(06-20-2010, 12:26 PM)VAMPkito Wrote: I didn't even SEE the name! I thought it was just a bunch of squiggly lines! XD - So, now that I see that and can't get it out of my head, I actually really like it. It's very nice, and actually it improves on some complaints I had on their previous box arts. Those being-

1) over-abundance of girls
2) unfitting colors and imagery (well, from the two singles we have, it seems pretty fitting anyway)
3) lack of creativity
4) Overly-Simple fonts (typically, the font is just Impact; I've always had a motto that if the average consumer can immediately recognize how you did something, then it's a bad piece of art. Here, there's actually a lot of creative design behind the lettering that matches the concept)

So yeah, this album art is pretty much an answer to my hopes @_@

I'm ok with naked girls X-D... as longs as it doesn't look cheap.
I liked the color palette! D-:
Creativity was ok to me because of the typographic work.
It is not IMPACT exactly, Impact is very close, can be used as a susbtitute... but it is NOT regular Impact. See it like "I can't believe it's not butter" or soystreak X-D

(06-20-2010, 12:26 PM)VAMPkito Wrote: It astounded my mother when she saw VAMPS and she was like "They don't even LOOK Japanese!" So it showed her that although they were from very different parts of the world, it was not... you know... THAT different, and that's what initially vexed me about the box art. You tell them they're from Japan, they're like "Oh god wut" then they see the box art and they feel like "Oh man, I'm going to be soooo lost @_@"

I dunno. You see, Americans can be very stupid. When we think of Japanese music, our minds, for some reason, initially think of classical Japanese music. We don't think of modern rock n' roll or anything like that. But what REALLY vexes me is when they say something like "OH JAPANESE? YOU MEAN, LIEK, WITH THE INSTRUMENT?!" ... You know, because Japanese people only have one instrument!

I've also being told they don't look japanese X-D And sure, some ppl thinks japanese music still uses only a few notes and has to involve geishas or old men playing the shamisen :-p