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10 (!) Moire Club issues plus 6 FC cassettes, as well as miscellaneous flyers. At 300000Y this might actually be priced fairly given the market. But whatever the market has to say, the cassettes are mostly worthless to music lovers because they've been re-released on CD if you're part of the Hirasawa fan club.
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e1080725479
 

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I dunno, but he's got another Pride of mind one for sale now XD The whole thing is a bit fishy, but I'm taking one for the team and we'll see what actually shows up. Who knows, maybe this is some old livehouse staffer cleaning out his basement or something. But I'd be more convinced of that if he had the obscure variants no one cares about.
The CD itself will be easy to verify via the inner-ring etchings and AccurateRip at least.
Update on this: I got in the CD today.

The CD is a perfect match for the one I had. Same matrix code etched on the inner ring and the data is 100% identical as verified by comparing the CRCs after ripping with AccurateRip.
The case looks plausible enough - the one I had was not original as it had a clear spine. This new one is a regular black-spine case.

It did indeed come with two covers, Pride of mind and Stripped-Lady. Of the two, the Stripped-Lady cover seems substantially more aged going by the color of the backs (both presumably having started out pure white). It's still bizarre that they would have included both, but it doesn't seem like a fraud. You'd think if so the sheets would either both be brand new or both artifically aged to the same degree.
The folding lyrics sheet is made of the right stiff material and printed with silver ink that would be impractical to fake.

My verdict: real but weird, I guess.
 

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Update on this: I got in the CD today.

The CD is a perfect match for the one I had. Same matrix code etched on the inner ring and the data is 100% identical as verified by comparing the CRCs after ripping with AccurateRip.
The case looks plausible enough - the one I had was not original as it had a clear spine. This new one is a regular black-spine case.

It did indeed come with two covers, Pride of mind and Stripped-Lady. Of the two, the Stripped-Lady cover seems substantially more aged going by the color of the backs (both presumably having started out pure white). It's still bizarre that they would have included both, but it doesn't seem like a fraud. You'd think if so the sheets would either both be brand new or both artifically aged to the same degree.
The folding lyrics sheet is made of the right stiff material and printed with silver ink that would be impractical to fake.

My verdict: real but weird, I guess.
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There's really no telling. It's not perfectly identical to mine (different tape stock and different "dots" on the lyric sheet) but there's no guarantee that mine was original either, or that all copies were the same. It seems there is at least one copy out there on the interweb that has the same case and tape stock as mine, and at least one more that doesn't besides this one. So, the jiury is still deadlocked ::meev::
 

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There's also a live bootleg from 11/16/85:
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m97209864182
But the price is too high because it's bundled with that promo stuff. And besides, I already have 11/15/1985 which surely must be about the same.
Relisted with another bootleg included... and the price jacked up another 3 Fukuzawas :P
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m22789179256

So the guy obviously considers each bootleg worth 3万. I mean, maybe they are, but... I dunno. If I could peel them off of him for 6万 all told, my inner cheapskate would have some words on the subject.
 

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From the same seller I got the signed MM 1st anniversary photo ::squee::
 
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Malice Mizer signed wine, 50000Y ::meev::
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m77355433345
Won by someone as a prize from a radio drawing, back during the Gackt era. I think the bottle's empty but not sure XD
If it is empty, you can fill it up with some of Gackt's non-Saccharomyces wine.
 

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There have been some obviously fake copies of the oxbxjxe tape floating around lately.
Yeah, speaking of:
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m20449072241
The guy says "It originally didn't come with a lyrics sheet", which isn't true. The cover does look appropriately aged and grainy, but buy at your own risk. The tape type doesn't match mine but I have seen some that don't.
 
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