a girl i drew after i listened to hitorie kotonaha
i thought a dark themed drawing would fit the song so this was the result.
i found out about the hue changer on krita while making this so it turned out great (i struggle with coloring)
hitorie is great.
Muro Festival, is a rock festival! Which invites newcomers, upcoming artists, veteran come-on-ers, and all hard song enthusiasts alike to celebrate. Named after Muro Kiyoto, who is the manager of a Shibuya concert venue. As an avid enforcer of music events he’s esteemed by many in the scene, so the event draws in people who are driven by the fuel of that pass. At least bands will comment “Muro fest is an adhesive (Arukara)” or “The number one trait of Murofes is that the performing bands have awesome strong connections even on the side, and that the essence of that friendship engulfs it (Wasure).“ or “Even if Murofest was hosted at a small park or a in the middle of the street or in Muro’s house or even in a public toilet, I would perform. I love Murofest (Mizuno Gii).”
Anyway the performances are full of power! Full of summer heat! Full of maudlinism to soar like Muninn! Full of a favorite: there’s Hitorie’s dead pan heartfelt bassist, ygarshy!
And you were able to watch it on a niconico livestream but...
IT’S ENDED NOW
I will preserve this post as a report.... Doubling as a source for various trivia....
I’m considering maybe if a fan makes a purchase of a Wasureranneyo album, or something of similar sentiment, and DM’s me a screenshot, I could share the recording... Even if you see this in a billion lightyears from now. Because sharing is caring, all around yeah!!!
You have to get niconico premium to watch it, which is only 540 yen. Nothing compared to the fest’s ticket fee of 10,000 yen (Plus airfare fee for us overseers).
You can use foreign debit cards, or even Paypal… !
Much of the performances were locked up, only for Premium members originally even for those who were able to watch real-time, so there’s no regrets in seizing the now. Thumbs up.
Live shows enhance a whole different essence, so more than listening to a J-rock playlist on Spotify I’d recommend taking a dive into this while you can!!
Not only can you upfront witness the air around their electric pickguards warp to their technique, you can see them hop and whomp and throwmp around! What chords they clench with their teeth, what lines they unleash from the pit of their lungs, what parts the band will huddle together for and what songs mean the world to them! Also the crowds reactions, I move when I see them move, in polysemy.
If there’s any niche J-rock band names you’ve maybe been curious about, or just want to find some new indie J-rock, the artist line-up is here!
LAMP ON TERREN: wowawawa’s best buddy ‘Dai-chan’ is in there… *Waves hand* TERREN were once scheduled for a joint live with perfect timing, so they brought a birthday cake for wowaka and they got friendly with Rie... or so they thought.. The next day SND was ready to beat the shit out of them on stage. But they’re all friendly now (I think))))
Arukara: They master the standard rock setup with wads of distortion, wah effects, while sometimes make instrumental songs with violin etc. even! They do podcasts! And they reinforce cats a lot. I recommend Chigirero.
majiko:
Village Man’s Store: Who are the band with bright red suits, bright firey songs, and bright red lips who kissed Shinoda that one time - In seriousness I could recommend them though, they’re sweet with only a little taste of the sleazy!
KAKASHI are rejoiced by quite a few Hitorie fans I know.
There’s CIVILIAN: A three-piece whom all graduated from the Tokyo School of Music Shibuya, the bonds roam, who also hosts Nanou HoehoeP, another past utaite like majiko.
LEGO BIG MORL:
Sukippara ni Sake: Who are swanky with Kachāshī-like dances to the stretches of never making a boring song.
And so so many more! J-rock band names start to make more less sense the more I’m in here! Wahoo!
A band named Hitorie performed two years ago, and there’s LEGO BIG MORL this year, which is hoisted up by the same manager as Hitorie, Mika Arara! The members separately will some participate in cooking shows(), some each do acoustic shows on their own accord, each ego-search, and their stoic songs together are bound to at least make your foot tap from their flavored textures.
For this sake I’m eyeing up the band’s particularly memorable whiz named Hiroki Tanaka. Hiroki is not most notable for his #My ygarshy hashtag, but for the sake of this he is. Under the tag is either Hiroki posting a picture of him together with ygarshy or him commenting #My ygarshy on pictures ygarshy of himself with others. Or the “What? Are you a couple?” on ygarshy’s “It’s our 9th year anniversary” photo of him with SND… yg “Sorry.” In general ygarshy and Hiroki are friendly, they drink and vent together time to time.Also Hiroki and Shibata Takahiro, the character who comes in soon, have a unit called Takahiroki. Which is the two of them fused to make flurry, with only an acoustic guitar and a mic as their weapons even! Their concerts tend to break the norms of the non-flamboyant J-rock scene, as they screw around with their power with no real point, just a joint to a jollity! Where as many J-rock shows will use screens of music visualizers to engross, Takahiroki will use the crowd by galvanizing them raise their signature rainbow towels or make explosive call-outs towards the flames of reality. Where many will use subdued dance to party, Takahiroki will chit-chat about food and females as they swing their limbs like spinning amusement park rides or dress as bartenders and drink . Though all rock shows are have their unique tricks and spirit, it’s nice to see it super shaken up also…
I introduce these two for good reason! It’s background for what’s feautured in the niconico livestream!
The band Wasureranneyo! That Shibata is on vocals and guitar, that Hiroki is on main guitar, our ygarshy is on bass, and Takayuki Tomita is on drums! Tomita is from a band called THE LOVE NINGEN, whom I’m not sure how came into relation with Shibata, but Wasurerannee yo is constantly borrowing members to fill it’s blanks due to . ygarshy has been consistent for more than half a year now! Hiroki also bounces in whenever he can an ex. Wasurerannee yo member once filled in for Love Ningen. They themselves most likely meet at festivals like this! Where similar bands get together under a sonic medium and spend the crepuscle ball.
But I’m going back to ygarshy! Him! His performance is a spotlight!
the important part THE SHOW highlights
Wasureraneeyo start at 1:27:28, end at 1:58:39. You can manually copy-paste, and it’s a whole 30 minutes action-packed. There's about 48 hours before a the single watch instance will expire, but it's possible to close the window and come back anytime between then.
The first 5+ minutes are rehearsal, they’re muted to give the live-goers an extra extra incentive. It’s still worth a peak to see how musicians will stroll as they test. They played their theme song and also a cover of Alexandros’ Wataridori there’s nothing worth hearing anyway right (*wails).
The rest is 100% worth the buck!
●Shibata starts off by whimpering over an urge he needs to burst out, he needs everybody to cheer him on. When he Says “Miyamoto - Ryou!”, you have to shout “You can do it!”
Note: Miyamoto and Ryou are a comedian duo, who just days ago were revealed to the victims of a corrupted corporation, who was holding absolute control over them. People have cheering for them to win better circumstances in the case. Yet the apologies and the press conferences have been fantasy football battles.... Ugh... It's a riot for sure though! Official news reports are here or here or etc.
●He gets everyone to wiggle their arms 90° angles above their heads “like we’ve gone crazy!” and shout a nonsensical “Yossoi hoi hoi!” chant! With the heat as the beat! yga just plays bass!
●He makes noise for his mom, multiple times throughout! His T-shirt even has his mom on it! Specifically a picture of 2 year old himself being embraced by his mother printed on it, with the word “Mother” metallically written on the back… Source from his past diary entry of him expressing his maternal love. I can’t believe this ygarshy no wonder you can’t help but smile a lot during these shows.
●He complains about the shitty time he “went out drinking when he two cute girls walked through the door in, ‘Oh, oh, oh!’ he thought, only for them to start chit-chatting about how small their boyfriend’s dicks are! What kind of damnation is this bullshit!”
●The lyrics are about that stuff anyway!!
●There’s also a special appearance from Kanata Takehiro, the vocalist of LEGO BIG MORL. Shibata bitches at him mid-solo because “Fuck you! All the girls are staring at you now damn it!” *He is actually popular in the band due to being good and cooking and math and being an overall goofball behind the gallantries. The original of Odore Hikikomori features Hiroki and Sekihan, of Happy Head NANIYORI also he was in the niconico scene a long time ago, both dressed in clothes that you may find very unlikely but 100% plausible.
●ygarshy smiles and then recalibrates his hair over his eyes to look like a dark souls boss faceless again. He holds his bass with the neck upwards, he’s reviving his high school orchestra club bass playing sensibility. Virtuoso. The high tempo of Wasureraneeyo’s songs is definitely on par with Hitorie’s, Rie's irregular metres, swapping, interchanging and 456 metres are monstrous, but the sheer volume of tutti and strumming in Wasure’s punk songs seems to be something else as well…! yganbare!!
●Also don’t worry about those missed minutes because Shibata crowd-surfs again. This time with cash in his hand a mission! Saying “I’m glad to be here! Take me to the cute beer darling!”, as he is driven by the hands of the compliantly ecstatic crowd towards a staff member waiting in the middle of the crowd, holding up your average beer! Shibata trades the cash for the cup, he orders everyone to gather under him, “I can’t stand up if you’re pushing my ass! Oh now I can thank you”, and at last he gains the support to stand up! On top of a crowd for God's sake he rises. To glug the beer like a food chain top predator of the wild. Then to slide back to stage while crying for his mom again.
●Hiroki physically shoves ygarshy around while they have the stage to themselves. Ahh how the tables turn, the kicker to the pushee.
●In his black robes ygarshy is just such a trance to witness play throughout…
It’s really great in motion and as a whole I love dirty rock concerts. Music has to be heard, my lumberous lumpy text can’t convey those sound waves… So give it a watch if you may have free time to do so! Only if you can please!
Source for comments and some info: https://skream.jp/feature/2019/06/muro_festival_2019.php
More photos and videos can be found on their official twitter! Photos by Suzuki Kouhei woah...
Hitorie’s “Gourmet Tokyo” Episode 27 - English translation
At the beginning of October we went on a tour that circled to 3 cities gf China.
Following the April shows in Taipei and Shanghai, it was our second time overseas.
Last time, I was surprised by how many people will go wild for us even across the seas, this too further more is by virtue of everyone of our Japanese fans, which made me feel gratefulness galvanized gratitude, all the more making me want to try my best to turn over a new leaf. So I was supposed to head into the country with ambitions born anew but,
This time yet again, I confronted the people’s enthusiasm and arduously excessive personalities. Along with each region’s language nuances that, just like the letters, are freely jumping across distances. By the end I was unable to say anything besides “China’s huge” and “Ah, there’s a Starbucks here”.
Our tour was called “RED HOT POT TOUR”, hence true to our word, we went and compared the hot pots of the major cities
First hot pot: Beijing
When someone says hinabe it’s easy to imagine a soup separated into 2 colors that you all put ingredients in but, the one that we ate in Beijing, as you see here, was a shabu-shabu style nabe with one type of soup. Then there were spicy or sweet dipping sauces, such that you could transform the flavor with your own hands.
The soup wasn’t spicy and the taste soaked in nicely.
The ceramic dish almost perpendicular is holding meat which had this mysteriously big punch to it.
Second hot pot: Chengdu
The spiciness of Szechuan is definitely something abnormal, yet still it has this deliciousness that makes the spicy surpass the capacity of your body, your chopsticks can’t stop.
Leader seemed happy.
Third hot pot: Chengdu
With this one we took the ingredients on the skewers and dipped them into the pot ourselves.
This also may be a style typical to this region.
I graduated from the red soup immediately and just ate the white one the whole time.
Fourth hot pot: Hong Kong
We transferred from the Shenzhen live show to Hong Kong for hinabe.
It was a no-soup nabe where you dipped fried ingredients into a large amount of red pepper and coriander, so I ate it plain at first. Spicy.
This was pretty far to the south so, maybe that’s why the flavor of the spiciness was rather different from the nabes we ate in Chengdu. Yet it’s still was spicy.
The white soup here was outstanding.
I forgot to take a photo of the nabe.
I was in awe by how stoically our staff was able to push the hinabe shop managers for the of this event, but it became a tour that left no shame to it’s name.
So then, for this time’s Gourmet Tokyo, this is the pizza that I ate in Shibuya during my appearance at the food-and-live festival TOKYO CALLING
It’s a thin pie made in a furnace so it seems like it’s quick to bake, I treated it like Matsuya shop when I entered, and I think I left about 15 minutes later
Such renowned speed
It’s 500 yen for 1 pie so you can order it as a snack, or I felt it was really reliable as a refresher pizza that still fit it with my festival schedule
With a carbonara-like topping I ate it like a Bismarck pizza
Thanks for the meal
ygarshy
Original Post: https://skream.jp/column/hitorie/hitorie27.php
