You are spot on. The U.S. music industry is worse than you know. They have successfully lobbied for laws and policies that make it expensive for foreign artists to perform here. So entertainment is a protected industry, even more than steel or petroleum.

All their CD albums are available on every amazon I checked, but DvDs and merch are only obtainable through japanese retailers. To be fair regarding tours, we had this whole covid situation going on, before that Lovebites did come to Europe a few times, hopefully they get to resume those activities soon.

Its definitely not a Lovebites only problem, pretty much every band in a big company suffers from it, the only bands I see having good online presence are bands that are or started independently and have young people that understand the internet responsible for that.

Maybe they should reach out to a North American label if possible? I'm actually pretty annoyed that Lovebites and Band-Maid arnt household names yet. And Band-Maid has been to the states twice and going back in the spring..

Definitely no complains about the art/concept direction of the band. I didnt even want to post the video right after the announcement of the new album, but this was a video I wanted to make for so long, even before I even had a channel.

Alessandro Arrigo, Why you think Finnvox Studios are top notch for Lovebites, have you ever listened to Studio versions from Lovebites, The overall sound mix is utter bullshit , The band sounds live 10 times better than all the Studio recordings , and then the live sound most people like to hear most is also crap , or do you really think a Stereo mix of the 2 Guitarists makes sense when you at the venue if you stand far right you can't hear Midori and vice versa , it is not a record/CD nor a dvd you hearing , and if you need headphones to hear all what is going on in the Mix , well than , the Mix is Bullshit. In my opinion they should go for the live sound for their Studio recordings and change the Studio there are much better options than the Finns . BTW going to the Finns why they have mixed a lot of Bands in the Genre does not mean it fit Lovebites , While their overall Style is in my opinion Iron Maidenish, maybe the should look at the Guys doing the recordings and live mixes for them it would have made more sense .

It might be worth trying in Amazon prime video japan, it was region blocked to me but it might be available in other places

One of the reasons I made this video is so hopefully someone that has any sort of power will watch the video and make something about it. Personally im not in favor of spamming the members about this, but people should definitely try contacting Victor Ent.

Do you think it would be impudent to politely bring this up in response tweets to members? Because that's the only way I know that could reach someone. I got likes from Midori and Asami for response tweets of mine, so I know they read the comments. Or maybe emails to the label. If several fans write at once, someone might wake up.

@@oliphant2848 It might be worth a shot, as long as we are respectful I dont think they would take offense.

@@oliphant2848 The band members would not respond, they would not say anything contrary to the management/label. The management/label rules with an iron fist unfortunately.

@@guitarzen5999 I wouldn't want them to respond or embarrass themselves, just pass it on. But you are probably right, they have too little influence, so it's probably better not to bother them.

I discovered Lovebites thanks to reaction channels as well, despite the free promotion these channels do, japanese labels still try to fight against them.

The fan boys, that say I should learn japanese, when I complain about everything in japanese...? An incredible stupid comment

I can understand how it can be seen as nit-picky, I actually was expecting many more responses like yours, but it doesnt seem that way. Obviously as a fan I want more and want the band the have more, so its frustrating for me to witness it not happening at a satisfactory rate, especially when the company that is supporting them could be doing so much more. Honestly Im quite surprised with your stance on the matter, you being one of the few people that are present in almost every Lovebites' video comment section, obviously you understand the importance of the internet and the importance of a strong online presence.

@@nanoscorner6976 The pandemic set the whole program back at least two years. And then we lost our bass player. And then Miyako and Asami became new moms. Lovebites has regrouped, and they are ready to make a big comeback. Have patience, it will happen. It is their destiny. Yes, we support them always. Wolfpack united for Lovebites! This is us!

@@TheCyberMantis Yes a lot has happened in the last 2 years, thats exactly why believe it was the perfect opportunity for victor to step up and make the band have a strong online presence when they couldnt perform or be together. This online presence doesnt have to require any extra effort from the members, it can come from footage that is already recorded, uploading content that the members themselves do, etc. As a few examples, uploading drumcam videos and shorts, is something that doesnt require any additional effort from them.

@@nanoscorner6976 well spoken!

Your english is completely understandable, thank you for your comment. As you said, youtube made it possible to bands to reach out to more people, thats why I'm saying they put more effort into their youtube channel, the more videos there are, the more videos get recommended to people and the more people will become fans.

I fully understand your point, and of course, it is always risky to make assumptions about another culture. But you said it yourself: Lovebites and Band-Maid are not well known in Japan. The foreign market is their main market. So they should be investing 10x in building that foreign market. Instead, they ignore it. That is just stupid.

@@hiawatha.g The label they belong to has many singers and musicians. Labels can't just budget for only them. If you know the reality of the music industry, you can't say it's stupid. How can a label spend advertising money on these girls in an era when CDs don't sell? Times have changed. We live in an era where real artists are advertised by fans, not by only labels. And you know Band Maid. How did you know? That's all.

@@toqtoq9094 Yes, I know all of these bands because of fan-to-fan word of mouth. That is not evidence that Victor is doing the right thing. It is evidence that they are wasting an opportunity. You have to invest time and money to make a return. The whole point of this video was that Victor thinks of the market only in terms of CD sales. Exactly your point: they should be investing in other forms of distribution.

greetings from germany. thank you for your point of view (in very fine english). I get the point. but this band is so good. their talent, performance skills, charisma and composing skills are on the highest level. they are could be greater than loudness. and japan should be so proud of them (their metal/rock scene in generral too) and probably is. lovebites really should be a living national treasure. they won metal hammers best newcomer award and the band has kept its then made promise, produce music that is loved overseas and became better and better. when they were touring in europe, people immediately loved them so much, although only a few knew them before. my opinion is, if you manage a precious jewel like this band, what only comes along once a decade or longer, you have the responibility and obligation to give the best you can, to promote them. music (especially of this caliber) is not only a trade asset, but also a rare cultural treasure.

yeah, CDs and DvDs is something im not interested in, but I considered many times buying merch even with the cost of shipping and import taxes, but everything I want is always out of stock so I never actually got anything yet.

I agree. The reason why I buy Lovebites products is the quality of both the music itself and the technical quality of audio and video. And no matter how great their music would be, if it didn't exist in the form of great studio CD and live performances on blu-ray, I wouldn't need it. The sound quality in streaming does not suit me.

That is one very lovely, but flawed mentality if you ask me. There is so much quality out there in the world that never sees the light of day, reality is, if people dont know you exist doesnt really matter how good you are.

@@nanoscorner6976 I'm not saying it's "correct". I'm not advocating for it as the way to go. I'm merely pointing out the reality of how Japanese companies think. Unfortunately as you say ....a lot of great quality in many things goes under noticed while mediocre things are hyped to the moon and back. Merely because they have good marketing.

As Nano pointed out, other Japanese bands seem to have discovered the wonders of marketing nevertheless. Victor Entertainment seems to be behind the times.

The truth is many people like painting this picture that singing in english is absolutely necessary, and from what I see Japanese Labels do they must think that is all that is needed, but as we can see with the success of Band-Maid, Babymetal and the absolute rise of kpop, maybe english lyrics arent that mandatory. What is indeed mandatory in todays market is, well, good marketing, online presence, etc...

They definitely have a lot of material, but I guess they just dont release it to not affect their physical sales, which I honestly think wouldnt suffer than much, as the main buyers are the Japanese audience that will consume physical media anyway. Either way theres a lot of material that doesnt get out even in physical form and thats when it becomes something I can't understand the logic of...

That is definitely the case, and its not even a problem in the music industry alone. Japan in general has a really hard time opening themselves to the outside world, we can see for example, anime nowadays is faily accessible, but for many years we could only watch it illegally with unofficial fansubs. Same for music, just a few years ago it was really hard to find japanese music in streaming services, now it is much better. So, I know this isnt a Lovebites specific problem, but Lovebites is the band I care the most about, the band I want to have the most success and the band I want to talk about.

I heard it somewhere that part of the problem is that the cost is too high for foreign bands to gain permission/access/license or whatever it's called to have their music played in the USA. At least the cost is higher than what they want to pay. I think it was from an interview I heard from the band when asked about touring in the USA. That it was easier to reach the UK and Europe.

@@ChadTheDragonLord Im not well versed on those things, so I cant really talk about licensing in the US or touring, however good online presence is "free", they dont have to pay any US based company to upload more videos on youtube or have better activity on Instagram.

@@ChadTheDragonLord I’m not 100 percent sure but I think that in the UK is a larger market for metal and rock music than in the US witch focuses on the younger demographic for pop music and R&B (Taylor Swift’s and Justin Biebers) and even country music hence why a lot of bands like to go to metal festivals in the UK like Wacken or Bloodstock for example because it’s more appreciated than American mainstream crap. That’s just my guess

@@nanoscorner6976 In principle, all works by authors/publishers who have entrusted copyrights to JASRAC are JASRAC-managed works. Copyrights belong to the Japan Music Copyright Association (JASRAC). The publisher of LOVEBITES here is Victor Music Arts Inc. Victor has entrusted the copyright to "JASRAC". I believe "JASRAC" is also the administrator of KZfaq. JASRAC" is more concerned with the contribution of "JASRAC" than with the development of "LOVEBITES". They are destroying the free advertising benefits that are far more effective than the cost-effectiveness of the labels' advertising. Even when KZfaq Riactors create reaction content for LOVEBITES and are surprised and interested, they are almost always discouraged from creating further reaction content because of copyright infringement. Recently, "JASRAC" won the right to enforce copyright on sheet music used by piano schools in court. The development of "JASRAC" is more important than the training of future musicians.

I can get any of the DvDs in physical form, the point I was making is that impossible to watch them online, since thats how most people consume media nowadays, plus it comes with additional costs such as shipping and import taxes.

@@nanoscorner6976 yeah - you have to watch the concert songs individually - thankfully most of them are there on youtube. you just can't see the entire concerts

I would blame the japanese music industry in general and to a certain extent Japanese culture as well, these companies are always run by older people with older views and ideals, due to the japanese culture of always respecting elder and seniors, etc, the young people that have good ideas are ignored or looked down on for rebelling against the elders, as a result we get a music industry that is stuck in the past.

US rock radio is largely terrible, forget about lovebites my station in Orlando doesn't even play a massive band like Iron maiden or Megadeth.

@Stevo Even though it all costs money, I'm thankful for KZfaq, Spotify. Sonos, and SiriusXM. I do miss the old days though. Early MTV, including Headbangers Ball. WERS in Boston (Emerson College) with Nasty Habits, Sunday Nights 11PM-1AM. I made many cassettes listening over the years. It was free.

@@stevo7373 FM radio is a thing of the past. There are several Sirius XM satellite radio stations that play heavy metal. Ozzy's Boneyard plays Iron Maiden and Megadeth as well as all the other 80s and 90s bands. There are other XM channels that play modern metal like Black Veiled Brides, Lorna Shore, Lamb of God, Gojira, Cannibal Corpse, and Pantera among others. Another channel plays - Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Korn, Shinedown, Avenged Sevenfold, Seether, Nothing More, Stone Sour, Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, and Volbeat. There is a Hair Metal channel too. They should make an effort to get airplay on Sirius XM, and other streaming music sites.

You are missing a big piece of it. Unlike Europe, where most countries are open to artists, the U.S. is a protected market. Visas for performing artists (music, theatre, dance etc) are a special class that are extraordinarily hard to get, the tax policies make it impossible to make money, and customs enforcement makes it difficult even to bring your own equipment into the country. The only major markets in the world that are as restrictive are Iran (for religious reasons) and China (for political reasons). Our restrictions don't even have that kind of excuse. It's just to protect our hopelessly bad pop music industry. Couple that with Victor's basic conservatism and lack of initiative, and you have a pretty steep uphill climb. Just FYI, the recent extremely successful, instantly sold-out 14 city Band-Maid tour, did not make any money.

Those are obviously valid points, and things I considered mentioning, but didnt end up doing. Although I have some counter points, for example, in regards to covid, as you said the band wasnt able to be together very often and concerts were limited, that is all the more reason they should have a stronger online presence. Victor could have made way more posts on social media and specifically here on youtube, we are talking about activity that didnt need the members to come together, for example, releasing drumcam videos, its something that is already filmed and rotting away in a harddrive somewhere, releasing shorts here on youtube, again, something that was done by the members, alone at their homes, etc Basically theres a lot that victor can do that doesnt put an extra burden on the members, while they are busy with their lifes.

Yes, which is exactly why they should have posted more stuff online.

@@nanoscorner6976 Exactly what I was going to respond with. It shouldn't take much work or cost to post more videos on social media outlets.

Hey, first of all thank you for all the work you do translating things for the overseas metal community. I think I do understand the problems pretty well, what I dont understand is why they decide to debut a band and think english lyrics is all they need to do. Now, as to the point of Lovebites being an exception with being one of the few artists that sing in english in hopes to enter another market, well, Victor Entertainment just debut a new metal band (Lonesome_Blue) which again they are trying to promote to the outside with english lyrics (written by Asami). So now that they have two metal bands they want to be successful internationally, maybe its time to a person or team to specifically work with these 2 bands and help them. Unlucky Morpheus is indeed an independent band, not sure as to Nemophila as I dont really follow them, my understanding is that they started independently but are now signed with some company? But indeed these bands being independent and having control over how they market themselves is really good, perhaps if the bigger companies arent willing to do the work they should just let their musicians do it then...

I tried to setup a tenso account and got rejected for some reason, didnt bother to try a second time, it should be as simple a registering, adding a delivery address and paying. I'd love for more people to talk about this, especially channels with bigger reach, but most just really bother making reactions, which is still good and more than Victor does.

Yeah, I won't go through a 3rd party proxy. I want to buy direct. Lovebites needs an International Fan Club, and a merch store where we can buy direct. I don't mind paying international shipping, but I will not go through a proxy.

They are releasing a video on Dec 23/24. How soon did you want them to put something out? It takes time to create one you know.

@@nanoscorner6976 I've complained to them over a year ago that they should make an English version of the fan club. The response was they do want to do that at some point, but it hasn't happened yet. If their new album and concerts do well, maybe they will get back on it. VE is probably waiting to see how strong of a comeback they make.

The reality is, judging by my analytics, most Lovebites' fans are Japanese people on their +50s, people can blame this on their music just not being appealing to younger generations, and that is probably the case. But young people still listen to metal and most importantly they are extremely online, so having content that can reach these audiences is extremely important. Will lovebites find huge success if they start getting well managed and marketed? maybe not, but they will definitely be more successful then they are today.

@@nanoscorner6976 i cant find an email address for victor entertainment to send the message to . i heard that the age and marital status of the girls also plays a big role in whether corporate wants to promote the group. they may not gain a huge following in japan but if they were promoted internationally, which isn't happening, I can see these girls becoming a supergroup on a par with metallic etc, filling stadiums .

@@eyeflynoosa The only email I know exists is this one: lovebites_info@ve.jvcmusic.co.jp let me know if you can read this comment, so I can know if youtube isnt blocking the comment because the address could be seen as spam or something

@@nanoscorner6976 I see it, but when I included it in my comment, the comment with the email suggestion was deleted. Funny algorithm, KZfaq has.

I actually filmed this video 3 times, the first one was 40 minutes long and I did speak about the costs of shipping, import taxes, etc, and even did a few calculation on different items. Even on that first video I didnt get to talk about everything I wanted, if I did I would probably end up doing a 2h long video.

Apparently the Japanese MK works for Japan and you are the one who has to adapt to its shape, not the other way around.

We live in a time where people have short attention spans and quickly move on to something else, so I always argue that artists should strive to keep a strong presence, especially when there is nothing happening. As for audiences I dont think it matters what people are interested in, people can quickly fall in love with something they didnt know they liked, but if they arent being shown this band, then they obviously will never be fans. Its better to show a band to 100 people than to show them to just 10. As an example there is myself, I'm not a huge metal head, if fact while i've heard of many of the bands Lovebites is influenced by, I never really cared to listen to them, one they I stumbled upon a Lovebites reaction and fell in love immediately. Another example is me completely hating metal with screams/harsh vocals, but yet again falling in love with bands like Unlucky Morpheus and Hanabie.

But some of the stupid decision that Victor Entertainment has made wouldn't cost much if reversed; on the contrary, they would make them money, like the membership option on the official KZfaq channel that doesn't exist.

@@nanoscorner6976 I really enjoy lovebites, but most of my friends that listened to them said that they can't stand the voice of the singer. In fact one of my friends who's a big fan of metal since that he loves the music, but he can't get passed the singer's accent. He said he would probably enjoy them if she would just stick to singing in Japanese. I think the horrible pronunciation of English words, turns many people off. I mean, if I was an English singer I wouldn't even attempt to sing in Japanese unless I thought it would be really really good.

prideful, xenophobic yes, but greedy? No. They are leaving most of the money on the table. they are not greedy, just stupid.

I think you're going a bit too far with "xenophobic".

@@1970Phoenix probably right. "Insular" is a better term.

@@1970Phoenix The word exists for a reason.

@@warfossil All words exist for reasons. If you have evidence that "Japanese marketers" are "xenophobic", then please present it. If you don't, then you shouldn't be making such accusations.

The sad thing is, around the time Clockwork Immortality was released if I remember correctly , they had a distribution (and maybe marketing) deal with Nuclear Blast. NUCLEAR BLAST! Obviously that went nowhere. The reason I suppose is that no European executive would want to waste time promoting an unknown non-European band, having to deal with all the absurdity having to deal with Japanese management and marketing that entails, in addition with the obvious disinterest of Victor to do anything meaningful for their artists for the international market. I mean, Nuclear Blast of course would not waste any money promoting the artist of another label when that label refuses to invest in their own talent. JPU Records is the ONLY label willing to promote them and they do, because the person(s) running and managing the company are fans. But JPU is a small boutique label not a big label and management company and they basically do distribution. The fact that they do marketing at all is astonishing. The sad thing is, a big budget or something special is not needed. All they had to do is promote the band in the already popular platforms, in English. Look what Nemophila has done: a torrent of covers and original videos published on KZfaq, free and payed concerts during the pandemic on KZfaq, distributing their first album in Europe, a founding member tries to communicate in English for the benefit of the fans, she even appeared at Herman Lee’s Twitch stream to promote Nemophila and her own work! The Lovebites albums are barely available in digital music platforms and their live videos are completely unavailable, with the only exception Heavy Metal Never Dies that’s available in JPU Records. That’s unacceptable. They have an “international fan club “ only in Japanese , basically unreachable from the international fans and their distribution of physical products (cd, t-shirts and other merch) almost impossible for the international fans to find and buy and more expensive to boot, if/when the fans manage to navigate stores in Japanese , in unfamiliar platforms, paying more for shipping and other costs. If I was a Victor investor I would be pissed, I would want the heads of the CEO and the marketing department on a platter for all these unacceptable failures. Lovebites is a band with European style Power/Thrash metal music, with vocals and lyrics in English, that toured Europe with success in the past and the label and management does nothing with it. Nothing. They don’t even have the English lyrics on their live dvd’s. Nothing. The fans are doing the promoting themselves , with the KZfaq reaction scene and the band’s management doesn’t even bothering to communicate about the band and n English. I mean, fans are trying to figure out from google translate (!) what the members of the band or the management try to promote or communicate in Japanese only(!). That’s not sustainable. If things continue, the band will have lost a unique opportunity and the band’s popularity and influence will wane and they will end up like Aldious, touring in Japan to a standard audience, without further reach and without bigger influence and profits.

A lot of people discovered them through reaction videos, myself included, just goes to show how important the internet is to bring success to these bands.

Agrees with you on that. Don't use any of those services as well.

I understand the logic, but personally I dont see how the members wouldnt wont more exposure, I mean, Miyako recently going on fire on social media proves that, otherwise she would have kept posting at the rate she was posting before or even less, but no, she started posting way more.

@@nanoscorner6976 Well..The personal social media is one thing. The music industry is something else. I agree that Victor's work has been poor. It's the risk you run being in such a big company. With so many artists...... We do not know what is the relationship of the band with them. Is there mutual interest? What kind of contract do they have? What clauses are there?Are the girls happy with that or not?

@@pablomg9742 Obviously I can't know those sorts of things, but I would find it weird that a band that expressed interest in a global audience and decided to sing in English for that reason would be happy with the current situation, but yet again, I can't speak for them.

@@nanoscorner6976 Maybe this is a sign of more activity going forward.

The girls are clearly more in touch with todays reality than Victor, or Japanese Labels in general. They should just give the passwords to the members...

I didnt really criticize that Japan still buys physical media, I do find it odd. What I did criticize is that these Japanese labels that want their artists to have international success, shouldnt expect the outside to adapt to their market, but should instead adapt to the outside market. Making the concerts available to stream online in international platforms, wouldnt really hurt the sale of their physical media, in fact I am pretty positive they would just make more money, as the Japanese fans that are used to physical media would still be buying it, and the overseas fans would buy digital media, because its more convenient and cheaper than importing a physical product. Keep in mind that distribution of digital media is also much cheaper than distribution of physical media, as there is no production or transportation of a physical product. As an example lets look into HMND DvD vs Streaming from JPUrecords. HMND DvD price on CDJapan = 33€ HMND VoD Price on JPUr = 22€ The 33€ of the physical product are divided by a bunch of 3rd parties, Jp gov, CDJ, Production and distribution costs, etc, so in the end how much money does Lovebites/Victor make from those 33€, I can't know for sure, but I wouldnt be surprise if the Digital VoD of 22€ would be more actual profit. Also the fan buying the physical product still has to additional costs such as shipping and in my case import taxes, so for me with the cheapest shipping option it would cost actually 65€, between that and the 22€ I will pick the cheapest option any time as it is the optimal way of supporting the band in my case.

Rock & Metal are dead in the water in the west? maybe that is true for the US, in Europe it thrives. Most of my music are on harddrives but I still buy a lot of cds to support the artists, what Nano is pickin at is that Victor makes it hard if not impossible for fans to do the right thing. At the moment unless you read japanese it is probably easier to download Lovebites music illegally then to buy it, now who makes any profit from that? My opinion is that the person responsible at Victor is incompetent, simple as that.

@@fenrir6721 Yes. You are correct. I should have specified the US as being where it's dead in the water. But he did specifically call buying physical media "odd". I was not addressing Victor's handling of anything. You may have noted that I didn't even mention Victor. I was pointing out that Lovebites.....as well as the whole all women Japanese scene in part exists because of the musicians being able to make a living selling music. And thus having the ability to develop an audience and hone their craft. Thus there is nothing "odd" about most people in Japan buying physical media. I live in Japan btw.....It's about respecting the artists and paying for their music. Thus ensuring a bigger piece of the pie goes to the artists. It's how a system should work. The width and breadth of the Japanese music scene in general, and it's rock and metal scene in particular is proof of that. The bigger question is how does Lovebites succeed outside of Japan? You ask who benefits if people pirate the music? Obviously no one ..but given the crumbs any band makes from streaming.....they aren't benefitting from that either. So let's say Lovebites streams their music and then goes on tour. How do they make money exactly? They will get near nothing from streaming. They can't charge inflated ticket prices like the legacy bands do (a result of them making no money from streaming). And it costs money to tour and they have no name recognition. Not to mention they play a genre of music that has fallen out of favour in the mainstream of most of the world. In comparison to how well they can do in Japan. The world's second largest music market. Not saying they can't or won't. I'm just saying that I kind of see why they might not bother. But certainly you guys are right that a far better job of promotion online and on KZfaq and various other media sites can and should be done. As good marketing is the one way they could grow their audience large enough to justify the cost of touring more internationally. So I wasn't saying he was "wrong" in criticizing the lack of good promotion by Victor. I was addressing the fact that the Japanese scene exists due to its unique market. Clearly the challenge lies in how to translate that to the broader global market.

@@Sabundy I understand what you are saying completely, but your views seems to be that the only way of making a living is by physicals sales while the outside market clearly does fine with a mostly digital market. Both have pros and cons, some of the pros of digital market is cheaper production and distribution for example. Im also not arguing that they should stop selling physical products either, just that they should provide both, that way they ensure both the japanese market and the international market get the kind of product they consume.

That is unfortunately the case, the problem is not many people are willing to adapt, because its inconvenient, expensive and often times almost impossible.

@@nanoscorner6976 Absolutely right, it happened to me that I wanted to buy and it was quite an odyssey, the foreign user experience was very bad, you have to put pressure on this!

Doubt that is the case, Miyako especially clearly knows how to manage social media, if she had any say on the bands accounts it would most likely look very differently.

Nano's Corner beats me I'm going off what is being said by fans that follow guygin guys podcast and a American they interviewed currently making a living in japan as a musician sign to a japanese management firm. So if these bands are getting payed as employees they're not starving. Saki herself confirmed band members monitor the social media themselves along with the employee in charge of social media accounts for their band.

I can only give my opinion on this, Band-Maid quickly became famous because of their gimmick, the maid outfits, they are also a very fun band with a pop-y sound, their company sucks as much as victor so I cant give credit to them. Nemophila played the youtube game perfectly when everyone was stuck at home, spamming videos quickly made them famous, again they have a sound that might be more uploading and modern than Lovebites. Theres also a big difference in the age of the fans, Lovebites has an older audience while Nemo and Bandmaid have younger fanbases, although Im not really sure that really explains anything.

@@nanoscorner6976 well said, and that was the truth

Yes, I also noticed reactors complaining much less about reaction takedowns, it used to be a common complaint a few years ago. I think slowly things will get better, but why does it have to be so slow... we could get things going well so much faster.

@@nanoscorner6976 I sent messages a couple of times to VE to stop blocking YT videos and telling them how important it was to get new fans through YT, so maybe it helped? I will start mentioning to VE that they should work on increasing the band's social media presence and making music more available digitally.

No, I can use Amazon JP just fine, what I cant use is Amazon Prime Video JP, which is region blocked for me, give it a try and tell me how it goes? Again, im talking about buying a digital product for streaming, not the physical DvD/bluray.

KZfaq is the biggest platform where overseas fans are present, I wanted to bring this topic to attention of as many people as possible, and also see if people agree with me or if I would get burned alive.