This is a fanpage to one of my favourite non-Visual Kei bands... there's nothing of actual worth being said here, so feel free to click off. It's all ramblings.
moreru are a band I've been in love with ever since the year 2021. Their music has such an appeal to me that I can't even begin to explain well... but I'll do my best anyways. I want to convey my love!
I first got into moreru because I was a suitably edgy teenager into noise music. I think that it was inevitable with the kind of person I was, as I have unfortunately been stupid into Japanese stuff since I was only 4 years old (thanks a lot, Sailor Moon!) and moments before I found moreru all I ever listened to was J-core and hypertone.
I liked listening to music so loud and senseless that it probably damaged my hearing for life. So then moreru landed right in my lap, lucky me, and I thought... holy shit! This is amazing!
The way I found out about them was a bit stupid: YouTube had recommended me, out of the blue, a three minute long recording of Michiru Yumesaki rolling around and screaming into a microphone... in the middle of a public park. You can even see people playing in the background as if there isn't a deranged man just ahead of them.
This guy had an amp, six guitar pedals chained together, and obvious mental issues. His face was painted entirely white (possible foreshadowing considering my current music taste... wink) and he wasn't even wearing pants. Wow, what an idiot! And then I saw that a Twitter account was linked in the desciption. What on Earth could this lunatic be up to?...
...moreru, apparently.
In terms of genre, moreru are screamo. The noise part kind of just comes as a result of their frontman Michiru Yumesaki's chosen self-expression. I think all music should be a little bit noisy, honestly... if you're going to be mad about the world, you should put your heart into it and let everything out. moreru does exactly this. It's totally cathartic and that's a great thing.
The first thing I had ever heard from them was sekai... and to be honest? I kind of hated it lol. I had chosen to listen to it during a particularly nasty migraine (God knows why I insisted on listening to noise and stuff even through my attacks) and I was miserable and I immediately cast it off. (That's crazy because now it's one of my favourite songs.) Lucky for me... I decided to go back to them two days later. Not like I had much else to do.
So I clicked on this video, not being able to read Japanese at all and expecting a music video. I sat patiently...and it was just a video of Yumesaki making and eating spicy noodles. I was confused for a moment but I somehow immediately found this to be the funniest thing on the entire planet. I think if I hadn't seen this and been put into such a good mood I might not have liked them enough at first to get used to them.
So then I listened to Kienai... not very noisy at all. but I was in love. The feeling was amazing. I would give anything in the world to listen to this song for the first time again and I'm serious about that.
When the EP Yamada Hanako came out in late March 2022 I spent several months listening to it on repeat. I was so enamoured with every single track on this release the moment it dropped that the files off Bandcamp were the best late birthday gift I could have gotten. I was in a rough spot at the time, and I would be for the next two or so years, but moreru seriously might have saved me.
By far though, my favourite moreru song is Otomeza Saishuubi, released six months ago at the time of writing. It's an incredibly beautiful track and I have cried to it several times. The Flipnote animation for the music video is nostalgic and I just love it so so much... and to make the standard joke: Canon in D if it was good bla bla bla. Usually the insane editing moreru has in their music videos is the draw for me but there is something so lovely just in a Flipnote animation with text over it.