#derzibet

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>:D I PRESENT TO YOU ALL MY FIRST EVER V-KEI EDIT: **BANDOMEN, AS DESCRIBED BY DRACULA FLOW!!**

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🤣😂😭🖤✨ posting it here with the hopes that it will gain more traction!! I hope y’all like it, and find it funny.😅

I don’t know what else to say, so, cheers!!💕

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From: twitter.com/chocorobby/status/1741670048656486411

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Issay stuff

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It's technically already his birthday in Japan as I believe so I'm saying happy birthday to one of my second favorite singers of all time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAREST ISSAY. I LOVE YOU MORE THEN WORDS CAN EVER SAY ❤ ♥ YOU ARE MY IDOL... #issay #derzibet #mine #visualkei #visualkeifans #japanese #mylove #mydearest #derzibetissay #birthday https://www.instagram.com/p/CfotgujrflE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A VERY SPONTANEOUS AND EXTREMELY AUTISTIC LONG ASS RANT/REVIEW ABOUT THE NEW DER ZIBET ALBUM.🥀🌙🪦……..

Hey Friends!!!! It’s me! 😊🩷 here to give a spontaneous review!! Because I FINALLY listened to the New Der Zibet album, and HO BOY…. I’m not going to kid you all, (and I hope I’m not alone here when I say,) I was REALLY battling with my own self to listen to this album. Not at all because of thinking it was going to be bad- on the contrary- I knew right away it was gonna be awesome, (and spoilers: it was!) Not all their albums are absolute masterpieces, but especially when it comes to their post-Hiatus era, everything they made has just been BANGER, after BANGER, after BANGER!!!!!

It’s just that… you know, because of what this album symbolizes. Sure, it’s been over 2 years now since Issay passed way, and of course, in many ways I have moved forward. That doesn’t mean, however, that I am not still grieving… Issay (as I’ve made it very apparent on this subreddit and literally to anyone who knows me,) is an artist who means SO so much to me!! He not only saved my life, but he was also the one who led me to finding my true identity as a trans man. Because of him, I’m now a month and over 2 weeks on HRT, (FtM), and above all else I’m still here, alive, to tell that tale- He’s my Hero.

So in saying that, I was afraid that listening to the album would regress me back into a total mental breakdown, like what happened when the news of his passing was revealed. I subconsciously kept procrastinating… every time I tried to press play, I’d feel myself just freeze up. This went on up until midnight, (yesterday), where I just told myself to nut up… it was now or never!!

And, side note- for those of you who are wondering how I got to listen, :) shout out to @henshin-reborn for being gracious enough to share their Google doc file with the all 100 of us DZ fans that exist in the west here. 😭😭😭😭🙏💙 thank you!! 😊

I sat down in my bed, grabbed my comfort plushy, put my headphones in and finally let myself listen…. As soon as the first song started to play, I broke down into tears.🥹🥹🥹 Except oddly, it was the exact opposite of what I had anticipated.

I found myself not crying tears of sadness… but instead tears of joy! Uncontrollable laughter coming out of me, I guess perhaps as a reaction to what was currently being fed into my ears! It’s funny… I was so afraid that I was gonna be overwhelmed by this great feeling of emptiness, that this final album would make me have to brave the fact of my reality- the hollow lack of Issay’s psychical presence.

Yet, for that moment of being whisked away into another world, in the span of 7 magical songs, though the bittersweet ache of my heart still beckoned to burst out of my chest, I cried tears of joy, 🥹 because even if just for a fleeting moment, it was as if he’d never left. He somehow came back.

Ok, so with all that flowery-shit out of the way, here’s what I’m REALLY trying to say, (assuming you actually bothered to read this far:)

*ahem,*

HOOOOOOOOOLLLYY SHIT BRICKS ON VINES AND STICKS!!! 😧🫨🤯🤯🤯,

THIS ALBUM IS SOOOO FREAKIN PEAK!!!!

LIKE IVE LISTENED TO IT OVER 3 TIMES NOW, JUST TO COLLECT MY FULL SOLID THOUGHTS, AND I STILL CANT GET OVER HOW ABSOLUTELY PEAK IT IS!!!!

LIKE WOW!!!😮 JUST OWEN WILSON, “WOW!” yes I am aware at how incredibly cringe that sounded,

Like-?!! I don’t even know how to exactly describe it!!! The album just took everything that makes the band’s post-Hiatus sound so ICONIC, and somehow cranked it up to 11!!! It’s the same Der Zibet I know and love… and yet somehow a completely new evolution within their song style!!

One thing I noticed right away, as soon as the first track, (titled “Modorenai Jikan wa Uzu”), came swinging out of the gates, compared to the last few albums (not that they sounded sloppy at all in this department, but-) just how significantly more “tighter” and polished the studio mixing and mastering is!! Whether that be because Der Zibet’s surviving members were having to work with demo-vocals or not, is unknown to me, (but hey- that’s just a theory: a Visual keeiii theory!); But MAAAAN!!! This sound that they create for the album is just SO COOL!!! They somehow managed to just FLAWLESSLY take what their signature, other-worldly music style does best, and marry it with an Electronica-chip tuning as well as a HARD-HEAVY hitting industrial esc sound!!

(side note: this may just be me, but the drastic shift towards a more fantastical “Art-Rock”-ish style Der Zibet took around 2010/2011 or so has always reminded me of Kate Bush. Both artists are just the absolute masters of creating music that literally transports you mentally into to some kind of fantasy world!! 😊 🧐 I wonder if either Issay or Hikaru were influenced by her in some way…)

Being a band that wears SO much of its New-wave influence on its sleeve, this definitely wasn’t Der Zibet’s first rodeo when it comes to testing out a more “electronic” style! 😹 just take a listen to their “Electric moon & MORE!” Album! They’ve been using synths since the 80’s, and AGAIN- especially since post Hiatus! But never to the degree that went for, with “period” ! Yet, in saying that, it never felt over-powering or that 1 stylistic choice was trying to fight for dominance with the other!! It was the perfect balance between “DER ZIBET”, and “hey! Let’s try something new!”

The more “Industrial” sound additional ripple-effects into creating this INCREDIBLY interesting dichotomy for me!! The more fantasy-based Lyrics Issay seemed to have gone with for this album, (🧐 with a intriguing choice to play around with the concept of Fairies for the first few tracks,) wonderfully jelled and contrasted with the more “sci-fi” (I’m going to say) based compositions accompanying him, in the background!!!

Which SPEAKING OF ISSAY-

Damn, I don’t know how far back these demo vocals go before 2023, but may I just say- 60 years old, (+ as far as my knowledge goes still a hard drinker and smoker), AND HOLY WOW, he still HAS IT!!! He never ceases to completely AMAZE me with how far he always pushed himself to go!! Ever since 2011, with the release of Der Zibet’s “Romanoid II” album, getting to audibly hear how far Issay’s voice has come since “VIOLETTER BALL”, and now getting to hear how far has pushes the limits of what he’s capable off in his full vocal maturity has always been a treat!!

He also had this such innate “alien” ability to defy expectations of what you think a song’s direction was going to go with his stylistic choice in vocal melodies and just the way he sang- “Period” is absolutely no exception!!

There were definitely some tracks where I was so ready for it to go one way, only for Issay to take the wheel with that wonderfully “Alien”, and yet deep, rich and vibratic voice of his, and just completely 180 the song into a whole different direction!!

Gotta admit… this particular aspect of “Period” really scratched the autistic parts of my brain! XD I love songs/bands that can challenge my perceptions of what music should sound like!!

Oh, and did I also mention there were HARMONIES on this album-?!!!! OH MY GOOOOD, THE HARMONIES COMING FROM ISSAY ARE SO BLOODY GOOD!!! 😫😫😫😫

I was having such a blast for the 7 tracks on this album… and then, it came. Track 8; The emptiness… the curse of DZ’s signature instrumental track since the 80’s. I’d gotten so wrapped up in getting to hear Issay sing again… that I think perhaps I got too greedy, and I expected Issay to have 1 last song for closure…

But much like the actual way he went… it ended abruptly. Anticipating to get some kind of cathartic ending… we’re instead given a blank page. Just like that he’d been taken from me again.

The end. I sat there for a few moments in silence, and disbelief… guess there was going to be some regressing back to the grief process I went through in 2023- the worst August and September months of my life.

I honestly still don’t know what to think about the album’s conclusion. About Der Zibet’s conclusion. It makes me really sad that this is their last album, Because to me, “Period” contains the sound of something that feels like a brand new chapter. A fantastically new sound to work with, that I would have loved to have seen where the band could have possibly gone with it. But unfortunately, Der Zibet would be a hollow shell of themselves, as insanely talented as Hikaru, Mayumi and HAL, and Mahito are… you know I think for sure perhaps they could have gone on to maybe become an instrumental band! Have their chance at spotlight, without Issay casting a shadow. But… I’d have to guess their thought process for disbanding simply maybe they don’t want to go on without him. We’ll never truly know how they are doing, but knowing that it’s the loss of a dear friend that made them mutually decide to make the curtain call. It’s either too hard right now… or just not the same.

In the end, I find myself at least, feeling so grateful to have gotten this album. To’ve been given the chance to listen to my Hero sing again, for the last time- beyond what words could ever express!

In conclusion, “Period” is an absolutely amazing album, from beginning to end!! I’d dare go as far to say that this VERY WELL maybe one of the absolute BEST albums the band has ever produced in their entire career! Some songs may take some time to get used to, but overall, for me- it’s a SOLID 8.5/10!!! Absolutely A+ tier, almost S-tier album!!!

Thank you so much Der Zibet, for everything that you gave to us over the span of your 40 plus years of career! I hope that retirement, pursuing new musical ventures or whatever they decide to do brings them nothing but happiness. I think in my mind, that’s what Issay would want for his dear friends.

And Issay….. thank you for the 61 years … of giving us your voice, the music, and the 110 percent of yourself that you always gave. For you who came from the most awful of childhood circumstances, you always braved what life threw at you- you blew past every adversity that came hurdling your way, And you never let the world change you, for you already knew who you were and were meant to be in this world. Even when it tried to silence you, you remained a very LOUD voice, for your friends, family, and people like me. Whether it was music, Acting, Dancing, or pantomime… you always played around with Masks- but to the very end, in all these ventures, you stayed you. Abrasive, unapologetic, ever-so eccentrically Charismatic, and gracefully you. You never let 1 career path be your limit, or let “the box” contain you from doing the things you were always so eager to learn, and always so determined to chase after. You poured your heart and soul into every song you sang…. And for that I thank you. ♾️ it’s all that, that kept me here where I needed to be today. I love you… I’ll never forget you; forever and always. 🩷🥀♾️

Thank you for reading. Please take care of yourself, y’all.

“Bye bye… まったね。”🩷

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Been quite slow and lonely in the Tumblr Issay fandom tag,

So I REALLY wanted to fix that.😭✨

😊🖤✨ finally finished this Quasi-stylized Portrait esc drawing I did of the mighty Hakushaku-sama, haha! 😊✨

Gotta say, 😭 I’ve drawn Issay over 1,000 times and yet with this one it felt like this was my first time!

😊 yet simultaneously, I’m so happy in my progress for how far I’ve improved in capturing his likeness- not to sound egotistical!!

Anyways, please enjoy!!😊 Love Issay and Der Zibet with all my heart! X3

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GUYS!!! I FOUND THE SOMEWHERE/NOWHERE TAPES!!!

(I wish.😭)

😂🖤 sorry guys, 😭🖤 You’re gonna have to take this old man Yaoi from the 90’s that I drew instead! Lol!

🥰🖤 Acchan and Issay! This one was really challenging, but I’m fairly happy with how it turned out! Hope you all enjoy! Cheers!!! 🥂

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At the mall today where I was trying to get a jumpstart on Christmas shopping, there was some lovely representatives from the hospice center in town where I live hosting a booth where you could write down the names of your dearly departed loved ones, and place them on a Christmas tree. 🎄🖤✨

I know it’s supposed to be for people that you knew personally… but Acchan and Issay, as parasocial and delusional this may sound, felt like the only friends I truly had in my IRL world, within a lot of points in my life… I owe so much to them for guiding me towards finding my true self, and many other things…

♾️✨🌸🦇 I had to. I got to tell the nice old lady a lot about them! She might’ve thought it may have been a little strange, but I personally don’t care… they are and always will be my heroes.

And I’ve been especially missing them as we very swiftly approach both the holidays and the end of 2025.

😭✨あっちゃん、ISSAYさん、ずっと愛してるよ！🖤✨