#meguro rock may kan

[yridenergyridenergy]

The wholesome-ish friendship between Shinya and Kyo

Their latest playful Q&A in Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100 has prompted me to compile examples of this weird but overall wholesome relationship that Kyo and Shinya have and which is not obvious at first.

Situation #1

In October 2017, Kyo gifted Shinya with a custom white version of a MadaraNingen one-piece. As far as I remember, that article of clothing was not available for purchase in white at all, to the public. And of course, we all know that Shinya prefers to wear white.

Situation #2

I think that in response to Shinya sharing a video of him briefly playing with the minicars that were sold as tour goods in This Way to Self-Destruction, Kyo posted a story on Instagram of him revving up a bunch of mini-cars and persistently making them hit his phone propped up on a counter and displaying a picture of Shinya. At age 43. To which Shinya made an Instagram post vaguely hinting that: "Good children should not play with the mini-cars to hit someone's picture!"

Kyo's Instagram Story "The proper way to use mini-cars" video

Shinya's translated response

Situation #3

In late 2022-early 2023, Shinya publicly celebrated his bandmates' birthdays via emojis on Twitter, and Kyo was the only one to respond, in kind.

Situation #4

Kyo posted a cryptic picture of Shinya's video meeting with Mana in an Instagram Story and he has mentioned on Twitter at least once that he was watching Shinya Channel (the making of the FaFa onigiri).

In the same vein, Shinya took his failed attempt at needle-felting a pink bunny in March 2022 and turned it into a miniature hammer-wielding bunny in October 2022, in response to sukekiyo unveiling their Mosaic Shoujo PV which featured Kyo in the killer bunny suit.

Situation #5

This very old video of Kyo teasing Shinya by pinching the side of his dress, Shinya reacting by pushing Kyo a bit and Kyo falling into a robot dance in response.

Situation #6

The coffee maker. In one of the live talks held during the COVID-19 pandemic at concert venues, Shinya mentioned having a coffee maker which was of no use to him, and Kyo expressed interest in taking it from him. Later, in the Galacaa livestream talk between the two, it was revealed that Shinya had promised to give Kyo his coffee maker, but he never pulled through on that offer. Kyo, sporting a doodled face to hide his own, insistently questioned Shinya on this unreliability when the topic was brought up by fans in the comments. Shinya kind of struggled but ended up explaning that the coffee maker was really useless because of a defect, that it would not have been an appropriate gift anymore. But he forgot to update Kyo about it after he tried to contact the manufacturer. Kyo replied like: "Oh, alright then."

At some point, Kyo took the matter to Twitter, confronting Shinya about it with their respective member photos to illustrate the dialogue, and Shinya replied the same way.

Situation #7

In that same livestream, Shinya is so used to Kyo's bullshit by now that he completely ignores Kyo's doodle face sheet and casually leans forward to look past him and at the interviewer, sat on Kyo's right. After a while of this, the interviewer points out to Shinya that Kyo is insistently staring at him with this disturbing face, which is when Shinya becomes startled and nervously laughs upon realizing that, also making Kyo chuckle.

Situation #8

More often than others, Shinya and Kyo are documented chatting on the chairs backstage while they wait for everyone to be ready to start the show. Maybe there's something to be said of how they are the two members of the band to leave the stage the quickest, while Kaoru, Toshiya and Die stay for a while to throw picks.

Situation #9

Miscellaneous pictures of the two:

Situation #10

Apparently it was Shinya's earbuds that Kyo used to play with the cat (also Shinya's?) in this famous old video.

Situation #11

Other interactions on Twitter include commentary regarding the song battles that fans were voting on via that same website, during live broadcasts from their manager Fujieda on Galacaa. Kyo and Shinya were the only two members reacting to the songs that were pulled out of the box, Kyo sometimes replying to Shinya's own tweets wondering what he meant or outright questioning his preference.

Another interaction consisted in Kyo copying Shinya's tweets regarding the release of their Phalaris album and twisting Shinya's cute comments into hellish versions.

Situation #12

Probably a bunch of elusive comments throughout the years, but here's an example of something that Shinya said about Kyo in a magazine interview.

Situation #13

In Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100, the members were asked to send each other member five questions. Some chose to personalize them based on what they actually wanted to ask of the others, while a couple decided to send the same questions to all, but members were not told who the questions came from. Kyo picked up on that anonymous part of the game and when answering Shinya's set of questions, he ended each of his short answers with a second sentence that can either just be the Kansai dialect for: "Aren't you Shinya!", or in other dialects, translates more to: "Shinya, you bastard!" hahah. From what I saw, nobody else hinted at who they thought the questions came from in their answers. In reverse, Kyo took up two of his five alloted questions for Shinya with the simple statement: "You don't know you're dead yet!", a quote from Fist of the North Star which is highly intimidating as it hints that someone has defeated the character so easily and lightning-fast that they are a dead man standing, their body having trouble catching up with the reality that they were slaughtered. Shinya, in response to that repeated tease, stubbornly replies in his polite and formal Japanese that: "No, I'm not dead." Their Q&A with the other members were not nearly that quirky.

... Did I miss any? And there will undoubtedly be more to come!

Thank you very much to shinyaburashka for your help!

[jjangredpanda]

[wisteiria]

Kyo in Meguro Rock-May-Kan GIG from the OBORO Deluxe Version DVD

(All the screenshots have been processed and edited)

[ethereal---spirits]

October 12th, 1993, MALICE MIZER held their 1st Anniversary with a live at Meguro Rock-May-Kan. They distributed their first demo tape. Tracks are "SADNESS~I know the reason for her sadness~" and "Lafflesia" recorded live at Club Gio September 13th, 1993. 

[dkv7st]

Tower Records.

[weak-intention]

DIR   EN   GREY  『目黒鹿鳴館GIG (Meguro Rock-May-Kan GIG)』 輪郭 (RINKAKU)   ›   京

[aleshaxruthless]

I found this on Twitter OMG!!!!

They all look spectacular, those photos are so great.

[abandonhope-sp]

[kurumeki]

Great video showing two popular live houses in Meguro in Tokyo: LIVE STATION and Rokumeikan (Rock May Kan)

I find the part about Rokumeikan very interesting, you can see the backstage and such, and also here on the thumbnail you can see the legendary coat MORRIE wore during DEAD END’s indie era in 80s. The coat was decorated by him and it’s now permanently at Rokumeikan backstage office.

[yridenergyridenergy]

What's the deal with Dir en grey film? And why was the page suspended? I'm confused is this official news? It's kinda exciting I want it to be true so bad 😭😭

Alright, so Dir en grey's final show of the latest European tour was filmed, in Berlin, and they will show it in theatres... only in Japan, in autumn 2024. There is no word yet on that movie being released in any format that overseas fans could enjoy as well.

Now, for some reason, a different Twitter account was created called "DIR EN GREY LIVE FILM" (@direngrey_film), but that got taken down due to a violation of the site's rules. Very non-descript... I highly doubt that we will ever get an explanation on what happened - whether somebody complained/reported the account or Twitter reviewed the account on its own and shut it down.

What I don't get is that there seems to be a lot more complaints from fans who "went to see it and would like to see it too" than from all the rest of the world who couldn't even attend the European tour hah. Anyway, clearly there are logistic issues related with screening a movie internationally, and hopefully they are not announcing a DVD release only because doing so might deter people from paying to watch it in a movie theatre. But they ended up releasing Meguro Rock-May-Kan, so I'm optimistic that it's just a matter of time. The shows in England were filmed too, from what I remember reading, so we will get that at some point.

[jjangredpanda]

[ethereal---spirits]

October 31st, 1992, MALICE MIZER had their first live show at Meguro Rock May Kan. They gave out their first demo tape "SANS LOGIQUE" which featured "Temptation of widow" and "終幕への扉". Band members were Mana, Közi, Tetsu, Yu~ki and GAZ 

[dkv7st]

Tower Records.

[weak-intention]

DIR   EN   GREY  //  meguro rock-may-kan gig 羅刹国 (rasetsukoku)   ›   kaoru

[aleshaxruthless]

Shinya !!!

Dir en Grey-人間を被る (Ningen wo Kaburu)

[abandonhope-sp]

DIR EN GREY Limited Picks for  目黒鹿鳴館GIG』