I'm curious what happened to our member "finder" and the girl in the subway:
"Lost" her at Azabu-juban
@Derfel: What's your problem with the Bands and Groups subforum?
Probably because 80 % of the posts are " OMG he's so cute !!! ".
But I don't really mather. Go nuts !
There is a lot more said that goes far more into depth than that.
That is one thread I will not nominate, having spent the best part of a month, at one point, cleaning it up from pointless posts, off topic subjects and constantly telling members that you do not use threads for chat, we have a chatroom (HINT, as in large massive one). Same goes for the other popular music threads (Alice nine, Miyavi, Antique Cafe). Pain in the backside to moderate, especially when they old music forum was split into the four sub-fora we have now.@Derfel: What's your problem with the Bands and Groups subforum?
I nominate JREF's Gazette thread. The whole community within it has had a fantastic year of continuously fluctuating conversation and topics, everybody is kept up to date on the band progress, countless new members have joined and contributed to the conversation. Not to mention the endless steams of hilarious posts xD
Sounds odd, then better not. Sorry for the forum.Where can I post, if I have quite something to say or ask about music, also festivals, in Japan, old AND new (not just the commercial common entertainments, only partly, if so), which is very interesting for many that I know? And I know several musicians in Japan as well and thus about a lot going on there.
This limited present music part gives a very wrong impression about Japan, and thus floods the forum with just one side, sorry to say. Not that I have something against it, but it is not enough, thats all.
The reason for this lack of balance, I think, is because the members that inhabit the music fora are mostly young people who live outside/never lived in Japan whose only access to Japan and its culture is the current Japanese anime/manga boom. The kind of music they listen to originates from music used in Japanese anime soundtrack/theme songs. The "visual-kei" bands they listen to is a niche, even in Japan. So, the average Japanese aren't interested in them either.Sounds odd, then better not. Sorry for the forum.
This forum is a "Japan Forum" and not Japanese forum.Then it may soon become just a comic of japan-forum. . .but not japanese.
There is much more than folkmusic, traditionally and at present, although also that theme is interesting.Honestly, I don't like folk music, be it Japanese, Croatian, English or whatever, but at least those who appreciate folk music usually don't flood and spam their topics with rubbish, so yeah, bring on those topics.