Tokyo V-Kei Diaries

 I wasn't really thinking about going to this live, but decided to go last minute since it's deadman... and Ikebukuro Edge. I'd never been to Edge - I don't really go to minor lives or taibans with lots of small, young acts, so this was definitely a first for me. One thing I messed up on was that I should've looked for cheap resale tickets on twitter before buying a full-priced one from eplus - people were selling their tickets for like 2500-3000yen. Ugh, I could've saved so much money.

  On the day of this live, i looked on twitter and found someone selling an okay-ish ticket for 6000yen. (Original price was 7000+fees, i think.) I hadn't seen deadman since their tour final in June, so I decided to go see them on a whim. My spouse wanted to go too, but he had to stay home because he was sick.   I promised him I'd buy him a couple cheki, then I was on my way. I met the ticket seller around 15 mins before the opening time, got my ticket, and waited to enter. Jeez, Kabukicho is filthy. But everyone knows that. Once I got in, i made a beeline for the floor and found myself an acceptable spot. For some reason, I was convinced that deadman would be playing first, even though it was literally aie's birthday. I was pretty surprised to find that Ryutaro was first. I've never listened to Ryutaro or Plastic Tree before, so I had no idea what he’s sound like. It was a lot slower and pop-ier than I expected. Not really my thing, to be honest. I don’t think I like h...

This is going to be a long one, because it's actually two lives on the same day. So, during DEZERT's The Heart Tree Tour Final in June, they announced  that they would be releasing a best-of album,  that it would be 2 discs, there would be 1 new song on each disc, and some of the songs would be re-recorded, they would be doing 2 lives to commemorate the release of this album (1 live for each disc) they would hand out special editions of each disc at their respective lives there would be a "Special Invitation" card included in each distributed copy the card would be used for their Budokan live to do *something* (To be announced)