I hear you. I was in Japan both times during their last world tour and missed their Canadian tour dates. Kept thinking ‘I’ll see them next time they come’. Now even if I do, it won’t be with the original members…
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Not gonna lie, the members comments made me weep like a child. A part of me still feels like this is unreal, just reading the headline that he passed away feels… Odd. I admire them for choosing to continue without him, and respecting his wishes. It must be so difficult.
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I can see them having Reita’s bass tracks play along while they perform. Gives them a chance to do the whole homage thing on stage with more popular songs like Miseinen.
Or they can go the Lynch. route but better…
I know AK didn’t die but I like how they had guest bassists play his parts (live). They just need to make sure the bassists can be heard in the mix and ACTUALLY KNOW how to play his parts.
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All I can say is “what the actual fuck”. I’m not even really a Gazette fan but just… what the actual fuck.
RIP, Reita.
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Late, but I’m shocked to hear this. It’s a very sad day. The GazettE meant so much to me in my highschool and college years. I know the band impacted fans from all walks of life.
Reita was my favorite member during the band’s early days. He had such mysterious look with his iconic nose band. Even if I don’t actively follow the band anymore I will miss him dearly. It’s a weird feeling finding out that someone you used to look at in music videos and photobooks for 15 years passed away suddenly.
Gazerock is not dead. Keep dropping those basslines up in disorder heaven.
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JRN translated the members’ farewell messages
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Ruki also gave context to Reita’s last tweet, which referred to the end of their last live back from last year, and talking about the view of the fans supporting them.
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I’d love to see them go the lynch route, where they have either peers fill in as the bassist for certain lives, or have younger bassists with a heavy reita influence play as support. That way its like a set of tribute lives.
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I knew he was popular and well-liked but i was honestly amazed how many times i heard someone say Reita was the reason they got into bass
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I’m game for an rotation of support bassists doing homage
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One by one, the people you were awed by, the people that carried away your pain with their music, are leaving this world.
But music is forever. And Reita will live on through the Gazette’s bass lines…
I still cannot believe it. Just like with Buck tick, I was hoping to see them live someday, all 5 of them…
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Ruki’s message is simply heartbreaking
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I’m sure there will be a lot of vkei bassists lined up for the support role. Maybe not who knows what will happen. Maybe a new member 
. It begs the question who can fill those shoes or rather would they even consider that an option at all. It’s really up in the air at the moment and I’m sure the band is busy right now figuring this out.
They wanna make this band continue afterall and the members seem to be determined to do so. I hope the best possible future for the gazette and the fans 
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anyone has compilled posts of bandmembers griefing? I’ve seen sugizo talking about but couldnt search for many others.
I’ve seen lots of when going through Twitter with what it thinks might be to my interest depending on who I follow and so on. I barely remember names though (it’s also been quite some where I just know the band’s names from seeing them here on the forum). Also Miyavi on Insta (as put up before in this thread) and Hiroto from alice nine als posted some hours ago over there (in English).
SUGIZO, our most beloved right-winger from the scene, has spoken too
https://twitter.com/SUGIZOofficial/status/1780550893320175884
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._. Idk how old he was surely he seemed too young to just die? It’s easy to forget how random death can be… R.I.P
he was 42 
Hell, I still can’t wrap my mind around this. Everyime I come to the forum I look at the title of this thread and stare at it again and again in disbelieve. I read it again as if the meaning of it would change if I read it just often enough.
I have posters of Gaze in my bedroom so I see them everyday. Everytime I walk past them I stop and stare at Reita and keep thinking: “No, this cant be true, right? How can he be gone? He’s Reita. The Reita I have seen on stage. The Reita who shook my hand. No”
And honestly I start getting anxiouse to look at other threads because I somehow expect more bad news.
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That sounds like me.
Each time I see the title of this thread it’s like seeing it for the first time.
I’ve been having that feeling of your last part with the other announcements of that kind and pushed it away because no matter how hard we want to we can’t get rid of the possibility of something like this happening, I know even from experience with my best friend passing when both of us were 29 due to a cerebral aneurysm. I do know that age ain’t a guarantee from this.
Nevertheless it still feels like that can’t be true.
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