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Kaikan Phrase creator Mayu Shinjo and Atsuro/Yuki exchanged greetings on twitter.

• Mayu: @Daisuke_Atsuro Akkun!! So you started up twitter! When the fans told me about it, I thought “I’ll have to follow him!!” (>_<) Looking forward to the comeback live～ Let’s meet up some time! — 7:58 PM Aug 15th
• Atsuro: @shinjomayu Long time no see!! I started up 4 days ago～☆ Right now we’re all doing our best every day at the Λucifer rehearsals. Fun times♪ Looking forward to meeting you again～　(^-^) — 8:47 PM Aug 15th
• Mayu: @YUKI_Snowman_XX Long time no see, prince! The rehearsals have started haven’t they～～ Seriously looking forward to it!! At last it’ll be the 25th and the start of the tour soon～ I, too, am going to the Tokyo show! Say hi to the others for me～ — 12:24 AM Aug 23nd
• Yuki: @shinjomayu Well if it isn’t Shinjo～ (*^_^*) Long time no see. Λucifer are rehearsing with plans of doing all kinds of songs. We’ll meet at Akasaka! — 1:14 AM Aug 23nd

Selection of Atsuro‘s tweets.

• Today too at Sukiya before rehearsals. Not in the mood for something hard to eat so it’s my usual of soup and egg. As typical of me, I’ve gotten addicted to Sukiya. I’m often addicted to Yoshinoya, too, but not Matsuya at all. I wonder why… — 12:57 PM Aug 16th
• At Λucifer rehearsal now. First we ran through some troublesome passages with just us instrumentalists (^-^) (picture) — 7:12 PM Aug 16th
• At today’s rehearsal, I finally felt like I’ve got the songs down to a T♪ — 11:03 PM Aug 16th
• We played through the whole setlist twice in a row at full force so I’m completely exhausted… gonna sleep now. — 10:41 PM Aug 17th
• Good morning!! I was super tired so I slept for 11 hours… but I didn’t sleep very well as it was so hot that I woke up several times (>_<) — 11:08 AM Aug 18th
• Riding on the train after a while. The couple of minutes of wait when switching trains is making me sweat like a pig (>_<) It’s piping hot♪～ (Note: he says “atsuatsu anettai♪～” which are lyrics from the Shokotan song “Sekidou Komachi DOKI”) — 12:51 PM Aug 18th
• At a meeting now. I love soba (>_<) (picture) — 3:25 PM Aug 18th
• At another meeting now. Drank too much water… (picture) — 7:32 PM Aug 18th
• After that, having yakiniku now. First time in a while to be having meat this delicious ＼(^o^)／ (picture) — 8:23 PM Aug 18th
• And after that, had sushi at a different place and am taking the last train home now. Since the last tweet I also got clothes from the Shibuya Lumine!! Forgot about the raffle though… — 12:10 AM Aug 19th
• The Big Mac, my absolute favorite food, became ￥200! Awesome! It’s delicious☆ I’m gonna eat it every day for the duration of the discount campaign ♪( ´▽｀) — 1:18 PM Aug 19th
• Squash now. (picture) — 4:20 PM Aug 19th
• Had a Big Mac today, too♪ I’ll have to go to the gym in my free time today as well!! — 11:08 AM Aug 20th
• Daily consecutive Big Mac documentation update!! Today was the 3rd day～☆ — 12:12 PM Aug 21st
• Felt like having sushi after work. Also having Premium Malt’s now. Easily made it to my second glass (^^;; (picture) — 5:38 PM Aug 21st
• Met Minori just now. The anime goddess who is occasionally in the neighboring studio!! — 3:26 PM Aug 22nd
• Fourth day of Big Macs!! — 6:49 PM Aug 22nd
• Had a great rehearsal. I’ll probably have a Big Mac, too♪ Hope they prolong the campaign period～☆ — 11:11 PM Aug 22nd
• I’m the only one using ear monitors and thus I’m able to hear clearly what the other members are playing. Everyone’s sounding really good!! They’re all respectively continuing to do their best… At the rehearsal I came to think — even if I say so myself —  “this really is a great band” ☆ — 11:41 PM Aug 22nd
• (Mayu Shinjo re-tweeted the preceding tweet and added:) Λucifer’s comeback is very soon!! — 11:43 PM Aug 22nd

Yuki also got himself a twitter. A selection of his first tweets.

• (first tweet) @shuse0317 YUKI here. I started up twitter. Please treat me well. The last chord of Nemuri Hime (awesome Acid Black Cherry song) is B-major 7 9 13. I have a live with DUSTAR-3 today. I’ll do my best. — 12:53 PM Aug 20th
• I started a twitter account. I still don’t know at all how to use it or what to write. It’s my first tweet. Right now, me and HIMAWARI (DUSTAR-3 drummer) are going to Meguro～. — 1:53 PM Aug 20th
• DUSTAR-3’s live ended. This morning I felt like starting a twitter account on a whim and called SHUSE (Acid Black Cherry bassist) who carefully instructed me on how to get started. As I returned home from the live I noticed I’d gotten a lot of followers. Thank you. I still don’t really know how to use it so I’ll try to slowly get used to it. — 12:12 AM Aug 21st
• Morning～ (*^_^*) I woke up. But I’m thinking about going back to sleep (-_-)zzz — 8:30 AM Aug 21st
• Refreshed after taking a shower!!! — 8:01 PM Aug 21st
• Today’s Λucifer’s rehearsal. There’ll be lots of staff from the old days (*^_^*) — 12:44 PM Aug 22nd
• Having an evening drink with atarime. Slightly drunk, baby! — 1:58 AM Aug 23rd

Wow! Looking pretty emo there huh, Yuki?

As if the Aucifer news wasn’t good enough, it was also recently reported that Yuki is in a new band called Rayflower who have a double A-side single titled “Uragiri no Nai Sekai Made / Aoi Ito” coming out on May 26th. Their site can be found at rayflower.jp. Do check out this Tokyograph article for more info. What the article doesn’t mention though is that the anime in question is of the “boys love” variety. Just thought I’d mention that. There’s a preview out that doesn’t sound half bad!

Pretty excited about this, actually, as Yuki’s been my favorite member to follow after Aucifer. While I’m not the biggest fan of DUSTAR-3 I can’t lie about occasionally bursting into “Mckeekee” on my guitar every once in a while, and Acid Black Cherry, yasu’s (Janne da Arc) solo project where Yuki plays support guitar, is just great. If you haven’t checked them out yet, what better time to do so than right now? Try not to mind the crossdressing at the start too much — unless that’s your thing, of course.

Speaking of DUSTAR-3, they have a new album called TRIKE coming out on April 28th. Looking forward to hearing Yuki’s soloing! Oh, and this reminds me: if anyone wants to sponsor me with Yuki’s bitching custom ESP Lizard Special guitar, I’d be pretty happy about that.

On a completely unrelated note, I’d like to share a quick piece of Atsuro news. Well, it’s not so much news as it’s just “a quick Atsuro spotting“. Atsuro’s played guitar for several names that I’m a fan of (Hello! Project, Shokotan, etc.) but this is one I wasn’t aware of before. I was watching the Kouhaku 2003 show the other day and look who was playing guitar for aiko of all people:

I’m unsure if he’s featured on any of her recordings but it’s probably safe to assume he’s just played in her live band before. In any case, this is cool for me as I’ve been seriously getting into aiko lately. Another artist I’d highly recommend to anyone, by the way.

Thanks to GN-0015 for letting me know about Rayflower!