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KP-X
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Too much rain. It's chaos all over.
Complain about all!
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ZoaKaizer
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Liana_Ilia said:
ya, there is this professor who every time my class got his subject, only the students who sit in the front row who pay attention to him. the rest play game in their laptop, or sleeping, or do something else.
ussually his quizez are not that difficult. but suddenly his final exam is over Kill
This is maybe his revenge to the student who neyer pay attention to him
and in my uni, one Failed subject means the student have to repeat all of the subject in that semester.
Kugayama
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I get the feeling that to follow one's favourite Japanese musicians one has to learn the language and have someone in Japan to handle fan club memberships and forward mail on your behalf.
Or do the fan clubs actually cater for overseas fans?
PS, it seems to me that Sony is less in touch with fans than labels like Lantis and Flying Dog. (I think that my meeting Minori Chihara and Chiaki Ishikawa was in part due to the help rather than hindrance of Lantis and Flying Dog).
ninetales said:Ryo
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People who think that the only ones interested in behind-the-scenes are fan club members
YOU THINK FOREIGN PEOPLE CAN'T LIKE KALA MUSICIANS TOO, SONY!?
I get the feeling that to follow one's favourite Japanese musicians one has to learn the language and have someone in Japan to handle fan club memberships and forward mail on your behalf.
Or do the fan clubs actually cater for overseas fans?
PS, it seems to me that Sony is less in touch with fans than labels like Lantis and Flying Dog. (I think that my meeting Minori Chihara and Chiaki Ishikawa was in part due to the help rather than hindrance of Lantis and Flying Dog).
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Cerise
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^ contrast to Kpop fans who get seemingly EVERYTHING regardless of where they're from and who seem to get a DVD guaranteed for every concert they have...and who seem to actually allow fancams at lives 
If there were half as many Kalafina/FJ/Yuki Kajiura videos on youtube as there are of e.g. SNSD or superjunior, then I'd be happy
and who seem to get a DVD guaranteed for every concert they have...and who seem to actually allow fancams at lives If there were half as many Kalafina/FJ/Yuki Kajiura videos on youtube as there are of e.g. SNSD or superjunior, then I'd be happy
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ninetales
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I don't know about most fanclubs, but I know that the FictionJunction one doesn't allow anyone other than Japanese citizens to join. That's more Flying Dog's decision than Sony's, I suppose, but apparently Sony's been teaming up with them to release fanclub-only Kalafina Making-of booklets...which I would love to have. There are a lot of other things for fanclub members only, such as closed concerts, a newsletter, and an official FJ theme song.
Unfortunately, I don't live in Japan, and I don't know anyone who does. So aside from the occasional online report...
To be honest, I agree with that, but then Sony's also very good at marketing what they know is popular - like the way they included Madoka extras with After Eden LE, which made it one of CDJapan's top sellers of 2011. They do their research and know what the fans want, and I think to some extent they give them what they want, but they also aren't particularly generous about it, for some reason.
Kugayama
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I'm trying to remember where I read about mail forwarding services based in Japan. If the requirement isn't citizenship but merely a postal address in Japan, that might be possible.
There has to be a mutual understanding that the artists are people with limitations just like everyone else, and that the fans are prepared to pay for what's worthwhile, but aren't just to be milked for all the money that can be extracted from them. Somewhere in the middle of that is the concept of artificial scarcity (e.g. limited editions). Sure, it can make sense just to have a limited run of some prettily packaged music or concert, but for those of us who will have very little opportunity to see our favourite artists live, having reasonably priced concert videos and a reasonably complete music back catalogue available should help both the fans and the artists.
ninetales said:
I don't know about most fanclubs, but I know that the FictionJunction one doesn't allow anyone other than Japanese citizens to join. That's more Flying Dog's decision than Sony's, I suppose, but apparently Sony's been teaming up with them to release fanclub-only Kalafina Making-of booklets...which I would love to have. There are a lot of other things for fanclub members only, such as closed concerts, a newsletter, and an official FJ theme song.
Unfortunately, I don't live in Japan, and I don't know anyone who does. So aside from the occasional online report...
I'm trying to remember where I read about mail forwarding services based in Japan. If the requirement isn't citizenship but merely a postal address in Japan, that might be possible.
ninetales said:
There has to be a mutual understanding that the artists are people with limitations just like everyone else, and that the fans are prepared to pay for what's worthwhile, but aren't just to be milked for all the money that can be extracted from them. Somewhere in the middle of that is the concept of artificial scarcity (e.g. limited editions). Sure, it can make sense just to have a limited run of some prettily packaged music or concert, but for those of us who will have very little opportunity to see our favourite artists live, having reasonably priced concert videos and a reasonably complete music back catalogue available should help both the fans and the artists.
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Rafael-sama
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How many birthdays does dslava have!?!? 
Nick Hunter
I have reached Yuki nirvana
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Corpse Princess
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to many stuck up popular people that need to get a life in my school and why cant us teens get raded R movies i mean seriously 
LianaIlia36
I have reached Yuki nirvana
I am hungry and my back hurts from the car ride last night, two minor complaints today.
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ninetales
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Do we really need that large amount of headroom? 
Come on, there's so few good pictures...!
Come on, there's so few good pictures...!
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Cerise
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I cut my foot on a nail...owiee 
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Corpse Princess
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FRENCH class is so boring i could die and im still tired of preps plus i have damn enemys in my class
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ninetales
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Man, do I wish those DVDs weren't out of print...I'd buy all three of them.
LianaIlia36
I have reached Yuki nirvana
I am so stuffy this winter... hopefully going to a warmer climate will help.
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Rafael-sama
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I WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER 6 WEEKS??? AND WHAT IF IT DO NOT ARRIVES??? I WANT MY HOMURA-CHAN!!!Plus, I HATE RAIN!!
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Corpse Princess
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why cant i get a BF?!! i know some likes me in school 
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ninetales
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I just missed...by two hours...the giru livestream video.
Two hours.
I don't know what was wrong with me...
Two hours.
I don't know what was wrong with me...
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Alphard Sokaina
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do you like him too?Corpse Princess said:why cant i get a BF?!! i know some likes me in school
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ninetales
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THIS GUY CANNOT WRITE A SONG TO SAVE HIS LIFE.
Do you have any clue how many songs you've used that chord progression in, Ryo? Let me tell you: Four. You've repeated yourself four times now, and whether or not you toss Tatsuro or anyone else in there, you're repeating yourself again. Slightly different melody lines, slightly different tempo, slightly different arrangement or synth or sampling - none of that matters, because YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF.
And so am I. 
Do you have any clue how many songs you've used that chord progression in, Ryo? Let me tell you: Four. You've repeated yourself four times now, and whether or not you toss Tatsuro or anyone else in there, you're repeating yourself again. Slightly different melody lines, slightly different tempo, slightly different arrangement or synth or sampling - none of that matters, because YOU'RE REPEATING YOURSELF.