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Oh no need to apologise at all! I'm sorry if my reply came across a little harsh. I really just wanted to explain why it isn't that bad to miss them this time.
First time I saw them live was way back in 2005, when they toured outside of Asia for the first time and came to Berlin. I also saw them in 2006, 2008 and I think in 2011 or something. 4 times in total in Germany and 2 times last year in Tokyo.
In general the Visual Kei scene changed here in Germany. Especially regarding bands who play metal. Back then it was a very nice scene, over 90 % women. Since a few years now more and more men, who are from the "normal" metal scene, go to concerts of Japanese bands who play metal. They bring their macho culture with them and behave like they would at any other metal concert. I have to say I have a strong hate for the metal scene and its men. The reason why I started listening to jrock in the first place was that men made it perfectly clear that as a woman who likes rock/metal you are just a toy to fuck for them. So I got into jrock/visual kei and always loved that it were mostly women and a few men who had no problem with behaving like normal human beings.
This is why I really hate that men from the metal scene now go to concerts of Japanese bands. They bring all the shit with them I tried to escape and it's always a handfull of them who are moshing and kicking and are destroying the concert for a lot of the women there.
For example, I went to a Nocturnal Bloodlust concert a few years ago here in Hamburg. It was a very very small hall. Maybe 100 people? So there was no room at all to escape when again a handfull of guys started moshing. At the end everyone was trying to get a spot at the wall or even went outside the room standing on the stairs.
In Japan it wasn't any better. LOTS of metal guys there. After the first concert I cried. I went a second time because I knew that the hall was all seating anyway, this one I enhoyed!
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