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I was going through an old LJ of mine from 2005, and I found this gem of an entry. It was my thoughts of the then-new band Phantasmagoria! It was pretty funny to me just to think of how things have changed since then, so I thought maybe you guys would enjoy it too.

Phantasmagoria, circa Jan. 2005 Dad still hasn't been able to take my money to the post office, but someone let me download Phantasmagoria's single off them. I think I like it X3~ It's actually just two real songs; the first track is the length of a normal song, but it's actually just one of those intro track things .. I haven't actually listened to the entire thing yet, I'm still on track 2. Actually, I think the vocalist sounds a lot better on this track than on the SHOXX sample thing. He even gets into those Kyoka/Aliene Ma'riage vocal ranges, which is a really great :3 (to me at least). I don't know if it's because my super-turbo-fan is on at full blast and I just can't hear right, or if it's that he's actually got talent, but it seems the vocalist has improved. So yay for that.

Anyways, I've got to go upload this at Ecchi since it's already been requested twice in the past day o\___O!!

PS - It's cute when he sings "PISSY FAAAAAAAUUSSSSS!" ("pixy false")_

Do you remember your first thoughts about Phantasmagoria, or any other UCP bands?

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XD I'm a bit embarassed now but I had been a fan of syndrome and I thought that weird boy wearing colourful fur-jackets and lolitadresses and kissing bandmembers on stage was just not graceful enough or whatever to fit into a kisaki band. But you are right, Kisaki has an incredible sense for musicians talent... I loved watarus voice from the beginning, though. (even though he used to be mixed down in a way that he sounded like screaming from 6 feet under) But Sui and Jin and Riku sounded just bad when listening for the first time.. Somehow.. I love Hiskarea and Kawon now >>;

me, too... I wish he came back, just for sessions even. He was so charismatic! Same goes for hisui of madeth gray'll. I miss that guy so much... good vocals are so rare in the indies scene-. And now that saki seems to quit, Jui is on hiatus and 12012 might disband. phew. >

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I think I read about the band around early 2006, then checked out some youtube videos...I think I saw the Never Rebellion, Neo Ark, and Mikansei to Guilt PVs. I thought the band was pretty cool, so I kept following them from that moment. :)

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I first heard Phantasmagoria while lurking through someone's MySpace page. The song they had on their profile was "actuate eden". I just stopped what I was doing and thought "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS AMAZING MUSIC RAPING MY SPEAKERS?", I looked them up on YouTube and noticed the UCP logo in the beginning of the PV and remembered seeing that on Vidoll's PVs (the only VK band I knew at the time lol) so I became more interested in them and other UCP bands.

At the time (well still now actually) people would say "KISAKI's a jerk" or "KISAKI is annoying and arrogant" and because I was a n00b I began to think that as well but because I was so in love with Phantasmagoria's music and UNDER CODE, I began to read his blog and watched some dorky videos of him. NOW ,UNDER NO CONDITION, CAN I LIVE WITHOUT THAT MAN'S AMAZING MUSIC AND PERSONALITY and teeth lol :B ♥ ♥

Long story was long. The end.

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His shoes fell off when he jumped off that building in jam =O

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Because I thought kenji was a bit fat and a bad singer. Brilliant.

I agree though, I was disappointed that he was the vocalist because I thought he was terrible. I guess Mr. K really can see things that we can't, because now I think RIKU's great, even in those older recordings. But I guess that's been the case several times: Sui, Jin, Wataru, Rayka, etc.

Do really miss Hayato though. So sad that he disappeared from the scene :(

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Someone told me that evil kisaki was going to kill vidoll in order to get jui as singer for his new band. Then I was told the same, only with wataru.

When then it was mar'derayla and hiskarea disbanding I thought.. OMGEH that guy really has some evil masterplan.

... but when I got the shoxx with material pain I liked them. I just wondered why kenji and not hayato. Because I thought kenji was a bit fat and a bad singer.

I was so stupid. XD It was propably poeple like me making riku feel bad.

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I first heard Magomago somewhere around March/April 2007 - my first song was Kyousoukyoku -Cruel Crucible- and damn, I loved it D: The first PV I saw was NEO ARK, and I was pretty sure that JUN is a girl. Yeah.

I remember one of my first thoughts about Dali - why does the vocalist have bare feet? XDDD

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ROFL at Kairi guy XDD

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I think Ren looks unequivocally like a man...even if he's wearing his LOTMAN dress XD

And my first thought about Dali was... their vocalist must be that Kairi guy! Ahahahaha~

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It's quite amusing. Saw a recent picture of LICKER, immediately though "wow that vocalist is such a pretty boy!!", then found it was a woman. Ohwell. So now I think she looks masculine, when it's actually the dudes looking feminine. I'm brainwashed

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Isn't it weird how your perception changes?

Having been exposed to it for so many years, I just don't get it when people ask if a band member is a boy, because it's so “obvious” in my eyes. But then a band comes along with actual female members and reminds me how ambiguous it can seem, and it's only then that I remember how it really can be hard to tell.

I wonder though if that has to do more with the outfits (because, aside from dresses, there's rarely anything specifically feminine about them) or with Japanese facial features in general.

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Phantasmagoria were one of my first bands. Well, Japanese bands, but duh. Heard them around 2007~beginning of 2008. I remember loving that one song I heard, don't remember which

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I remember my first thought on Magomago XD

"OMFG ITS KENJI!"

That's a really cute memory though :D

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I first heard of them at Oni-Con. I had the hardest time pronouncing their name for some reason, so I said it over and over until I got it right. I was fresh into the jrock world, so I knew nothing until I saw them on their second live performance that Saturday night. It was amazing and I was so happy I got to step into this brand new world at a different perspective...and that I didn't get smacked in the face during "Never Rebellion". ^^;;

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I only remember seeing Kisaki's first costume in Phantasmagoria. It was somewhat of a letdown ;_; It just seemed everyone had great costumes then, but that one... hm... Maybe he liked it >.>

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Basically the cover of that HISKAREA CD!

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