MasaManiA [cultureJAP project]

Oy!
Great pictures! I love them.
I wish i could go to japan. It’s my dream.
I love Diru<3
Im myself is a little diru cosplayer/fruit girl from Sweden. But my cosplay sucks compared to these girls and boys *sob*
Thank you for this site masa, its really great and have given me many cool ideas!

i am a Dir en Grey fan, and the pictures here are really good, very good cosplayers too.

HEY people!
I’m a spanish Dir en grey’s Fan and I went to Berlin to saw the first Dir en grey european concert… it was great!! in Spain the are famous in the japanese fan circle!!
They are great!!
And Masa your photos are reallt realy great!! I take all of them, you are amazing doing this type of photos!!
Great Work!!

Gorgeous photos! Keep them coming, I can’t wait to see more.

dir en grey is the best band of j-music.
I am of Chile of latin america. Iam great fan of all the songs and of KYO,my favorite songs are mitsu to tsuba,decadence of mazohist,drain away,
obscure,saku,child prey,mr.newsman,umbrella.

Dir en Grey is my favourite band!
Ok,they have never bin to Sweden, and 9/10 doesn’t know how they are… it is horrible!
But they got a huge group of fans in Sweden to!
There were great photos!! I’m are going to send this seit to many others!
Bye

Wow, I feel so normal….xD
just red an black hear…oO
maybe some of them are a little bit crazy, but all are so cool…>.<
Like to see more pictures!

I think you need to be japanese for look like a freak and feel good, cool. Well, I know in all the world are freaks, but japaneses are the best!
I enjoy watching you pictures Masa… can you say “Hello Corpus” ? thank you, see you

DIR EN GREY RULEZZZ!!!

HI ^^.. WELL DIR EN GREY IS A VERY GREAT BAND I LOVE HIM AND I DON’T CARE IF THE FANS DRESSED LIKE THEM… I’M JUST WORRY FOR THE BAND NO FOR THE FANS ^^ WELL CONGRATULATION FOR THIS SITE A FRIEND SEND ME THIS PAGE AND SAY ME FOR THE COSPLAY’S JUST SHE WATCH A PICTURE AND FEEL ANGRY THE REASON THE FANS COSPLAYER ¬¬…
BYE FROM CHILE ^^?? BYE^^

Aaw, there should be more boys dressing up like boys dressing up like girls, why aren’t there any? >..<
Greetings from Sweden!

oh my god. that’s is the first reason when i heard their song and saw their personal. how can be kyochan wrote a greatest song like he was do? i love his lyrics on all his song. dir en grey is the J-rock king until the death!

I think Dir en Grey is a good band, but…I would never cosplay them. Cosplaying Dir en Grey is cool. The band has amazing music. Masa, Your pictures are amazing. Did you ever take photography at a university?
================from MasaManiA
No, i majored American literature. this is the reason i am stupid.

Well, I finally found some DeG videos on the internet…I thought I’d watch just one…then maybe another…next thing I knew, it was 3:45 AM. The music (and watching Kyo) is highly addictive. ^.~ I wonder what’s wrong with Kyo, though…”Someday I will fuck your parents”?!
WTF?!

I just re-read this thread…
Shin-chan, Shinya is only one of the five members of DeG, so, of course, fewer boys dress up like ‘boys dressing up like girls’.
Masa, hehe, look what I found…
http://www.youtube.com/?v=rjWWKWYTE14
I guess the one picture wasn’t a pink lolita, after all…she’s a strawberry lolita. I don’t think Die and Kyo think too highly of her outfit…
As for the end of the interview, I’ll pass on the eggs, but otherwise, I’d take a front row seat. >:) Also, I prefer Kyo’s voice to the translator’s.
The site also has 855 other DeG videos.

Kisaki,
If you watch the same video a couple dozen times (refresh or come back to the same page each time, don’t just replay), it loads much faster. I watched a couple 5-6 minute videos of DeG that only take a couple seconds to load, now.
Just stick ‘em in your favorites or a playlist for quick-reference.

Hey ^^
I’ve just found out about MasaManiA and I really feel like kicking myself in the butt for only finding it now.
MasaManiA is one of the things I’ve always been searching for in my life. I’m not trying to flatter you here. It’s just that I KNOW there are so many more uglier stuffs about Japan than what’s been shown to my eyes, but I can’t find ANY means of knowing more about the ugly sides of Japan.
Don’t get me wrong, even though I’m a non-Japanese, I’m still a big fan of many Japanese things or simply Japan in general. But.. yea.. You get what I’m trying to say, don’t you? ^^|||
Why do I comment on this entry of yours and not any other else? Well.. Maybe it’s because I’m a Dir en grey fan. ^^ =P
@ KyoOtaku — Uhm.. I’m guessing you were trying to say that Shinya’s the only one in Dir en grey who dress like a girl? (or -used- to dress like one) Actually, they’d all dressed in very feminine styles before. Especially Shinya and Toshiya. It’s just that Shinya had been dressing like a girl for a longer period of time. (Gosh, Toshiya’s styles during the GAUZE era is just.. I wanna do him *¬* And his fake boobs in the MACABRE era XD)
Back to what I want to say about MasaManiA.. ^^;
Since I’ve only found out about this site a few minutes ago, I really have a lot of catching up to do. I’ve read several entries already and they really enlighten me a lot about what’s going on in Japan “behind the scenes”.
About your english, I know you don’t particularly like people commenting about it but I’m still going to be frank with you here =X
Actually it’s not as bad as you might think ._. Trust me, I’ve seen waaaaaaaay much worse ones coming from native western english-speaking people.
At least, you put in an effort on using proper english. I’m not a Oh-My-God-WHOA type of english pro but I must say, the way many english-speaking people speak and type can be seriously asthma-inducing.
The english mistakes I spot on MAsaManiA are generally just some typos (which EVERYBODY is prone to), plus a few grammer errors here and there and that’s about it. O_o
Not to forget, with every journal update, your english seems to be improving yet again. O___o
I babble too much =XX
Today’s the first day of the Chinese lunar new year so I wish you a happy Chinese New Year! Hope this year would be healthy and fruitful for you.

I’ve been to a place where some dress were actually designed for the male figure. Shinya’s dresses don’t look like they were designed for men, but the outfits the other members wore COULD have fit in that catagory, for the most part. Also, as you said, Shinya wore dresses for the longest period of time. Much of the dress-wearing could have been fanservice oriented, but Shinya seems to have preferred the style.
Happy New Year to all from me, as well.

sugoi…0_0. I like how they put in their own flavor coming from the opposite side of the world. Don’t know much about the band though ;_;. Mina no commento wo yondda XD.

i love the way they dress^_^

oh fuck, i listened to dir en grey – obsecure right now.
if you see the video, you’ll became their fans forever.
http://www.direngrey.co.jp/
http://www.direngrey.co.jp/englishsite/whatnew.html
http://www.direngrey.com.tw/Vedio.asp
http://www.direngrey.co.jp/englishsite/discography/video.html

If only I could find the CDs and DVDs for sale in any Korean music stores…they only have a Jpop section, which usually contains only 3 groups. Gackt, Ayumi H., and Mariah Carey (how Mariah Carey ended up under J-anything is beyond me).

hello I am kazuki and dir en grey is the best band of rock of world.
I am cosplayer , in the events in Santiago city in the country Chile (cosplay of kyo macabre and the drain awway)
POR FAVOR import dvd cd of DEG to Chile
por fa sony japan

hi, I’m a Korean living in USA…and guess what? I hab never been to ANY cosplay or conventions in my life TTTTTT_____TTTTTT (b/c there isn’t any where i live…or…i haven’t heared about it) and I really really really wanna go to one~ eeeeeeehhhhhhh… I’m really looking forward to the Dir en Grey “Whithering to death CD” that should be coming to america soon ^O^ and hopefully, Dir en Grey themselves will be coming~ ^O^
Diru Rocks!!!

i must say that DIR EN GREY is the BEST JAPANESE BAND EVER, here’s the link to page’s the has any of their video.
http://www.myspace.com/thegooddirengrey
http://www.myblog.de/yomi
i warned you though, if you seen this…… you’ll become their fans FOREVER! and i meant FOREVER!
yap, im such a faggot after all…
PS: there’s more at Bastu.org, i forgot where but they had a special section for it.
Out of topic: yay! i’ve got the lucky 7! how lucky i am!
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/5600/lucky78dt.jpg

listen mesa, i’m really sorry for the fucking double posting, but this is the better link to the video. GOOGLE ROCKS MY ASS LOOOL!!!!!!!!
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dir+en+grey+is%3Afree&page=1&lv=0&so=0
I cant help myself drown by the OBSECURE VIDEO ITS SOOOO COOOOOL DAMN IT!!!!!!! YOU GOT TO SEE IT! YOU HAVE TO!!

haha! the stupid girl with a nazi uniform!
im sure she never heard about hitler and she dont know the million of peoples he killed.
this girl and this band is so fucking stupid

Hey Masa, does Guitar Wolf and The Michelle Gun Elephant have cosplay fans too?

remi, you have no idea why the band used a nazi uniform as part of their visual kei, do you? They know, and I’m sure she does, too. It’s not about glorifing Hitler, if that’s what you thought. Listen to DeG before you judge their music-all the visual kei they’ve used can be pretty confusing.
I’ve found translated lyrics at http://www.direngrey.us, but there are plenty of other sites for translations-just do a search.
I hate Neo-Nazi bullshit, too. If that’s what the band was promoting, I wouldn’t listen to them…

I love Dir en Grey – they’re really fantastic! Kisses from Poland! :*

Dir en grey is not a small band. Diru is one of the biggest band in Japan and many of those pictures are not diru cosplayers. I’m sorry.
And the nazi sing, in japan it has nothing to do with hitler, but it’s a thing that protects you from “dark spirits”.

Bikoto,
You may be thinking of a Buddist symbol. It’s similar, but the ‘arms’ go in the other direction.

Konnichiwa!
Great pictures.
I so love Dir en Grey! Specially Kyo ^^
Unfortunatilly I live in the Netherlands, we don’t get concerts of Dir en Grey here :’(
And it’s very hard to even get their cd’s and dvd’s.
So, does anyone know where I can get that flag?
Is it Dir en Grey logo?
Did you also know that there is a Japanese girl who gould be Kyo’s twin?
I will post a link as soon as I find it again
Greetings from Holland!

huhuh nice ^^
I like it
^^

i just now have heard of Dir en Grey but i find their music contemporary and great. i have one question…why are there no bands like Dir en Grey in America?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well, le reine…we’re to busy drooling over Kyo ;P. Actually, I think you’ve got a good question there. I wonder that myself.

I’ve been a fan of Dir en grey for a little over six years now. (I first heard of them back in 1999). But I thought they were getting popular now no? They recently had three concerts in the US. (Sadly I live no where near those cities, so I was unable to go.)
None the less, I like those cosplayers. (Didn’t Malice Mizer have alot of cosplayers too?)

oh is so cool!!
I’ve had posted, but I want to post again xDD
waaa is really a grat job!! I like t produce like them *-*
They’re amazing cosplayers!!
ajja
bye!

Hey,
cool website. Really love Dir en grey!!!!! I went to this site to order Dir en grey’s new album before it’s even in stores. You guys should too!!!!! It’s even a dollar less online than in stores! Gettig a amazing music ealier and cheaper than most. Doesnt get much better than that!!!
Preorder here:
Pre Order Here

Heloo!!! I’m Sorek!!! I love dir en grey. I’m a boy from Poland. I love Dir en grey. I’m looking for people from Japan (because i love this country)and other coutries. Write to me ro DIE beast wishes ^^

do you call these people punks? cos i would. like omggosh. they look scarey

You can’t be 26256 serious?!?

Ah dir en grey cosplayers….those outfits are pretty good though. I can tell some of them spent a lot of time making them.

everyone seems to like Dir En Grey in the US too, I totally don’t like them, at leastI don’t like Kyo, yuck!
but I do like Miyavi, D’espairsRay, Gazette, you should check em out, and An Cafe, they’re Oshare Kei lol

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