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MEJIBRAY MiA is chewing on his ribcage bone
Keeping up with MEJIBRAY: The Series
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Hello to my favorite bitches, long time no see! Ready for a classic mejigay gossip sesh?
If you were anything like me, you started a Tumblr blog about visual kei very young (I've posted about vk on this blog since I was 16) and now you're an adult. MEJIBRAY broke up around 6 years ago now I think right? I am now 24, have a masters degree and planning on moving to Japan in spring. Crazy how time flies right.
Let's refresh our minds a little bit okay? Now I'm assuming you remember everything from those 6-ish years ago. The MEJIBRAY label/contract issue with Tsuzuku and Koichi, Tsuzuku's borderline disorder, the refusal to do encores during the last tour, the charcoal face paint and the result of it all which was 8p-sb. If you want a recap on that specific semi-disbandment drama there's plenty of posts that I made about it while it was happening so feel free to check it out! (keep in mind I was like 18 and very dramatic writing those posts lol) There's also this great summary from a redditor in the comment section here
The same redditor even filled me in on stuff I felt out of the loop about in their reply to the OP. I know 8p-sb is gone and Koichi does Trembling Bambi solo stuff while Genki (Tsuzuku) is a vocal coach, is in the band 30 seconds certain victory, and revives VanessA occasionally. But this has also happened:
Yeah what the fuck Koichi? Now, I do remember starting that yakuza theory here on Tumblr back in the MEJIBRAY semi-disbanding days. I read it on tanuki and told y'all about it and got soooo much shit for it at the time lol. Looks like Koichi kind of confirmed the theory! (take that rude anons in my asks back then lmao). However, Koichi staying in the same industry he claims is rotten and run by the yakuza is definitely weird. Why talk all high and mighty while benefitting from it one may ask. Either way, for those wondering what Koichi is up to, there's your answer and an explanation to why he got backlash. About the VanessA stuff, one can conclude that our favorite duo, Genki and Koichi, doesn't seem to be that involved with each other anymore.
I would also like to take time to talk about Genki's well being, as some of you might know he has a youtube channel in Japanese. From my so-so Japanese skills I can still keep up with a lot of what he's saying. Good news, he's doing better now than the MEJIBRAY days from the looks of it. In this video he talked about how the photo from the MEJIBRAY days was him being unwell and the picture to the right is him feeling much better!
(TW for this paragraph: self harm) In another video he talked about various topics/gave advice such as about self harm/cutting and how it annoys him when people say he shouldn't hurt the body his parents gave to him. He thinks that's an incorrect way to tell someone to stop cutting and seems in general to be very open to talk about this topic while smiling and not getting angered. So he seemed very stable, mature and content to me.
What about Meto/Yutaro? Well, he seems to be a happy chef! As for MiA... I've seen him hang out with hosts like Roland and in general seems to live that bougie life. Roland is a top host who aims for the prince vibe just like MiA, and is open about his plastic surgeries just like MiA. Now let's get into a really recent topic about Mia!
Just like me, you might still follow our MEJIBRAY boys on various social medias. And just like me, you might have seen MiA's picture where he chews a bone. "Huh, weird" you might have thought as you scrolled past it. Well here I am, resurrecting this blog once again, just to tell you that the bone is MiA's fucking ribcage bone. I ain't posting that picture, find it yourself cause it's gross.
As MiA poses in the same costumes from his MEJIBRAY days and posts them on Instagram, you'd think his life and social media posts were a bit mundane. Then, a fucking picture of him chewing a thick ass bone pops up. The bone in question was taken out during a ribcage surgery, that MiA claims was done in order for him to create a custom guitar with his BONE INFUSED into it. Yeah I know. What???
In general you could either see it as him being a massive attention hungry person, or as unhinged and putting his life in danger. Bone surgeries are very harmful and anyone with two working eyes can see his shaved jawline bone already. So adding a removed ribcage bone to that... It's dangerous.
That's it for the gossip sesh! I'm thinking of making this "Keeping up with MEJIBRAY: The series" a thing whenever I think there needs to be a big gossip update like this.
To anyone still here in the MEJIBRAY Tumblr tags and to anyone following this blog, thanks for reading all of this and I hope we can laugh at this absurdity together! <3
xoxo mejigay
(feel free to read that sign off in the gossip girl voice lmao)
#mejibray#8psb#trembling bambi#koichi#koichi niiyama#genki#genki takebuchi#tsuzuku#ex-mejibray#meto#30 seconds certain victory#VanessA#yuutaro#yutaro#mejigay#mejibray gossip
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He makes me so happy
#genki#genki takebuchi#mejibray#30sec certain victory#VanessA#SpelL#vk#visual kei#jrock#fandom posting#special interest posting#goblin rambles#hes so so special to me
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In Japan’s glittering cities, all hustle and light, they can be easy to miss.
With all that sensory assault, who thinks to look down and take notice of something as mundane as a manhole cover? But these are no ordinary bits of civic infrastructure.
In Japan, many manhole covers are works of urban art—elaborate, curious, distinctive, even colorful.
They have become a tourist destination unto themselves and attract a legion of dedicated manhole enthusiasts who travel the country to visit some of the thousands of unique designs.
Japan’s decorated manhole covers—broadly encompassing storm drain, domestic water supply, electrical and other utility access covers—initially took shape as a public relations campaign for sewers.
Beginning in the 1950s, the cast plates featured simple geometric patterns, such as the “Tokyo” and “Nagoya” designs.
Japanese civil servant Yasutake Kameda conceived of the intricate, artistic versions in 1985 to help warm a skeptical rural population to the idea of the costly but necessary modernization of the country’s sewer system.
From these humble and practical beginnings, manhole covers have become a cultural phenomenon.
Typically, “local manholes” or “design manholes” feature elements special to a particular location: a town emblem, landmark, event, or official bird or flower.
For instance, Takasaki, 60 miles northwest of Tokyo in mountainous Gunma Prefecture, has manhole covers that commemorate the city’s popular summer fireworks festival.
Local mascots (known as yurukyara, such as Fukaya City’s adorable rabbit-deer Fukkachan) and cartoon characters also appear.
In Tokyo’s Tama ward, home of the Sanrio Puroland amusement park, one can find covers featuring the ever-popular Hello Kitty.
Local sports franchises are also represented near the teams’ home arenas and stadiums—such as the well-known colorful depiction of the logo of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team.
While there is some logic to the placement of the covers, particularly those graced with color—usually near a landmark, theme park, or stadium—others appear to have been placed without rhyme or reason.
Indeed, it is not unusual to walk down an otherwise unremarkable side street and spot a special one underfoot.
The ornate manhole covers are initially carved from aluminum, which is used to make sand molds for casting.
The majority of the designs are selected by local municipalities, in conjunction with manufacturers.
In most cases, the design is just imprinted in the cover, but in some cases, the covers get another touch—colored resins flooded into voids like enamel on jewelry.
Today, an estimated 95 percent of Japan’s 1,718 municipalities across all 47 prefectures now host their own unique covers.
In Osaka, approximately 10 percent of the city’s 180,000 manhole covers feature ornate designs, of which roughly 1,900 get the color treatment.
Typically, a designed manhole cover, which weighs more than 80 pounds, excluding the frame, costs approximately $585—a five percent premium over the cost of a plain cover.
The color, however, is applied carefully by hand and nearly doubles the price of a manhole to more than $900.
Such is the popularity of these little urban treasures that they have a devout, organized following.
There is the industry-led Japan Ground Manhole Association and the fan-based Japanese Society of Manhole Covers, whose website features thousands of photographs submitted by users across Japan, who have snapped everything from large sewer covers to tiny local utility access panels.
“Manholers,” as they’re known, may travel to distant areas of the country just to photograph covers or collect pencil rubbings known as takuhon.
Trading cards featuring manhole designs are also popular collectors’ items and can command steep prices in online auctions.
One prominent fan is Kei Takebuchi, a popular Tokyo-based singer-songwriter.
Takebuchi traces her fascination with them to the covers of Nagoya, which feature a charming cartoon water strider insect, while she was on tour in 2015.
Since then, she has regularly tweeted photos of manhole covers to her nearly 200,000 followers on social media.
“Every manhole cover design has [a meaning] … it tells me that we can create art with almost anything,” she says, in an interview for this story.
Like many places, Japan is full of people with unusual hobbies or obsessions, but love for the country’s manhole covers has gone mainstream:
a “manhole festival” was held near a major train station in Tokyo last month, featuring trading cards, baked goods, and replica covers from around the country.
Retailer Tokyu Hands ran an extended campaign at its central Shinjuku location, with a range of manhole cover–related goods for sale.
The affinity for manhole covers also seems to tap in to Japan’s fondness for hobbies that involve lots of domestic travel.
Stamp rallies—featuring rubber stamps at train stations and other landmarks—encourage hobbyists to travel to overlooked or lesser-visited locales to add one more stamp to their collections.
“Rail-fans” similarly scour the country to document or experience a rare train carriage, an unusual station melody, or other rail-related minutia.
It is the same for manholers, with the occasionally far-flung or seemingly random placement of coveted covers—and directions of varying accuracy—adding to the sense of a scavenger hunt.
Indeed, Takebuchi recounts once spending three hours on a bitterly cold day in Kawagoe City in Saitama Prefecture to snap a photo of a particular manhole cover, beautifully designed with an images of Toki no Kane, a historic bell tower.
Similar stories are common currency in manholing circles.
Easy to overlook, but curious and rewarding, Japan’s unique manhole covers are a charming reminder that the mundane can be exciting and that you should never forget to look down.
#Japan#manhole covers#Yasutake Kamed#local manholes#design manholes#Japan Ground Manhole Association#Japanese Society of Manhole Covers#manholers#Kei Takebuchi#manhole festival#Tokyu Hands
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(Genki by instagram)
Your going to be always the best to me ♡
#mejibray#ex-mejibray#my boy#always mejibray#top 5#visualkei#genki takebuchi#tsuzuku#meto#koichi#MiA
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Top 5 V-Kei vocalists in my opinion, that no one asked for:
Kyo (Dir en Grey)
Ruki (the Gazette)
Tsuzuku (aka Genki Takebuchi, Mejibray)
Klaha (Malice Mizer)
Bukimi (Jigsaw)
Honorable mentions are Toshi (X-Japan), Hisui (Madeth Gray’ll), Sono (Matenrou Opera) and Daishi (Psycho le Cemu).
These are just my personal preferences there are tons more talented artists out there. TBH Bukimi and any of my honorable mentions are interchangeable, I just feel Jigsaw in my soul lately.
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SPELL (The Cursed World) by SpelL
Lyrics Jap/Romaji/English
(Japanese: found here)
(The Cursed world)
淀んでる言葉がまた踏みつけられる
窓の外手を振ってるそれは悪意
教えてよ、正しい人間の生き方とか
弱さと悲しみの大きさ、共に増え
(The Cursed world)
いつか全てを壊せる力を得るなら
僕は世界を黒く塗りつぶし歩くよ
教えてよ
大事な人(もの)
教えてよ
終わりのバラード
(Sending you voices of chaos, silence and reunion)
宵闇に鋭い痛みを感じ
誰かの心を傷付けたい
僕を患ってさ、一緒に逝こう
君となら落ちて行ける
心から咲いた薔薇は
夢の中散って泣いて
産声を上げてからは
階段を徐々に降りて
サヨナラは一緒に言おう
生きる事は呪いだと
逝こう、迷子だね君の心
僕達は似ているカタチ
歩いてきた君の道は
僕が歩んだ軌跡
生きてゆく御伽噺
紅の匂いがするね
最期には思い出して
儚いね 一つの命は
(Romanji)
(The Cursed world)
yodon deru kotoba ga mata fumitsuke rareru
(The Cursed world)
mado no sotote o futteru sore wa akui
(The Cursed world)
oshiete yo, tadashī ningen no ikikata toka
(The Cursed world)
yowa-sa to kanashimi no ōki-sa, tomoni fue
(The Cursed world)
itsuka subete o kowaseru chikara o erunara
(The Cursed world)
boku wa sekai o kuroku nuritsubushi aruku yo
(The Cursed world)
oshiete yo
(The Cursed world)
daijina hito (mono)
(The Cursed world)
oshiete yo
(The Cursed world)
owari no barādo
(Sending you voices of chaos, silence ando reunion)
yoiyami ni surudoi itami o kanji
dareka no kokoro o kizutsuketai
boku o wazuratte sa, issho ni ikou
kimitonara ochite ikeru
kokoro kara saita bara wa
yume no naka chitte naite
ubugoe o agete kara wa
kaidan o jojoni orite
sayonara wa issho ni iou
ikiru koto wa noroida to
ikou, maigoda ne kimi no kokoro
bokutachi wa nite iru katachi
aruite kita kimi no michi wa
boku ga ayunda kiseki
ikite yuku otogi hanashi
kurenai no nioi ga suru ne
saigo ni wa omoidashite
hakanai ne hitotsu no inochi wa
(English)
(The Cursed world)
The stagnant words are trampled again
(The Cursed world)
Waving the outside of the window It's malicious
(The Cursed world)
Tell me the right way of life for humans
(The Cursed world)
Both weakness and sorrow increase
(The Cursed world)
If one day you get the power to break everything
(The Cursed world)
I will paint the world black
(The Cursed world)
Tell me
(The Cursed world)
Important person (thing)
(The Cursed world)
Tell me
(The Cursed world)
Ballad at the End
(Sending you voices of chaos, silence and reunion)
I feel a sharp pain in the darkness
I want to hurt someone's heart
I'm sick, let's die together
I can fall with you
The rose that bloomed from the bottom of my heart
I'm crying in my dreams
Let's die, you lost your heart
We're similar shapes
The path you've walked on
The trajectory I've taken
Living fairy tale
It smells like crimson
Remember at the end
It's ephemeral, one life is
I've been this song way too much
On a side note, I'm not gonna lie, I mostly pasted two different translations together and I'm hoping I got it some what close. I also added more (The Cursed World)'s than Genki's original translation so I could sing along and not get confused. If there's any editing I should do please let me know🥺
#SpelL#SPELL#Genki#Takebuchi#Genki Takebuchi#Tsuzuku#Mejibray#8P-SB#The Cursed World#Mejibray Tsuzuku#Tsuzuku Takebuchi#Lyrics#japanese translation
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30sec certain victory - ConsuMe my pain | Official Music Video
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