I have not been on this forum for a long time, and here I’m, having decided to walk away as a fan of almost 26 years.
The main reason of my decision is My Y. All these years while keeping my promise of attending their concerts, which I did, I had grown to despising the man with a passion. Before some fangirl of his lashing out at me, I used to be his ardent fan, not only did I go to Japan to see X concerts, I had also made most of my effort to see him whenever i could, such as classical concerts in 2016 & 2018 and We are X premiere at Roppongi where he was there taking qns from live audience after the movie. I even made trip to Taiwan to watch them again (less then a month after the show in early May 2009)and I live in HK.
He is a man of empty promises and of 90% of his fans I knew on twitter and IG are his new fan(girls) and none of them care about X but Yoshiki. To me I started following X because of their music and not for a particular person. Oh in fact I leaned more as a hide follower if I had to pick back then after X disbandment and I somewhat had started followed Yoshiki after hide’s passing. Luckily I’m never the type of fan like those fangirls who would post multi hearts or 😭whenever Y posted sth and i’m not in his Yoshikitty shite either. He pissed me and many of his long term fans off with his endless empty promises, which at one point some Japan fan had a table of his bs about the new album since 2008 and it went viral on twitter. Not sure if any of you aware, he even went so far that he would commit harakiri (seppuku) if the album did not release in 2010 if I remember correctly. Fast forward to recent lives, esp the no audience live which I was supposed to watch after having watched the second show, it was widely reported that he lost it during their rehearsal that morning after being informed that the shoe had to be call off due to typhoon and from what I gather, he in fact wanted the show to go ahead. Someone I know who were at the vip rehearsal said he was pretty normal until midday so my guess was he didn’t want the show to cancel. However it was already reported that the weather in Chiba would get even worse on last day of X show, and I’m not sure why he wanted so bad to go on, be it money related or other reason, cancel had to be the only option since many fans were from other prefectures and they had go get home before the trains suspended eventually. I remember vaguely that there were all sorts of rumor flying around and it was a complete mess. The ticket site UDO even went down shortly after the announcement and it was already 1ish. The fan who I know at the vip rehearsal cried her eyes out because it was her first X concert and she arrived only a few hours before just in time to make it to the rehearsal. I for one was disgruntled his decision or lack of decision for his fans. However he has somewhat become a spokesperson in Japan music trying to make an impression recent coronavirus pandemic, posting shites everyon ig everyday and trying to earn most fans and what fucked me off about him was his outspoken blast at other groups esp Tokyo Incident led by Ringo Sheena. I mean what has other bands/groups decision of lives had anything to do with him? They have their difficulties and decisions to make and he should have keep his gobs shut.
Sorry if i’m getting random since i haven’t been posting on forums for too long but I do have a lot to voice before bowing out. Oh i’m glad that i’m out since I’m so into Buck-Tick now, who is a kickass band and making music nonstop for over 32years, and their 22nd studio album is coming soon, and they make some incredible music as well. To bad I start following them too much too late, but i’m loving
them. I used to follow HYDE esp VAMPS as well but they are no comparison to the diversity of music genres BT incorporated throughout their music journeys. I’ll be back if I have more on Y and my take on their shows.
