Where to start?

Where is the connection to your health condition? Kyo is not out of breath due to physical issues. It’s his emotions manifesting in his constitution. Maybe you should have paid attention to his body language, the facial expressions. His heart’s pain was everywhere.

I feel Kyo knows best what to convey, and after he explained for years over and over again why it’s not about technically perfect singing, especially with Dir en grey, I give up elaborating. Is it physically draining? Kyo said so himself. He also mentioned why. Lately. And so many times throughout the years.

Redemption? Kyo does not need any redemption, and surely not yours! Just don’t be so judgemental next time? It’s on you…

How often does he need to prove he is able to pull off the most difficult parts if their songs flawlessly for you to have a little more faith in his skills? It was good even “out of breath” because it never has been a technical issue.

Can you be a bit more humble? You totally see why but you downright were up your own ass to not see it right away, so you were a judgmental piece of complete shit like always?

It’s not even “I told you so”, it’s the fundamentals. Kyo’s got truth tattooed under his jaw/tongue. And the fact he literally kept saying it’s all genuinely him over all these years only to be dismissed every single time.

So, you just proved what I was saying the whole time: you use Kyo/his bands to gain attention and clicks to be some kind of “influential content creator” only without original work. If it was truly about Kyo and the bands he is a part of, you wouldn’t mind not posting anything. It is about you and that’s why you are so frustrated. You aren’t showered with the praise you think you deserve for some reason. Seriously, touch some grass and get an identity of your own.

You take original work like photos, live shots, drawings, etc and think because you bought a magazine or some photo cards you own the copyright in order to be credited for stealing those, calling it “hard work”?

For years I told you the photos were taken by someone else, now you credit the photographer at least (bare minimum) but you still demand credits for your “hard work”? Dude, you took these pictures without permission and want to be acknowledged? Everyone of us is infringing copyrights the very moment we reblog or reupload content, you’re the only one with the audacity to call it “hard work” and demand credits these days.

A little reality check.

I took this and edited it, very hardworkingly. Following your logic, people need to credit me and link to my blog, instead of the creator (that isn’t you!). I’m lucky I don’t get sued for copyright infringement.

Ffs why can’t you stop looking down on Kyo, especially when it comes to Japanese, his mother tongue, while you still rely on AI to understand what he says (which I don’t find a bad thing, it’s the opposite as it makes information accessible without the need of self proclaimed translators)? Pleaso do me a favour record yourself speaking your flawlessly pronounced, grammatically correct Japanese on native speaker level. I challenge you kindly.

Not only the other members didn’t say Kyo has “*mispronounced* stuff” (Kyo sometimes uses a certain kanji and picks another, for example a similar meaning, most known is 理由 which is read “riyū” but in this case the title is pronounced “wake” (訳) instead, both mean “reason” with slightly different connotations), d for z and vice versa has nothing to do with pronunciation issues as you implied by putting them in context.

To make it short: the answer lies in so called yotsugana. And that’s not that easy and calling it “mispronunciation” is simply unfair.

People need to move away from the idea of Japanese can be transcribed into their own language without difficulty. The constant laughter Japanese people receive for the L/R matter (“Engrish”, the term alone makes me aggressive) while they cannot really change it, is pure ignorance from people who think their native language is the centre of the universe and the standard in this world.

E.g. Japanese <ふ> is not pronounced like an English or German <fu>; it’s kind of in between “hu” and “fu”, it’s called voiceless bilabial fricative, it’s more or less a simplification for us to transcribe and pronounce Japanese words. There are more of those.

So, claiming Kyo “mispronounces stuff” is far fetched. In songs, and that’s not only him doing so, standard (we just drop he’s from Kyoto here) Japanese pronunciation is changed to fit in, Kyo’s habit of naturally expressing himself while singing also leads him to “omit syllables”. As for the syllables to be understood there is an unnatural pronunciation needed (people who take vocal classes learn it, that is why when fans doubted Kyo’s statements of him not taking singing lessons was easy to disprove). But that’s not a bastardised way of anything, especially if he uses a foreign language.

I’ve never seen his not entirely correct pronunciation of <Seele> as “certainly not my German” (wtf?!) but an artistic approach of pairing it with <Zelle> in this cluster of spirit, soul, will, cell. I even go that far he knew it’s not pronounced that way (as Geist, Wille, Zelle and eins, zwei, drei, vier are pretty much native speaker level) but made it fitting into the song, he’s treating words a lot like sounds in melodies rather than caring for the actual pronunciation, mostly seen in the English parts of his lyrics (while he sang “Bring Them To Light” with Apocalyptica in almost perfect English) but also with Japanese words.

Altogether yes, Kyo when he’s singing might be hard to understand linguistically sometimes but as he doesn’t strive for it but wants to be understood with one’s heart, it doesn’t really matter…

And yes, native Japanese speakers do agree he sometimes has an unusual way to express himself with words, to me it’s a reflection of how he’s perceiving his environment which is quite far from the norm. 🖤