Last July, it was announced that Gackt’s going to release a Special DVD Box called nine*nine (which is read as “nine point nine”). The Box would include 14 disc of Gackt’s live from is first tour back in 2000 until his last one in 2005. The supposed release date of the said Box was recently moved to October 29, 2008. But this release is said to have included an unreleased song called “Justified.”

And also, reservation for Gackt’s 2009 Calendar has already begun! So if you’re going to have one reserved, do it now since they get sold Out pretty easily.

Oh, and Miyavi cut his hair. You can read all about it in his entry at his Myspace blog. He’s just so irresistibly cute~♥

Updates

And for the updates to this blog crew, I’ve added 2 new members, updated 2 new crew’s URL’s and rejected a member.

I would like to take this chance to tell everyone that I’ve been running this blog crew for more than 2 years now since I adopted it. And I am not running this blog crew out on a whim with not a bit of an idea of what a J-rock is and/or the bands themselves. Even if I do not know each and every single J-rock bands out there, I do have a bit of an idea and that I have my resources to find them. Yes, that would also mean that I would go so far as to listen to an artist’s songs just to know if they really do belong in the J-rock genre. Of course, with that, I would at least have an idea of who they are or at least have heard of their names. So take caution because I’m not someone who just approves and approves members to this blog crew without even checking them, you know.

Three hundred thousand. Wow. That was a huge number. It made me so happy seeing this number in my counter last night. I also posted this in my blog too. Please give me some love there, as well.

Yes, you read that right! After 3 years, Gackt’s finally having another live tour! It’s been officially announced in his website. For more details on the said tour, you may refer to the official tour page.

For this tour, it was announced that there would be premium seats available for selected fans to show Gackt’s appreciation and love for us. But because these seats are said to be limited, there are people who sell them and it’s been said that Gackt’s rather disappointed about this fact. So, as a solution, they come up with requiring fans who got premium seats to bring IDs just for confirmation that those tickets are in fact theirs.

For those fans who sell their premium tickets, you guys were lucky enough to get them and now you do this. Shame on you. If it were me, I wouldn’t dare sell mine even if my life depends on it.

But seriously, Is it really hard to understand my rules? Or is it just plain too long?

I would like to add, and make things clear for everyone: you would need to put up a reciprocal link from your site to PermaPlugs for your site to be added into. That is to say that your link at the Silent Plugs will remain up as long as the link to Silent Plug is kept at your end.

As for Eien no Shoujo we’ve managed to release 2 consecutive chapters of Kisu Yori mo Hayaku - Love 03 and Love 04. And possibly the next chapter soon.

I’m having problems with Utawarerumono at the moment, since the book and the magazine releases has the chapters messed up so I might rename the files we have following the book’s chapters. I’m still the one editing it (with no progress at all - you are allowed to blame me only in this case).

On the 10th of September, Dir en Grey is releasing their new single, Glass Skin.

Details are as follows:

1. GLASS SKIN
2. undecided
3. AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS -UNPLUGGED-
4. 凌辱の雨 RYOUJOKU NO AME [LIVE]

※ “凌辱の雨 RYOUJOKU NO AME [LIVE]” is only contained on Initial Limited Version.

【Initial Limited Version】 SFCD-0056 ￥1,260 (tax in)
【Original Version】 SFCD-0057 ￥1,260 (tax in)

Toshi’s New Band

There had been a confirmation that Toshi, vocalist of X Japan, formed a new band called T-EARTH. Jun, guitarist of Phantasmagoria and Touya, guitarist of Charlotte, seemed to be a part of the said new group. Toshi said that the new group aims to give value for nature and children, thus, it’s called an “eco hard-rock” band. He also confirmed that this new band will be touring 6 cities in Japan starting from the 12th of August until 4th of September of this year.

Oh, and he also mentioned that X Japan’s World Tour will be cancelled because Yoshiki is said to have been sick. I don’t have details regarding the said illness yet. I’ll look into this very deeply. I’m seriously worried about it, since this is my Yoshiki we’re talking about here.

Updates

Anyway, for the updates, Ive added 2 new crews, changed 2 crew’s infos and stuffs. Then, I’ll get back to checking dead links at a later date.

Here are the details:

1st Maxi single [Illuminatum] / GPKISM
CRKK-2
15USD
Limit 666 copies
Sep 3rd, 2008 Online shop pre-sale
Sep 17th, 2008 in store

DISC [CD]
01. Illuminatum
02. Infernum
03. Ultimatus
04. Kenosis

I even wrote him a fan letter for his birthday! OMG OMG! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ And I even have the guts to send it to his Myspace too. XD