JROCK ONSEN - by JROCKNEWS.com

JROCK NEWS interviews NANO, a deep conversation with the bilingual rock singer on the digital age of global artists, and Japanese identity.NANO’s journey is marked by the pain once carried, which has now transformed into strength and growth with the music we hear from NANO today. Read the interview: https://jrock.news/152069 Visit: https://JROCKNEWS.com

We explore the Japanese underground and visual kei scene: The live house venues, the impact of the pandemic, East vs. West, and more. Details of all our main stories: https://jrock.news/150704 Intro music by うたたP(@tkomine) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:41 How NBT's time in Japan has changed 03:55 The MAD JAMIE experience and the idol route 11:10 The venue experience before during and after the pandemic and the crowd makeup 14:30 Metal heads and visual fans unfairly compared 17:41 The anime band stigma 24:11 Visual kei is waning, and it is the golden age of self-production 28:05 Checking in on DEVILOOF and how pillars ruin venues 55:41 Winding down 50:00 Outro

Join us for an exclusive interview with Jean-Ken Johnny from MAN WITH A MISSION as he talks about their hit "Kizuna no Kiseki" from Demon Slayer.

It’s no secret that the world is in quite a sorry state, since we are recovering from an otherwise unprecedented shutdown. There are a multitude of global issues here to make things worse. The real question, though, is how is this impacting your hobbies? Details of all our main stories: https://jrocknews.com/?p=147367 Intro music by うたたP(@tkomine) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:04 How global chaos affects our hobbies 06:05 Do you know how much vegetable cost?! (tangent) 08:46 Jrock tour merch 15:24 Visa fees affecting Japanese band tours 28:04 Kaoru's (DIR EN GREY) hobbies also affected 29:57 Travel cost skyrocketing, and overseas tours 36:33 How we can "solve" this with technology 38:46 Someone throwing a shoe at SiM's concert 40:35 The irony of being a fan in Japan; concerts in Japan 50:30 Summarizing the situation

Anime and music are so closely linked that anime songs are their own category in Japan. It's impossible to ignore anime's staying power. 00:00 Intro 01:22 BanG Dream! - Ave Mujica 12:17 Nodame Cantabile, and everybody loves GACKT?! 20:43 Under Ninja/Bucchigiri?! - Kroi 22:26 Bocchi the Rock in real life! 28:05 K-ON is... meh 32:43 Visual Prison 33:45 Hypnosis Mic 36:42 Detroit Metal City (DMC) 42:26 Fukumenkei Noise (Anonymous Noise) 44:30 Guilty Crown - EGOIST 46:10 Macross 50:17 Catalyst and impact of music anime 56:17 SiM's older anime songs (Shingeki no Bahamut) 57:53 FZMZ and SiM (Shangri-La Frontier)