GARNET CROW part283

■Official site 　 GARNET CROW official homepage　http://garnetcrow.com/ ■Release info 　　A complete singles best-of collecting everything from their debut through the latest single! 　　A labor of love packed with 13 years of gratitude! 　 ★2013.5.22 BEST ALBUM “THE ONE 〜ALL SINGLES BEST〜” RELEASE CONFIRMED!! 　　“THE ONE 〜ALL SINGLES BEST〜” 　　Release date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 ■Event info 　 ★GARNET CROW final live confirmed NEW!! 　　GARNET CROW livescope 〜THE FINAL〜 　　■Friday, May 24, 2013　Tokyo International Forum Hall A 　　　Time: OPEN 18:00 / START 19:00 　　■Saturday, June 8, 2013　Osaka International Convention Center Grand Cube Osaka Main Hall 　　　Time: OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00 　　■Sunday, June 9, 2013　Osaka International Convention Center Grand Cube Osaka Main Hall 　　　Time: OPEN 15:00 / START 16:00 ▼Rules 　・Don't cause trouble for other people. 　・No posting or exposing other artists, especially Arashi or Johnny's artists in general. 　・Don't post fake rumors; they'll only make people hostile. 　・★★★ Please thoroughly ignore trolls, delusions, and perverted posts. ★★★ 　・No posting virus code or long copied text. 　・>950 is responsible for making the next thread. No subtitles. 　・Please basically keep the thread sage. ■Previous thread GARNET CROW part282 http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicjg/1364723175/

【To everyone who always supports GARNET CROW】 2013.3.30 Thank you very much for always supporting GARNET CROW. We have an important announcement to make to everyone. GARNET CROW will disband following “GARNET CROW livescope 〜THE FINAL〜,” held at Tokyo International Forum Hall A on Friday, May 24, 2013, and at Osaka International Convention Center Grand Cube Osaka Main Hall on Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9. Thank you very much for supporting GARNET CROW throughout the 13 long years since our debut on March 29, 2000. From here on, the four members will each walk a different path. We humbly ask for your support and encouragement right through the end, just as before. GARNET CROW All staff ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊ We will disband after “GARNET CROW livescope 〜THE FINAL〜,” held in May and June 2013. Since forming in 1999, thanks to all your support, we have been able to pursue such a fulfilling musical career. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We want to give it everything we've got and sprint through the time we have left. We look forward to seeing everyone at “GARNET CROW livescope 〜THE FINAL〜.” We'll be waiting for you on the greatest stage! GARNET CROW　Yuri Nakamura / AZUKI Nana / Hiroto Furui / Hitoshi Okamoto ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊ http://garnetcrow.com/message/images/message.jpg

Talk about Being, GIZA, or Nagato goes here. BEING GROUP::230 http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/music/1364692668/

Early archived threads http://garnet.s22.xrea.com/kako.html ▲Everyone who likes Garnet Crow, come on in!!▲ http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/musicj/979816266/ 1 ：haru：2001/01/18(木) 20:11 It's a group that's a little lacking in popularity and name recognition, but I like them quite a bit. Let's talk and ignore the annoying people who keep bringing up Being and GIZA. ▲GARNET CROW is the best▲ http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/musicj/987850657/ ▲GARNET CROW super-best▲ http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/musicj/989919165/ ▲GARNET CROW super×2-best▲ http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/musicj/997427455/ ▲GARNET CROW super×3-best▲ http://mimizun.com/log/2ch/musicj/1004872105/

Apparently Yurippe likes Doraemonｗ

997 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。：2013/04/02(火) 23:13:19.66 ID:SfkP8xaI0 >989 I understand all that. You denied it once, then said Gane falls outside the scope of that denial. I'm asking why. 999 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。：2013/04/02(火) 23:13:55.90 ID:bmin2J0K0 >997 You clearly don't understand. Go to sleep. He totally ran away because he couldn't answerｗ

>1 Thanks for setting it up. Sorry about the previous thread. I won't bring up this topic anymore in this thread.

ID:SfkP8xaI0, what a spiral! Is this spiral going to continue in this thread too?

Didn't you brag that you weren't going to engage IDs ending in i?

>7 Same here.

Good job, loser.

Why have people always been so interested in Being as a company?

What do you think the big finale of the last live will be? “Yume mita ato de” was in the predicted setlist in the previous thread.

Gane is the ultimate example of the GIZA method, so what can you do. Isn't GIZA basically the same as club touts and AV talent scouts? You look at them and think, “Why are people like this singers and lyricists?”

>2 × 2013.3.3. ○ 2013.3.30 Just correcting it, for the record.

I watched some old footage of them on TV, and it was so nostalgic I almost cried.

I thought the tie-in for that ancient-mystery show on TBS was amazing. The ending visuals went perfectly with Tora Iraiya too.

Closer will probably be before the encore. If they do “With just one word: goodbye...,” it matches how I feel right now so perfectly I'd probably cry...

The album jackets were always a little underwhelming, but the content was distinctive and had a real pull. Music is something you should just enjoy listening to. Once you drag in other perspectives, nothing good comes of it.

SfkP8xaI0 [90/90] I'll block him.

But the people who could enjoy them never reached the level of the general public, which is why they ended up breaking up. If the GIZA scam-and-fabrication method had at least produced something that left a mark on Japanese pop music, I wouldn't say anything. But nothing they made with the Kuraki formula after Kuraki ever reached that level. Thirteen years of this—what idiotsｗ

If they finish with something like “Kimi wo Kazaru Hana wo Sakasou,” I'll bawl my eyes out.

5 ：スパイラル神バージョン：02/08/18 09:05 ID:UkTZ/Zvg [A long, intentionally garbled parody of the lyrics to “Spiral,” filled with mangled phrases about unreliable streets, choosing tomorrow, getting stronger through hurt, endless fortune, and wanting to connect with someone's reality.]

Is Nana AV too? Yurippe composes and singsｗ Does Nana actually have any musical background?

A future full of me.

873 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。：2013/04/02(火) 22:05:08.62 ID:zYteXYV9040 Going over 40 posts—how ridiculous is thisｗ I blocked him immediately, though. 20 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。：2013/04/02(火) 23:34:03.24 ID:bvvV6Gfi0SfkP8xaI0 [90/90] I'll block him.

GARNET CROW suddenly announces its “breakup” in front of 3,000 fans. An article from an industry go-to site. http://www.musicman-net.com/artist/24818.html

SfkP8xaI0 This guy shows up in all kinds of Being-related threads just to nitpick and complain. He has camped out in the main Being thread for years, and whenever a Being-related thread appears in the entertainment board, he shows up to post complaints. The only hardcore Being anti-fan on 2ch, and by now he's more obsessive than the actual fans.

I want to see them fulfill their long-held wish and appear on Kōhaku at the very end.

>24 The only musicians are the two men in back, right? The two women up front can't do anything, can they? It's the same route as going into AV or the nightlife business.

Azuki has no musical background. She does have a sense for writing lyrics. If Azuki had real musical training, she would've debuted solo already.

They've never been on Kōhaku? Well, that thing is just a kayō music show anyway. Artists don't need to go on itｗｗｗ

>29 If they'd appeared last year... There wasn't even a countdown show, after all.

>28 That troublemaker is just an ordinary Being superfan. He really shouldn't act so high and mighty while dismissing other people's posts.

>31 No way. Don't lump poems and lyric writing togetherｗｗｗ

↓ This guy from Sunday → SfkP8xaI0 http://hissi.org/read.php/musicjg/20130331/WldWSzRvOFkw.html http://hissi.org/read.php/mnewsplus/20130331/VHhnUEJMaVIw.html

>32 Artist????????????????????????????????????????????????????

>36 So he really is a lunatic.

>25 I bawled for a different reasonｗｗｗ

5 ：名も無き音楽論客：2013/03/31(日) 15:53:27.07 ID:??? He keeps writing the same thing over and over. http://hissi.org/read.php/musicjg/20130331/WldWSzRvOFkw.html http://hissi.org/read.php/mnewsplus/20130331/VHhnUEJMaVIw.html 36 ：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。：2013/04/02(火) 23:39:27.39 ID:wX6dac+D0 ↓ This guy from Sunday → SfkP8xaI0 http://hissi.org/read.php/musicjg/20130331/WldWSzRvOFkw.html http://hissi.org/read.php/mnewsplus/20130331/VHhnUEJMaVIw.html

I wonder whether Nagato was involved in the production side of GC. He's listed as executive producer, though.

8 ：名も無き音楽論客：2013/04/01(月) 02:38:44.76 ID:??? I've been watching 2ch for years and always wondered: what are the people who post Hissi Checker links doing when nobody looks at themｗ Have they ever gotten a reply, aside from their own sockpuppets? Who even clicks a direct linkｗ I don't know if it's affiliate marketing or what, but maybe we should boycott companies that spend money on online adsｗ

blog.goo.ne.jp/nakamurayuri666/pch What's this? It's already gone.

Yurippe isn't good with computers, after all.

This happened? I had no ideaｗ I think they put up a signed-message banner with very similar content on the second day of the Memories live too, right? (It said “GARNET forever!!” ...) I want to see that happy smile on Yurippe's face one more time at the last stage〜!!(^^) Please let me take part in both Tokyo and Osaka!!

What good is posting something that can't be viewed anymore?

I kept thinking I'd go to a countdown live someday, but in the end I never did. You can't undo regret...

Are people at record companies actually well-versed in music?

I still have the red-and-white manju from the countdown in my freezer.

GIZA's artists are all total amateurs who haven't even dabbled in the first letter of music. They're all the kind of people who make you ask, “Why is someone like this a singer?”ｗ

>47 Same here. That's exactly why I want to go to the last live, though I probably won't get a general-sale ticket...

>49 Mine's turned into a sticky mess too!

>23 So nostalgic. I still hear “growth-line spiral” and sing it in my head.

I wish they would reunite once a year, release a single every now and then, do a few lives, and show us they're still doing well〜

That wouldn't count as breaking up, idiot.

I wish they'd use Twitter or something. Though as long as they're with Being, that's probably impossible.

I've been listening to Gane songs and crying every day since then. Their songs really are all god-tier, though. If tears could dry up, I want them to disappear right now. Because I'm a demon.

I came back after a while and it's gotten noisyｗ What's this guy so unhappy aboutｗ

>51 I'm in the FC, but I only joined recently. I don't know whether a newcomer will get a ticket. I hope we both manage to get one. >56 I think she said on Nico Live something like, “I don't want to do it because I hate being tied down by having to keep updating.” I don't know if that's the real reason, though. It also seems like she wouldn't know how to deal with trolls, which worries me. I remember thinking, while listening, “It's fine if she doesn't do it”ｗ

>57 If you write that, someone will say again, “Which song is a god-tier song this time?”

Is the Garnet board still around?

>57 I get that feeling. It's like a dream. Yume mita ato de Kimi wa mada tookute Because I'm a demon.

The lyrics to Natsu no Maboroshi and Holy ground are god-tier. Nana was only in her twenties ten years ago, right? It's hard to imagine writing lyrics like that with only twenty-some years of life behind you.

By the way, the fan-club newsletter auction ended at 90,000 yen. The other newsletters are at 40,000 right now. I thought I could get one for 10,000. I was too naive.

Passion with nowhere to go eventually cools down. I guess these feelings will cool down too.

>63 She would've been thirty ten years ago, though.

http://musing.jp/shop/garnetcrow/ Tell me what merch available here you recommend. I'm thinking of buying the stationery set and the nonwoven bag.

>63 I think Natsu no Maboroshi was written in three days because they were up against a schedule. And yet it's a god-tier song.

I've only been listening to Gane for a short time, but I much prefer the live recordings to the CD versions—they have way more drive. There were probably budget constraints and sounds they wanted to produce, but lately I've been thinking the quality would've been even higher if they'd recorded the albums with that drums-and-bass duo. Some people will talk about whether they're at a professional level, but I think both the singing and piano improved over the course of their activities. More than that, I liked how they seemed to be having fun as a band, and how they didn't get carried away and put on pointless airs. I think they're a good band. I won't deify them, but it's hard to create that kind of atmosphere.

Today I saw someone who looked like Kyona-san and Furui-san watching Dragon Ballｗ They were sitting next to me and even wearing sunglassesｗｗ Could it have been them?ｗｗｗｗ I couldn't resist taking a photoｗｗｗ

What an inconsiderate jerk.

Honestly, Being's merch is poorly made, so I don't really recommend bags and stuff. They'll break right away. It makes you wonder what the production cost even is.

They made a hoodie and then didn't do wish★. I was looking forward to it.

>67 The pamphlets from each show. Also, if that campaign where you get a score for Yudachi no Niwa or something when you spend over 3,000 yen is still running (sorry, I forgot the details), you might want to adjust your total to qualify. I don't buy one every time, but I like the nonwoven bag from this live. I bought a T-shirt too. I hope they release this time's stuff soon.

Hiroki, GARNET forever!!

I wish they'd release a GARNET CROW instrumental collection on CD, or put it out as a bonus with some kind of tie-in CD. Thanks to GARNET CROW, I learned how good instrumentals can be, so I really want them to release an instrumental collection. Though if they released a fully digitally remastered edition of every album a year after the breakup, I'd probably end up buying it.

>76 An instrumental collection would be great. I listened to the instrumental of call my name more than the original.

>76 Instrumental, you mean. The best-of coming out right before the breakup has every track remastered, so it will sound different from the existing versions. It'll probably be mastered with higher loudness, but since it's their last release, they'll put some real effort into it, right?

I'd be so disappointed if even the final best-of came in two versions, first press and regular.

HMV says “deluxe packaging・special bonus planned,” but it doesn't say “first-press limited edition.”

Right, let's use the fans' power to get them onto Kōhaku.

The lyrics to Umi wo Yuku Shishi are incredible. Apparently the theme is Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, but when I listened while thinking it might be about Garnet sailing through the rough seas of the music industry, I started crying... Am I reading too much into it?

I can't let go of the newsletters, but I don't really need this many posters (I have nowhere to put them). If I give them to people who want them, is an auction my only option after all?

Breaking up because they don't get along might actually be better than fighting over money.

No. They're only breaking up because they aren't profitable. They let the lousy management slide all this time, but I guess they finally hit the limit.

>69 > how they seemed to be having fun as a band > and how they didn't get carried away and put on pointless airs That's already amateur level right there. Amateur-level acts only attract amateur-level fansｗ If there were a few more of these idiot fans in the world, GIZA's management might've gone a little more smoothly. The point is, don't take running a business so lightly.

>72 >74 Thanks. I'll buy the pamphlet too. I'm having trouble deciding what to get. I want a poster, but I've never gotten one. I wish they'd include one with the best-of.

>87 Before worrying about what to buy, you should probably check whether it's still in stock.

I'll work hard for Yuri again today.

Then I'll work hard for the great Professor Furui.

I'll work hard for Yuma Asami.

Hemingway? Reading takes a huge amount of energy for me... ... The Memories promotion? I saw it at Q's Mall for the first time, and after that my energy just shot up and I could even decipher stuff that looked like coded messages (I think I still had a little left unread? Where did it go?). Now I can't do it at all. Is it going to end without me getting to see “Aoi Hana”? I'm not depressed, but lately I just feel kind of pathetic. Is it a substitute act? A compensation? A purification ritual? Is ending without seeing the thing I most wanted to see a kind of offering?

The Old Man and the Sea is ridiculously short. You can read it in an hour.

Yuri Nakamura resumes activities with short blonde hair. http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130402-00200055-mantan-ent

yui came back quickｗ She should've spent about a year traveling around the world.

Sorry, 93! Mel Heaven wasn't just some random anime song. I had an insane emotional attachment to it. (I watched the anime itself, but maybe I wasn't that into it?) ... There was some late-night TV show with GIZA? The ZARD person appeared on it too... I wasn't interested, but I left the TV on at night as a light. My memory of that part is fuzzy. ... The first time Gane definitely entered my field of vision was Mel Heaven that year. I remember because it charted alongside Sambomaster and the like. It was on heavy rotation on radio and anime-song chart shows, and even on its own I thought it was a good song...

Since 2005 it's been one of my karaoke tearjerkers. Others include Lime-tai's “Rinka,” Yui Horie's “Love Destiny,” Stoors' “She's Like a Rainbow,” and the jazz ending from the TV version of Eva. I don't know if the English in the last one is correct, but I interpreted the word “Another Word” as something where no matter how many times you rephrase it, you still don't have enough words... Long story short, I projected it onto Minako Honda's death, and then realized my taste in women had changed 180 degrees.

The songs on this album all sound familiar. And as always, I can't understand a word Yuri is saying. It might be better if Okamoto just sang properly by himself.

I think Mel Heaven's lyrics had loss as their theme too? (I've forgotten what my state of mind was back then.) The second time I heard the song come on, I got chills. Jupiter did that later too. The person died in November, so there should've been some time lag. It was only about five or six years ago that I looked it up and realized Novalis was a person's name, not a flower. So I always felt that, someday, I would pour that sense of loss onto Gane as well—the scheduled mourning period. (When I personally felt the mourning period was over.) Then by coincidence I heard Mel Heaven at Q's Mall, or maybe it was αStation... From Gane's point of view (in a feminine sense), it must've been unbearable: some dangerous man dragging along his fixation on an old girlfriend... He was treated like a dangerous man and deftly sidestepped. Yurippe was wearing something like Nadeshiko's jersey. ...Then came a Sheringham-style topspin lob shot straight off the dodge (Yurippe realized the keeper was too far forward—just like her). I was sunk.

Maybe Yurippe sensed with animal instinct that this wasn't just some weird stalker-type fan. Someone who would make things collapse from the inside... some number Angel, I forget which... She was also Kaworu-kun, the humanoid Angel... I guess she noticed. Well, you can't rule out some kind of supernatural thing either. I posted way too much from morning just because I happened to have today off. I'll stop before the fatigue hits later.

Another mental case has come to stir things up...

A story about a gay old man fighting a giant marlin and eventually losing. He does the wrong thing too, just to survive. A boy from the gay community takes revenge for him. Then the author shoots himself in the head with a rifle.

You guys buy tickets for days one and two. I'll give you my ticket for the final day.

Yokohama tickets used to get dumped for 980 yen all the time. Are they going to be hard to get at the end? I feel like even scalpers won't touch them.

I want to make money reselling tickets. I'll get revenge on the enemy.

Congrats on returning to number 13 on the daily chart.

Second week: number 45, 2,841 copies. Around 15,000 total, I guess.

Garnet Crow was amazing at first, but they got consumed in the Being-style way and ended up ruined. In the end, how an artist is produced determines whether they live or die. Takeshi Kobayashi is good at balancing the way artists get consumed with their artistic identity. Take Mr. Children, for example. Even though they sell that much, they aren't shallow. The Entown Band was great too. I wish they'd had Takeshi Kobayashi produce them. It's such a waste that this much talent was consumed for nothing.

(^_^;) Ah, so the tickets really are hard to get. (^_^;) I can go through the industry guest allotment, so excuse me.

Of course they'd break up if they only sold around 15,000 copies. There's no way to recoup the costs. Not in a company like Being, where they have to provide all the funding themselves from scratch.

Huh? But 2,841 is more than Memories sold in its second week. Is it the breakup effect? It's climbed back to number 13 on the daily chart too, so maybe it could sell around 20,000.

I hear Okamoto is joining guram.

Huh...?

G... Guram?

>109 Maybe I'll participate as a part-time event staffer too...

With grram, the original band members got fired and only the vocalist is restarting solo? What a messed-up agency.

Garnet was... a fairly famous band, you know... If even they were struggling... The music industry really is toughｗｗｗ

Yuri used to be so beautiful it was painful to be alive. Thank you, Yuri.

I hope they add extra shows.

They messed up the member introductions and stuff on the first live DVD, but the later ones felt much more polished.

Mochi can sing, compose, arrange, and play guitar. Is he surprisingly in demand?

Sadly, no.

You say “surprisingly,” but what did you think of Mochi before?

He'll probably leave the agency, like Iwai.

He has plenty of credentials. Artists will invite him to play live.

The best thing at the live the other day was Mochi's Kono Te wo Nobaseba, in my opinion. Are they not doing advance sales this time〜? I have work on the general-sale day, so I don't think I'll be able to get a ticket.

Kono Te wo Nobaseba really was great. It had a different kind of appeal from Yurippe.

Kono Te wo Nobaseba, Ushinawareta Monogatari, and Rainy Soul are Mochi's favorites, after all. Maybe he put extra effort into them.

I wish they would do a tie-in campaign for the best-of, the Terminus DVD, and the Final DVD... Like giving everyone who buys all three a live photo taken with all four membersｗ

>128 The lyrics fit both the season and the situation of being right on the verge of breaking up too perfectly. I didn't know they were going to break up when I listened to it, but looking back...

It's not like he's an especially great guitarist, either.

Mochi is more suited to being the owner of a ramen shop obsessed with white-pork tonkotsu broth than to playing guitar.

All right!! Mochi, let's open a restaurant with Japanese, Western, Chinese—everything on the menu!!

If Mochi ever collapses by the roadside, I'll raise him.

He'd probably refuse.

He needs to eat lots of Vermont Curry.

I'd buy it if Mochi released a GARNET CROW cover album.

I want them to do another radio show.

I'm at McDonald's looking at Aoi Hana right now, along with part of the booklet commentary and the chronology. Apparently it's supposed to change the world through poetry, using a kind of “mystery” that's not occult... Was Mel Heaven's lyric a cheer song for kids around elementary-school age who had lost their parents? Something like that, maybe. ...It all connected. I remembered the news story about the daughter who escaped from the snow, and now my tear ducts are in trouble.

Shitty Johnny's, shitty otaku, shitty curry— http://housefoods.jp/products/tvcm/15cm_130401/15cm_130401_l.html

Still... There had been a bad feeling, but I thought they'd make it to their 15th anniversary. I thought I'd get to hear Mochi's Garnet at least two more times... There'll be an Okamocchi corner at the last one too, right? Release a cover album already啊啊啊 It's like remembering while you're away on a trip that there's a cake in your home refrigerator whose expiration date is about to pass. So damn frustrating...

What songs will they do at the FINAL? Eien ni Houmure Yudachi no Niwa FLOAT CALL MY NAME Yuuzukiyo elysium Yume mita ato de

Hmm. Mochi's singing is probably at the level of a good karaoke singer, right? Yurippe's singing makes you think at first that she's bad, then you realize, no, she's actually good! And before you know it, you get hooked on that fragile yet strong-willed voice.

Nakamura's singing is karaoke-bad, if anything.

Something from the family has arrived... Was joining the fan club worth it!? I might not be able to go because of work. I haven't read it yet, but is there a ticket allocation, and is it guaranteed? But if there's marriage news a few days from now, I'll cut my tickets into pieces at the top of Mt. Ikoma like Jean Valjean, so remember that! If you're going to fool me, fool me to the end! ...I went to church like usual earlier, and they told me, “From now on, things that have no connection to your life and other unnecessary things will gradually be cut away from your home.”

I actually prefer Mochi's version of Atsumeru Heaven. When I first heard it as a single, I thought, “What kind of song is this〜,” but maybe it suits Mochi's voice, because it immediately became one of my favoritesｗ But this is a song about parting and setting off too...

Mel Heaven may have a ridiculous title, but the crowd reaction at lives is unbeatable.

Superlight is resuming activities.

What drew me to Yurippe wasn't her singing ability but her vocal tone. The low voice and the boyish, androgynous voice are unique. Adding AZUKI Nana's lyrics to that makes it interesting. It gave me the impression of combining Cocco's eeriness with Makoto Kawamoto's story-like quality—seemingly meaningless at first, but with foreshadowing that all connects at the end.

The breakup is still so far away... In this state, I'm worried about how long this mental tension will continue. I'll go buy Terminus tomorrow. It'll be the band's last testament. ...I borrowed everything except Memories from Tsutaya at one point, but listening to it all in one go is painful. There are still albums I haven't heard, but looking for them is painful too. I should've been able to listen at my leisure. It's nothing but pain with this band.

Don't need Mochi.

I think Azuki Nana was the one whose first-album jacket photo differed the most from the real person.

AZUKI's lyrics only work because Gane Crow exists, right〜 The stuff she provided to other artists wasn't very good either. I read 80.0 too, and my only takeaway was, “This woman is seriously shady.”

I want them to release 80.1 soon too.

>83 I've been collecting posters, so I'd like them. If I could get them for around 1,000–2,000 yen eachｗ I think a shop that handles talent merch would buy them, but the price would be low. If you put them on Yahoo Auctions, some might sell for a high price depending on the item.

Garnet is dark, but unlike Cocco or Chihiro Onitsuka, I like that it isn't madness-inducing.

>153 I think the “free magic” she provided to WAG is good. You don't get many songs about eggs in the refrigerator. I admire the angle she took.

>157 What kind of song is thatｗ

>157 Yeah, that one was pretty good. That and maybe FOV's “Aoi Kasa de.” [0160] あぼーん NG [0161] あぼーん NG

>153 Apparently she wrote for Momoiro Clover tooｗｗｗ So there really are people with that opinionｗｗｗ The girls themselves might be more disappointed than the fansｗｗ

Not Momoclo, I think she wrote for the Ronchaers. Either way, not much differenceｗ

There are too many deleted posts. It's a pain. I need to apply soon.

If you've come to love someone, you have to endure the pain of losing them someday. That day is bound to come eventually... I'm about to cry.

>165 What song was that from again?

If Mochi and Yurippe announced at the end that they were getting married, I could say goodbye with a smile.

>126, 127 Agreed. If it comes out on DVD, I'd definitely want to hear it again.

Not DVD. Blu-ray, please...

By the way, what happened to that obsessive kid? Is he working overtime?

>170 Don't call him over just because it's funny to mess with him. He's probably in the Being thread, right?

>167 If that happened, I'd fall while flapping my wings.

>167 No joke, that's the only thing that could fill the hole that opened up in my heart.

Then Nana and Ossan too, while you're at it.

I still can't accept that they're breaking up.

We don't need an Okamocchi corner at the FINAL. There won't be many more chances to hear Yurippe anymore.

You don't have to accept it yet. They're still active for another two months. It's just that new songs are a long shot...

Be prepared to have all kinds of recordings, merch, and whatnot released under the breakup banner so they can extract money from you.

I'm happy to buy recordings.

Same here. I'm happy to buy recordings, at least.

I became a fan through Misu Ai, so I want them to sing the regular version at the last live.

An Aiuchi-style box set with unreleased live footage and unreleased songs is comingーーー

I have a feeling they'll release a DVD of “GARNET CROW premium live ?happy 5th anniversary?”

>166 It was Yellow Moon.

>149 No way. A lot of people physically can't stand that voice. She can't sing, and she has that voice too. There's no saving her. That Crayon Shin-chan voice is disgusting. She's a textbook GIZA-method product. You just think, “How did someone like this become a singer?”

He's so refreshingly easy to understand.

Umi wo Yuku 44

>186 Sameｗ

George Harrison, who supported Clapton at Castle Hall, was great too. After the intermission, the backwards sound effect—“one two three one two?” → guitar riff. Taxman was great. And Spiral after the bathroom break was...

I've been rereading the diary on the official site and the interview articles. Yuri's cheeky(?) behavior is heartwarming to read about. Since their work was mainly studio-based, they probably still have a fair amount of spare songs, demos, and other stock tracks. I wish they'd put them on a bonus disc〜

Ever since the breakup announcement, listening to WEEK END and Blue Regret makes me cry for no reason.

I went to karaoke with a friend who doesn't listen to GARNET CROW, and when I sang WEEK END, they were horrified because the lyrics were too dark....

Sumire Sato was talking about GARNET CROW on the radio just now and said she wanted to go to the last live. Then they played Nagisa and Secret Days.

Live commentary on the post above. GARNET CROW really is associated with Conan, huh. http://i.imgur.com/cw4HPG6.jpg

I'll work hard for Yuri again today.

At this point, let's hope for a Yurippe solo career! Lyrics / Nana-sama Composition / Yurippe Arrangement / Ossan Guitar / Mochi

I happened to have the radio show mentioned in >193 playing in the background, and that's how I learned they were breaking up. I came back to this thread for the first time in years. As you'd expect from someone only finding out now, I'm no longer really a fan, but the breakup still makes me sad... They were special to me because they pulled me back into music after I'd become a guitar idiot. I regret that, for various reasons, I never made it to a single live. But listening again, I realized they really do have nothing but great songs that sink into your heart. My enthusiasm suddenly cooled off around parallel universe, but maybe I'll listen to the stuff after that too.

>194 Conan helped raise their name recognition and sales, but being stuck with the image of “the Conan singers” had negative aspects too.

Back when I was on the anime side of things (the Akiba crowd), Aiuchi and Saegusa Indecibel or whatever appeared at general events, but I never heard GARNET CROW's name—not just at those events. To me, they really looked like ONE Nobuzen among all the Conan singers, so they actually stood out less... But maybe that was exactly why they never became huge and were able to quietly keep their own little paradise going. That's just based on my impression of the recent fan-club events and those two Osaka shows, though.

I can see now that this album was laying down foreshadowing... Which means... On the final day in Tokyo: (´･ω･) “What's your favorite flower?” ( ^ω^) “Lilies.” ( ■ω■) “Roses.” No way... right...? (;´･ω･)(￣_￣;)

I'm following the thread of my memories right now. There was an impressive late-night TV show with GIZA? ZARD PVs? and they played the great song “Yumemita” too. At the time I was trying to get my act together in Akihabara, so even if it was a great song, I probably instinctively ignored it... It felt like a dark song, and maybe I've changed, so it finally clicks now? The band's promotional-PV aesthetic hasn't changed since back then, either. I also remember a promotional video for some temple live DVD, and a commercial for a DVD filmed at some enormous outdoor venue (the clothes looked like summer?) that I saw over and over. Where was that held...?

By the way, is it confirmed that Yuri and Mochi are getting marriedｗ

>201 If you read it that way, it's Yuri-Nana and Furui-Mochiｗ

There probably won't be any unreleased material. I think Terminus was just a stock-clearance operation. Judging by the finished product.

From a sales perspective, having to split the proceeds among four people must've been a problem too.

Hikaru Ota looked like Yurippe, didn't she? http://blog-imgs-27.fc2.com/k/o/b/koba3/5fa4400599b124c2d7b8b6fba48ec47f.jpg

The first-press cover of Towa Bare is insanely cool. I prefer the contents of the fourth album, though.

To help the members who are about to start new chapters earn at least a little more, they should release past lives that never got a DVD. The best-of, Terminus live, and final live aren't enough for me. I'd buy a complete version of the Kobe campus festival, for sure. Anyway, they really stuck with us disgusting Gane otaku (myself included) for a long time... I heard Mochi is feeling kind of down, and it made my heart clench...

Mochi: “Oh no... If we break up now, I haven't finished paying off the Ferrari loan I took out to compete with Mr. Furui...”

Come to think of it, at Gardenia I almost got lured in by Furui's speeding old Porsche.

Porsches, huh? Must be nice to be rich...

>202 Ninnaji in Kyoto.

>209 Is Okamocchi feeling down?

>214 Of course he is. Superlight will probably continue, so let's support him.

They probably all make an order of magnitude more than ordinary people, but Okamoto probably doesn't get royalties, so it seems like things will be tough after the breakup.

>215 Of course I'll support him, but putting on new lives and releasing CDs will be financially difficult, won't it?

>216 How exactly are these people making money? Even if you calculate it on 15,000 copies, that's only around 50 million yen. Even adding various rights income, it's impossible to keep a company running on that kind of revenue. This company was definitely in the red. Layoffs, layoffs. Real-estate income can't cover it all either.

Nana was on the rich list for a while, so she must have quite a bit of money. That was some kind of inheritance, wasn't it?

Superlight is hobby-level, after all. Mochi might quietly be pulling in ordinary office-worker money from Kuraki-related royalties, though.

Azuki 7 super lights.

I went to some A●blog to look for Gane-related articles, and found someone causing a scene in the comments of a person who writes about Ganeｗ

BEST 100 Japanese artists popular in France... Number one is Perfume. AKB and Johnny's are unpopular - Music http://rarufu26.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2209.html

Mochi's Wasurezaki sounds several levels better than Yuri's.

The old log someone posted said “Azuki Nana is Shiina Hekiru,” which cracked me up. Do otaku pick people based on shared facial features? Could they still fill Castle Hall around 2001?... ...In Western music, would it be Beck's Sexx Laws or the Chemical Brothers? If you cut things horizontally by era, you start seeing some interesting stuff.

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>162 Some people in the previous thread thought it was a song provided to Momoclo, so let me clarify. She provided lyrics to a unit called the Ronchaers, and Momoclo just covered that Ronchaers song. Nana did not provide it to Momoclo.

But this is the only thing Azuki has provided lyrics for outside Being, right? Why did it have to be this one of all thingsｗ

>209 I wish they'd release the 5th anniversary, Garnet Time, Symphonic, the Pan Kobo live, and stuff like that too. Gane otaku seem to be pretty wealthy on the whole, so I think it would sell. I remember thinking the members were real pros for not even twitching a facial muscle around otaku they clearly wanted nothing to do with, myself included... Even an FC made-to-order box set would be fine. I want oneｗ The people running things are probably lurking on 2ch, so please consider this our request.

...Not even... twitching... a facial muscle...?

Was Terminus mastered overseas? It may be unlikely, but did Mr. Furui also take part in the overseas mastering work? That made me suddenly wonder about the works before Terminus: Were the albums from the old indie releases through the ninth album mastered domestically, or was the work outsourced overseas?

I'm listening to Terminus. When I heard Umi wo Yuku Shishi at the venue, it felt like enka or kayō music—like Itsuwa Mayumi? Like Morita Doji, or some old kayō singer whose name I don't know. This one-of-a-kind vocalist has those echoes worked into her at the genetic level. When it shifts a little toward major chords, it gets a bit Moritaka-style—not as intense as Cocco, though. ... There's this balance and tug-of-war in my mouth... It's compelling. If I'd known it would be like this, I would've come earlier at the first Osaka show—was I in the 400s?—and gone farther forward so I could see their expressions while singing. I should've done it without being shy... Will the adrenaline come with a price? ...I'm on an overnight shift tomorrow, so at least I won't be able to post.

>229 I looked into it a little during part277. 966 名前：名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。[sage] 投稿日：2012/12/17(月) 21:18:36.74 ID:lYXIWTb00 >963 I thought the connection between Momoclo and Nana was surprising, so I looked into it. It turns out Momoclo's agency, Stardust Promotion, had a connection with Being. “Kibun wa Super Girl” was a song Momoclo covered, and apparently the original was the theme song for a show called Harajuku Ronchaers. That show ran from 2000 to 2003, so the song was written long ago—it wasn't written for Momoclo. Incidentally, I have no particular interest in Momoclo. I know they sing the theme song for NTV's “Akumu-chan,” thoughｗ From Wikipedia: AZUKI Nana http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZUKI%E4%B8%83 Mirai e Susume! (The single containing “Kibun wa Super Girl!” with lyrics by AZUKI Nana) http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AA%E6%9D%A5%E3%81%B8%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A1! Harajuku Ronchaers http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harajuku%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA Stardust Promotion http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3

I want Furui to join DEEN while everyone's distracted by the breakup chaos.

>234 I seeφ(.. )ﾒﾓﾒﾓ

I'm having trouble deciding whether to buy “THE ONE 〜ALL SINGLES BEST〜.” I already own all the singles.

>237 I'm hesitating too. I don't feel like buying it.

There's absolutely no point in buying it... though I'll probably buy it anyway. It would be nice if they included all the B-sides while they're at it.

I want them to include demos, alternate lyric versions of songs they've already released, rejected versions, and so on—even as first-press bonuses or hidden tracks.

“THE ONE 〜ALL SINGLES BEST〜” is advertised as a complete remastered collection of all 35 songs from their debut through the latest single. But I can't help suspecting that the pre-Over Drive recordings are just reusing the audio from THE BEST History of GARNET CROW at the crest..., released three years ago.

>240 More than anything, the way it's written is scary.

Does remastering really make that much difference?

Hard to say with modern releases. The Beatles remasters were a huge difference, though.

>240 He's a famous schizophrenic, so just leave him aloneｗ

If they compiled Sugaya's bizarre encyclopedia from Deep Kitsch into a DVD, I'd buy it no matter how much it cost.

>247 I genuinely want to see that.

Since I own every single and every album, I'm honestly unsure whether to buy THE ONE 〜ALL SINGLES BEST〜. I'm already satisfied with the sound quality of the pre-Over Drive recordings from the crest. Paying nearly 4,000 yen just to hear the four newly remastered tracks (Over Drive, Smiley Nation, Misty Mystery, Nostalgia) seems questionable...

There has to be a hidden track.

I own all the best-of albums too, so I'm hesitating over buying a singles collection. I'd want it if it were a collection of the single PVs, though.

I don't know who picked the songs for ALL LOVERS, but they left out important songs like call my name.

When are they finally going to release Symphonic?

That famous songstress is finally cleared for the real thing! Her super-nervous live debut... “AZUMI,” Chapter Two begins! FIRST IMPRESSION 66: The Real-Thing Unleashed Special. The songstress sprays colorless fluids everywhere and has repeated, mind-blowing orgasms! The stage is AV, the microphone is a cock, and the encore is a shower of milky semen! http://pics.dmm.co.jp/mono/movie/adult/ipz094/ipz094pl.jpg

I'd want a PV collection. They could fit them all on one DVD, right? If they released a Blu-ray version too, I'd buy both.

What a cheap-ass thread. That's why they're breaking up.

Being a fan doesn't mean you have to agree with everything. It's fine to complain, isn't it?

I preordered and bought Nostalgia and Terminus too, but I already own everything on this one, so I'm not buying it. The same track order is already sitting in a folder on my computer. I'd buy it if they released a live DVD or unreleased songs.

Will there be a hand-to-hand event with the two Mini-Cro members? No, right?

#listeningscope is so damn annoying. Edapiyo, go die.

>261 Whatever she does privately is her business. But if she says she's going to interfere with the live, then I'd have to say, “Whoa, hold on.”

>252 Really? I think all lovers is the strongestｗｗｗ It moved meｗ

I want to hear a song made by the leader.

>252 Call my name is on the crest, so maybe they deliberately left it out.

>264 http://musing.jp/artist/hirohito_furui/ This is the only one, right?

>265 I see. But when I think of a Gane Crow love song, this is the first one that comes to mind.

So they really didn't get along. What a shame.

The all lovers tracklist apparently only draws from B-sides and album tracks. So call my name is an A-side, right????

Rather than deliberately leaving it out, All Lovers explicitly excludes all the A-sides, right?

Which GARNET CROW songs have the strongest love-song feel? I just can't get the image of GARNET CROW = love songs.

So in the end it's just a collection of songs that got left off the best-of albums?

>271 Kimi n'chi, maybe?

>271 How about Love is a Bird?

Sorry to say something weird, but to me they feel more like wedding songs than love songs.

>275 Sorry for the cliché, but how about Kimi to iu Hikari?

Thank you for your answers, 273 and 274. I've thought about it a lot, but it's pretty difficult^^:: Using my tiny brain, all I could come up with was Overdrive and Futari no Rocket. Could the first cry count as a love song too?

They have more songs about nostalgia and parting, I think.

Of course everyone can interpret it differently, but I don't think the visuals on the screen during the first cry live had that kind of atmosphere.

>266 There aren't many. I'd like to hear a song composed by the leader and sung by Yurippe.

>279 Was it an anti-war piece with old Soviet or Eastern Bloc tanks, NATO self-propelled howitzers, and something like a U.S. military funeral? I only caught a glimpse of it on the DVD, so I don't know the details.

I like Futari and Mr. Holiday, but are they not very popular? I'm not a romantic person either, but thanks to GARNET I've started listening to quite a few songs about love. It feels like leveling up from not listening to music at all → only encouragement songs → love songs.

Futari and Mr. Holiday only work when Yurippe sings them. I don't have anyone to sing them with at karaoke, anyway.

Edapiyo, go die.

>279 >282 Wasn't The first cry based on Che Guevara?

Gane Crow never released any FC-limited CDs or DVDs, did they? Since they're breaking up anyway, I wish they'd release something, even if it's an FC made-to-order exclusive. Honestly, I want them to just dump everything they have. At least release the 5th anniversary live and the PV collection.

I should've gone to the countdown two years ago. If I'd given a reason, I could've easily taken the day off. I just didn't want to say why.

I wish they'd release the Tales version of flying.

I'll work hard for Yuri-sama again today.

>289 Agreed. I happened to be watching it last night. I also want the anime ending version of timeless sleep.

Today's lunch is Mochi's favorite food: a sakura-shrimp kakiage rice bowl.

My favorite food is mochi with azuki beans on it.

Kimi Kaza was better in the anime version too. In the part that goes, “I have nothing, but I'll live strong〜,” the anime version sings it matter-of-factly, but the CD version weirdly pushes the voice.

Let's turn the final rain into a rainbow.

I went all the way to Katase to buy fresh sakura shrimp, but they weren't selling any. So I'll try making kakiage with boiled shirasu instead. The oil looks like it's going to spit and splash like crazy. I'll take responsibility for this.

>287 That thing they sell exclusively at live venues—was it called Uniqlo or something?

Then I'll take responsibility for Mochi. Actually, I'll adopt him. Mochi, you don't have to appear in my dreams. Just keep working. And let me hear Garnet...

>296 > I went all the way to Katase to buy fresh sakura shrimp, but they weren't selling any. Suruga Bay (or Taiwan), surely.

Toru Yuri.

This is the last time we'll get to see Yurippe in a swimsuit too.

Jii-Net is breaking up in the fall too. Guess I won't be able to jerk off to Yuri anymore.

I've never used Yuri-Nana as masturbation material. ...No, that's a lie. A few times, actuallyorz

I want to smell Ms. Yuri's panties.

I wish they could add a few more dates to the final live, but I guess that's impossible.

>304 I've never done it before, and I don't think I will from now on. It feels like that means I'm especially emotionally invested, but when I think about it calmly, I'm seriously disgusting. They've kept going for 13 years even with perverts like me mixed into the FC membership. Thank you, seriously.

>307 The fact that they've been able to keep going this long is thanks to people like you supporting them, so don't be so hard on yourself... I've never joined the FC or gone to a live myself.

Hello. I came here after hearing the breakup news. I've supported them since their debut, and I was a high school student back then. Now I've fully joined the ranks of old men. I still vividly remember the first live and the formation of the FC. My membership number was in the 700s, I think. During the second or third album tour, I was in the front row and got to shake Yuri's hand as she left the stage. I have so many precious memories. After the fourth album, and after the 17th single, I quit the fan club and stopped following the news as closely. It's been almost eight years since then. I still listen to the first and second albums occasionally. Looking back, maybe the work I'm doing now is thanks to garnetcrow too. I think I'll apply for the final live.

I cried, afraid of time passing, at people's hearts as they changed. I'm about to cry.

All I could think about was you turning into a mad dogー♪

Mochi's recommended boiled-shirasu kakiage. It was amazingly delicious. Shirasu really is better boiled than raw.

GARNET was the only thing that matched how I felt. Before that I liked Spitz, but compared to GARNET I couldn't help thinking it was just music for people living the good life.

No band or singer can fill the hole GARNET CROW leaves behind. I thought the reverse would be true too, but when I was clutching my head over something upsetting, it was still Gane's songs I listened to...

I really understand that GARNET is one of a kind, but let's express that feeling without putting down other artists.

An artist whose fans diss other artists is itself proof that the artist is garbage. B'z otaku are like that too, and Being fans have this tendency especially strongly. That's Being-style for youｗ

>313 All popular artists are people living the good life. The moment you manage to make music and get as far as debuting, you're already living the good life to some extent.

No matter which Gane song I listen to, it makes my heart race... This must have some kind of medical effect. It probably activates the brain and turns you more and more pervertedｗ

I'm the person from >313. I meant that I was shocked by my own feelings. I wasn't trying to put anyone else down.

On the radio two days ago, that AKB girl Sumire Sato, a hardcore lifelong Gane Crow fan, played one of their songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5tcjnrGpgA It starts around 53 minutes in.

What are you trying to accomplish by introducing a radio recording here?

Someone had already posted about this, sorry. >322 I wasn't trying to introduce a radio recording. I just wanted to say there are fans in places like this too.

It's not unusual for mass-produced idol-style amateurs to have fans. If anything, it just looks like a publicity stunt. Akipig was a genius for creating this system.

Nagisa and Secret Days feel like '80s idol songs. It's the only song on ParaUni I don't really like. But I'm still happy.

Apparently she likes lots of their other stuff too. http://plus.google.com/112309691086068535265/posts/VhYSgWvt1Qq

If you're talking about idol-style amateurs, Gane is the same. And Gane sings solo despite being bad at it, so I think they're even worse than idol-style amateurs who use unison singing to cover themselves.

Is that “Kyou no Kare”?

People who put down others by calling them “idol-style amateurs” don't have much credibility when they say things like “Kyou no Kare,” either.

Oh, I got that wrong.

Nakamura from Gane is the best. There's something nostalgic about her personality too... It comes through in the musicｗ She uses “boku” a lot in the lyrics, and that's just the bestｗ

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>320 When a family member died seven years ago, I was hurting, but I didn't listen to them either. I thought songs like Kimi Tsure and Kimi Kaza would hit me in the chest, but they didn't. In the end, I felt that when people are truly suffering, what they want isn't music but silence.

>320 You can really feel that Being-style music is hollow at its core and carried by atmosphere alone. They often do features like “Japan's greatest albums,” but Being acts never make the list. That's probably why.

>332 Huh?

>333 Their music hits harder when you're lonely or anxious than when you've just been shocked. When something happens that makes you unable to think, time really is the best medicine.

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What will Yurippe do after the breakup? Is she going to get married?

Edapiyo, go die!

Luciola, go die!

糸工牙鳥, go die!

>338 Okamoto-Yuri. I can see it happening.

Sounds good to me.

Edapiyo, go die!

AZUKI Hitoshi.

As for famous people who like Gane Crow, there's Saki Fujita, the voice of Hatsune Miku.

Yahoo's Natalie Mobile just posted a new GARNET CROW article with photos.

That was already a week ago, huh.

The thread's gotten quiet too. Things have calmed down a lot, but even on my day off I don't feel like doing anything.

I think Yurippe likes Mochi, probably. She looked really happy when she was alone with him on Nico Live. I wonder how Mochi feels about it, hmm... Maybe he thinks of her as a friend or little sister.

Edapiyo, go die!

So that live will be the last time, and they won't appear in public at all after that?

No one in this thread ever calls the members by their names without honorifics. Typical of people who aren't living the good life. There were always people like that at school too: the kind who can only call classmates “-kun” or “-san,” and can never use their names directly. The gloomy kids nobody in the school even remembered, or the ones who got bullied. This band really suits that vibeｗ

They're just the kind of members people don't call by name directly.

Of course people are being careful because the breakup was caused by bad blood.

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I entered twice, using my application and my friend's. I hope at least one of us gets it... I'll travel to Tokyo if I have to.

On the other hand, where did this trend of casually calling famous people by their names come from?

I can wave it too. If I win tickets to the last live, I'll do anything.

>355 Because this is a nest of gross fans who aren't living the good life, that's why.

I think it was the second Countdown Live—there was someone waving one of those traffic-control batonsｗ

I'm in the Yurippe, Mochi, Nana-san, Furui-san camp.

I heard that at the first Osaka show this time, Yurippe was wearing white tights under her see-through skirt, but apparently she had bare legs in Tokyo. Was it different depending on the venue?

>363 It was the third Countdown Live (Countdown Live 2011-2012), right? It's clearly visible on the DVD. It completely ruins the emotional moment, so seriously, stop it!

>365 It was the final day in Tokyo, and she was wearing white. At first it looked like bare legs, but looking closely, she was wearing somethingｗ

>366 Was it the third one? Besides that, there have also been people bringing their own lights in colors different from the official cyalumes and waving them around. Whenever people wave something that glows, some attention-seeking idiot goes painfully overboard, and it's a real headache.

>367 Was what Yurippe was wearing tights, or stockings?

>369 Maybe? You could definitely see through themｗ

>370 About how many centimeters above the knee was it? Could you see her thigh through it?

>371 Who knows? I don't remember it that closelyｗ I don't think it was that short, though.

>372 How was it on the 29th? Was the skirt the same length?

>373 I didn't go on the 29th, so I don't know, but judging from the old threads, the outfit seems to have been the same.

>362 You're way too stupidｗｗｗ

Did anyone go on the 29th? How was it? About how many centimeters above the knee was it? Could you see her thigh through it?

I checked the Gane thread for the first time in ages because of the breakup, and one of the reasons I stopped reading it was this guy (Pne61UtD0)ｗ Even after all this time, he's still creepy as hell.

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

>360 Would a pink Lonely Light be okay too? Is a cyalume better?

Apparently she'll debut with Muteki after the breakup.

If you use a cyalume, Yurippe will get annoyed and say, “We sell Lonely Lights at the merch booth, though.”

>311 LOLｗ

There was also this mondegreen: “With my eyes still open, I'll dream of tomorrow, just sleeping~”

This band surprised me in all kinds of ways, but the biggest shock was that they put rap in “Nake Naka.” What was that even about…

It was fine as spoken poetry without singing, right? If they were going to add vocals, I guess it had to be something like that. But I don't think the four Gane members put it in there because of their own taste.

So who was singing that rap in the end? Mochi?

What was that rap even saying, anyway?

Didyu-dyu-geda-bbi-in-yo-face-yo-dyu Oh Hitoshi, harsh reality Get free, Michael

>379 Pink sounds good. That won't put Yurippe in a bad mood either.

>385 If it wasn't the four members' taste, then was it the producer KANONJI? >386 I don't think it was Mochi, probablyｗ >388 So there is a bit of Japanese mixed in thereｗ

>390 My translation: “Did you do it? Wake up. Face what you've done. Oh, this equally harsh reality. Grab your freedom, Michael.”

Yeah, yeah, more than half of Gane's darker songs? Hemingway (I don't read hard-boiled stuff, it's not my thing), Eiyu, Stay… the early stuff? Some of them have that folk-masterpiece kind of feel too… People like Morita Doji, Itsuwa Mayumi, Showa kayō, and jazz vocalists in the old days didn't sing songs like rap or Spiral (music genres were kept strictly separate), and there wasn't much crossing between sections. (Bob Dylan getting booed for bringing out an electric guitar is a famous story.) …Futari no Rocket has a Shonen Knife, indie, all-girl-band kind of flavor, too. Gane being able to do anything feels so modern—people from the old days must be jealous.

It's been a week already, huh~ I still feel awful the whole time. This isn't good~. Sigh.

I think Yuri-san was an angel who descended to Earth.

Are Yuri-san's parents like Utada's parents? I feel like there might normally be actors or singers somewhere among the older generations too. It really is DNA? Including recessive inheritance and all that. If not, that's amazing too. I mean, was she discovered really well? Or did she just happen to get picked up at an audition…

After Nana-san took a step back and Mochi started coming to the front, there were more songs with a band-like feel and stronger romantic themes. They'd drifted pretty far from the direction I wanted, and there was even a period when Yurippe and Nana-san looked awkward around each other, so when the breakup was decided, I was actually relieved. I hope they all take a little break and find places where they can each be active again.

>389 Got it, but… Are you really doing this?ｗ As long as it's nothing outlandish like a sing-along, I'll cooperate as much as I can.

>395 There's no way GIZA would hold auditions or anything. They probably sign singers without listening to their voices even once. That's GIZA for you.

“When the Time Comes to Take You Away” is a god-tier song to me. Listening while looking at Gane's lyric booklet really makes me think, man, Japanese is great~

I don't know if this is just my imagination, but does that song use some kind of kaeshi-uta technique (like a wordplay game from the Heian period)? No matter how I think about it, it makes me think of “Koibito yo~ soba ni ite~♪” Maybe everyone over 40 has that chord progression burned into their brains?

By the way, that song is about Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea… I don't have the CD on hand right now…

I went on Saturday, but… the live was fucking boringｗｗｗｗｗ I just stared at the members from the balconyｗｗｗ I should've gone down to the arena, thoughｗｗｗｗ I could barely see Yurippe's expressions or anythingｗｗｗ

To cut to the conclusion, under this religion, yesterday I made a small mistake at work that affected an outside party, plus another mistake only I knew about (both came from hesitating over passing things on to another organization and causing extra work myself, even though nobody knew—someone reported it anyway). It was like every single cell in my body had a hidden microphone in it, on top of being watched from above. When I was lost in Gane fantasies, I was told I was getting above myself. Even if you call it a religion, I'm only at the bottom of it; but even outside religion, reaching Gane's level would mean being a department head or higher in terms of responsibility. What a terrifying religion. Since I've been helped, I'm a weak person who tries to follow its rules. As for people who devote themselves to art and entertainment, versus the people on the “ambition (money and fame)” side…

Repost: Nana-baa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y08kU4jTjg

She's beautiful, but she has an old-looking face.

I liked listening to it on Sunday evenings because it put me in a gloomy mood, though.

And it's not Christianity, either. The tickets get torn into pieces at the top of Mount Ikoma, like Jean Valjean. Even if they announced a marriage three days beforehand, I don't think they'd do something that wasteful. …I have a feeling these people are really going to come. When cutting down evil spirits… you have to wipe them out down to the seeds. If you show them mercy, they seem to multiply. …Somehow you have to use “fishing with hope” to reel them up, then drop them all the way to the bottom at the end. Assuming they're unrested spirits…

I seriously have no idea what he's even writing about.

If I remember right? Back when it was Hiroko Taniyama, Yoichi Shibuya played Cocco's “The person you're thinking of is probably having sex with someone else by now”…… That message, and since I was probably already a wanted man in the industry back then (though people would call it delusion), they just played Sugar's “Wedding Bell” on Radio Kansai. Of course, it could also be bait meant to confuse me by making it look like a coincidence. Whether it's a few days before the live or on the day itself (if I can get a ticket), I won't rush into anything—I'll watch the live. I'm gradually getting myself mentally ready. I'm not young, and I'm an adult; religion lectures me every day. Above all, that pain is going to cut the spiral of my personal grudge? resentment? going back to 2001.

There must have been tons of mentally unstable people among Gane fans.

You probably think I'm crazy, but I'll just endure it until the breakup. …I won't spit out words that drag people down into negativity like that. I'd appreciate it if you could watch over me. Because if it's negative, the pain will hit me religiously hard, like Sun Wukong's headband, and I won't be able to post. …If my posts aren't long, assume I've been punished. There may be a 2ch restriction too, of course.

Looking at this place, I can't exactly deny it. Not Gane fans so much as B'z fans, probably.

>412 You don't have to go out of your way to write that, you know?

It's not the ZARD person. To make a long story short, there was a guy named Maruse Taro who died, and I lost touch with my best friend too. While still carrying that grudge, I wanted to go to Takada Wataru's live shows more often. I could have gone, but deliberately didn't. (Because I was hung up on Taro, I neglected the living people right in front of me.) Then he died too. At the time, Nakajima Ramo also died, while I was holding onto this one-sided, selfish personal grudge about why, even though it was Osaka, he hadn't collaborated with Maruse Taro. When I was trying to get over it through voice-actor idols, Minako Honda died too, and for some reason I felt an enormous sense of loss. Then Gane entered my field of vision… so I suppose this is what you call repentance. Maybe the trigger was around Shijaku Katsura? You probably can't tell what I'm writing about, but when you live a long time, you make mistakes. You'll understand when you get older.

What is the filtered voice saying in the middle of the first A-melody of “Lonely Night”?

A study found that more than half of Gane Crow fans have some kind of mental illness.

You'll have to show us the study results. And even if it's true, what's the problem?

I figured the guy who started spamming after the breakup announcement was probably a schizo.

Smily Nation gave me a lot of energy after the earthquake. I loved it when they played it live, too.

Smily Nation feels lacking without balloons. If all we're doing is chanting in unison, I'd rather they just sing normally.

>421 I don't need the “one, two, three, four” stuff either, so I'd rather they just sing normally. I think singing along together is enough.

Releasing balloons means wishing for peace, right?

It was just that a ton of “visitors” came over from VIP and Newsoku after the breakup announcement.

I know a Gane fan who's been to every single live, and he's an incredibly cheerful normie. It's still a mystery where the dark element in him is supposed to be.

People's inner selves and outward appearances are often complete opposites.

Someone who seems like an S is actually an M, for example.

Someone who seems like an M is actually an L, for example.

Yuri Kurose.

Please wear a bikini for the last live!

I want to hear “Kagami ni Mita Yume” live.

>429 People bring up Kurose's name every time, but she's marriedｗ

Even though people call them dark, there actually aren't that many songs that are hopelessly dark. “Though They Say the World Turns” is unbearably dark, though. I can't believe they released that song as a single A-side.

When only nostalgic things seem to shine, “the beginning of going somewhere new” I'm about to cry.

If only the things we've lost seem to shine, then the time has come to go somewhere new. I'm about to cry.

Twelve Girls Band with Shimako Iwai AKB48 with Yuri Nakamura

“Kagami ni Mita Yume” is nice, right? Too bad I couldn't hear it at this live.

So when is Yurippe going to wear a ponytail?

I want a vocal unit called gizafina with Rina Aiuchi, Yuri Nakamura, and Keiko Utoku.

Add Azumi Uehara too!

>439 Yurippe can handle the backing vocals.

>440 AZUMI is one of the Minami-Horie Muscats.

I recently realized that Nana-sama on “call my name” is insanely good.

Nana actually looks great with brown hair. I thought so when I watched the “Nake Naka” PV.

>415 Go away, schizo.

So even if you own every CD, is the final album still worth buying?

My new song: “Pure-White Yuri on My Birthday,” coming soon!

I watched the first live DVD for the first time in ages, and Yurippe was so genuinely fresh-faced. The support musicians back then were Ohga, David, Ohashi, and Iwai, and there were three backing vocalists too, so it was quite a lineup. They even played something like an old silent movie on the rear stage monitor, and the staging was great too. I've been a fan since 2007, but I wish I could go back to the time of their debut and cheer them on again…

I want to go to at least one live. Are they really breaking up?

I'm asking for a bikini too! If that's difficult, a normal swimsuit is fine.

“trade” is so cool, but the lyrics are way too heavy… This isn't a song you can casually sing.

Those with money, please donate. Those without money don't have to donate. http://darekatomero.wiki.fc2.com/

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

Friday Road SHOW! on April 19 will have the TV premiere of “Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker”! http://www.ntv.co.jp/kinro/lineup/20130419/index.html

The theme song is by Ikimono-gakari, isn't it? (´・ω・`)

I like “Holding you, and swinging,” but when was the last live where they performed it? I've never heard it even once, so I know it might be difficult, but I'd like them to play it. Also, which live do you all think had the best “Holy ground”? I only have Towa Bare, so I want to use it as a reference.

>456 Ninna-ji.

>456 The LOCKS tour.

What song will they open the last live with? Actually, if it were you people in this thread, what would you want to hear first? Personally, if they want to get everyone fired up right away, I think something like “Spiral” would be good.

It's not what I want to hear, but I'm guessing it'll be their debut single, “Miss Ai.”

>459 Probably “Miss Ai,” yeah. Feels like it'll be a parade of singles~

If they opened with X's “WEEKEND” out of nowhere, it would become a legendary breakup live…

>459 “Bokura dake no Mirai.”

>459 Personally, “Saigo no Rito.” It really feels like a first-song kind of song.

Would singing every single be impossible just because of the number of songs? There are probably some they can't sing anymore, too. Have they ever performed “Nake Naka” or “Maboroshi” live?

>465 They did “Maboroshi” on LOCK ON. I like that version of “Holy ground” better too.

They sang each one on the tour for the album it was recorded on. I think “Maboroshi” was also done at Ninna-ji and on LOCK ON.

So they did both—thanks. LOCK ON was my first live, and I don't even remember it… I own some of the DVDs but not others, so I'll properly buy the rest. By the way, why is the first-press A edition of the LOCKS CD only 600 yen on Amazon?

The price probably dropped because the Ninna-ji DVD came out. The first-press B edition is still pretty expensive. The only time I bought two copies of the same title was “Over Drive,” because I liked the regular edition's cover. Maybe I'll start collecting everything now.

>465 “Nakenai...” was in 2004. No rap. The highlights are the old guy going “den-de-de-de-de-de-durn” at the beginning and end, and Mochi's guitar at the beginning and end.

I want to hear “flying.” I've been going back through the old albums and DVDs, and this is my favorite.

Did anyone go to the first day of the Tokyo shows on the 29th? How was it? About how many centimeters above Yurippe's knees was the skirt? Could you see her thigh through it?

She wasn't wearing panties.

“If it could come true, let me make one wish: a foolish heart that won't lose to this loneliness without you.” These lyrics are so heartbreaking…

Does that part mean “not losing to loneliness = being foolish”? It says “you” one way, then switches to another word for “you” in the next line, which also bothers me.

>475 Not feeling lonely even after someone important is gone = foolish. But it's so lonely and painful that you'd almost be fine with becoming foolish. I think that's what it means. Though I do wonder why it uses the wording “won't lose.”

I figured “won't lose” was meant to convey not wanting your heart to be ruled by loneliness. Even while wishing I could lose all my feelings, I'm still human after all. Maybe the part of you that knows somewhere inside that there's nothing you can do about it is what gets called “foolish,” somehow. But when I suddenly thought I won't be able to talk with Nana through her lyrics in Gane's songs anymore, a wave of loneliness came over me.

Won't lose… won't lose…

No, that's not it! Men really are stupid and simple-mindedーー

Huh? Does “won't lose” mean “not losing”? I failed classical Japanese in high school and don't feel like looking it up now, but isn't “nu” a past-tense auxiliary? Since it modifies “foolish heart,” does that make it “a foolish heart that lost to loneliness”? Sorry if I'm wrong. It reminded me of the Madonna teacher at Human Campus.

If only I could have a light, foolish heart that could quickly distract me from this loneliness without you.

It's going to be a ticket war… I want to go so badly, so please add more live shows.

I googled “nu classical Japanese” and got classical grammar and auxiliary verbs. Isn't it the perfective “nu”? … …Yurippe is starting to look like a Sengoku warlord to me. She keeps drawing them in, drawing them in, drawing them in, then at the very last second they're fed to the guns of Sanada Maru. A two-stage gun corps. Will she announce her marriage after the encore at the last live? Those four carrying bags as the end of “trade” comes rushing closer— that's exactly what it is.

I agree with >481.

The perfective “nu” is the conclusive form, so it can't be used in the middle of a sentence.

I looked up “trade” in a dictionary, and the meaning seems closer to “exchange” than “commerce.” Is “Maizy” one letter off from the European reading of “maize,” as in corn? But when I googled it, I only got things other than Terminus. It's written in English, but is it a Scottish pet name for Margaret? I think I'm probably wrong… Every song makes me think of parting. …Anyway, I'm on the day shift today. After work, decoding the lyrics at McDonald's while looking at the lyric booklet— this time is probably my last little luxury.

>485… But since Possu wrote the lyrics, breaking the rules is possible. Maybe it's a coined expression… Could be a double meaning between “lost” and “won't lose,” or matching the sound and feel…

Yeah, exactly.

>481 Normally, you'd take it positively as meaning someone who doesn't stay depressed forever, but for Nana, I guess that would be a foolish thing. After all, it was precisely because she was lonely and hurting that she wrote lyrics capable of touching people's hearts.

So that means “my single-minded self isn't foolish,” right? Ah, I wanna become an idiot, or something like that.

>483 If “nu” is the perfective auxiliary, then because a noun comes after it, it should change to the attributive form “nuru,” making it “a heart that has lost” …at least that's how it should work.

I want them to provide AKB48 with a song like “Nonsense,” then appear as guests on Kohaku—or better yet, have Yuri be the centerｗ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-tuA9wVDtg

Four MINIQLO releases for 48,500 yen is pretty wild.

Are there actually idiots who'd buy that?

No way. The last live probably won't get very hypeｗｗｗ The members are probably already checked outｗｗｗ

Interview How people who don't pass interviews speak (GARNET CROW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2IhCHIkBM#t=02m21s How people who do pass interviews speak (Mai Kuraki) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2IhCHIkBM#t=03m41s Aim to be like Kuraki.

An American who was surprised by the name “cracky.”

You guys are doing some damn pointless lyric analysis. These surreal lyrics that try so hard to be unusual (they're not even lyrics, they're basically just poems)—are they really worth examining this closely? That's why I keep saying their songs are amateur-level. Trying to make a pebble look like a jewel—that's the GIZA method, isn't it?

I was shocked because the intro sounds exactly like that song by Aya Kamiki.

If you think it's pointless, you can just stop reading. I don't think Nana writes whatever she feels like; I think she prioritizes how good it sounds and how easy it is to sing.

>495… So you're saying, “Show me your final heartbeat”…? … But if they announce a marriage before the live, even my heartbeat will stop. I don't know if there'll be chairs, but I'll hang my head in a funeral-like atmosphere and listen to MÄR Heaven with tears streaming down my face, thinking, “I can finally see myself.” But crying is a good thing. Minako and all the other people who've died up to now kept their feelings bottled up and died without ever letting their joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure out. Black people? Or Koreans? They express their emotions and recover quickly after the funeral, just like that. If the breakup-and-marriage combo is an ippon, it'll be practically like dying, and on top of that I have this thing called MÄR Heaven attached to me. I can reform myself and drive away evil spirits at the same time. Yurippe, you should go all the way too! Say you're getting married to your boyfriend on a southern island (New York? Europe?), and make a double announcement with Azuki-san, leaving nothing standing…

I like “P.S GIRL,” but I don't understand what it means! What does it mean? It's not Hayashiya Pāko, is it?

Up through around the sixth album, there were quite a few people in this thread who analyzed the lyrics. Lage-san, maybe? I don't remember very well. Somehow, Gane and the atmosphere of the thread both changed around the sixth album. Let's all get along for the final stretch, z.

>500 Sometimes they deliberately make the English grammatically wrong to fit the melody too, right?

>503 Isn't it because there's a separate analysis thread?

>504 The first time I heard “Futari no Rocket,” I was like “？？？” at the line “swaying in the atmosphere, for we.” That was 13 years ago already…

>503 Because the sixth album was garbage. Only blind believers were left.

>505 I don't think that's it~

Come to think of it, I vaguely remember someone bashing Lage-san too.

Yeah, I get the feeling their visual image started changing around LOCKS.

If getting bashed is enough to make you depressed, then don't use 2ch. Getting bashed is just part of the deal.

Edapiyo, go die!

The result of bringing “part of the deal” into the thread is what you're seeing here. It's not about whether it's good or bad.

Honestly, I don't think Yurippe or Nana-san write their own material. But if that's true, then they had one unbelievably talented ghostwriter. For both the music and the lyrics. I can't believe it. It's a miracle in a way.

The Japanese written by people like ID:DFGFhbU2O is physically impossible for me to read. Gross.

>506 That's nostalgic—it feels like it happened forever ago. Now I do the wiper motions naturally and sing it at karaoke too. But in English, please use the objective case after a preposition! Nana-sanｗ

I only really know “Yume mita ato de,” “Kimi wo Kazaru Hana wo Sakasou,” “Wasurezaki,” and the other songs that became Conan theme songs. Are there any songs with a similar sound that you'd recommend?

>517 How about “MAIZY,” “Hachigatsu no Yoru,” “Yofuke no Ryuuseitachi,” or “Blue Regret”?

The way they make “生命力” be read as “sokojikara,” too, is because it fits the melody better. They're not trying to be deliberately quirky.

No, they just put words in here and there in the lyrics so listeners can more easily relate them to themselvesｗ

>416 “That girl with her cheeks dyed by twilight—she's lovely, right?” (Plastic)

I went to see MISIA. Yurippe is a terrible singerｗ

I want them to perform “Kagami ni Mita Yume” at the last live.

Once they break up, will the Lonely Light just become a decoration…? Surely nobody waves it in their room while watching the DVD, right?

I use mine as a flashlight all the time.

Will tickets be sold through Musing too? I can only go to the Osaka venue, so please! I wonder what the deluxe bonus for the best-of will be. I want a poster, so make sure you include one.

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

>527 You do it every single day, but it isn't helping Yuri-san at all.

Try doing your best for Yuri Toru once in a while.

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Don't need it.

I want to fill Yuri-san's vagina with thick semen.

>510 He's sick in the head, right?

I'm curious where Nana-sama will end up after the breakup.

She'll provide lyrics for Ann Lewis.

Maybe Nana-sama was a high-class courtesan in 19th-century France in her previous life.

I hadn't heard it yet, so I rented it from TSUTAYA and listened in the car… this thing called “Twilight Valley.” It's my third listen since yesterday. As singles go, it doesn't grab me as much as MÄR Heaven, and I don't really feel an overall concept, but everything seems to be pressing in on me. I can feel that I've gotten older. It's like the pure, headlong rush of youth before it fell apart—or like gliding in a hang glider. It has nothing to do with the sound (I'm not interested in early Pink Floyd), but their worldview comes rushing at me like a barrier. The transparency charging toward me is a little scary. Maybe it doesn't really fit Yurippe… People who like this one will probably feel that “Memories” and “Terminus” are completely different things.

“Eden,” right? I think it was one of those songs they used to hype people up at Q's Mall. I didn't think much of it… and I feel like I heard “Kakurenbo” at the previous live too. …There were probably multiple reasons for the breakup, but if the fans were part of it, then—even though it seems impossible—did I make them break up two or three years earlier? I wonder if it was my fault. They probably don't read 2ch, but I did write that “tired middle-aged salaryman…” stuff. This person's voice is easy to compare to Showa-era singers. When I listened just now, it sounded like a mix of Takako Shirai and Saki Kubota. But the former is only similar for an instant, while Yuri is completely distinctive. If outside newcomers all have that tendency, then we're really screwed. She'd become a snack-bar mama, taking care of “tired, useless salarymen.”

This might be wrong since I've only seen opinions on 2ch, but maybe the members felt that inside the “paradise,” the number of fans who rested and fought on positively had decreased, while the proportion of fans who got spoiled rotten relying on paradise had increased. (…There are a lot of keyboard endings that sound like church music, or pipe-organ chords?) … Like the Old Testament? (I think there was something like that in “Aoi Hana,” too.) Maybe they got angry and burned paradise down themselves into a wasteland = Gane breaking up. …From an organizational-theory perspective, this can't continue either. It helps neither the fans nor the artists. And there was also the earthquake. It's a warning not to assume your parents and money will always be there. Because they're a band built around the concept of Eden…

I wish they'd each start something like a bar or restaurant, so you could go there and meet the members. It'd be way too lonely if they just disappeared like this~

Did his Japanese become incoherent because he developed a mental illness, or did he become mentally ill because his Japanese became incoherent?

>540 What a Pokebi caféｗ

Now I feel like eating an Azuki Bar.

Yurippe is starting to look like the prime minister to me… Musicians have a one-to-many relationship with fans = media = public figures (not ordinary people), because they're in a position to affect a large number of people at once. Using the “right to dissolve” is a big-picture decision. You can't do it if you're worrying about a few people dying. Even as musicians, at this moment, Gane are proper politicians. You have to cut it off before things get hopeless or they get sick. It's a card you can only play once. It's like cutting your losses on stocks. I used to be a useless gambler too, saying “just one more box” at pachinko until everything was gone. As expected of Yurippe—the decisive one.

I really wish I could hear Nana-san sing.

>540… I heard Minako Honda did something like that after her idol days, but the Gane people aren't the entertainment-industry type, so I really don't think they'd do it. Actually, it might be the thing they're worst at.

Yurippe doesn't seem like the type to think too deeply about things. The ideas were running out, sales were dropping, so maybe it was just “that's enough, right?” Breakup time＼(＾o＾)／ Probably something like that, I guess.

They simply couldn't keep going because they were in the red.

>544 Hurry up and die.

Like someone said earlier, I want to know who their ghostwriter is. I feel like the last few releases have gone downhill, but there really was some magic in the early-to-middle-period works.

>549 You shouldn't say that to someone with a disability.

Good work, early-era fanboy.

So the early-era fanboy argument is that you could enjoy it when your life experience was low, but once your own experience level went up, it started to feel kind of lame?

There's a photo on Natalie of Yurippe singing with her left hand spread out. Her hand is insanely beautiful.

“Mysterious Eyes” is the best. I hate “lie lie yah” and “Yuzukiyo.” I like everything else.

>540 Even if they did open a shop, it would definitely become a gathering place for creepy Gane otakuｗ

If Yurippe had been a former delinquent girl, that would be exciting in its own way.

Gane otaku and AKB otaku are both creepy.

Someone was interpreting the lyrics of “blue bird” as erotic… Are the lyrics of “blue bird” actually sexy?

I wanna cum inside Yuri-san~ (>_<)

I want to hear “Blue Regret” at the last live.

Mixi gang, go die!!

I wanna pour Nana-san's piss over rice and eat it slurpily.

“Kagami ni Mita Yume” is such a god-tier song.

>562 Seriously. 糸工牙鳥 and the rest, hurry up already.

糸工牙鳥, go die already.

By the time they made “Blue Regret,” they were already thinking about which June they'd break up in.

If the Mixi gang prepares white banners or something on the day, I'll slash them up or dump ink all over them.

I actually like the album “Twilight Valley”ｗｗｗ It comes at you hard from the first halfｗ

>568 You're only this brave onlineｗ

They performed “lie lie yah” on M Station, didn't theyｗｗｗ The video is still upｗ When they first come down the stairs, Nana-san is holding her hand, and they walk down togetherｗ What was that？？？・？？？ Is that a fujoshi privilege?ｗ

I want to cum from Nana-san's handjob.

I want to hear “Hare Dokei.”

The start of university is depressing too, but nothing is more depressing than the day Gane Crow breaks up getting closer and closer.

Apparently Azuki already has a kid, and she's going to become a housewife.

>575 So when did she give birth?

You don't need to say so much—just feeling it is enough. you know a trail Don't try to put it into words… I don't know what happened, but at the very least, don't be someone who can only make other people uncomfortable… In the silence.

I've been looking forward to the live this whole time, but now that it's really going to be the last one, I have this complicated feeling where I want that day to come and don't want it to come.

I'm worried whether I'll be able to get a ticket (>_<)

Delphoi, here it comes!

I suddenly feel like eating an Azuki Bar. >580 I wonder how many people in this 2ch thread even understand that reference.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20557844

I'm in the general-sale group, so getting a ticket will be really difficult. I want them to add more shows. I don't want them to break up.

I used to think that even if they never became a huge seller, having just a modestly sized niche fanbase could actually let them keep going for a long time. But I guess it was still hard. Thanks for everything. Please take a good rest.

I want to apply through the FC for the final day, and buy Tokyo through the general sale too, but I keep worrying that if one person goes to both days, someone else will lose the chance to go, so I still haven't applied. Well, I don't even know if I'll win the tickets I wantｗ

I'm glad the last one isn't at Budokan or somewhere like that.

I seriously want to go to the Osaka show. Yurippe, please~

Since it's the last one, they should've gone all out and done it at Kyocera Dome or something.

Come on, three days total is too few.

Where do people who aren't FC members apply for tickets? I'm planning to apply through Musing.

>590 I'm using Loppi.

Loppi.

Ticket Pia.

>590 I'm putting everything on Musing too.

Oh, Loppi is an option too. Anyway, I want to win the ticket war.

Am I the only one who thinks Yurippe's outfit at the Terminus live looks like a wedding dress?

Nana-san looked cute tapping the keyboard during “Maizy.”

Without a doubt, Yurippe is getting married, right?

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

Yahoo Auctions.

If you're not a FC member, you'll probably only be able to get tickets for the weekday Tokyo show. That doesn't include private trades, of course.

>596 From far away I could kind of see it too, but from the back it looked completely differentｗ Still, I think it's Yurippe gets married → breakup.

Hello, nice to meet you. I'm COM. With the breakup announcement, and the fact that the live in two months will be the last one, I'd like to start a project. The idea is to have everyone write messages for them. We'd write one large character from “Thank you, GARNET CROW” on each of several big white cloths, put everyone's messages around them, connect all the cloths, and then unfold the whole thing together on the final day so the GARNET members can see it. That's the project. We'd unfold it during the GARNET call, which should have the least impact on the show's progress. Before the show, I'll explain the project to every other audience member in the relevant area, one by one, and only do it if everyone agrees. If it causes a problem, I'll take full responsibility as the project organizer. We'll collect the messages on the day near the entrances of both the Tokyo and Osaka venues, somewhere that won't cause too much trouble. For people who can't come to the venue, I also want to deliver as many people's voices as possible, so I'll accept proxy messages too. If you'd like someone to write one for you, put your message after “proxy message requested.” It would also give me confidence if anyone could help with the preparations beforehand. (I'm not very confident in my handwritingｗ) I'll also put out calls in my personal Mixi diary and on Twitter, so I'd be happy if as many fans as possible could tell others about this project. On Twitter I'll use the hashtag #GCy企画. Sorry for the long post, and thank you in advance.

There aren't enough last-live shows. Seriously, please add more. Yurippe, please. Reach out to the general fans too.

>603 It's pretty harmless, and I think this level might be acceptable for the final one, but you need to consider the venue layout and figure out how not to block the other audience members' view. I don't really understand what you mean by “taking responsibility,” or how you intend to do it, but with roughly 6,500 × several thousand people's money moving around, if you can do this without trampling on other people's property, effort, and emotions for the sake of your own self-satisfaction, I think you'll get people's understanding. I'd like you to present a more detailed plan that takes the flow of the day into account.

I think buying CDs and merch and putting a letter in the gift box is the best way. Requesting songs at karaoke or on the radio works too.

Edapiyo, seriously, go die. Edapiyo, seriously, go die.

>603 Die.

I'm absolutely not writing a group message, and I don't consent either. That's all.

>603 You're fucking creepy. Get out.

Edapiyo, you're seriously annoying. Hurry up and die.

Why does he have to come all the way to 2ch? Let Mixi be Mixi and do it among your own people.

It's easy to say “I'll take responsibility,” but how will you take it? Have you predicted every possible problem and thought of countermeasures for all of them?

A banner like that would just be in the way. Collect the messages before the show and have the staff deliver them or something.

The lyrics on the Terminus songs, the photos in the lyric booklet, and “Hotaru no Hikari” too… And that dress I saw from far away at the previous live, which looked like Yoko Minami's—seriously. Was it a wedding dress? All these carefully prepared props. Yurippe is around 35? …Have all the circumstantial clues lined up? A shotgun wedding. …Unlike usual, I took yesterday and today off too, but I can't weigh Gane against anything else or do anything. Plus the tension. I still have CDs I haven't listened to and need to get through them… I've calmed down quite a bit since the breakup, but… Yurippe, please—if I could choose the timing, the worst for me would be an announcement during the MC after the encore on the final day, once all the songs are over, or a rumor that leaks out months after the breakup. It would linger. …“Show me what kind of person Yurippe is!” If possible, I want to know before the Tokyo show or right before the first Osaka show—basically, I want to already know when I listen to the live. Then I can “purify” myself with tears over more than just MÄR Heaven, and depending on my mood, I could get excited, say goodbye to Gane in a celebratory way, and leave. …If I look down from above at myself, over 40 and folded in half sobbing, it feels kind of like “the last youth”… not bad.

>615 Edapiyo, seriously, go die.

>602 Then maybe she'll retire… Would she announce it on the final day? Probably not. There are already so many things they don't make public. Private life is private life, I guess.

I was busy with the end of the fiscal year, so I finally got to hear the last album. If you call it “they saw it through to the end,” I can agree with that, but… they're breaking up. I wonder if I'll be able to get a ticket for the breakup live. Also, why is the Tokyo show on a Friday…

>615 First of all, it can't be a shotgun wedding. Her live outfit was tight around the stomach, and she was bouncing around during the show. That wouldn't be good for a baby. I thought it might be a wedding dress at first too, but because of that thing wrapped around her waist and connected up to her shoulders, it seems more like a maid outfit. Personally, that outfit is my favorite of everything she's worn so far. I feel like the fan newsletter might mention something too. Maybe there'll be an announcement about the future, with the other members revealing that they were actually married already: Yurippe: “I'm married…” Other members: “What? (We didn't know!)” Audience: “(Ah—just as expected.)” Yurippe: “No, I'm not. I'm single.” She'd probably amuse herself by pulling something like that radio stunt from before. I really hope that's what it is.

>617 Yeah, I think retirement is pretty likely. Looking at the female artists that company has had before, they all just faded out… It's hard to imagine her coming back in another line of work like Rina Aiuchi did… If she's happy, that's all that matters, but I still feel kind of unsettledｗ

Would a MUTEKI debut actually be the realistic option? Once someone debuts with MUTEKI, they usually get a gravure feature in Friday or something, right? That creates connections with major publishers and other talent agencies. Then it's, “For this tie-up and this media appearance, we'd really like you to use our Mai Kuraki.” That's exactly the sort of thing Mai Kuraki-obsessed president Toshinori Masuda would think of.

The Uehara Azumi case means you can't say it absolutely won't happen, which is scary.

Whatever song I listen to, it connects back to how I feel now… I'm already this depressed just from hearing the breakup announcement… What am I going to be like after the breakup live…

I only just watched the video of the Detective Conan movie event at LaLaport Toyosu, and it's great. Everyone having fun under the clear sky is nice, and the interaction between Yurippe and Conan is so heartwarming. In the end she was a Conan person all the way through, but I think Gane Crow existed because of Conan.

Other artists get coverage on TV, but Gane never got covered at all… Conan theme songs, I guess＞

If they're not going to make it public, I want them to keep it private all the way. If they're going to say something, then say it clearly. That's all. Probably around the Tokyo show… Maybe it'll be something like moving overseas? … Takada Wataru, Maruse Taro, the Kinks (even though they aren't dead)—did I have some kind of gay feeling toward them? I don't think so, but I'm not sure, when you like someone too much… The loss you feel when someone dies and you can never see them perform again. Say, hypothetically, if I were a fan of Yuming, Miyuki Nakajima, or Cocco, I wouldn't be shocked if they got married… I've accepted the breakup at this point, but if hearing a marriage announcement would shock me, is that proof that I treat her like an idol? If it were a marriage announcement instead of a breakup, I wonder how much it would hurt. With Minako too, I felt “as long as she's alive, that's enough,” but if I could see her, would I have developed romantic feelings? I was pretty shaken by the Rose person from Flower Show too. When it comes to women, do I have some minimum threshold for liking their faces? Do their singing voices or acting serve as foundation and makeup on top of that? You probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

Well, while thinking about all this, I'm trying to prepare at least a little for the shock of the day that's coming… Different responses for different patterns. Now that the breakup is decided, it feels complicated looking back. I want to be moved by the live (including the possibility that I don't get a ticket, or that I can't see it because of the “don't look at it through the eyes of faith!” pattern), but Gane is ultimately just something I'm obsessed with—that's why I like it… Am I finally able to think that way? (asking myself) But given my personality (I can't rule out Asperger's), if I were in my twenties and saw them only two or three times before they broke up, wouldn't that be hospital-visit territory? Like taking a leave of absence from university. I'm almost 45, so surely I've learned at least a little by now.

>623 If you get to witness the breakup live in person, you'll feel refreshed and clear-headed.

The gap between the shows is too long, and I hate that it ends in Tokyo, so I want to go to Osaka.

>625 There's no way they'd cover some minor idol band for otakuｗ

I won't deny that they're an idol band, but on this album, they occasionally put out songs like “trade” that punch straight through my chest, so I couldn't take my eyes off them all the way to the end.

They really were a band that kept hitting otaku right in their weak spots. They poked every one of my pressure pointsｗ It's very love-it-or-hate-it, so if you're not interested they're just background noise, but once you get hooked, you become a worshipperｗ The Nostalgia → trade → Maizy sequence feels so good that I've been looping those three songs over and over. Listening to this makes me regret that Gane still seemed able to keep going…

Nostalgia, Shiroi Sora, P.S GIRL, and Kagami ni Mita Yume are such perfect hits for me.

Please add more live shows. I want to go to Osaka, but I can't even get FC membership, so it's even harder.

The last live is for true fans who are FC members only, so don't worry about it^^

Whatever, even if they break up, I can listen to their songs whenever I want, so it's fine.

>635 Yeah, exactly.

Edapiyo, go die.

Additional show decided!! http://garnetcrow.com/news/#info2013041001

>639 Don't lie.

>639 No way. An additional show at this point?

Speaking of Okamoto, on the Twilight album, when you look at the lyric booklet, his eyes are so close together that his face looks surprisingly unlike a normal person'sｗｗ More like a musician's faceｗ Maybe it's just me. When you look at the other albums… it doesn't feel that way.

If the tickets sell out right away… It's hard to imagine, since it's a breakup live. Does every day ending mean the day Gane Crow breaks up is one day closer?

Edapiyo, go die.

I wonder if they'll play “Natsu no Maboroshi.”

I absolutely want to hear “Blue Regret,” “doubt,” “Elysium,” “Saigo no Rito,” “Endless Desire,” “whiteout,” “Nogareno Machi,” “Mikansei na Neiro,” “Tsumetai Kage,” and “Himawari no Iro.”

Night after night, the day of parting draws closer, whether we want it or not.

The four of them were warriors sailing across the sea. They couldn't resist their youth slipping away. In today's music scene, where Avex, Johnny's, and AKB dominate, they were powerless.

I wonder if they'll hold an FC event at the end… They have time to do it, right? The FC is dissolving at the end of October, but just waiting around after the last live would be so lonely. There are three newsletters left: the next one will be about livescope2013, the one after that should focus on the last live, and the final issue will be a compilation… Something like that, right?

>649 Was it Aiuchi? Apparently she had an FC closing event. If there are enough requests, maybe they'll do one too…

The best-of comes out next month, huh. They've released quite a few best-ofs, haven't they?

There'll probably be an FC closing event like Aiuchi's.

They can't take time off that often, though.

Maybe “Memories” was so good because of the earthquake. That event must have lit a fire under their creator spirits.

Reference below: ◆ Fan Club Closing Event Confirmed The official Rina Aiuchi fan club a*rina was founded on February 1, 2001. For about ten years since then, it supported Rina Aiuchi together with its members, but as the fan club is being dissolved on December 31, 2010, it will hold an event to close out its activities: “a*rina CLOSING EVENT -LAST PARTY-.” The event is planned to include a talk segment looking back on a*rina's activities with Aiuchi, screenings of unreleased footage, a Q&A where a*rina members can ask Aiuchi questions, a gift lottery, and commemorative photos with Aiuchi and a*rina members (around 30 people per session; the photos will be mailed to each member later). Please join us for this final chance to feel close to Aiuchi☆ a*rina CLOSING EVENT -LAST PARTY- ◇Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010 【Part 1】Doors 2:30 p.m. / Show 3:00 p.m. 【Part 2】Doors 5:30 p.m. / Show 6:00 p.m. ◇Venue: Tokyo / Laforet Museum Harajuku ◇Fee: 5,000 yen per a*rina member (tax included) ※This event is for a*rina members only, and each person may apply for only one show. (Non-members cannot attend.)

I want to smell Yuri-san's panties at least once.

SOPHIA is going on hiatus, huh. It's sad for them as a band, but Matsuoka will probably do something as a solo artist or otherwise, so it's not like he'll disappear completely.

SOPHIA too, huh. There are fewer and fewer groups that are still active.

“Is Yurippe getting married?” “Yeah.” “Really?” “Really.” “To who?” “Hitoshi-kun.” I had a dream like that. It was a sad awakening, but once I calmed down I thought, “Wait, what does Hitoshi-kun even mean?”ｗｗｗｗ I've been a fan for 12 years, but this was the first dream where I actually talked with her. I'm really being pushed to the edge.

There probably won't be a reunion either… Aaaaaaaaaaah!

Honestly, my reaction to SOPHIA is, “Wait, they were still active?” People say the same thing about Gane, so I guess that's just how it is.

SOPHIA… I only know their song “Machi.” I thought they'd broken up ages ago too.

At least Sophia will still have Matsuoka and the others doing something in the public eye. That's nice.

Edapiyo and Beni Tsume, go die!

Even if Yurippe went solo, it'd be lonely. It's better when all the members are together.

Don't they do phone requests anymore? Even if it's not AM or FM specifically, isn't anyone requesting songs on radio shows? Are there no fans who want to show their final heartbeat?

>665 It's true—the four of them together are what creates that perfect atmosphere. Toward the end, only Mochi and Yurippe were doing the promotional work, and while those two have a sense of stability, they felt like a generic duo you could find anywhere.

>657 The fact that it's only a hiatus is at least some consolation… If it's a breakup, it's really the end, huh~

>655 I wonder how many FC members Aiuchi had. Does Gane have more? If there are too many, holding an event might be difficult~ Well, nothing starts unless people make requestsｗ

>667 We need Nana-san and the leader too. The breakup is seriously lonely. You can start applying for tickets through Musing today, huh.

GARNET CROW's final single confirmed: on sale 5/15 “Mirai-ha Lovers” Detective Conan ending theme.

Patlabor is here?

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

>671 Don't lie.

>674 >674

Recognize a lie as a lie (ry

>666 It's mostly email, not phone calls. Go to the official site, look at the request list, and request whatever you like. Weekday daytime is recommended since requests are more likely to get picked.

“P.S GIRL” is wonderful.

I want them to produce more of the bluecoral room fragrance produced by Nana-san. I want to buy one as a keepsake.

Today I didn't come to work either—I was sent to Shiga as my boss's pawn. So I drove out of Osaka early in the morning, listening to the “Rocks?” and Terminus I rented… It was perfect for killing time. Gane goes great with the Lake Biwa and cherry blossoms along the Kosei Road. …I got some free time, so at a McDonald's in a place called Kisshoin in Kyoto… Shortly after getting onto the Second Keihan, I heard “Umi wo Yuku Shishi” and the mystery was solved… …Was it three days ago? I googled The Old Man and the Sea and looked at the plot and book reports. ……The impression was, “Life just ends in an ordinary, uneventful way, huh? Happens all the time. I can feel that now that I'm older. No wonder it's a classic.” ……

Memories Week 1: No. 11, 13,798 copies Week 2: No. 49, 2,586 copies Week 3: No. **, 1,332 copies Week 4: No. **, **850 copies Week 5: No. **, **606 copies Week 6: No. **, **423 copies Total: 19,595 copies Terminus Week 1: No. 9, 11,043 copies Week 2: No. 45, 2,841 copies Week 3: No. 46, 1,708 copies Total: 15,592 copies

That piano melody. I can't remember the Itsuwa Mayumi song title, but a lot of people over 40 probably get it right away and start humming, “My darling~ oh, stay by my side~♪” That lover is the boy who stayed with the old man the whole time, isn't he? He's not there when you really need him. I can understand the boy's tears too. If the boy had been on the boat with him, they could have worked together to land the giant marlin! …Isn't it the same outside the entertainment world? If only this person were here, if only they were still alive…

With sales at an indie-band level like this, it's amazing they managed to stay major for 13 years. At a normal company they'd have been fired after five.

Don't call it just a rip-off song. It's a clever, brilliant song, with composite imagery and all… They could cut it as a single and sell it as a bookstore tie-in with The Old Man and the Sea. Same with Aoi Hana (for some reason the cover is pink) and MÄR Heaven.

What about the titles: The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man, the Sea, and the Boy The Old Man, the Sea, and the Lover The Boy, the Old Man, the Sea, and the Lover …No good? Hemingway apparently served in World War I and had a hard time… And apparently his first love never worked out. Maybe the boy = the person who was his unrequited first love. …Unrelated, but Thatcher's death hit me a little. Her voice had a rich milk-tea quality, much heavier than Diana's… Was she a different class of Margaret from Takako Doi or Governor Kada? If there were a funeral in Osaka, I'd go. She seemed like someone whose politics would have suited me.

I applied for Osaka.

I finally bought “parallel” recently. “The Crack-up” is a great song… I feel like crying thinking that Gane is breaking up. I regret drifting away after the fifth album…

Are Yuri and Nana lesbians?

Whether they are or not, nobody's going to have a problem with it.

Masturbation Net.

When they sing “Yume mita ato de” on the final day of the live, I want everyone to do call-and-response. If we insert “Asore!”, “Yo!”, and “Moiccho!” in the middle of the song, everyone can become one and the GARNET members will be happy too, so please cooperate.

>691 Noｗ

>691 Everyone will be crying. Nobody will have the energy for that. Let us listen quietly at least for the last one.

I know it's a bit late, but they should've put “Kaze no Naka no Orgel” on Terminus.

>693 That's not the issueｗｗ

>695 Don't ruin the mood of the song. It's not a Yamakasa festival.

Don't say that to meｗｗ

When will the G-NET lottery results be announced?

I'm going to masturbate to Yurippe now.

>698 You mean the Final Live tickets? “We plan to notify you by the general on-sale date, Saturday, April 27.” (Quoted exactly from the original.)

>691 Sounds good. I'll join in too.

It's the “until” part that's a problem, though.

>701 It'll completely destroy the mood of the song, so don't do it. “After dreaming” Audience: “A-so-re!” “You are still far away” Audience: “Yoisho!” See? Isn't that weird?

It's a computer lottery, after all. I wonder how many people will actually be able to get tickets through the general sale.

>691 You can pull this off on sheer enthusiasm even without telling everyone properly beforehand, and it's a song the members themselves strongly recommend, so I like the idea. It'd probably be better to narrow it down to just things like “Haa!” and “Yoo!”

>699 Sounds good. I'll join in too.

My math teacher at cram school used to say, “People can't let go of things they encountered when they were especially sensitive.” I'm really feeling the truth of that now. There was a time when I stopped caring about Gane Crow too, but I still end up listening to them.

>703 What do you mean, “the mood”? Every GARNET song is completed inside each individual listener. If you don't like it, you don't have to join in. Only the people who want to do it will do it. It's not mandatory. But I will definitely go through with it! Because it's GARNET's last live…

I found this thread, so I thought I'd post. I heard they're breaking up. I'm not a particular fan and only think of them in connection with Conan, but it's still a shame. I didn't dislike the vocalist's slightly accented way of singing.

>691 Great idea. I think it'll be a pleasant surprise.

I finally listened to the single version of “Maboroshi.” Lots of people say it's a completely different thing from the album version, and I was listening while thinking, “Really?”… Wow… it almost made me cry.

>711 I listened to the album version first too, and thought the single version was pretty good when I heard it later. Then I put on headphones and ascended. The strings are unbelievable.

>709 Welcome. The vocalist is Yurippe, and she's a wonderful person who also composes.

Edapiyo, go die! #listeningscope is so annoying!

The lottery results come out next week, huh. Please let me get one.

If someone keeps darting around right in front of me, am I allowed to beat them up?

>713 I found them through a Conan song, but “Watashi wa Kaze,” the song they performed with TAK, is really good.

>717 Oh, you know that one? I like it too. It's a cool song, isn't it?

I like the Pasadena auntie better.

Slit Yuritto sees right through everything, doesn't she?

>718 The shouting is great. And that distinctive accent too. I'm a B'z fan, so that's how I found them.

The old-fashioned guitar in “doubt” (I mean that as a compliment), and the shout in “Nogareno Machi,” are cool too, so give them a listen.

Yurippe looks like a yankee at the Countdown Live. What happened to the quiet, well-bred-lady vibe she had at the beginning…

>711 Mochi's guitar at the beginning is incredible.

>691 Got it. Since it's the last one, let's all work together.

What if the cover of the final best-of is just a lazy lineup of all the single covers? Would that really be better than an illustration by Hirara Natsume?

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

>670 You don't really notice Mochi when you're listening normally, but seeing him live, he's insanely cool. Also, I'm in the general-sale group, so I applied for the presale through Musing. Thanks.

I bought “Memories” yesterday. I've been away since the fifth album, so I want to slowly collect the rest from here on.

726… I think being young is a good thing on 2ch. …I was the trigger for a downfall, and even if it wasn't a ○× warning, even if it was just someone being persistent, I guess it's fine if their words have no power. If an accidental jab happens to land and becomes the trigger for someone's downfall, the person who wrote it might themselves become the overture to that downfall… People who make a living writing nasty things, or writers and industry people who argue endlessly, that's one thing, but anonymous people… Well, I don't think it's possible. But an offhand remark could become the trigger for a breakup. Even if it's just a nasty post, it's fine if the person has no power, but spirits can intervene… I've written things for radio, theater, live-show questionnaires, faxes, and postcards for about 20 years, and I have this “delusion” that, in my youthful recklessness, I made several people kill themselves. That's why I go to religion. It doesn't do much good to say this on 2ch, but I wanted to say it today. It's strange how long this has continued…

Suppose a certain piece of writing really did have the power to make someone depressed (and the terrifying part is that there's no way to confirm whether the person actually read it). …Put simply, that's what this internet society allows: you can easily interfere with a complete stranger's karmic entanglements. … When people with something to gain criticize each other, or people who make a living writing nasty things do it, they're public figures and have accepted the risk… But anonymous cowards are watched by God, so the punishment slowly catches up with them over five or ten years. In a way, people who make ○× warnings or constantly get deleted are easy to understand and their fate gets decided quickly, for better or worse. But when they aren't even aware of it themselves…

The person who posts incomprehensible writing every day—are they just bad at writing, or mentally ill? Which is it? I wish they'd use a handle already. Speaking of handles, whatever happened to that “Yurippe haa haa” guy? Is he dead?

Why “Yurippe”? Is it a nickname?

Well, Gane breaking up is a good opportunity for me… I guess it's a personal public confession? … To put it simply: (no one appeared who met my standards =) with no intermediary, the host (Gane) disappears and the negative spiral is cut off. Something to celebrate. You probably have no idea what I mean… ……What does “handle” mean? People keep saying that to me everywhere I go. I'm too lazy to google it. I know I post long messages repeatedly, but I do that on every board and in every thread.

Speaking of handles, Edo-Zaku-san brings back memories.

I happened to get four days off in a row—two days off from my overnight shift, then two regular days off—and today is the last day. I'm on overnight duty tomorrow, so don't worry when I don't post. I haven't been posting on other boards or threads until the breakup either… I've only been posting here… until the breakup.

The schizo is basically a local attraction here. Man, it's been several days since then and I'm still depressed.

There's a rumor that Nana has a kid, but lyrics like “trade” and “Lonely Night” don't sound like something a married woman with children would write.

The bell that tells us morning has come rings♪

“trade” was playing at a mahjong parlor and it got me hypedｗ Then I kept dealing into everyone's hands and lost 10,000 yenｗ

I wonder if the rugby ball is doing okay.

The bonus tracks on the final best-of are “GARNET shopping” and “Kanashimi no Sheol.”

Speaking of Gane—yeah, that image from the split-second PV on the charts around the MÄR Heaven era? The faces in the LOCKS and Twilight Valley I'm borrowing now, with jeans on the bottom (and maybe a psychedelic shirt on top too? A little flashy), but the photo to the right of the “Nostalgia” lyrics in Terminus looks like a beautiful woman at a department-store cosmetics counter (with a bit of gal-girl flavor). I'm not good with that type. Most women like that, when I'm walking by looking half-asleep or unsure of myself, dodge me as they pass (though it depends on the jacket I'm wearing).

Yuri looks best in a tracksuit.

>744 Add a ponytail.

>738 Maybe she got divorcedｗ By the way, what is Iwai doing these days? Is he a househusband?ｗ

>743 You're entertaining, so give yourself a handle. A fixed handle name, I mean. Just put something random in the name field.

Why are you assuming he has anything to do with Iwaiｗ

Well, being married doesn't necessarily mean you're happy. But how much income does eighth place on Shiga's rich list actually represent?

I heard it was a living gift. Eighth place in the Kansai entertainment category, right? They say the tax paid was 30 million yen, so why not calculate from that?

About 90 million exactly, maybe?

30 million yen in taxes, wow. They didn't exactly sell in huge numbers, so income tax alone could never reach that much. So they must have received tens of millions from someone (around 50 million, maybe?).

747… Something like this? …It feels like pressure, so I'll switch between names depending on my mood… … How did you figure out it was me even after I switched to my parents' phone? (I was trying to reserve the first Osaka show with this phone, but no matter how many blank emails I sent, nothing came back… I forgot that, after getting too many prank emails in the past, I'd unchecked the option for all mail from PCs at an AU shop. So I posted from my parents' phone.)

>753 Are you okay in the head?

>752 You're hinting at something… You're going to start talking about an affair again, aren't you?ｗ

With GARNET CROW, the audio on CDs—or audio with just photos and no members moving around—sounds better than audio from lives or videos where the members are moving. Maybe the members just aren't good at singing in front of people? ZARD's Izumi Sakai from the GIZA group didn't sing in front of people much either. Doesn't GIZA have a lot of people like that? In the end, the sound that comes out of the CD is all that matters with music, so it's fineｗ

>755 The only relationship I'm interested in is the one between Yurippe and Nana. They were really attached at the beginning, but gradually drifted apart. I was wondering whether Nana appearing on the rich list was one of the reasons.

Yurippe was trained into a lesbian by Nana at first, but as she grew up, she gradually awakened to men.

>750 What year was this data from?

>759 It was announced in 2003, so it should be the taxes from 2002. Mochi was probably the intermediary who worked hard to keep them together this long. I really want to say, thank you for all your hard work.

I'm not one of the Being guys, but the members aren't in that kind of relationship.

I wish my encounter with Gane had been the kind where I could listen slowly, rather than this very Western-music-like way of discovering them. But even brushing against them is better than nothing… Once there's a deadline, you can't take your time anymore. Back in the days of domes and Jo Hall, it was normal to watch the artists through opera glasses or binoculars. I don't know what that venue will look like from the seats. Is that feeling of the artist being out of reach going to happen again? I must be pretty deeply invested by now, emotionally. “Tears of Yesterday” will probably move me too, and the next song as well. Even if I stretch out this hand, I can't reach you at all, Yurippe~

What happened to the Mixi gang's project?

We're doing it on the day.

Please join in with the call-and-response.

>765 Let's all get the place fired up.

>766 I'm not doing call-and-response.

If you pull some weird stunt, I'll beat you up.

Doing call-and-response during “Yume mita ato de” feels kind of wrong… Couldn't we just wave lights like we did during “Holy ground”?

What even is this band? Leaving aside the hard-edged folk melodies from their early Tsumagoi Honsenkai-like period, and “Spiral,” it feels like if they don't get into the MÄR Heaven charts, they can't get onto the charts at all. What is “Eden,” anyway? Is it like how, as you get older, you feel nothing about Sakanaction? It has the same lingering feeling as when I once managed to get perfectly in sync with an incredibly cute sex-club girl within the allotted time, that delicate sensation of it stretching out in my hand when we finally clicked. A techno party? Early Boredoms? It's not exactly a groove, but with a normal band format I can't feel that sensation or any distinctive quality at all… Yet now it moves me. Even when they try to hype me up, nothing happens? I can't see any single-like individuality, but when the wavelength matches… They're just full of songs like that, and a pile of jabs. “Hare Dokei” is good too, but before I got into Gane it was just an ordinary jab to me. It isn't cohesive, but once it becomes a whole, the whole thing comes rushing at you—that's probably the band's momentum and atmosphere from that period, just as they were. All right! I worked hard today. I really am a marginal man, a person on the boundary.

Bringing my own hand drum.

Question for anyone who knows Grand Cube: once I arrive at Shin-Osaka by Shinkansen, how much time should I allow to get straight from there to Grand Cube?

Look it up on Yahoo Route Search.

I checked the travel time, but it'll probably take longer once I'm actually going there. I've never been to Osaka, so I wanted to hear from someone who's actually walked it.

20–30 minutes.

>728 The leader is cool too. I just entrusted everything to Musing as well. The odds of winning will probably be low, but I really hope I somehow get one.

I'm buying that ugly platypus plush from JR West on the way, so add another 10 minutes.

>769 That wouldn't get the place very fired up, though.

>775 I thought it would take longer, but I guess it doesn't. Thanks a lot!

>778 Do we need to get the place fired up?

>780 There is nothing more miserable or boring than a live that can't get the crowd fired up.

>780 Let's get fired up at least for the last one!

>777 So you're making me buy itｗ

>782 I want to get excited normally, without call-and-response.

Can't you get fired up without call-and-response? That can't be right.

“At least for the last one”? Was it not fired up before? Maybe GARNET lives just aren't suited to that kind of thing.

>784 You don't have to force yourself. We'll do a huge call-and-response ourselves.

Does the platypus have some connection to GARNET CROW? If it does, I'll buy one.

Don't do anything that would make the members shudder.

It's not a voice-actor concert.

>788 The nose at the front of the 700-series Shinkansen looks like a platypus.

>791 Oh, that's what you meant. I was hoping it was something like Yurippe trying to buy oneｗ

>789 It's a surprise, a surprise. They'll be happy.

>793 Students shouldn't get in the way of professionals doing their jobs.

Can't you come up with a better call-and-response? I'm not saying don't do it, but it's not a folk song.

>790 Agreed. >792 Apparently Yurippe hugs it when she sleeps.

>796 I-I won't fall for that!

Personally, I'd rather people not do the call-and-response. I can cooperate with something like the Lonely Light, though. >776 The leader really does awaken your chuunibyou soul at livesｗ

>798 Gane Crow really needs all the members together. Breaking up → going solo would be a problem. I hope I win the ticket lottery.

>798 Rather than complaining that people shouldn't do it, we should seriously think about how to use call-and-response to get the crowd fired up.

Because the important stuff is somehow vague, you just deal casually with whatever is right in front of you.

The call-and-response is a joke, rightｗｗｗｗｗ

It's a joke that if the Mixi gang is allowed to do something, then the 2ch gang should be allowed to do call-and-response too.

I got obsessed with Kiko Loureiro and stepped away for a while, and before I knew it they'd announced the breakup… I haven't listened to “Memories” or “Terminus” yet. Are they the kind of albums you absolutely have to hear? I'd appreciate hearing your personal opinions, whatever they are.

Do they like that area because of Riverside Forum? Is Festival Hall the same…? From Shin-Osaka, should I take the Midosuji Line to Yodoyabashi and transfer to the Keihan Nakanoshima Line? Surely nobody will take the main line and end up missing the live, right?

If you're coming to Shin-Osaka by Shinkansen, wouldn't it be better to take JR to Kyobashi, then transfer to the Keihan Nakanoshima Line?

I'm not thinking about transfers yet. It won't matter if I can't get a ticket.

Edapiyo, go die.

♪If I reach out this hand, can I see you? Yurippe~ …Yurippe's going to sleep now. Good night. Even if you live overseas with your boyfriend… (I've had a little to drink.)

Creepy.

If you're going to Grand Cube, take the Rihga Royal bus from Osaka.

Good morning, Yurippe.

I'll take the Midosuji Line from Shin-Osaka to Yodoyabashi, then take the Keihan from Oebashi to Nakanoshima.

>803 It's not a joke. I'll definitely carry it out!!

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

>807 That's true, but my work schedule means that if I can't make the train transfers in time, I can't even apply.

>816 If work makes it impossible, the general-sale people here will go in your place, so go ahead and apply without worrying. Well, if you get a ticket, I'm sure you'll figure out a route somehow.

It's the last one, after all~ The competition is probably going to be brutal.

How much would you pay for the final show?

When they sing “Yume mita ato de” on the final day of the live, I want everyone to do call-and-response. If we insert “Yo!”, “Ha!”, and “Soiya!” in the middle of the song, everyone can become one, and the GARNET members will be happy too, so please cooperate.

If I get a ticket to the last live, it'll be my first and last Gane live. Please play lots of early songs.

>819 10,000 yen.

Until GARNET CROW breaks up: 58 days.

>820 No, just do it like normal. That's fine, isn't it? It's lively normally too. It's not enka. It'd be disrespectful to professional singers.

White walls and Mont Blanc— I just kept staring at them.

>824 We're usually just quietly sobbing, aren't we? I agree, and I'm planning to join in with the call-and-response. At least at the very end, I want to become one with GARNET CROW during “Yume mita ato de.”

The trigger is Akane Tendou-san~♪

>820 Got it.

>825 Sounds delicious.

The call-and-response is obviously a jokeｗ No matter how you look at it, “Soiya!” is impossibleｗ But “let's all sing together” and “let's all do call-and-response” are essentially the same thing: they both mean fans making up their own plans and wrecking the live. “If you accept group singing, you'll have no choice but to accept call-and-response too!” is the logical argument being used as the joke.

>830 I told you it's not a joke. If “Soiya!” is no good, we'll narrow it down to something like “Yoo!”, “Oi!”, and “Haa!”, so don't worry.

>831 What about “Kaze to Rainbow” instead of a ballad?

>832 With “Kaze to RAINBOW,” the applause might drown it out, and it's questionable whether we'd do it at all… We're planning this around songs that originally have no audience-sound performance and are more likely to work.

I want to hear “Kagami ni Mita Yume” and “Blue Regret” at the final live.

“ON THE WAY.”

Call-and-response is so lameｗ

>834 Sameｗ But it feels like it'll mostly be singles~. I want them to keep showing their own Gane colors right up to the end.

Is this a new troll? If you're serious, watch out—there are a few people who look like they have a high battle power among the people who come to the live. Garnet fans have a surprisingly broad base, so there are some power types too.

>836 Whether it's lame or not is irrelevant. What matters is fee-ling. What matters is the heart. >838 If it actually starts a fight, then that would really be disrupting the venue.

If it rains, let's hype things up with umbrellas like the Yakult fans do.

There must be quite a few Gane fans who want to go to a live but can't handle crowds. I'm one of them. I'll pray from afar that Gane can have a peaceful, warm end.

“An end”…?

I think Yuri-san was an angel who descended to Earth.

I haven't been to a Gane live in over two years. The audience used to seem like they weren't used to live shows, but I wonder if that's changed now.

>844 Gane fans aren't the kind of people who change in just a few years.

I want them to finish with “Hallelujah.”

Gane otaku have always been gloomy, mentally troubled social misfits, both now and in the past.

>846 I want them to close with a song about parting, without giving us any hope.

>841 People who genuinely can't handle it are one thing, but there are probably also a lot of people who are just hesitating because they can't work up the courage. Once they go, it's no big deal, and plenty of people end up enjoying themselves. Anyway, I've definitely decided not to go either, so I'll pray for you.

>848 Then “Mikansei na Neiro” would be good.

The last song of the encore will probably be “Yume mita ato de,” right?

>844 It's fairly lively these days.

If I apply through the FC, do they send a confirmation email or anything?

If you pull some weird stunt, I'll beat you up. At least listen quietly for the last one.

>819 In the worst case, I'm willing to pay up to 20,000 yen at auction. Anything above that and I'll give up.

If the final song is “Yume mita ato de” and someone does call-and-response over it, I'll definitely go complain to them afterward.

I want them to appear on TV one last time.

I want to stick my dick in Nana-san's pussy. Just the tip is fine… just the tip…

I hope the tickets go to people who genuinely love GARNET CROW and want to listen to them live properly one last time, not people who are only there to mess around and do weird call-and-response.

If Osaka's final show is your first choice, winners will be decided in FC membership-number order. However, to prevent reselling, anyone who applies for three or four tickets will lose out.

>859 I agree. I want to listen properly one last time, especially to “Yume mita ato de,” while looking back on 13 years of memories.

>860 I'm not going to resell them, but I applied for my friend's ticket too.

Come to think of it, there are basically no sightings of GARNET CROW.

>853 You don't get an email saying your ticket application was received. You do get an acceptance/rejection email (if you're registered for the mailing list), but it's the same generic message for everyone.

>863 Aside from AZUKI-san, they're all music otaku, so I feel like they just stay shut up in their rooms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ6tWj6vdSE

Since it's the final tour, I want them to hold nothing back. I want them to play all kinds of songs, not just focus on the singles.

If they focus on singles after all this, then what's the point of releasing the B-side collection?

Makes no sense.

>869 Use your head a little.

Their next jobs are already decided. Furui-san will stay with Being, working behind the scenes mainly on arrangements. Okamoto-san will also stay with Being and work behind the scenes. AZUKI-san will run a general-goods shop and a café. Nakamura-san will marry a singer-songwriter and become a housewife.

When is Yuri's MUTEKI debut happening?

>860 What a piece-of-shit thing to say, as if only fans who've been around since the beginning are real fans.

I can kind of understand wanting it to be that long, but anyone who brings up membership numbers on their own is a piece of shit.

http://www.com-movie.jp/news/webtoday_osm/?p=125

>875 You dug up another nostalgic article.

Does this mean Yurippe is going back to being an engineer?

Yuri Kurose.

>868 It's just a clearance sale.

They could split the 34 singles across the three shows, about a third at each one (with some, like “Yume mita,” fixed), and fill out the remaining ten or so slots with album tracks and B-sides. Then they could release a box set around autumn containing the three-show DVD, the Terminus DVD, and the final single.

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

I wonder if Yurippe is okay.

I want a Yurikkuma, but are they all gone now? If not, God Hand glasses would be fine too.

>882 I hope Yurippe and Nana-san are both with people who can support them. Going through that earthquake alone must be scary…

Furui-san might want to move back to Tokyo too.

There are still only 37 supporters of the call-and-response. Let's increase that with everyone's help!

>886 That's just interference with the business, normally speaking.

I used the post at 871 as a litmus test… Thanks. I happened to see it after finishing work and replied for the first time in ages. (The power of writing is incredible—it can be a blade or a source of help.) I went from feeling elated to suddenly having all the blood drain from my face. Is this like being in my twenties? I was in the nap room worrying that I'd be in trouble when my shift started… Waking up from the earthquake helped a little; during the Kobe quake, I also woke up to swells like the bottom of an ocean-going ship under my workplace. (For certain kinds of people, cancer and earthquakes are reassuring, in the sense that they set a deadline. I'm worried whether the religion I belong to approves of euthanasia, though.) Then I ate some food I received through the religion, and I've calmed down now… I finally understood: how many mistakes does one have to make? Hiroko Taniyama… It took eight years with Minako. With this person it'll take two or three. If I think about all the places I've been and assume it's an unfulfilled-love ghost, everything falls into place. Just like a formula for imaginary numbers in mathematics.

I'm returning what I rented from TSUTAYA and won't rent anything else. I'm taking “Memories” and “Terminus” to Bookoff to sell too. It's not that the band did anything wrong; it's a matter of my personal karma and compatibility. The final day is through the fan club, and the day before that I reserved through Musing? If I get to see one day, I'll be grateful. “I got to see the whole picture, okay.” (Or, from the opposite perspective, am I not supposed to look at it now? I'm leaving it to God.) …Assuming I check every song just to watch a breakup band's one- or two-day live, my thoughts toward a woman swell until they become a counter-spirit… a self-destructive act. The fact that someone who meets my standards can be such a terrifying act—is MÄR Heaven bait? People die for love, after all, even if it isn't real. …Come to think of it (though I only watched it once), the cheap blue flower and blue bird? (Maeterlinck?) shattering in the bonus background footage on the Terminus DVD—that was something else. …With that danger-detection ability flaring up, it really can only be an enemy… Even before that, the problem is that my romantic targets are singers and actresses who are never going to work out (and have at least some fame and make hundreds of millions). The problem is my own chuunibyou, but women must have instinctively sensed the smell of “no ability to make a living” from me since elementary school (especially because I'm from Osaka).

Also, since I'm paying money, I want to sever my connection with music (entertainment and art) somewhere around the double cushion of Ireiri Leo and Yui. Even outside idols, people scatter salt after lives and take measures against the vengeful spirits of fans of the opposite sex, right? If the person themselves is religious, is it a barrier or exorcism? If I go see them and have an accident or get sick, I'd be even more depressed. Everywhere I go… …Earthquakes can help you too, when you're not hit directly—more of a taking-advantage-of-the-chaos thing. Well, even if it is an awakening, those are harsh words fitting one's station.

Anyway, back to the topic.

What a fucking nutcase.

>887 It isn't interference with the business. The tickets are presale, and there won't be another live.

>893 The way you put that means you're admitting it is interference with the business. GARNET CROW may be ending, but GIZA as a whole will still have other artists' lives in the future. I'm sure the management also wants to avoid a bad reputation from some kind of incident.

Being able to write an insane post like this makes him a chosen one in a way.

I watched the Golgo 13 ending, and it was so hilariously mismatchedｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ What a waste of one of my dreamsｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ

>894 It's not “it might be the last.” It is the last. Are you okay in the head?

I'm fine.

It's spring, huh.

Six months since we met—agricultural co-op.

>897 Ah, sorry. You meant GARNET CROW's final live. I wasn't thinking.

Today was really bad—an emotional roller coaster… I returned things at the TSUTAYA in Tamatsukuri just now, then sold four paperback volumes of “Plus Gould's Goldberg” at the Bookoff a few dozen meters away, getting 1,980 yen to help pay for parking for my day shift tomorrow (I usually take the train, but because of my boss…) “Terminus” fetched the most at 1,200 yen, and “Memories” got 600 yen… I don't think I'll come back here anymore. I haven't played pachinko in a year and a half either. That's the kind of mood I'm in… I'll grit my teeth, break with Gane, and fade away. Even if I don't win a live ticket… well then. Goodbye.

LIVE price guide Tokyo International Forum: face value (around 8,000 yen for the front) Osaka opening night: 10,000 yen (around 20,000 yen for the front) Osaka final night: 20,000 yen (over 30,000 yen for the front)

Please let me win the ticket~

>903 Thanks. I'm in the general-sale group, so in the worst case I'll buy one at auction. Though I don't even know whether tickets will show up at auction.

>903 That's the going rate up to now, right? I think the last show will go for more than double that.

I loved Nana-san. It's too sad to think I won't be able to listen to Yurippe's voice while reading Nana-san's lyrics anymore. I can't go to lives, so I always looked forward to going out to buy the CD on release day. The breakup is way too soon. But if you're able to go to the last live, please cheer them on so they can end things in a way that's worthy of Gane.

I also loved the poetic world Nana-san created. A world filled with endless gentleness. Garnet is breaking up, but I want to keep living in that positive, gentle world Nana-san created. Even if Garnet breaks up, even if Yuri-san and Nana-san get married, there's no reason I have to stop loving Garnet or Nana-san, right? And I feel like Nana-san will surely become a novelist and draw the continuation of the story for us. I don't know whether I'll win a ticket to the last live, but if I can go, I'll wave my Lonely Light and do my best to make the audience look beautiful and dreamlike!!

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

People were criticizing auctions, and I wasn't planning to drive the price up, but I thought there probably wouldn't be many buyers. Since it was fifty-fifty whether work would let me go to Osaka, I figured it would be a waste if the ticket went unused, so I didn't apply in the end. If I'd known someone would take it off my hands, I would've applied~ Such a valuable FC slot…

About the call-and-response during “Yume mita ato de”: we've decided to standardize it as “Yoo!” and only stretch it out to “Yooo!” between the B-melody and the chorus. Even the people who oppose it now will surely agree once they hear the call-and-response on the day. The only way this project can fall through is if they don't sing “Yume mita ato de” at all. This isn't a concert, it's a live. Let's do the call-and-response and cheer on GARNET.

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>911 For now, please don't do that. Yurippe is 100% reading this thread. There are lots of reasons, but the simple one is that her makeup was clearly different in Osaka and Tokyo. If she sees this kind of thing, it'll only make her sad. It might even make her decide not to perform “Yume mita ato de.” They haven't performed it at all in recent lives, so nobody would complain even if they didn't. If you genuinely want to hear “Yume mita ato de” one last time, then please, don't do this. Before the Tokyo show, there was talk of singing along to “Life goes on!” because the chorus had been removed after it was mentioned on this site. I thought that one might actually be okay, but as far as I know, not a single person joined in. Maybe because they knew about it, Tokyo kept the song without the chorus too. So I hope this one is just talk too and that nobody actually does it.

There's a little over a month until the LIVE. At this point, there's no LIVE I don't want to come. But I also want to properly get the crowd fired up for this turning point, where a new departure begins from the terminus. You won't be able to listen to this LIVE without crying. Maybe I'll start watching the LIVE DVDs now to get myself hyped up.

>913 You should realize by now that it's obviously a troll. Even if you respond, people will just decide it's you talking to yourself.

>913 I was around the fourth row, and people did sing the “Life goes on!” chorus. They sang the ♪“Life goes on!” part too. Maybe it was just the people around me, but it got pretty lively. Also, don't engage with the troll. Everyone is ignoring it.

If I can get a ticket—this will be my first time going to a live alone, so I'm nervous… I don't know anything about the rules or how things work, so I'm worried…

Oh, okay.

>917 If it's Tokyo, I think you can get a seat in the very back, so just copy what the people in front of you do. You can stay seated the whole time. You won't get Osaka, so give up.

>917 You'll be fine. Besides, at the last standing show, people casually left their bags on the floor, and kept wearing huge hair ornaments or never took off their hats. There aren't many people who are used to lives anywayｗ If they're going to remove the backing chorus from “Life goes on!”, wouldn't it be better to wave the microphones around at that part or something? That's what I thought when I went to Tokyo.

From “Terminus,” they picked “trade” and “prgirl” for the final live.

>915 >916 Oh, there were people singing along. Sorry. There weren't any around me… I wish I'd been able to watch from that area. I'll ignore it from now on. Sorry.

>921 “Kagami ni Mita Yume” too, please.

I really want to hear “Elysium.”

I want them to do “Lonely Night” too.

I want to hear “Holy ground” one more time after all these years.

They'll probably have to choose between “Lonely” and “Holy ground,” right? Probably “Holy ground.”

They should sell Lonely Light and Holy Light together as a two-pack at the merch booth.

Since they don't make it anymore, I want Lonely Light to get a chance to appear. Also, why does everyone insist on only turning it on during “Lonely Night”?ｗ I think it's totally fine to use it during other songs too.

>922 Don't worry about it~ The timing was bad on our end too, and we made it feel like a dogpile. Sorry. If you get a ticket, let's sing together~

“Umi wo Yuku Shishi” too, please.

It's great that both the final single and album made the top 10.

>920 It's true. Lightly jumping, swaying your body, raising your hands— things that are totally natural at other lives are incredibly difficult at a Gane live.

I discovered them at a ZARD memorial live and have been to two of their lives. “Toma tteita Tokei ga~” is one of my top three favorites. I hope they keep making use of that talent after the breakup!

>933 The Terminus tour was standing-room, so I just did that without worrying too much.

It feels less like moving with the music and more like everyone doing a rigidly fixed choreographyｗ

That's what gives it a sense of unity, and it's nice.

>911 I'll email the FC about it.

I wanted to go to a live, but it seemed like all the men and women there were creepy and unimpressive, so I didn't think I'd enjoy myself.

>939 They really are creepy. There are a lot of men who look like they have communication disorders.

I hated how so many people just stood there silently during the encore too.

I had a slightly bad impression of the fans at first, but I got used to it quickly.

>941 They paid a lot of money, so of course they're concentrating, staring, and burning the image into their eyes.

How you enjoy a live is up to each individual. If you want to listen standing stiffly, enjoy it with your whole body, or do call-and-response, then do it. But anyone who ignores the atmosphere and heckles over the talking parts can go die.

People who spend Sunday dinner time clinging to 2ch and talking to themselves must be really cool. The audience isn't all flashy people, and I thought the wide range was interesting: elementary and middle schoolers, high schoolers, university students, vocational and graduate students, salarymen, old people… I would like an atmosphere that was easier to get fired up in, but GARNET's unique live culture is what it is. Well, this is the last one too… it'll get lively whether we like it or not. Ironically…

At least for the last one, I want an AZUKI segment and a Narcy segment, not just an Okamocchi segment.

>946 Sounds goodｗ I want to see a Nana-san segment, even though I have a feeling it'll be a rambling messｗ Narcy might actually turn into a real teacherｗ

>941 What do people shout for the encore—“Garnet”? Or “Garnet Crow”? I've always thought it was the latter, but at the last live the “Garnet” chant was loud, so I was curious.

>943 During the encore?

Opening with “Lonely” → “Miss Ai” would be a nice sequence, but I guess that's too unlikely.

>941 Everyone's different. Forcing people to do what you think they should do is bad. It's way better than weird heckling, thoughｗ >948 I think it's the latter, but “Garnet” has a better punch to itｗ

>948 Most people shout “GARNET” for the encore.

If we get a three-song wiper combo of “Holy ground,” “Lonely Night,” and “P.S GIRL,” my arms will fall offｗ Not happeningｗ

I wish I could do an “Oi oi!” chant during the punk version of “Miss Ai.”

>951 Of course it's better than weird heckling, and during the live people can enjoy it however they like. But if you don't do an encore, that means you don't want an encore, right? If you don't want one, you should just go home already.

I'll keep doing my best for Yuri-san today too.

Thinking of Yuri-san, I'll do my best today too.

The breakup shocked me so much that I forgot to get a ticket.

Looks like Yurippe leaving Being is confirmed. Is she going to work independently or something? Has Nana-san, who's supposedly pregnant, entered the stable period? Is it a boy after all~? Will Furui-san and Okamocchi become arrangers for grram or something?

I have no confidence I'll be able to get a ticket.

>955 Sometimes I do think they could at least clapｗ But some people aren't good at expressing their feelings, so be tolerant. >959 What's your source? Anyway, Yurippe will probably quit the company. Is she getting married?

People connected to Being are apparently leaking things one after another in the Being thread. They say Nana-san is pregnant with her second child and Yurippe was furious.

Exposéｗ Leakｗ

>962 Even if that's true, why would Yuri be furious? They could have just stopped lives and events for a while, or gone on hiatus, without breaking up.

It's less a leak than a theory. Reading what the “realist theorist” writes, he's probably someone who was around in the early days of 2ch. He'd already had experience being fired by Being back then, so it feels like he's still writing guesses based on that experience. Being does make things so obvious that they're easy to figure out, thoughｗ There are a lot of strange coincidences that don't seem accidental.

>962 Calling that the source…ｗ But sometimes it's true, so you can't dismiss it outrightｗ Nana was still doing step moves at the last live. And would she really wear a dress that revealing? I don't know how pregnant women feel, thoughｗ >964 Trueｗ Why would she be furious… menopause?ｗｗ

Breaking up because Nana-san is pregnant? No way. If they want to do lives, the other three can do them while Nana-san is on maternity leave. She can write lyrics while on maternity leave too. Besides, can you even do step moves while pregnant?

Even if you call it a live, Azuki's keyboard playing is just mimed anyway. She was fired because of poor sales. GIZA has been on a firing spree since around 2009, right? If they fired Gane too, it would completely negate everything GIZA had done since Mai Kuraki broke through, so they stubbornly dragged the breakup out this long.

Ninety percent of artists working in the major scene don't sell and are doomed to disappear. It's a business, after all.

GIZA must be operating at a 100% deficit level. Kuraki's sales are nothing to write home about either, but they've spent quite a lot promoting her, so maybe she's actually losing them even more money? Nagato took business way too lightly. Customers just won't buy a made-up scheme like GIZA's. They probably distilled the ZARD marketing method even further, but they took it way too far.

Yurippe once said on the radio that she was shocked when a member told her they didn't know where the chorus was. The truth was that it was such a good song that the whole thing sounded like a chorus, and AZUKI-san hurried to smooth things over, while Furui-san and Mochi looked desperate to suck up to herｗ It made me think, ah, every song starts with this person.

Yurippe has even called herself Gane Crow's “shadow leader.” That's probably true in practice, but I thought you shouldn't say something like that about yourself.

The reason only MiniQLO appeared in 2011 was probably that Azuki was pregnant and gave birth.

>973 The kid is five years old, right? The math doesn't work~ｗ

>973 But there were the “SmileyNation” and “MistyMystery” PVs, and the countdown event.

Why doesn't the keyboard player compose? And I've never once seen her actually playing an instrument (or maybe I just didn't notice?). Is the vocalist the one composing? This band is way too shady. Everything starts to look fake. All that's left is the negative side of the GIZA method.

No, no—the keyboard player had already been doing all kinds of arranging as one of Being's main arrangers before GARNET CROW.

Hasn't Yurippe stopped doing the singer-songwriter thing lately?

Isn't having two keyboard players weird in the first place? I'm not the “realist theorist,” but could this band have originally been a project built around Azuki? She couldn't compose, so she handled lyrics. They put her on keyboards because fake-playing wouldn't be noticed. The other roles look like they were just bolted on later.

Nana-san falls asleep during performances pretty often, doesn't she?

>980 Please start the next thread.

Seven has a five-year-old kid?? Seriously?? Isn't she a virgin?ｗｗ

Was 2011 the first pregnancy and 2013 the second one?

I want to crawl into Yurippe's large intestine, stick my face out through her anus, and feel the momentum of her farting with my whole body.

>984 That's definitely getting you arrestedｗｗｗ

Someone who looked exactly like Yurippe just appeared on Fuji TV.

I want to spin AZUKI Nana around in her kimono until she says, “A-re~!”

I'm neither >950 nor >980, but if I can start the next thread, I'll go do it.

I started the next thread. GARNET CROW part284 http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicjg/1366021070/

>989 Thanks for your hard work.

I'm off. What's your favorite onigiri filling?

>991 Grilled cod roe.

>989 Thanks for your hard work.

Aaaaaah, I want to win the final-day ticket!

>994 You'll win if you do call-and-response during “Yume mita ato de.”

Musing is closing soon, huh. Sigh~ I hope I win~

Will otagei explode at the last live?

>997 It's a joke, so don't engageｗ

Which is better, Musing or LoTicket?

>999 Probably Musing. But I don't think there's much difference.