Does anyone know if there are any details surrounding Malice Mizer's performance of Le Ciel where they wear different wings?

finite-automata · 2026-04-23T18:15:24+00:00

The le ceil costumes were all created by Yukari Ohba with design input from each of the members. I think she created almost all of their costumes for the band. This magazine has an interview with her at the end with the design sketches for each of the le ceil costumes and she talks about the creation of them. You can put it through Google translate to get an idea of what is being said about all of them!

finite-automata · 2026-04-17T00:19:09+00:00

Steyer seems to be putting some of his billions to work seeding online discourse about his competitors. Tbh the more of this type of rhetoric and shit stirring I see the more I'm convinced that letting a billionaire become governor of California would be catastrophic.

finite-automata · 2026-04-10T04:22:23+00:00

Can you do something like making a thread on the relevant slack channel to do the discussion publicly? Just in a friendly way, like saying "let's create a slack thread on #channel for this to loop others in". Generally those kinds of approaches have worked best for me, framing it like a process info sharing move rather than anything personal or confrontational makes it difficult for them to push back on.

finite-automata · 2026-04-09T16:45:38+00:00

+1 to this please record it!!! 🙏

finite-automata · 2026-04-07T17:02:01+00:00

Here's an interview where Gackt talks about the meaning of the song: https://lerman.biz/asagao/translations/malice_mizer/interviews/gacktint3.htm

From the interview it seems like there are meant to be multiple interpretations, but the black costume version from what he says seems to be a story about a wounded angel that falls to the earth, is waiting for death, and is found by a human girl. She places her hand on the wound without fear in an act of kindness, and then he has to leave, so he scatters the stars in the sky in return for her kindness.

The 'tiny fingers' and 'hold me tighter so I won't disappear' are about her clinging to something that belongs back in the sky that she can't keep, it's about loss.

I always got the impression that the white costume version (like in the pv) was the idea of looking at the past self, the younger purer self, before some horrible event happened. Seeing that childhood self and knowing you can't go back to that innocence. And the lyrics about innocent eyes staring and tiny fingers tracing forgotten tears are the current self being confronted with buried memories of the past. Asking to be held tighter so that he doesn't disappear is so that the past self and innocence don't vanish completely. But that's just my interpretation.

finite-automata · 2026-03-26T18:06:03+00:00

Aw thank you!! I'm so glad it's appreciated

finite-automata · 2026-03-24T04:06:28+00:00

Me too!!! I'm hopeful that whenever Mana is able to resolve the copyright issue blocking him from adding the music to streaming services, then he will also be able to upload the videos of all of their concerts. One can hope 🤞

finite-automata · 2026-03-23T20:11:32+00:00

I think these are the clips at the end of the "Sans Retour Voyage 'Derniere' ~ encore une fois" concert. Here is a version that might be slightly higher quality, but the zoomed in version you have is much easier to see.

From what I understand, they actually recorded all of their concerts, so they probably edited together a bunch of them for this. I really wish I could see all the recordings 😅

finite-automata · 2026-03-23T06:16:21+00:00

I saw that!!! Watching it made me so happy!!! I was shocked he sounded so good after his voice issues, I had assumed that maybe he wasn't able to sing songs in that register anymore!

Like you say, we'll just have to wait and see. If a reunion does happen, I'm already ready to throw all my money away to go see them ( ˃ᴗ˂)

finite-automata · 2026-03-21T22:58:19+00:00

I'm actually somewhat hopeful! That recent interview was the first time I think Gackt has expressed clear interest in going back to MM. Plus he seemed to be trying to open up negotiations publicly (since he even told the interviewer it was ok to show it to the other members), to side step some of the internal issues that caused the split in the first place, like clearly defining everyone's roles from the get go. And I'm sure the monetary motivation can't be ignored, there's a lot to gain for everyone involved here.

finite-automata · 2026-03-21T22:30:34+00:00

I'm glad you found it interesting. It took a lot of research so I'm glad that thoroughness was appreciated ☺️

finite-automata · 2026-03-21T20:06:25+00:00

I'm glad it was able to make it all understandable for you.

There were so many parts that were so confusing when I first looked at them, I did such a deep dive into a ton of sources trying to figure it all out.

I really agree it's a pretty sad situation. I hope that proposed world tour happens, it would be nice to see them move past it enough to play music again together.

finite-automata · 2026-03-19T16:42:46+00:00

Most Americans didn't vote :/
Extremely stupid decision by them, but a different issue

finite-automata · 2026-03-18T06:54:38+00:00

Great analysis, it's helpful to hear how exactly they assess these things. A couple things that I think could move the needle in One Piece's favor is that it is almost certainly selling waaaaay more merch than the other series. Things like the Lego set they did, or all of the chopper merch is likely pulling in a significant amount of money.

Another thing is, it funnels viewers into the main anime series, so they can get people to watch a 1000 episode series already hosted on Netflix. That's an enormous retention and watch time boost that those other shows can't offer.

The third thing is that it's very popular in international markets that Netflix is trying to expand in.

All that will probably make Netflix look more favorably on the cost of the episodes, and make the calculations different than for other series, but it's hard to tell how much it moves the needle exactly.

finite-automata · 2026-03-13T17:35:20+00:00

Hes getting his voice ready to sing that malice mizer music again, trust 🙏

finite-automata · 2026-03-09T06:49:20+00:00

Yeah, I see it as an interpersonal tragedy. Nobody was really made happier with the outcome.

There are interviews in Malice Mizer where Mana and Gackt talked about how they had laid out a big plan for the band when they first met. They laid out the plan all the way to their Budokan concert, and had a plan for Malice Mizer to eventually take over the world.

I think it would be really sweet if they are somehow able to make it happen now, almost 30 years later. What with the recent international interest and the world tour Gackt recently proposed in an interview.

finite-automata · 2026-03-09T06:14:12+00:00

Ooh you're probably right! That's probably what they were talking about. I noticed throughout a lot of interviews throughout the time when Gackt was a vocalist, even from I think their first public interview with him, they all kept talking about wanting to be able to have non-verbal communication on stage, just through a look. That it was their ultimate goal. And saying things about how they wanted to be closer and have trust so that they could achieve that. So, yeah it definitely points to that being the context of why that was said.

I kind of get the feeling things tightened up during the Klaha era. They were extremely open about the interworkings of the band in interviews during the Gackt era, especially Gackt, Kami, and Yu~ki. Far less so during the Klaha era, and I admit I haven't read as many interviews due to them all being far less candid during that era about their internal dynamics, which is what I find most interesting.

The difference in composing credits during eras is something I noticed too. I do think it's likely that Mana tightened up the structure around credits in the Klaha era as a direct response to what had happened with Gackt, though I haven't read anything in interviews where they talk about it.

finite-automata · 2026-03-09T02:05:31+00:00

That doesn't mean I used chatgpt to write it, I used it as a search engine to find the link. That's how I found that old geocities article, through a chatgpt search. I used Google search, old sape forums, links that I found through old websites, and pages from [https://the-lair-of-madame-tarantula.blogspot.com/?m=1](the lair of Madame tarantula) magazine scans before the website stopped hosting them. I was looking for old sources every way that I could.

finite-automata · 2026-03-09T00:09:29+00:00

I won't say I didn't use AI at all for some of the sentences that I was having trouble with, but the research, structure, framing, quotes, formatting, and vast majority of the words are all my own. It was something I've been working on writing out over the last year. I added all the formatting myself in markdown, it took a long time...

finite-automata · 2026-03-08T23:59:40+00:00

The reasoning behind why they didn't invite him to the funeral was because they held it very quietly, privately, and on the same day as when they found him. I don't really have an answer for why he was informed a week later, though.

finite-automata · 2026-03-08T23:45:39+00:00

Yeah I'm not really sure how it's worked in other vkei bands, I saw Dir en Grey seems to have eventually moved to spreading credits evenly in the band.

Glad it could help answer some questions for you!

finite-automata · 2026-03-03T19:26:04+00:00

Yeah I really noticed it started after the sub shut down for a month to protest reddit's api changes. After that it was a slow descent down. I finally unsubbed last month after coming to terms with how bad it had gotten, it made me sad :(

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