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Gackt Returns Sexy Back to Samurai

Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 3:16 am by Jami

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQK_d95GatU

Gonna need a little help with this one. I don’t know what a Gackt is, but this video for his song “Returner” is absolutely epic. If he’s not voice acting some equally epic samurai anime, someone aught to fix that. He’s a pretty looking thing, ain’t he.

A quick Wikipedia investigation reveals that Gackt released an album entitle “0079-0088″ with eight tracks all dedicated to Mobile Suit Gundam. Gackt is now the most awesome musician in the entire universe and the unofficial rocker of Angry Zen Master! I must track this thing down and spread the rocking!!

[Via Justice Ace]

10 Responses to “Gackt Returns Sexy Back to Samurai”

Lurklen
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 5:14 am

Well i know when i prepare my army of samurai for a big fight i ALWAYS put on a big rock show, I think he also did a music video for Onimusha 2.

Scott
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 10:51 am

Did you catch the Terminator theme in the flute part, once in the beginning, and again at the end? Very cool vid.

Kindless
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 11:50 am

Gackt is not awesome no matter what he does at this point

RaZor
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm

I’m pretty sure Gackt was the guy that Square based FF8’s Squall on, actually. Pretty cool vid.

Martin
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pm

If you haven’t already searched, a video for ‘Metamorphoze’ was made when the single was released in 2005.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW8KzZfRHTI

Gaijinder
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 7:04 pm

w000t! Pluggage

The main reason for the whole samurai setting in the first place was because Gackt himself was in a period drama that I can’t remember for the life of me if it’s still going or not. He’s reprising his character although there aren’t any Keita Amemiya-esque microphone stands in the show….

epoch9
Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm

that’s pretty cool. I’m not normally into J-Rock but that was a pretty good song.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught the terminator homage in the flute line, for a second I thought I was hearing things.

another good J-Rock band to check out would be Maximum the Hormone, they sound (to me) like an interesting mix of System of a down, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Raymond
Posted: Jan 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 am

The drama was still going on as of December if I remember right, but I forget the name as well. I also never found out who he was actually supposed to be portraying, though the banner in the background of the video was for Uesugi Kenshin, and at the end he refers to Bishamonten, a god of war. The drama’s most likely a story revolving around Kenshin and Takeda Shingen, but I only caught about 15 minutes of one episode a few weeks back.

Another dude with a similar singing/musical style is Hyde. He did “Spirit Dreams Inside” for that mess of a movie Final Fantasy. He fronts L’arc~en~ciel as well. They have a few nifty songs.