J-Rock
J-Rock - Japanese rock music. Dur - hey!
Dir en grey - popular Japanese hard-rock band with 5 members (Kyo, vocals; Kaoru, lead guitar; Die, other guitar; Toshiya, bass; Shinya, drums). DEG for short. They have LOTS of screaming fangirls (including me, but not Chiiru).
Matsumoto Academy - reference to hide, deceased guitarist and singer, whose real name was Matsumoto Hideto. He did some cool independent work, and played with X-Japan until they broke up, at which time he committed suicide. This sucks like a whore.
Tohru - birth name of Kyo, vocalist for Dir en grey. (This isn’t an on-purpose reference, just a weird coinky-dink.)
Niikura - family name of Kaoru, lead guitarist for Dir en grey. (Definitely on purpose. KAORU-SAN GA ICHIBAN! n_n)
Katsura - some member of Baiser, a sadly no-longer-existing J-Rock band. Possibly the evil slutty member who seduced Yukari, but it was all I could think of at a moment’s notice that sounded good with Daisuke. n_n;;;
Akuro no Oka - slow, beautiful ballad-type song by Dir en grey, who are more noted for their loud, screaming, weird-sex-oriented songs.
“chew dogs and dogs chew” - reference to an interview conducted with Dir en grey, during which the interviewer asked what one good thing and one bad thing about being in a famous band was. Kyo, who likes to say strange things, replied that good-->chew dogs and bad-->dogs chew.
Sakai Noriko - a J-Pop singer, beloved of two different Dir en grey members (Die and Toshiya).
X-Japan - possibly the most famous Japanese indie band ever, for no reason that I can hear/see. (Seriously, they sucked.) I don’t remember all of their names, but Yoshiki was drummer and keyboardist and Toshi was vocals, and then hide was one of the guitarists! n_nv They broke up in 1998.
“GEIST! SEELE! WILLE! ZELLE!” - German, meaning ghost, soul, will, and cell; part of a scream-y Dir en grey song called “Schwein no Isu” (Pig’s Chair). No, I don’t know what it’s about, no, I don’t WANT to know, and probably you don’t want to know either.
“outfit with undies included sent to Dir en grey” - well, there was this one time Giga didn’t get on, but Chiiru-chan and I felt like playing around with our characters anyway, so Shuichi, Tohru, Daisuke, and Richi were hanging out, and Daisuke happened to mention that he and Tohru once sent Dir en grey an entire set of costumes, including underwear. Then DEG actually WORE the outfits one time - though Tohru and Daisuke didn’t get to check on the underwear. ^.^
Zan thoughts - “Zan” is a Dir en grey song about murder and death and evil. Take a guess.
“some DEG song with very *interesting* lyrics” - this could be almost any Dir en grey song, really. My vote goes for “Myaku,” which as far as I can tell involves - um - wild, animalistic sex. Yeah.
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I’m glad my Japanese isn’t very good.
Ando - family name of Die from DEG. He can play acoustic as well as electric guitar, which is why he rules. (But Kaoru-san is still ICHIBAN!)
“Die’s bondage mask we made in fanclub?” - a reference to a time when Chiiru-chan’s charas and mine were just hanging out and talking, not doing anything in particular. Daisuke was rummaging through his closet, and found a bondage mask that he and Tohru made as part of being the official Dir en grey fanclub (“a knot,” I would KILL to join). To see the mask, just check out this picture: https://www.angelfire.com/anime3/opencircle/jrock/diebond.jpg P.S. Then Daisuke got Richi to put it on. ^.^ We ought to include that little side-RP with the rest.
“You think Kyo studied for years in an ancient Tibetan vocal school?” - reference to Dir en grey’s lead singer Kyo, who has never studied singing and it shows.
Undecided - a Dir en grey song from their latest album Kisou. Quieter, nice, good acoustic part. What the hell is it doing on the same CD as Pink Killer? Or Embryo? Then again, might as well ask why Akuro no Oka is on the same album with Zan (is the track right AFTER Zan, no less).
“... Shin-chan’s matching skirt” - Okay - that shirt/jacket Richi’s wearing at their first concert is stolen right off of Shinya, Dir en grey’s drummer. Only instead of pants, Shinya wears a nice little skirt with the outfit. ^.^
“LOOK! IT’S SMAP!” - I shouldn’t be putting this under J-*Rock*, but oh, well. SMAP is basically a Japanese boy band that suffers from the Destiny’s Child syndrome (i.e., whenever a member gets too old, he gets replaced).
Yoshiki - intentional ref to X-Japan’s keyboardist/drummer. Maybe this wasn’t necessary, since Yoshiki is mentioned up in the X-Japan section, but I like being thorough.
“X! Da da da dada X!” - this is the basic melodic line for the chorus of an X-Japan song which is either called X (appropriately enough) or Blue Blood.
Malice Mizer - a J-Rock band, sadly splitting up. ;.; They had kind of Goth-y, classical-sounding music, lots of synth and harpsichord-type sounds. They were at their spiffiest when Camui Gackt was their vocalist (God, he has a GORGEOUS voice!), but they’ve always been kind of unstable. I’ll miss them, though... ;.;
“Mask” - a spiffy DEG song from the album Gauze. Other than the bits at the end of each line, it’s not very scream-y, so Tohru can sing it. I love it ‘cuz at the end there’s a pause, and then the band switches into a totally different melody that’s great for improvising. (Well, okay, I also love it because I can attempt singing along with it. So sue me.)
“J-rock is the only other experience [Richi] has, and he doesn’t understand the true meaning of half of it/Damn, but that’s a good thing” - in case you haven’t noticed yet, a lot of J-Rock is kinder obscene and nasty, or at least - you know - R-rated. PG-13 at the minimum. And Richi, being the cute little innocent that he is, doesn’t understand most of it. I can just see it now - “Tohru-dono, why does Kyo say ‘kawaii are, kawaii sore’ in Tsumi to Batsu? And why does he keep talking about ‘okashi’?” “... Richi, do you know how you were born?” “My parents found me under a cabbage
leaf, like everyone else - why?” “... Nothing. Uh - nothing at all. Don’t worry about it.” [kawaii=cute, are/sore=slang words for vagina, okashi=candy, wordplay with okasu/okashite=rape]
“Remember that one thing we wrote for the DEG fic contest?/Yes, but it’s obvious those guys wanna get snuggly!” - Chiiru’s prolly annoyed at me for making her defend the writing of fanfic involving real people, but oh well... Anyway, it seems that Tohru and Daisuke are guilty of writing yaoi (gay sex) fanfiction about J-Rockers, a not uncommon failing. I mean - you have all these GORGEOUS, femme-y men, half of them in dresses and just about all of them with bondage gear, what’s a fangirl supposed to think? Personally speaking, I don’t think it’s nice to write yaoi fic about real people, either, but Daisuke didn’t agree. Besides, Kyo and Kaoru DO wanna get snuggly. n_n
Miyabi - a dual anime and J-Rock reference. Miyabi is the name of both a really evil sucky girl from Great Teacher Onizuka (I don’t remember at the moment if she was the Aizawa or if that was the other evil sucky girl) and one of the members of a J-Rock band called Due’ le quartz, who would be okay if they stopped trying to sound exactly like Dir en grey.
“Supiido .../... DNA” - two lines from the chorus of “Schwein no Isu,” a majorly scream-y Dir en grey song. I’m not a translator, but lessee - it’d be something along the lines of “Raising speed you’re the show/Regeneration of impossible DNA.” ... As I’ve said before, DEG is screwed up. But I love them. n_n
not knowing that Shinya-sama and Toshiya-sama were men - Shinya and Toshiya (drums and bass for Dir en grey, respectively) are very, extremely feminine-looking. Femme-y-looking to the point where no one believes me when I say that they’re men. XP They are! They really are!
Dir en grey Live at Osaka Hall 1999 DVD - a concert DVD of Dir en grey’s, one that I have. And love. And have watched repeatedly. It’s spiffy, everyone should have it, even though it cuts out part of Byo “” Shin and all of the 15-minute version of Aoi Tsuki. XP
J-Ho - a J-Rock fangirl who is a total slut and throws herself at any boy even remotely connected to a rock band. Or - so I imagine. Chiiru used this term (she says she got it from our mutual friend Brian) when describing one of the myriad woes Shuichi was to suffer, and it amused me so much that it became the slut’s official title. Please, everyone, notice how bad I am at playing a slut. XD
“Just because some girl went crazier than Kyo” - you’ve gathered by now that Kyo from Dir en grey is insane, right? Yeah.
“Oh, mai Gackt” - reference to Camui Gackt, former Malice Mizer vocalist and currently a solo artist. Gorgeous voice, sexy body, and awesome songs. ^.^ What’s not to love?
Utada Hikaru/Megumi Hayashibara - again, this does NOT belong with all this J-Rock stuff, but oh well... Two female J-Pop artists. Utada Hikaru is pure sap as far as I’m concerned, but I kind of like Megumi Hayashibara - she did a lot of the songs for the anime Slayers, and they’re pretty cool. She’s a very famous Japanese voice actor and has done a lot of major anime roles, including Lina Inverse from Slayers, Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Tira Misu from Bakuretsu Hunters.
