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Hi everybody.
I have concluded that this month is literally "release-dead". Probably the only release I'm really looking forward is Ayabie's Mikadzuki no kiseki, but other than that there is not particular release I'd check. So that means if I don't stumble upon some good and obscure indie band, there will be just one review this month.
And the single is going to be released on 25.6.2008!
Not good.... (oh well July is going to be over-flooded with releases)
Other Visual news and similar...
D'espairsRay are releasing a new single in August *shock* called KAMIKAZE (apparently KAMIKAZE is this some kind of a legendary live performed song that everybody seems to like; I haven't heard it and I won't even bother until it is released). If KAMIKAZE is going to be the same anthemic XXXX like BRILLANT or everything else released before on MIRROR I'll be glad to rip it in my review apart. BRILLIANT got me due to long waiting, but KAMIKAZE will surely have to be fierce to get the same praise as BRILLIANT. Speaking of D'espairsRay I saw on HearJapan their so called new logo thingie.
They'll change the most coolest logo in Visual kei into THIS!!! I could do a better logo than that in 2 minutes in Photoshop. SERIOUSLY this logo fails compared to the fierce old one. God, no comparison comes to my mind to show how this logo fails compared to the old one...it' like choosing a dump-truck over a Ferrari.
Oh and when I finally thought that when I have my summer holidays no band on purpose will play in Europe, a glimpse of hope sparkled before me: Kagrra, is going on a Europe tour!!! Hooray!
The concerts will take part as scheduled in:
8/17(sun) Sweden/Sweden [Klubben]
8/18(mon) Finland/Helsinki [Tavastia]
8/20(wed) Holland/Utrecht [Tivili de Helling]
8/21(thu) UK/London [Scala]
8/23(sat) Germany/Cologne [Kantine]
8/24(sun) France/Paris [La Loco]
8/25(mon) Spain/Barcelona [Sala Salamandra 1]
The best part of it all is that the closest to me (Germany) isn't on some obscure date so there might even be a slight chance that I would go on Kagrra's live. Kagrra, is one of my favorite bands and it would certainly be cool for me to be on their live (plus none of my folks/sister can jerk around that they are violent/that I'll get moshed to death/etc...). So If I'm REALLY lucky I'll go on a Kagrra, concert!
Oh and the guys from Kagrra, are releasing a new single on 9.10.2008. so I'm looking forward to it.
I have to mention that yesterday I received my DSD diploma. It is a diploma that shows that you have managed to reach the level C1 (C2 is the highest level of language knowledge; native speakers have C2) in German. So there is only a level of difference (and that is not such a big difference) between mine and a German native speaker's German. Heh...
The recieving ceremony was kinda cool and yesterday was really awesome (I even took some sushi from Zagreb back at my place). At the ceremony (which was in the German ambassadory) came Mile Kekin the singer of Croatia's most popular punk band Hladno Pivo (Cold Beer). He studied German on college, but he never actually had the chance to teach German as a teacher because he became a punk star. It was really cool seing him and his German is unbelievable.
So with the impression I've checked out some of Hladno Pivo's PVs and I have pick the interesting ones.
(Warning: these guys are nuts XD)
Hladno Pivo - Zimmerfrei
The song is the summer anthem of me, my sister and our half-cousin and we sing it every summer when we meet. The song is a very addicting ska-punk hybrid with a fun and catchy chorus and hilarious lyrics (just as all their songs). The lyrics are about how a day will come when tourist from all over will come to Croatia making it's economy bloom and what will Croatia do to attract them (like turn Slavonia (the largest valley region in Croatia) into a golf court).
The PV is fucking hilarious and you simply can't help but to laugh at the nutbags of Hladno Pivo.
Chorus:
To će biti TAJ DAN (It will be THAT DAY).
To će biti TAJ DAN (It will be THAT DAY).
Objesi ZIMMERFREI, lezii pod palmu i uživaj (Hang out ZIMMERFREI (German for vacant rooms), lie under a palm and enjoy)
Hladno Pivo - Šamar
Šamar (Slap) is a bit of a mid-tempo balladesque song. The video is cool and the lyrics are about jealousy and violence.
Chorus:
Kako te slijede pogledi (How the eyes follow you)
Kako se lijepe po tebi (How they crawl all over you)
Cijelim tijelom uživaš (You enjoy it with your whole body)
Misliš da ne vidim (You think that I can't see - not sure about this line, could be missheard)
Hladno Pivo - Biološki sat
Biološki sat (Biological clock) is said to be one of the strongest tracks of their recent album Knjiga Žalbe (Book of complaints). The PV was just released a while ago but it hasn't been uploaded on youtube yet, so I just found the slideshow version of the song (though the PV is awesome). The lyrics are fierce and it all has got a somehow rough and agressive sound to it. Like you wan't to beat someone up.
Chorus:
I sam ti rekao da (And I've told you that)
Al' ću ti reći sad (But I'll tell you now)
Jebem i tebe i tvoj biološki sat (Fuck you and your biological clock)
I really must take once some time and check them out. They sound really fun. Apparently we all who got our DSD diploma will have the chance to go on a free Hladno Pivo concert that will be held at the 10th year anniversary of DSD in Croatia :).
So anyway enjoy your J-rock news and Cro-punk craziness.
Finally after waiting for literally 6 years Mangas are finally going to see daylight in Croatia. Even though mangas were on Croatian market for at least a year now, they are finally going to be released on Croatian by no other than Algoritam (in which's bookstores you could buy imported manga at first anyway).
I knew that it was just a matter of time before the publisher Algoritam decides to take another step and publish mangas on Croatian as the more convenient and way cheaper alternative to the imported ones.
I found out about this extraordinary news in the woman's lifestyle magazine Grazia yesterday.
In five days the first manga release on Croatian, the "World of Warcraft" manga will announce the start of the weekly manga releases Croatian wide. In May the real releases will start, with the shoujo mangas "Sugar, Sugar Rune" and "Peach girl" and the shounen mangas "Negima!" and "Blade of the immortal" giving reading material to readers of both sexes and different age groups.
This is very, very positive, not just because I have waited so long for that, but for the fact that the Croatian readers will get to know mangas better and those who have already read them won't have to bug with importing mangas.
But honestly, the biggest reason I'm glad this is happening is for the fact that I draw mangas myself and have this one-shot manga I worked two and a half years on and I want to publish it. So yeah, there is this slight chance that maybe one day I could publish my manga on Croatian in Croatia!!!
Most of the foreign manga publishes actually publish mangas from their local manga artists (especially in Germany where home manga artist often have big popularity) so why should it be any different with Croatia? So yeah, can't wait to finish school and enter college, so that I can have the holidays free for offering my manga to my Croatian publisher.
Can't wait :).
^^ Yep the title pretty much explains all of it.
I watched the show "Koledžicom po svijetu" [With Koledžica around the world] one night. It is a popular comedy/ travel documentary show in which popular Croatian people travel around the world and have to do some hilarious tasks. The show is very popular because it is totaly hilarious and you get to see different countries. Just like a travel documentary just 1000x funnier.
The evening I watched it the showed best of clips from each episode. I laughed my soul out. There was also a clip from the episode in which they were in Japan.
From all of the cosplayers they could have found they found the GazettE ones (my #1 band). In a CROATIAN show they showed COSPLAYERS and not just any cosplayers, they showed THE GAZETTE cosplayers! What are the odds!
The Reita and Ruki cosplayers really looked great and I liked the way they giggled when they were trying out the shoes. Later on you can see some Japanese dancing to some Croatian children's song and trying to imitate the show moderator in dancing.
So all in all it is a quite hilarious clip worth watching. And in Croatia, a quite unique clip.
If anyone wants I can also put the translation of this clip.
今日は皆さん！
Hello everyone! This is my first post here on Vox!
The first intention of this blog was to put the backup of my Croatian J-rock and Visual kei blog, but since ,in the end, there was no need for backup and I didn't want this blog to go to waste, I've decided to write here about Visual kei (ヴィジュアル系) and J-rock (Japanese rock).
I will write album, single, PV and other (you just name it) reviews and all other stuff about J-rock. It will be a good opportunity to share my opinion about J-rock with other people, meet people with similar interests as me from other parts of the world and also it will be a good opportunity to practice my English (and eventually Japanese).
What to say about myself?
I think my posts will tell more about me than I personally can ^-^. My nickname here is Asari (あさり), it's actually a name from one of my manga characters, but I think it's pretty.
So.. That would be it.
You'll hear from me soon.
Bye!
P.S.
Rockerica [Rock-eh-rii-tsa] means rock girl on Croatian.
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