The Gackt Thread II

When you guys were playing checkers, Gackt was playing chess this whole time!

So gackt was on tv explaining why he left MM, same ole same ole. . . I dont know why I expected something more.

MALICE MIZER and GACKT are trending worldwide on Twitter.

News about what he said on TV about Kami and MM:

https://news.line.me/articles/oa-sponichi/e02d62288f96
https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190516-00010016-fnnprimev-ent&p=4

Summary of what he said on television if someone want/can translate:

http://www.oumaga-times.com/archives/1074621513.html

voixdinferno wrote:

Summary of what he said on television if someone want/can translate:

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Just his usual song-and-dance, softened up a degree or two. "I wanted to keep the band going, but the writing was already on the wall, everyone was already going in their own direction, and it just didn't work out."

One day the REAL truth will come out though: he wanted to quit the band to focus on investing in Liberty Dollars

I knew that weird feeling that gackt was gonna talk abt leaving mm again sometime soon wasnt a coincidence...
I dont know what else we expected past the usual though lolol

today was the day where gackt was banned and cancelled from this fandom.

"Did I e-ever... tell you h-how I quit.... MALICE MIZER?"

"Please, Grandpa... not this story again!"

Nurse *wheeling Gackt away*: "Ok, Mr. Gakuto, visting hours are over; it's time for your night-time medicine..."

Gackt: "But I was a war-hero, dammit! I killed 30 men!"

Witchka wrote:

"Did I e-ever... tell you h-how I quit.... MALICE MIZER?""

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Mana, just down the hall of the same nursing home, suddenly needs his blood pressure checked again

So, how 'bout a little more Gacktcoin news? This is from March, but it gives a clearer idea of exactly what laws Gackt is violating.
https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/11223
(Feel free to run this through Alexa iGoog Translate yourselves)

I found some background on this: the Amended Settlement Act is the controlling law on this stuff in Japan.
https://www.gtlaw.com/en/insights/2017/1/new-law--regulations-on-virtual-currencies-in-japan
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/資金決済に関する法律#仮想通貨に対する規制
I'll be using the GT Law page for citations here.

Under this law, a "virtual currency" is defined as:

1. Value that may be used to perform obligations in compensation for purchasing or borrowing of goods, or receiving services, against unspecified persons, which may be purchased from or sold to unspecified persons and are transferrable by an electronic data processing system, provided, however, that such value is limited to those recorded on an electronic device, etc. in an electronic form, and does not include Japanese or foreign currencies, or assets denominated in such currencies; or
2. Value that is mutually exchangeable with the value in item (i) above against unspecified persons, which is transferrable by an electronic data processing system.

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So Blackstar, the organization issuing SPD coins, was apparently claiming the following: Before Spindle was listed on the open market, you technically were forbidden to trade it. You were just allowed to buy it and hold it. I'm not sure if this restriction was enforceable since it's built on the public Ethereum algorithm, but whatever. So, since it wasn't "transferrable" yet, it didn't qualify as a "virtual currency" under the above definition.
At the same time Gackt (who was and is an official officer of Blackstar) was going around saying "You'll be able to buy and sell and trade it everywhere". Objection!

Why does this matter? Because in Japan you're not allowed to do any business with virtual currencies (as defined above), unless you're registered with the government and follow all their regulatory requirements. Specifically:

Under the Amended Settlement Act, “VC Exchange Business” means conducting the following acts as business:

i. Purchase or sale of VCs, or exchange of VCs with other VCs;
ii. Intermediation, brokerage or acting as an agent for the act listed in item (i) (collectively with item (i), VC Exchange, Etc.); or
iii. Administration of customers’ cash or VCs in relation to the act listed in item (i) or (ii) above.

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Sounds kind of like the stuff Blackstar is getting up to. And it should surprise no one that they're not actually registered. If only they had an "Asia Strategic Advisor" who could have steered them down the right path

And of course in addition to that Gackt was putting out plenty of sketchy "MAKE MONEY FA$T" talk

EDIT: by the way, did y'all know we're on the first page of Google results if you search for "Gacktcoin"?
I updated the post that it links to, to collect all the stories in one place.
https://www.scapeforums.com/index.php?threads/the-gackt-thread-ii.5237/page-28#post-333212

New Spindle publicity article, an interview with the founder:
https://medium.com/@SPINDLE_ZONE/launch-of-zeta-β-beta-version-just-around-the-corner-e1be2cf91767
And yes, there's a section about Gackt himself

Q６. SPINDLE became in vogue as Mr. Gackt Oshiro joined the team. I think you gained and lost a lot because of this. As a founder, what do you think about the advantages and disadvantages of his participation? What impression do you have of Mr. Oshiro as a businessperson?
A6. We accepted Mr. Oshiro as a management member because I personally believed cryptocurrency should be a mass movement. Some overseas cryptocurrencies also invited celebrities as ambassadors, so the public should have seenus in the same light as them, irrespective of how the celebrities are thought of and believed. On the positive side, his presence was very effective to publicize the size of our ICO. We also attracted attention in Europe and other areas of the world as a major movement, and our range of activity became wider. We heard many people say, “We know nothing about cryptocurrency, but we do know SPINDLE,” probably thanks to gossipmongers in Japan. On the other hand, most of the criticism we got was ambiguous and out of focus, blaming us for simply carrying out an ICO as a means to raise funds from the public. Japanese media today cite various information to criticize their targets, which many people still believe in, but almost 90 % of it is opposite to the facts. Under this situation, some of our partner companies in the early days decided to leave us — a big disappointment for us, and this was a major downside. It is an undeniable fact that Mr. Oshiro is an artist. As he is a well-known celebrity, gossip articles become commercially valuable and beneficial to those who post them. Readers will choose to read articles with sensational headlines. But many of such gossip articles are unaccountable; they just use clickbaitand make money. And perhaps there were many investors in cryptocurrency markets who just accepted articles without question and acted upon them. I find it ironical and incomplete that investors who joined a market that features a decentralized structure could not see what is right and what is wrong, and ended up acting upon information that conventional authorities spread. In this regard, we had to make a complete turnaround from my belief that cryptocurrency should be a mass movement. This trend is a reflection of Japanese society today, and we just have to view and analyze the current movement.

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This answer has very little to do with Gackt as a person, but there's an implication that they lost partners after signing him I'm pretty sure most of this guy's complaints are just him being annoyed at the investigative attention that naturally followed once people heard of "Gackt's new business venture".

Notice that his other major complaint is that the general public are ignorant sheeple who just can't think outside the box, ignore the Witch Hunt Fake News, and get on board with the future. And if they lost their shirts on Gacktcoin, well it's their own fault for being unsophisticated investors. They pretty much deserved it!

Now on to another interesting thing. The references to "autonomy" in this interview are from this "Spindle Whitepaper", in reference to various of their pie-in-the-sky goals.
https://spindle.zone/whitepaper/
But the interesting stuff in here is elsewhere.
First off, a quick laugh - check the very last page to see the list of everyone who was supposedly forbidden from participating in the Spindle ICO. "People who have never owned a cryptocurrency"... except the only way to buy SPD was by purchasing it with other cryptocurrenices So by definition anyone who could possibly buy Gacktcoins would have already owned a cryptocurrency XD

Now, on to the really interesting bit. Remember "Lina" who Gackt went to Italy with to promote Spindle? Well, check out her bio on page 18.

After working as a social media manager and music journalist in cultural magazines in Germany, Lina Seiche left the country and studied under GACKT in Malaysia. Upon pursuing comprehensive studies of economics, arts, and multiple languages, she became chief manager at GACKT & IKEDA Asia Bridge Partnerz Inc

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"Studied under Gackt", you say? What could that mean?
Well, apparently she used to be a Youtube singer, until she was "scouted online by a Japanese artist" (who we won't name) and brought to Asia, where she studied hard and became manager at a company in Kuala Lumpur (which happens to be co-owned by that selfsame anonymous Japanese artist)!
So yeah, studied under Gackt. Glad we cleared that up. At any rate, it seems she's working at some other crypto outfit now, unrelated to the Gackt organization. I guess property management just wasn't for her either.

It seems like hardcore Gackt fans already knew about this, but the website for "Gackt & Ikeda" is here:
http://gacktandikeda.com/

Ooofff... None of this will end well, I can say that much.

Also, Hooray! We're Google-famous now... for dragging a VK frontman turned Pop-Sellou--err, sensation turned sub-par actor through the mud!
We only serve class here~

Witchka wrote:

Ooofff... None of this will end well, I can say that much.

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Well hey, at least one of the Bit Players ended up under Gackt
To study, that is. She studied under Gackt. What did you think I meant?

flowersofnight wrote:

Well hey, at least one of the Bit Players ended up under Gackt
To study, that is. She studied under Gackt. What did you think I meant?

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There's more truth to that first statement than you think... In many, metaphorical and physical, ways .

Well you know, it's not easy studying under Gackt. He was probably riding her hard in the classroom.
... Like, making her do a lot of math problems at the chalkboard and assigning extra homework and stuff.

Can't wait to see how this trainwreck will end...

When will we start our own crypto, though? ScapeCoin. Perfect name for a swindle currency!

Hampo wrote:

When will we start our own crypto, though?

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Never, we're just going to buy up the world's entire supply of Gacktcoins once that can be done for under $10.
So you know, soon.

flowersofnight wrote:

Never, we're just going to buy up the world's entire supply of Gacktcoins once that can be done for under $10.
So you know, soon.

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You fool! Buy cheap and inflate! Upsell! Capitalism is the only way!

Google translated description on Gackt from Gackt & Ikeda:

GACKT (artist)

Debuted as vocalist of "MALICE MIZER" and started solo activity as "GACKT" in 1999. The male solo artist single TOP 10 acquisition number is the 1st place ever.
He has appeared in Hollywood movies, Japan, Asian movies and dramas as actors, worldwide games as voice actors, and animation, and has fans of a wide range of age groups at home and abroad.
"Pushing people's back" is my mission, and I contribute to graduation live and other charitable activities.
A unique artist who calls himself an "expressor" and is a versatile artist who is not bound by the framework of a musician.

Hampo wrote:

"Pushing people's back" is my mission

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Does that mean pushing people into swimming pools?!
Regrettably that video seems to have been scrubbed from the internet XD