They can get away with openly talking about Mejibray and still supporting other vk bands, so this is only affecting Koichi and Tsuzuku.
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Bambi: No evidence of me ever doing VK
Well, I guess it’s time to make my Koichi Mejibray Pinterest board public
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Not a mejibray fan (not hating on their fans though!) but being part of the scene here I have heard things of their behind the scenes stuff that further turned me off to them.
Seems like he is just dealing with the trouble that comes after you let some sketchy folks create your career as a formulated idol group where they put up the money and you sign over your soul.
There are tons of examples of bands/bandmembers having to quit at their peak because of this.
sucks for the fans T_T
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spill the tea tho
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meh, kinda obvious if they dont have control over themselves and other guys cant make stuff on their own >.<;; fill in za blanks
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idk if anyone saw but it seems he went and retweeted every single person who replied with his old vkei photos
and some people said he was dissing genki too in some of his tweets?
i don’t really care for them so idk if that happened
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and i hate you too Koichi (ex - Mejibray)!!! 
People have dug up some oooold stuff
https://twitter.com/Kimzillaaa/status/1389487651137507331
quite the glow-down though
https://twitter.com/Kimzillaaa/status/1389487586260004865
and he was retweeting all of it. I always did say mejibray and its members kept the scene alive with their shenanigans lol
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Once visual, always visual. You can never escape the scene Koichi ^___^
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the chin job is obvious
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She probably saying that the thing hw did thus far was her way of life, and refuse to name that lifestyle she chooses as VK or whatever 
It ia probably one of those stuck up, “don’t label me”, tweet
‘‘He’’ If you are talking abt koichi
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Hello. New member here so I don’t really know if I should make a new thread or if it’s okay to reply in this thread instead since we’re on the topic of Koichi. ( ´,_J｀)
I would just like to ask those who watched his anniversary live what you thought of it? I’m in the middle of watching it but something isn’t sitting well with me so I was hoping to talk to someone about it
(。_。)
Sorry if this is considered irrelevant to this thread. I will delete it immediately if it is. Thank you so much! (Ｔ▽Ｔ)
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Not really a Mejibray fan but I mostly follow the members on IG and Twitter. But this is really confusing huhhh ಠ▃ಠ
I haven’t seen it, what’s weird about it?
is that still autotune, or is he full playback already?
Got his anniversary running (i am jumping through)
I mean the audience is silent, for obvious reasons (corona)
He does seem to chew his finger of sleeve a awful lot
Yes! The playback thing was the one bothering me! It’s way louder than his mic to the point where I was starting to think that he was lipsyncing. Although clearly he does sing at some parts of the songs, albeit off-beat (dunno if that was intentional or not). I jumped through it, too, and the only song I actually watched through was the last song, ‘Lost’.
I guess.. I dunno.. It’s just sad (using ‘sad’ for the lack of a better word for how I felt watching Koichi and listening Genki’s latest ‘singles’). (╥_╥)
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A little bit sorry for this I know this is a WAYYY old topic and i’m here about what? 5 years later… I am still considered a new fan and I am really getting into mejibray currently trying to check up on what happen to Koichi! Can anyone explain a it more on all the Yakuza situation and stuff I’ve been reading for a while and I think I missed it or just didn’t get it 
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I know your reply is like months old but just in case newer Mejibray fans stumble across this in the future, and would like to know (quoted from this post):
Summary
Mega late response, but doing it anyway cause i’ve been digging around my collection and i still follow them and check their stuff in a pretty irregular basis.
It’s 2023… WHat happened to this band? Well, there’s nothing official, but it happened a lot.
The story goes as follows (I managed to glue some pieces and most should be taken as a theory):
Mejibray, as a band, started having some issues in 2017, it was noticiable since their releases were slowing down. The thing is, the band stopped doing encores and cutting their lives short, Koichi and Tsuzuku stopped their activities in their social media. After the hiatus was announced, everything was silent for a long time.
When last live happened a lot of rummors surfaced and were pretty much confirmed with the DVD release. First and foremost, Tsuzuku and Koichi started painting their faces fully black for concerts, this didn’t fit well to overseas fans (Cause black face is a crime in certain country), this was already seen in magazines photoshots after the hiatus announcement and before the final live.
The final live was no different, still black face, in that same live, Tsuzuku broke down live and Koichi literally threw away his bass and ran to him, Tsuzuku didn’t stand up again and Koichi just stepped in front of him while the live closes.
2018, Finally some things started clearing out. MiA and Meto were still signed in their label but weirdly enough, Tsuzuku and Koichi weren’t, they were still missing from social media until some months after they posted pictures together saying they were doing better and “preparing something”.
After several months of wait, 8PSB was revealed, a new PV dropped (superstart) and was a surprising change for them, a pop duo and the lyrics were a bit revealing, in short they were saying “We are still here wanting to make music” Koichi appeared with a huge tattoo in his entire back, it was like making a promise to himself and music. Both of them were playful at social media saying “Were you expecting something like this? Hehe”.
After around 3 albums, Tsuzuku, who since day one changed from that to Genki (Apparently, his real name), released a solo song called “Bookshelf”, the song itself it’s a HUGE statement.
The song is quite powerful, if you listen to the third song of the single “decadance”, the song “Sou to utsu to Kyokai” and then you listen to “Bookshelf”, there’s a huge leap.
Basically, Genki tell us his story and with this song A LOT clears out. Genki has been dealing with BPD since god knows when, BPD is one of the most painful mental illnesses out there. There were rumors of abuse before the Mejibray Hiatus, this isn’t clear BUT, it could be somewhat true, or at least half true. BPD makes individuals quite intense and they tend to be a bit “abusive” with their emotions if not treated properly or understood properly.
If Genki was suffering HARD from this and wasn’t treating it, he most likely started failing schechules for the agency, Koichi was his long time friend and we can asume he supported him which ultimately lead to them getting fired from the agency/band, but since they are under contract they couldn’t say a word of how mistreated they were, none of them, MiA and Meto included, said a thing to this day, at least something that clears EVERYTHINg up.
Let’s jump foward to Genki’s “Bookshelf”, the song is so powerful, he talks about being basically sick, and having so much pain to carry until he finally had the strengh to start getting better and make music again.
Around this, MiA, being such a musician (if you know him, you know he was the main composser for Mejibray and did most of the song in software and even recorded the bass for the first album Emotional Karma), he continued making music as a support musician and some colaborations. MiA apparently is also a model or something, to this day he post fancy photos in bars and spas)
Meto was also a support drummer, he subbed for Suzune (Ex-and, in that time he was in Lirazio and left the band cause carpal tunnel - Fun fact, Suzune was the first drummer in Mejibray), but he also had a couple of lives where he covered songs and he SANG them, yes, Meto didn’t only speak now, he sang. Some recent digging i’ve been doing suggest Meto plays but not as much since he is a Chef now.
Weirdly enough, Genki and Koichi started drifting appart, Koichi kept playing/singing 8PSB songs as a solo singer and their 3rd album barely had Genki singing.
Soon after, Genki announced a Duo project that was more metal while still releasing a song under Genki takebuchi (Apparently, again, his real name) and thanked everyone for the support. He started a YouTube channel which i barely understood (all japanese), and uploaded vlogs, ASMR and some warming up singing. Genki also released a song or a single, not sure, of a band project that was some alternative rock, but there’s nothing about this one.
Koichi went solo making his brand Trembling Bambi his solo project and 8PSB dissapeared. Koichi went nuts in socials, and this part is interesting: Koichi denied several things of his past (Like being a Visual Kei musician) and expressed how frustrated he was in the music industry. his brand, Trembling Bambi, is under his own record label, or something like that, but he got REALLY down profile after stating that the Visual kei industry is rotten to the core, onwards to die cause most of the labels are managed by Yakuza and that he even had trouble putting his project out cause of them. He was really, really out there. Some called him “ego burst”, but fitting the pieces together, you can most likely see the frustationg he had. He is still in Trembling bambi doing some pop, but he is barely present in socials and you can’t really find his music.
Meanwhile, Genki reunited vanessa for a one night revival, where it’s rumored they played Mejibray songs as well. Even if he said it was a one time thing, VanessA is still reuniting again and again… But Koichi isn’t there, Koichi being the last bass player VanessA had, it’s a bit odd, but again, you fit the pieces and all makes sense.
As a Summary:
Mejibray started crumbling down when the label mistreated Tsuzuku and Koichi, mostly Tsuzuku who was deeply suffering from BPD. The whole band got their necks stepped on cause of contract reasons making them completely unable to speak out.
Hiatus happened, Tsuzuku and Koichi fired and tried a duo pop project for a couple of albums until they drifted apart. Koichi sticked to music or at least producing in the industry even after his claims of Visual kei dying and labels being controlled by Yakuza.
Tsuzuku changed his name to Genki, explained everything in “Bookshelf”, went on to fund a duo metal project called 30 Seconds certain Victory, tried another soft rock project, worked in his YouTube channel and reunited VanessA. He works as a vocal coach according to rummors (Or tweets/youtube i can’t translate cause i don’t know Japanese, but he often uploaded warm up sessions of scales of music, basic training to sing).
MiA kept making music as a supporting member, still works as such and apparently a model or something, he often uploads pictures in fancy bars and spa.
Meto did a few shows covering songs, he sang in this project; went on to be a support drummer for lirazio (And apparently, other bands), but ultimately appears to be just a chef nowadays.
I wrote this on the go and with a cup of coffee filled with cafeine, my english is not perfect, but i wanted to just throw the story out… I hope i helped (Even a year after your post).
I miss Mejibray so much…
EDIT: I ALMOST FORGET, while you can still find a ton of Mejibray stuff all over YouTube (And the Forum label which was the old Mejibray official Channel has been dead for 4 years) you can still watch their videos, the Mejibray official page is still up and running (Which is REALLY weird for a band that is completely missing). BUT, here’s where gets it interesting: 8PSB stuff IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. Music videos, for example, are nowhere to be seen, bad uploads from fans are the only thing out there and some songs in YouTube Music, but music videos like for the song “Monster” is gone, if you dig deep enough, you find fan uploads, but official one is gone… Interesting little thing.
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