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Official news from his Twitter account https://x.com/mad_screaming/status/2089155376411545608?s=20
George is the visual-effect artist that work with X during Jealousy era; he also performed at Extasy Summit 92 & had an infamous photo session with hide for FOOL'S MATE magazine
I was truly shocked hearing the news 😭
May he rest in peace 🌹🙏
Alright folks, here's the next part of "TAIJI", a book written by his fiancée regarding his death
I decided to publish these two chapters together because they both dive deep into the investigation regarding the circumstances around the time of Taiji's death
and maannn.... you'll be very upset when reading it
it's impossible not to feel sad or angry when reading this chapters, so consider this a fair warning
I'll took a break from translating because it's been such a tough read for me, so expect the next part coming in more than two weeks from now, it ain't going to be coming soon
that said, these two chapter have a lot of technical terms which I'm not sure if I had translated them correctly, so if you find some translation that feels a lil bit off, just let me know in the comment so I could revised them
link is the same, just scroll past what you've read before
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHcaErTLBTRqL0akY4-vxZSdZ3XlIVMuTxed976O-Ms/edit?usp=sharing
as I have posted on this week's Q&A thread below, I'm doing a translation of Taiji's fiancée, Tomomi Akatsuka's book "TAIJI"
https://www.reddit.com/r/xjapan/comments/1vi69sx/rxjapan_weekly_qa_thread_for_august_07_2026/
there might be mistake in the translation of the people's name mentioned in the book, (since there are multiple way of reading Kanji for someone's name), but besides that I think it's a pretty good translation overall
for now, I have only done the first chapter, NO ESTIMATION of when will the next chapter will be done, but for the time being I guess Chapter 1 gave a good enough information about what happened during Taiji's last days
I hope this could clear up confusions/ rumor regarding Taiji's death, especially for Non-Japanese speaker
You could read the translation here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHcaErTLBTRqL0akY4-vxZSdZ3XlIVMuTxed976O-Ms/edit?tab=t.0
feel free to share it anywhere
here you go! the unboxing of zilch "3.2.1", the first press limited edition that is!
hope Ray McVeigh could come to the subreddit and share some stories about the making of this album!
well, since Mr. Dean Karr ( u/Proper-View-9948 ) is now here, thought I'd share some stuff about zilch!
although I believe some of these information are already well-known to older fans, I though it'd serve as a great introduction to those who were still new to Zilch!
The source of this is AVEX's official webpage for Zilch (http://www.avexnet.or.jp/zilch/prologue.htm) translated to English via Google *you can use the WayBack Machine to access the original Japanese text
also, to add to the occasion, I'll also be uploading unboxing video of zilch's album "3.2.1" (1st Press Limited Edition) on my Youtube channel next week! (it's here https://www.youtube.com/@yanuardliwang turn on the notification so you don't miss it!)
Please look forward to it!
what a surprise
it use the 2001 re-release cover and it has two bonus track now!
really didn't see this coming, and what a coincidence it is that I just published the unboxing video of the original 1993 CD just one day before he release this 😂
time to listen to this masterpiece again
PS: you can watch the 1993 CD unboxing on the link below
was reading some old magazine scans last night, and found what appears to be the first ever released plan/ schedule for ART OF LIFE
DECEMBER 1991
this was from Arena37°C #110, in the same article was also mentioned the planned release date for Silent Jealousy single, Standing Sex, Say Anything, VISUAL SHOCK Vol. 3 video, and YOSHIKI SELECTION Classical album
so there you have it folks, off you go with your theories and speculation! my bet is because of what(ever) happened with Taiji they choose to postponed it
but maybe I could be wrong, I have the "Fool's Mate Special Issue ART OF LIFE" book, but I haven't finished reading it. maybe on that book they already answer the reason why (one story I know is that Toshi's vocal recording took so long)
what do you think about it? let me know in the comment below!
(also sorry for the blurry pic, I took it directly from my phone)
here's another unboxing video from me
like I said in the previous post, this time I try experimenting on the editing, mainly adding a BGM (AoL demo!) and putting some info on the video itself instead on the description section
soo... what do you think about it? do you like this kind of editing or just the plain one like before? please let me know in the comment
DAHLIA unboxing video is already scheduled to be published this weekend
with all the five X main album covered, starting next week I'll be unboxing member's solo album
again, please let me know what you think in the comment, thank you for watching & subscribe to the channel!
I'm doing unboxing videos for my X-related collection, and this is the first one
I plan to upload 2-3 videos per week, for now it will be CDs only, but I also plan to do magazines/ photobook/ other stuff as well, let me know if you have any request! as long as I have the item, I might do the video for you
also, please give me some feedback regarding these two things
- I shoot my videos at night, and after watching the playback I realized the sound of flipping the pages or opening up the plastic sheet had this ASMR-like effect, and I like it this way. Do you like it this way too or do you prefer if I add some background music?
- I wrote some of the additional information regarding the disc on the description. I actually plan to wrote those additional information on the videos itself so people could read it while they're watching. Do you like that idea too or you did you think it would be distracting?
please let me know what you think about these two thing
and please subscribe to the channel if you like the video!
here's another from the "music for study/ sleep/ relax" video series that I've made
I really like how this one turns out better than the previous video, there's more song covered in this one too than the acoustic guitar version
this might be the last video for a while, meaning I'm not going to upload the "Orgel Sound" version, well maybe I'll change my mind, but no promise✌️
anyway, enjoy the video! would appreciate if you could like/ share the video/ subscribe to the channel
feel free to see what other videos on my channel too
taken from the "X² -Double X-" VHS that was released in 1993
now officially available on Youtube for a limited period of time
jumping on the "music for sleep/ study/ relax" trend that you can find EVERYWHERE these days, here's hide's song on acoustic guitar to help you sleep/ study/ relax
if things went well, maybe I'll upload a "on Piano" or "Orgel sound" version in a next few weeks too
enjoy! (would appreciate if you could subscribe to the channel too!)
Finally, the last part of my "X Live at Kagurazaka Explosion" trilogy is now completed!
The reason for such a long time between the upload was none other than... procrastination! 😆 well, THAT and I choose to do other million side project too, haha
but now it's here, I guaranteed to give you the best quality possible 😎
anyway, if you look up on youtube, there's actually already two "hide & Pata first live" video. The first one is uploaded by a Japanese fan, but it's missing "Break The Darkness" iirc, while the second video is uploaded by a western fan, but it's completely a different show altogether, not to mention there's only a few songs there, not the full live
so here you can now listen to Yoshiki, Toshi, Taiji, hide, & Pata first live together in its entirety in the best quality possible (well, there's a fade out on Orgasm, and the "We Are! We Are!" part during X, don't complain 😛)
also, while the video itself seems to be only a static picture, if you're patient enough to watch through it, I put a surprise there for you 😎
if you speak Japanese, on the MC you can hear Toshi officially introduces hide & Pata as the new member of X, and that this performance is being recorded on video (which the *suprise* I mentioned above came to be)
you can also watch the previous two Kagurazaka Explosion Live below
1985 Kagurazaka Explosion Live https://youtu.be/H_NdKh2-6w8
1986 Kagurazaka Explosion Live https://youtu.be/y9KhPjfEc9A
enjoy!
it's that time of the year again
while watching footage of Spread Beaver's 1998 Tour, I realize they recreate the footage almost exactly the same on the TELL ME movie, so I decided to make this video
please enjoy it, and Happy hide Memorial Day