I wonder if Shou could dress up as Miyavi or something xD

I like this new version of Eraser better for some reason, i espesh like the end when he kinda la la la's

I just found out that Shou's tone deaf, i never noticed, apparently he admitted it? D:

I'm a fanboy and i didnt even know he said that

Whoa niceeeeee!!!! two PV's in just a week yay Alice Nine. They look good once more in their awesome clothes though I'm still rooting for mirrorball tehehehe XP. . .

Whoa shou looks like L! Wait is it just me or is the song the same as the one from the Alpha album 'ERASER" O.O Its like its just the slow mo version *scratches head*

^
^ i think he means that he used to be tone deaf

he`s had vocal training since their first live "ALICE IN WONDERFILM"

and you can actually notice the difference between then and now


and omggg did you see nao at about 2:50 ^_________^ i can`t explain what he did but it was so cute



but still ... tora <33333333333333333333333333333333 is to die for ><



hmmm and i think it`s basically almost the same minus the music and the end ... but still ... eraser is a nice song

^ hehe I saw that part too. . . hehe I agree Nao looked really cute when he was playing the drums on that part

ahhh....tora= hotness....shou....um...not the best look w/ the white/ grey hair, but still looks good. saga is sexyness...man i love that flower arrangement/ settings./ whatever...very beautiful.

i just finished watching mirror ball and eraser!! thanks for the links!! ^____^

I like mirror ball song the first time i heard it in the preview and watching/listening the full version of the song made me love the song even more!!! ^^

Eraser pv, i'm still trying to get used to the song, but i like how its very calming. I have to agree with everyone Shou looks like Near its so freaky (in a good way of course) ^^.

I still can't get enough of mirror ball i just <3 it ^^

I was really happy with a double release of the two PV's this week ^^
Mirror Ball was nice. I loved the PV and the slow mo parts.
It looks like the guys have new equipment? But I believe I seen Saga use that bass before though...not sure.

But I really thought that Eraser was just beautiful. You can hear the acoustic more in this version
than the original. I can't stop watching it, hehehe.

But did anybody notice how all of the guys had some kind of bright item in the Eraser PV?

Shou with the shoes.
Saga (and you can't miss it, hehe) green bandanna on the leg left.
Hiroto and the dark blue bandana in his left back pocket.
Nao and I believe, there is a yellow something wrapped around his left shoe.
Then Tora and a light blue bandanna or something else....on his left wrist.

I want to say they represent the flowers in the flower bed. ^^

This is what happens you watch too much of the PV -___- You get too observant lol.

wow, i did notice the green bandanna on saga's, but not the others....*going back to watch it*

cool O.O didn't notice

^ *also goes back and checks*

i love the concept of the ERASER PV, it's so beautiful.


everything seem so pure & innocent (eraserr..) i really love their white-based look.
plus, shou's L/Near look is just so adorable. there's this one part where he puts his head down,
for some reason.....................................................the back of his neck looks very sexayyy.

&when he was on the ground in the end...woo.


everybody looks really niceee i think nao's part-long-hair is so cute on him.


anyhow, the songs sounds nicer than the one in alpha ta'hahaa; in ma opinion~




by the way, untouched.hart, love your observation

i did notice something blue dangling between hiroto`s legs (don`t get any perverted ideas!) the first time around, but i can see the the other things too now ... like shou`s shoes xDDD

tora`s acoustic looks a bit out of place though ...


how sexy is nao when he`s lying in the bed of flowers >< but is the back of his hair really that long O________O?

i hope they release MIRRORBALL as a double A-sided single because i think eraser would do well in the charts !!

btw -- you can d/l HQ versions from tonarimachi@LJ

just 11 more days now ...

WOW SO MANY REPLIES!

well anyway, oh so he used to be tone deaf S:

i never knew it was something you could fix LOL!
but i heard you could adapt to it (:
so yeah xD

i noticed shous shoes which i think dont match his white clothes o_o"
and obviously sagas leg band thingy

ima watch the rest now ^^"

EDIT!:
well i just watched again, and i noticed it all ^^"

has anyone noticed how they emphasize more on Hiroto than Tora lately? o_o"

maybe it's just me ..

OKAY EDIT AGAIN:
maybe it is just me ><", i think i've just been noticing hiroto more now ><"
but i still kinda remember tora doing the lead guitar parts ><"
man im so lost ><"

^ Really? I never really noticed they emphasised on Hiroto. xD All I noticed was that he was lead in Eraser. :3

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for some reason.....................................................the back of his neck looks very sexayyy.

...三日のモリっカ, I agree. Ahahs. XD

Wee ~ I thought the colours contrasting against their white clothes was interesting. ^^' Though, I never noticed what colour Nao was. x__x I think, yellow? o.O
I wonder if anyone is gonna do a PV analysis. :D! -looks around hopefully-

Hehe. It's those articles I read this whole week that made me this way...I notice small things because of reading and analyzing too much >.<
The after effect is still here....haha.


But I did notice that there is a lot of emphasis on Hiroto lately. He had the guitar solo in MIRROR BALL as well as the guitar solo in Eraser too.
Hiroto is the lead guitarist right? I remember reading somewhere where it said he was...I don't mind though, cause Hiroto is pretty darn adorable and his
guitar skills are awesome too ^^

I'm stuck between the Hiroto's guitar solo in Mirror Ball and Tora's in Jewels. So many good solos!

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^
^
well, Tora had the solo in TSUBASA - thats basically their most successful single to date in terms of mainstream Japan.
I'm guessing their fanbase grew from the popularity of TSUBASA, and the new fans grew to love Hiroto and wanted more of him, therefore alice nine. and the producers, directors etc. decided to emphasize more on the growing popularity of Hiroto.

e.g cosmic world was mainly Hiroto, although JEWELS was basically only Toras.

That's only my theory, I'm not for sure xD

BUT, if Hiroto was always the lead guitar, it wouldn't make sense for Tora to really have any solos would it?
I think they're both the lead guitar which support one another, but I've always seen Tora to be more of the main guitarist until now.

<3 alice nine.

true, true, but anyway it doesn't really matter who is lead or not, they're both very talented in their own ways and alice nine wouldn't exist w/o them.

i`ve mostly seen tora as the lead, like since the beginning, but lately i think they`ve been swapping because tora wants to work on his rhythms a bit more ... but it doesn`t matter ... they both do an equally good job <33

actually but i have noticed tora getting a lot of camera time lately ... like he got the last solo shot in MIRRORBALL

but for some reason, i think tora has lots of fans in japan ... i don`t know what makes me think it though (minus personal bias)

and tora`s guitar solo in TSUBASA is omfg i can`t explain it ... it`s like i always have to rewind and listen to it again ... kinda like shou`s scream in the beginning of -dice-


ahh btw they`re on the cover of neo genesis 22 with the MIRRORBALL concept



and something completely unrelated -- has anyone heard the Tribute to Phantasmagoria album ??? is anyone else just a little disappointed >< especially by Bergerac`s "Actuate Eden" (like bergerac can seriously do sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better), and by hurts` "Unknown zero distance"? Siva`s "NEO ARK" was pretty good though ><

*sigh* nao never gets enough camera time... T_T

you're right, nao doesnt have much.
that's because drummers never have any camera time, unless of course they're the singer

Tora and Hiroto both having solo is nothing i have against, i was just used to Tora o_o"
lol

hm yeh before i heard Tora was the lead guitarist and then not long ago i heard from alot of people that Hiroto is the lead =S
it seems like they kinda switched or probably taking turns haha. but yeh both their solos are awesome though <3

ok, this is totally random from the guitar lead issue we're discussing, but is tora doing fine these days? taking care of himself better and is he getting better or is he better already?..sorry for throwing these stupids questions out there on the plate.

Yeah, I guess they are taking turns. It would only be fair ^^
But yeah, I always thought it was Tora at first but then came across this interview
while hunting for SID interviews and Shou said that Hiroto was the resident lead guitarist

I had a good laugh reading it though....Tora and frozen KITKATS LOL

Here's the link if anybody wants to read it. ZY Vol. 29 short interview

and b06 I am wondering about Tora too. I have a feeling he's getting better ^^

^^ well, if he wasn't, I doubt that the rest of alice nine would let him play :3

rofl, they're both good guitarists :]


Has anyone else noticed Hiroto kinda lip syncing along to Eraser in the pv? ^^"

It's at some points where you would see the whole band playing along ^_________^"
Looks cool! x]

yeah i kind of notice that too, it was cute.

^
yeah same here i notice it a lot...i thought he also did it during White Prayer PV as well o.O;;

hmm

here are some stuff in the eraser PV that I'm wondering if people saw :3

00:52 as someone said, hiroto is mouthing the lyrics, and tora flipped his guitar

01:09 saga shaking his head<3

02:52 as someone said, nao doing his cute thing that no one can really describe

03:48 hiroto spinning around

I know that some of the stuff happens regularly on performances and other PVs, but they're still so cute <3

ROFLL. SAGA LIKES KIMURA TAKUYA?!! haha. (referring to the interview ) ..

for some reason, i just find it so... funnay XD



anyhow, hiroto spin around alot, but it's so cute (o u o )/ i really would like to hear him sing once (have he?)
"The way he pressed the buzzer at the Family Restaurant although he hadn't decided on his order, and then was unsure about what he should get, was original." <--- that is too adorable :3




by the way, just out of curiosity, does anybody play bass or guitar here o u o ?

Yeah Alice Nine are so cuutttee. . . I'm starting to love the eraser PV more now but hehe I still love mirrorball!!!

yeah hiroto spins a lot, he does in cosmic world that's for sure x]

he also has this way of playing the guitar where it kinda looks like he's staring at the ceiling/sky and his arm points up o_o"

anyone know what i mean? xD

haha yeh i liked how he lipsynced in White Prayer xD haha and also in Number Six PV as well haha



haha yeh i love when hiroto spins!! haha it's so cool and cute haha.
i really wanna play bass haha, actually i really wanna learn accoustic guitar first. bass guitars are so expensive though ><


^haha!! i think i know what you mean lol

At first I only notice Hiroto with his adorable little lipsync but then I check these out and omgosh so cute!
Thanks for sharing! ^__^ Haha Nao is sooo adorable for words :x *gives him starbucks*
Have you guys checked Nao's blog entries? I swear it's the cutest(randomest) blog EVER ♥

i wanna check the blogs but ive never actually read any of them o_o"

they come in english too right? S:

^ Nah, they're all in Japanese ~ X:
But they're translated on Live Journal, though.

... I went to go check Nao's ameblo though, and gosh, he updates DAILY. His spam is cute though. xD;

lol, oh

live journal makes me go fisdhfidjiofjsoifj it so complicated there's no button that says "join community" you have to click another button to get to a page that says it =="

so confusing im angered lol
could someone show me how to access these things?

^

There's a 'Join this community' link at the top of every community (there should be).


Once you click on the link, it will lead you to this page then you will click on the 'Join community' button and you're all done. Well, it does lead to another page after that which asks if you want to add the community to your friends list and you have the option to include it in your custom friends group.

Hopefully this makes sense.

^

you, i just love you, no seriously, i do (:

alice nine. on the cover of the March issue of SHOXX.



..Am I the only one who enjoys the idea of alice nine. + nice looking car? ;D


-facepalm-
Oh oh, isn't this the photoshoot Nao was talking about on his blog where he was holding a gun and wanted to take the car?

^ Ooooh Alice Nine & a shiny black car >=D

Many of Nao's blogs are about food LOL

I love what Nao does in Eraser xD
I also like what Hiroto does at the beginning of the Eraser PV. He sorta does this kick behind him.

Okay~ so I have time to come back here after a week of undesirable exile. *___* I can't believe I missed not only Mirrorball's pv release but also Eraser's!!! -dies- I'm still waiting for the pv link to work though. T_T... my computer crashed last week and I lost some of Alice Nine stuffs along with my other 'fangirl' stuffs. -sigh-

><... hmm... at this rate maybe I might get to finish the pv's after an hour. internet connection's slow... computer's slow... everything's just.............. -exhales- slow

My friend got to order the cd's we've preordered and it'll arrive a few days before mah birthday! YAY! -celebrates-

fallen-anjoOL: XD... no, I don't think you're the only one who enjoy's that train of thought

alice nine.: xD... if you want to read blog posts that are sensible, avoid Nao's~ ahaha... his food blog posts are just too crazy *not to mention cute* But Shou's and Hiroto's are Ok. >_<... Saga and Tora takes forever to post

-after some time of waiting for the pv to load-

I read the comments on the Mirrorball pv link and some fans really don't like their new style.
For some reason... I don't know how to react. XP I like their music... new and old. <33 though I have to admit they do great hard rock songs. I never liked listening to songs with some shouting involved... until Alice Nine came along~~

Puhaha, for some reason, when I look at the cover now... I think of pin up models. Ahem. Yeah. XDDD;

Anyway, their 'new style' has lasted for a bit, hasn't it? With TSUBASA and now, Mirrorball. Alpha had some of their heavy stuff, and White Prayer had The Last Empire which really surprised me when I listened to it. ^^;
I actually like how they vary between the two styles. Lighter to a heavier side.

.. I do miss some of their hard rock songs, though. But I'm still happy with what they're producing.

And, omg, I agree with 'I never liked listening to songs with some shouting involved... until Alice Nine came along~~ ^^;

.. I ramble a lot. o___o;;

o_o"

i really like alice nine.s style, they've changed a lot throughout the years, at first their style was so much more messier, now it's like neat and tidy xD

they used to have a lot of stuff on their clothes, it had patterns on it etc. but since jewels i think it's been more of a uniform for them xD, neat and tidy as i said xD

Tsubasa i believe is a really neat looking uniform xD, reminds me of the black parade, but i shouldn't mention that lol

Hmm their music, at first i was like "ehhh" with their music, because i didnt really like shous voice, it was really messy xD
But after i listened to jewels (which i believe really really REALLY shows "shous" true vocal capacity) i began to love them o_o". Now i reckon shou's voice is really nice and different, to me it doesnt sound like many other jrock voices.
i never liked screaming till a diff band got me into it, im not gonna mention them (:
Their heavy stuff took me time to get used to, but everything to do with alice nine. for me now is like <3
But i prefer their softer stuff, however their 7 min ballad 虹彩 is like .. to long for me xD

i also ramble on too much o_o"

btw anyone remember how they got into a9? x]

a few days till the single comes out o_o"

fallen-anjoOL : Yeah there are so many comments about Alice Nine.'s new stuff. I was never a fan of rock music till I heard Alice Nines song. especially White Prayer which is a big love love love for me.

I think that Alice Nine. has a flexible kind of music since they're able to shift from one style to another without actually losing the alice nine. touch. . . hehehe am I making any sense here?

I kinda miss their heavier stuff too but the current music they're producing now are still love. . . Nothing is wrong with change, actually its kinda nice that they're open to trying newer stuff right? Hehehehe maybe as fans it would be best if we also drift along with them neh?

alice nine. : lols I actually just downloaded one of their songs and never really tried listening to it till some weeks later and after that the rest is history lols. I can't live without their songs now hahahahaha. . .

the first picture i saw of alice nine. was the one where it has hiroto and shou and hiroto puts up his finger (:
i think you know what it is xD
i really thought they looked like girls xD

alice nine. became my favourite band around the time tsubasa came out : D
sigh how i wish i could go japan and meet those boys one day

problem is i dont speak english .. or engrish :]

btw. didnt i just steal the best username xD

QUOTE (alice nine. @ Mar 22 2008, 10:25 PM)

But after i listened to jewels (which i believe really really REALLY shows "shous" true vocal capacity) i began to love them o_o". Now i reckon shou's voice is really nice and different, to me it doesnt sound like many other jrock voices.
i never liked screaming till a diff band got me into it, im not gonna mention them (:
Their heavy stuff took me time to get used to, but everything to do with alice nine. for me now is like <3
But i prefer their softer stuff, however their 7 min ballad 虹彩 is like .. to long for me xD

i also ramble on too much o_o"

btw anyone remember how they got into a9? x]

a few days till the single comes out o_o"

I thought Jewels was really emotional. I cried listening to it once. Ahahahs. I think his vocals are amazing in it. *0* (Yes, I say that at the risk of sounding too fangirly. :3)
Anyway, in the beginning, I stayed away from their heavy stuff but then I listened to Yami ni Chiru Sakura and BAM! Love.
Even though some people say Shou's voice is hard to handle, I actually quite like his voice. It's unique. Soothing, really. I think it's really good that he's striving to become better with his vocals too (voice lessons and all.)

Oh, I remember how! Bebo, puhahaha. I watched the White Prayer PV over and over again. ^^;
How did you?~

QUOTE (alice nine. @ Mar 22 2008, 10:52 PM)

sigh how i wish i could go japan and meet those boys one day

problem is i dont speak english .. or engrish :]

btw. didnt i just steal the best username xD

Whereabouts are you from? ^^; Australia?! xDD;
Engrish is awesome, puhaha. (I'm suddenly reminded of Tora & Saga's english in that J-Melo comment thing.. ahahs.)
And, yes, you snagged the best username. ;D

QUOTE (SamLien @ Mar 22 2008, 10:45 PM)

fallen-anjoOL : Yeah there are so many comments about Alice Nine.'s new stuff. I was never a fan of rock music till I heard Alice Nines song. especially White Prayer which is a big love love love for me.

I think that Alice Nine. has a flexible kind of music since they're able to shift from one style to another without actually losing the alice nine. touch. . . hehehe am I making any sense here?

I kinda miss their heavier stuff too but the current music they're producing now are still love. . . Nothing is wrong with change, actually its kinda nice that they're open to trying newer stuff right? Hehehehe maybe as fans it would be best if we also drift along with them neh?

alice nine. was the band that actually introduced me to the 'jrock' genre and well, japanese music in general. ^^; It was White Prayer that introduced me to them, actually. Ahahs, so naturally, I have a soft spot for that song.
I agree with you, and yeah, you make complete sense ~


[edit]
I just realised, on the cover of SHOXX, Shou's holding a gun! 8D

YAY! Finally watched both pv's (and not to mention downloaded)! XD... I had my sister reformat the whole computer just for that~ lols
Anyhoots~ Mirror Ball's Ok... it wasn't what I expected but pwahaha it was good! X3 my sister was rambling on and on about how Shou looks absolutely gorgeous. ^^;; Eraser... it kinda made me laugh. I like this version better than the Alpha one but it does sound a bit boyband-ish to me. xD

fallen-anjoOL: XD.... Pin-up models?? LOL~ well that's basically what I love about Alice Nine. They shift styles but they manage to retain the Alice Nine spice. Ahaha... again I must say that you're not the only one who loves to ramble a lot!

^.^... I also stayed away from the heavy stuffs at first. *.*... hey! Yami ni Chiru Sakura is one of the first hard rock Alice Nine song I heard (and watched) too! It was just Ok to me. *________________* and then came Kowloon! Gawd! I have to admit I'm still hung up on that song~ The PV was freakishly appealing to me too! *Q* imo Tora looks absolutely hott there!

LOL! You reminded me of that ENGURISH segment of Tora and Saga!!! -dies of laughter- Saga was hilarious! I also just noticed that Shou is in fact holding a gun when you mentioned it~ XD

alice nine.: first off... yes... you did snag the best username~ 8D... maybe I should change mine to Nao? Or... or.. Hiroto!

Ah yes~ I recall their very visual clothing style pv's. It was~ awwwesoommeee.... 8D I'm definitely aiming for Shou's/Hiroto's Gradation outfit. Their new outfits are just fine~ nothing excessive. +_+ plus, we get to see their somewhat natural beauty~


ahaha... blame it on my sister! She was watching/fangirling over Akatsuki and Ruri no Ame at that time. She has this certain appeal to drag people to her fandom.

Oh and I just remembered this comment in youtube about Nao not liking fans typing "a" instead of "Alice". XD... it was funny~ the poster wrote it was Shou who said that and that everytime Nao sees "a9" instead of "alice nine".... he does a strange dance. O_O... then Shou looked concerned! x3... I wanna see Nao's strange dance! LOL!

SamLien: yep~ you're totally making sense. ^^... I think I said something similar to that in this post. O.o... well... somewhere in this post.

And of course~ I agree... we should just drift along with them and support them. They still make good music afterall~

^haha i love your sig xD it's soo cute hehe
wow i never heard about how Nao does that strange dance when he sees fans type "a9" LOL. i only type a9 when im really lazy lol.

first i heard alot of alice nine before i got into them.. i always saw their pictures everywhere and i thought they were reallly pretty, especially Shou. honestly, i thought they were ALL girls when i first saw their pictures because i thought Shou looked like a pretty girl so i assumed the rest were :X haha. anyways i didnt get into them until my friend showed me their Number Six PV! haha the song was so catchy and i thought Shou was really hot. and yes it was then i realised they were all guys! LOL
and then after that i listened to a few more songs and then my friend gave me more of their music and then i become a fan xD haha

lol xD i think i had the weirdest introduction to alice nine

i was in my "nauseatingly cute bubblegum jpop" stage, and i was looking around for songs

and the "alice" in alice nine made me think that it was one of those girl groups xD

so i downloaded some of their songs and put it in my ipod

...you can say that I was shocked :3

but i was too lazy to erase them off so i ended up listening to them a few times while i set my ipod on random

and then i realized that i liked them<3




and :3 this is from a long time ago, but it's cute
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=UEnxyeWb-Yo&...feature=related
nao falls, but as someone commented, it's cute how nao laughs it off, and how the other members come running to help, and then start laughing when they see that he's ok xD

hahah, my friend actually showed me them at the start of 2007, like the very beginning, and well i didnt really like them that much - soon after jewels came out and from there i started getting used to his lovely voice xD
months later - news of white prayer - which i have to admit sounds very jrock to me (sorry if you take offense XD)
then all of a sudden TSUBASA!! <3
<3 no seriously <3 .. oh and ruri no ame <3
oh and the j-melo thing lol, its cool how they actually responded to the show and that fan ^^"
i want to send a letter now XD

I live in melbourne lol :]
oh and bebo huh? i use that heaps : D, im always on that alice nine. band >___>" you'd probably know who i am
this one here lol


yeah i type a9 when i cant be bothered typing their whole name XD
a dance ey? let's go make nao dance :D
i actually watched FANTASY first, which is like a classic for me
yup im surprised no one took this username earlier x]


It's funny how people like us kinda just adapt to their looks o_o"
and immediately we'd know they're guys, well that's how i see them anyway o_o"
i thought shou was the BIGGEST pretty boy ever, envy envy xD
number six was a good song, i never found number six, as in.. that mini movie ):


ROFL! "bubblegum jpop" i recall one of my friends raging at bubblegum pop songs x], funny funny times - that's outta topic, but i used to be into jpop and all - which i still partly am, but now im all jrock ftw O:
when i first listened to alice nine. all i could say was "ewww his voice" but but

now i dont see it that :D now for me it's like "yay his voice!"

it's good that you were to lazy to erase them, but why would you just put the songs into your ipod without listening to the song first o_o"

lol :3 I do that a lot, just download a bunch of stuff and put it in, and then listen to them later xD

hehe, cuz I was introduced pretty late to alice nine, I heard their more recent songs, where shou's voice has improved a lot



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I know nothing about guitars, but I have a question:

the way tora plays seems to be unique, it's hard to describe ^^; but i haven't seen other guitarists play like that

he... kinda.. um.. touches the strings in a certain way.. um lol i don't know how to explain it...

but i really love how he plays it, he looks so carefree and he makes it look so effortless