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Looks like he's finally jumped on the printed stockings bandwagon. ::cred::
 

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Reorder the tote bag, but still said not in stock

3 days ago, I reordered the tote bag again in CDJapan, but today they sent me a message said the avaliability is 6 weeks. I have contacted Midi:Nette, but they told me the different thing. They told me that the tote bag is avaliable all the time , but CDJapan didn't ask them for it. This is so weird! I thought they are going to order those T shirt, tote bag, backpack from Midi:Nette.
Now I preordered a new single from Jupiter in CDJapan, I hope this will ship on time, because the release date is Aug 26, but I have checked the order status, it's still in "Processed".
 

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Yesterday night, I suddenly found that the tote bag I reordered has been shipped. I don't know why the customer service of CDJapan sent a message to me yesterday morning said the avaliability is 6 weeks.
But my another order, a new single of Jupiter should be ship out on release date, aug 26, but they also sent me the same message said the order item is not in stock, the avaliability is 3 to 4 weeks. How come the preorder item is not in stock after the release date. This is so weird.
 

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CdJapan has just been kinda weird lately and their customer service isn't good.
Last time I ordered a Moitie thing from them it took like 3 months to ship.
I haven't had any trouble with ordinary CDs, but apparel and novelty items take a long time. I think they don't actually have those items in their own warehouse and have to request them from the manufacturer so the 3-4 weeks is the estimate of how long it may take them to receive it (though it's sometimes faster) and they just send that email automatically.
 

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Yeah!! But the Jupiter's new single is weird, they still didn't change the status of the order, still in processed. I guess Cerceaux is right, they don't have the cd on hand, but I hope it will be in shipping process soon, I preordered it last week and it came with a poster. But the preordered item should not wait that long.
 

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Not nice, he was who launched that fashion, wasn't he?
 

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He created EGA and EGL. Lolita was around before him, but it wouldn't have become nearly as popular and the bible probably wouldn't have taken off at all if it weren't for him.

I really have no clue what's going on over there. The gamelab and then this...?
 

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faith wrote:
I really have no clue what's going on over there. The gamelab and then this...?
Seems like he's labelled "has been" now...
 

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The gamelab and then this...?
Well come on, the Game Lab thing surprised precisely no one XD

I'm just completely guessing here, but maybe they dropped Mana because his target audience aged out of wearing lolita? I mean, at this point it's been 15 years since Malice Mizer broke up, and what, 10 years since Mana's done any serious touring? The birthday-and-Christmas-only routine is probably not pulling in much new blood.
 

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The GLB has gotten fairly boring lately anyway, and they're using AKB48 members as models and other nonsense to try and stay relevant. I haven't bought one in several years. KERA is half the price and features all the same brands on a monthly basis.

I'm guessing it's partly because gothic style isn't popular in the lolita scene right now. Everybody is into really colorful prints and over-accessorized outfits (see avatar for reference), and the 2-tone Moitie look doesn't fit that at all. Lolita is booming in China, but they only are interested in sweet and classic brands.
 

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I just saw this on his blog, and it made me a bit sad for him... seems like Mana's slipping out of the scene completely. Just in a couple of years his fans has decreased a lot, the pages in Glolbible, the concerts and the releases aswell. I just hope he still feels motivated to continue, he did make a huge impact on visual kei so he can't just stop his activities =(
 

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Aw, I felt bad when I read the message. It's sad when they let you go that way and give no explanation because then you're left to wonder why and wonder about a ton of reasons that might not even be true.

Has Mana even released any music lately? I can kind of understand how he's not a hot "commodity" anymore if he's not getting new fans and traffic and the magazine might think they can replace him with someone currently more popular. All I keep hearing about are those little yearly events, but I doubt those attract any substantial new fans, especially since most can't physically make it anyway.
 

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I wonder if it is maybe due to his age? Like they may see him as too 'old' to do serious modelling for them since the target audience is people in their 20s or younger. (Though he hardly looks like he's aged in the past decade or more)

It just seems so sudden, he sounds really bummed in his blog entry, poor guy :(
 

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Might be because of the fact that it's almost only Mana fans who cares about Moite and since his fans is decreasing the brand must surely sell less than it used to? So those 2 pages might just be eyecandy for his few fans which the staff might see as unneccessary space.
Aya from Psycho le Cemu was dropped years ago, right?
 

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Yeah, logically it all makes sense. But it just seems like he keeps getting hit with whammies lately (or maybe he's just stopped meeting deadlines, etc?). I feel kind of bad for him either way.
 

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Chouko wrote:
I wonder if it is maybe due to his age? Like they may see him as too 'old' to do serious modelling for them since the target audience is people in their 20s or younger. (Though he hardly looks like he's aged in the past decade or more)

It just seems so sudden, he sounds really bummed in his blog entry, poor guy :(

I haven't been around for ages but i just had to comment on this.

Well, i understand that Mana is sad and maybe shocked but that is the life. How old is he? Probably around 45-48 years, right? Well, he is ageing as every human being. And Gothic Lolita is something about young girls in their teens or twenties... he is nearly 50 old man. I do not want to sound rude but this might be one of the reasons GLB will not work with him anymore. I have seen a couple of last GLB issues and to me Mana looked completely photoshoped. Like, at some point his face especially chin looked weird, almost disfigured.
Also he has lost most of his fans so barelly anyone is interested in him. Both Moi dix Mois and Moi meme Moitie do not change anything for ages. Trends change and Mana just got out of the recent trend. It looks like everything related to Mana is stucked somewhere in 2003 or 2008. The world keeps moving and if Mana wants to remain in the spotlight he must keep up to trends. Or create something so unique that it will never go out of fashion ^^


*i still remember when fans had to purchase Moitie for like 300 dollars just to shake hands with him :lol:
 
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