…interesting PLC merch.
No Plastic Tree merch stand, but they are selling some stuff at the Tower Records booth. A live chronicle collection? How much?
33,000¥
Yikes, I’ll pass for now. My PPP collection is all I need for now.
I must admit. I know very little about Waive. They’re definitely the most “normie” band here, along with Fairy Fore. Still, I would say they had the most outright excitement from the audience over the three acts I’ve caught so far.
And for Setlist count, we have… 4 out of 5 repeats from two days ago. So I was…partially right.
Plastic Tree win the award for Most Basic Setlist today, 1. Song that they love opening with. 2. Single from x amount of years ago as a surprise 3. Old hit that even the non-fans may have heard before. 4-6: Songs we’ve been playing at almost every single show for the last two years.
Still, I’d rather see a Plastic Tree set at their most basic over half the bands I’ve seen here on this trip, so…
After a bathroom break, an MC comes on stage to talk to people during Shazna’s soundcheck until I realize, holy shit, that’s Izam!
Finishing their soundcheck, they decide to give us a cover of Jesus by Luna Sea. Maybe he felt inspired by his long, white dress.
For the main set proper, they decide to start off with the biggest hits first. Melty Love, complete with audience sing along, Raspberry Time and Piece of Love. Before Piece of Love, Izam paused for an MC to deliver a talk about being a senpai to younger artists. Psycho le Cemu make an appearance on the main floor, but one of the doors on cue.
Signal is next, followed by the first two tracks off last year’s Sanka Mitsurugi.
La’cryma Christi close off the night. Probably the more significant of the two reunions tonight, Japan wise.
Opening with Lhasa’s Mirai Kouro, followed by Blossom from Magic Theatre, they played a set showcasing songs throughout their career.
Taka mentions Sweet Heart management, which confirms that this festival is kind of the equivalent of those old festivals.
He introduces the members, Levin on drums, Shuse on bass, Hiro on guitar, and then points to a lone green guitar beside the drumkit to represent Koji, who passed away in 2022. The audience calls out to him after Taka encourages them to. He then introduces the support guitarist, Shinobu before he heads into their second last, Sculpture of Time’s Nangoku, followed by White Period, an oldie from 1994.
The encore call starts up straight away, and given that they close tomorrow as well, it is kind of “their” festival. So, why not expect one?
They come out in show t-shirts, and Taka encourages people to cheer to the members again. He then proclaims “Encoru shimasen!” Unless of course, we can do the wave for them. After three, he’s satisfied and plays their final song, The Scent.
I head out before final comments, just because I’d like to get ahead of the crowd. Seeing no flyer guys outside the station, I decide to head to my favourite ramen place by my apartment and finish writing.
In between packing and cleaning, I’ll have to be googling “how to remove gel nails”. I’m sick of making typos.
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oh i died lmao
ty for report
he’s the leader of divers croix , saviors of vkei,
plz check them out when u get back 
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Ah, that makes sense. He’s Tink, but in normie mode.
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