/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>1904
Any chance you went to any of the shows on their US tour last year?

Pic related; delicious Akko in Los Angeles.

oh yes

Mizuki Nana.

I WANT TO FUCK HER VOICE. (Also, I've been listening to the brilliant green lately, and they're good too.)

Nana Mizuki
I actually own some of her albums

HYDE for rock, m-flo for r&b/hip-hopish stuff, and Utada Hikaru for pop.

Anybody else here like all the experimental/noise that comes from Japan?

Posting a Jrock band because this is /jp/

B'z!
For the moment.

Miyavi. Cant wait for his world tour.

Shiina Ringo/Tokyo Jihen are fucking brilliant. It takes a lot for an artist to produce music that I ALWAYS like.

That aside, I've been rediscovering early L'arc~en~ciel, Gackt-era Malice Mizer, and X Japan, as well as Kagrra,. Some SPARTA LOCALS and Asian Kung-Fu Generation too.

I'll risk sounding like a goth-fag and say I like some Dir en Grey. Sakamoto Maaya is my sugar fix; something about Ayumi's voice is really irritating.

And Base Ball Bear. Because they're pretty fucking ace.

Koda Kumi!

Toohoos.

I'm a faggot for ALI PROJECT and ROUNDTABLE

Pink Comets

Maximum the Hormone.

Ayumi Hamasaki. It's kind of my default jpop, my 'frame of reference'

I agree with this content.

Asaki is pretty damn good, enough though I normally hate that particular style of music.

I cant say i'm well versed - but Under17/haluko momoi I love to bits - much to the disdain of my siblings - oh and morrigan, fucking love that shit, but that is pretty niche to say the least.

GO!GO!7188

Yousei Teikoku

THE HIGH LOWS
SEISHUN IS AWESOME!!!!!!

>>1841
My other favorite Japanese musicians are Boris, Boredoms, Merzbow, and Acid Mothers Temple, which obviously stack up oddly against Ms. Ringo's genre of music.

Koda Kumi is pretty fucking fine.

Sound Horizon. Elysion is seriously the best album that I have ever imported.

>>1841
If you're not into her pop stuff, listen to Tokyo Jihen, they've got a lot of really great songs.

I suggest you listen to OSCA when you get the chance

angela

Her voice can sound screechy at times, but it's very strong and some of her tunes can sound downright epic.

Shiina Ringo is pretty damn brilliant. Her music never gets old for me. That includes Tokyo Jihen, too.

A little off topic but: OP, you should check out the live-action movie Sakuran. Maybe you've heard of it; the entire soundtrack is Shiina Ringo's Heisei Fuuzoku album. The overall movie is only decent (well, most manga-to-live adaptations tend to be) but visually and aurally it comes together pretty nicely.

Kawada Mami is my favorite. There's something about her voice that I really like.

Aikawa Nanase and ZONE, but I'm also a big H!Pfag.

>>1969
Actually, I love her pop stuff. That's the funny thing. I am normally not a pop fan, but she just does it so well that I can't help but enjoy it. Tokyo Jihen is cool as well, but I don't think that it matches her solo output.

>>1972
Ah cool. I need to check that.

Susumu Hirasawa.

>>1967
Have you listened to Chihiro Onitsuka? Her voice has similar qualities, but her music is more ballad and rock styled (and rather Western sounding).

>>2018
H!P>AKB amrite?

>>2045
I can't say I have heard of her, but I'll try her music out right away. Are there any particular tunes of hers that stand out?

AYA-SAMA! :D ^__________________^

Chihiro Onitsuka.

I just listen to doujin music.

But I do think that Denki Groove is fucking awesome.

X-Japan for rock, the brilliant green for pop

Tokyo Jihen, Maaya Sakamoto, Rurutia, Maximum the Hormone, AAA, Kokia, and Animetal to name a few.

Kenji Ohtsuki

I am a huge faggot and I was born without a penis.

>>2264
ROOMBA ROOMBA ROOMBA god I hate you.

As long as nobody says Gackt...

>>2114
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jPWee2pEkzQ&feature=related
One of her live songs.

As for stand-out tracks...
Gekkou
Tiger in my Love
Beautiful Fighter
Sodatsu Zassou
Infection

There's a batch torrent on Jpopsuki if you're interested in getting it all.

um, what about eclectic things like...

SUSUMU HIRASAWA
and
KOKIA
?????

>>2375
Gackt, seriously though.

>>2380
yeah i hate the stuff you hear on bleach and naruto and shit like that... just because its in japanese doesnt give them an excuse to suck! i like asobi seksu, though theyre based in new york. rurutia is pretty awesome too.

Eiko Shimamiya, The Pillows, and Ali Project

>>2192
HOLY SHIT, NIJI IS MY FAVORITE SONG!
THANK GOD THERES ANOTHER DENKI GROOVE LOVER OUT THERE.

>>2434
I fucking love The Pillows.

>>2435
i have a facebook group about them.

Beat Crusaders would make the top

>>2434
>Ali Project
Sage.

Electric Eel Shock.

>>2248
>>2226
From hearing god knows how many insert songs from Nanoha, I didn't expect Mizuki Nana to be so... tiny.

Cornelius

>>2449
The Pillows are awesome.
I add Maximum the Hormone, MUCC, and Dir en grey.
(Dir en grey is obligatory for me because I'm a faggot like that.)

The lack of the Gazette is kinda funny, or is everyone afraid to sound like a fag.


There I said it for you guys, the Gazette.


Dir en Grey is a piece of shit band now.
They were good in their early days.

...and miyavi makes noise not music.

>>2637
My friends are obsessed with Gazette and I cant understand why.

I have on and off phases with artists.
Ayumi was a big one.
L'arc was next.
Tokyo jihen and shiina ringo always stick though.

>>2507
You didn't expect a Japanese girl to be tiny?

>>2637
The early days were fantastic, especially Kisou.

After Vulgar was released it went downhill.

>>2689
Their music is pretty intense imho.
I like it.

Not only that but I don't know...I guess artistic is a word that would work.

They're pretty artistic with their image and music style.

THE PILLOWS ^_^
Seriously not Trolling

>>2434
>>2449
>>2625
Fuck yes Pillows.

I'm seeing them on St Patrick's Day in San Francisco. Bitches can hate me now.

>>2637

Hey, I dig Gazette. Just not one of my top-of-the-head favorites, eh?

Eh, MARROW had some good tracks on it personally. May not have had the same kind of tonal quality of their early stuff, but I'm not convinced they're made of fail yet.

Ryojoku no Ame still shocks me with how raw it is.

My favorite would have to be World's End Girlfriend, but advantage Lucy is a close second.

m-flo, HALCALI, MUCC, Utada Hikaru, heartsdales, Ikimono Gakari, Otsuka Ai, Capsule, Tokyo Jihen, Ikeda Ayako

I refuse to pick a favorite

>>2730
Sounds about right.
Seemed to me as if the band lost their way after they went international.

Sex Machineguns have some of the most hilarious music videos ever. I love them just for that.

>>2818
I'll admit that TMoaB had some good tracks, but there were only a few. Dozing Green though sounded a bit like something from Vulgar, maybe even Macabre, but it's still not doing it for me.

I enjoyed Utada Hikaru until I heard her english album.

Love is gone.

>>2843
WEG is great. Hurtbreak Wonderland was one of my favorite 2007 albums.

I forgot to mention Naitomea.
and their little project Sendai Kamotsu.

Honestly, a band singing about woe and then strips down, puts on a different make-up and sings about being gay?

I approve it.

>>2468
FUCK YOU.

Anyway. I listen to alot of Ali Project, Ayumi Hamasaki, Hikaru Utada, Shiina Ringo, Susumu Hirasawa and Rie Fu.

My two favorite artists are Tommy February6/Heavenly6 though (and since Tomoko went back to the The Brilliant Green, I don't know when another Feb6 or Heav6 will ever come out....;_;) and TM Revolution (fuck the power level, I'm going to New York Comic Con because he's holding a concert there).

It seems I can't stay too long with a indie rock band for too long, although I kinda still into L'arc (but their P'unk~en~Ciel stuff is better than their regular stuff). AKFG's newer stuff is kind boring. The rest I kinda dropped after a short while.

>>2901
I think she tried too hard to appeal to the American audience that that album sounded like generic R&B singer #29739874. I admit some of the songs on there are relatively good (after listening to them a few time to grow on you) like "The Workout" and "Kremlin Dust" but the dance remixes of "Exodus 04" and "The Devil Inside" are much more superior than the original ones.

Meh, she redeemed herself in my eyes with "Passion", "Keep Tryin'" and the songs she did for the Eva movies. I have the latest single from her but I haven't heard it yet...

the pillows. It's the only Japanese band I listen to nowadays.

THANK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU, MY TWILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

KOTOKO and I've

gb2/mu/

>>3520
Fucking shit, I totally forgot to add KOTOKO to my list.

;_;

>>3548
NO U FAGET

>>3444
OH OH OHHH OHHHH, I'M A WAAAAAAAAAAAASTE

/secret slogan

Arc en Ceil.

>>2843

Only person with taste in this thread. D:

>>3688
>Only me in this thread. D:
Fixed.