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27th-May-2009 05:46 pm - The ЯR Concept and Story
I've seen a few quick summaries of the ЯR story posted over the past week, but they've all had a few obvious time line mistakes and failed to cite any sources, so I've decided to make my own article public. I wrote this a while back, but not all of you have seen it, since it was filtered.

Sources are from: The ЯRI Tour Document, The ЯRII Tour Document, Asakura's Report, The ЯRI & ЯRII concerts and additional promotional materials. Direct source are cited by quote in the article and direct links to all sources can be found at the bottom of the article.
So without further adieu:





( The Story of Requiem et Reminiscence... )
3rd-May-2009 01:10 pm - The ЯR concept and the German people in WWII
Now that I’ve ingested the equivalent of two pots of coffee and spent hours mulling over the ЯRI and ЯRII material (my god Gackt, your writing style is going to give me a migraine one day), I think its time for me to throw in my two cents in a more serious fashion. There’s a panic going on in the fandom over the uniforms and other Nazi symbolism in The ЯR tour. However, very few of the overseas fans who are currently so worked up, have: seen the concerts and or been able to understand what was being said during them or had available to them Materials (such as the tour pamphlet) related to ЯR or for that matter translations of those materials.

Incidentally, they are panicking over the anti Nazi, anti war storyline that Gackt has created. I’m sure they’ll be plenty of people who’ll laugh off what I’m about to put across, but then again I also know that there are a lot of very intelligent, free thinking individuals on my friends list, who don’t have their heads too far up their own asses to stop a listen for second. So let me begin:

First there’s all there’s a mountain of denial going around about the whole uniform nonsense.
“It’s not a Nazi uniform, it’s a Russian uniform.” “They’re not Nazis; they’re a fictional German military group…” “Blah blah blah….”

ENOUGH. In both ЯRI and ЯRII, the band members wear the uniforms of the Allgemeine SS and portray characters who are members of Nazi Third Reich.

There is no arguing these points. They are confirmed by the official tour documents.

ЯRII Tour Document, PART FIVE, In reference to Proto (main character of ЯRI):

“His rank had been promoted from Senior Assault Leader when he was a human to Staff Captain…”
“The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich Proto was attached to were active on the Eastern Front…”

ЯRII Tour Document, PART SEVEN, in reference to Proto:

“The young man was admitted from the National Defence Force into the 2nd Armoured SS Division Das Reich.”
“Then, with a roaring sound, a low flying spy plane suddenly appeared, opening fire with it's machine guns as soon as it identified the young man's SS uniform.”


ЯRII Tour Document, PART ELEVEN, in reference to ZERO (main character of ЯRII):

“The young man was a member of the 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen…”


ЯRII Tour Document, Proto and Zero's military records:

PROTO:
“Born 07/04/1917”
“Enlisted in the army in 1939, officer of the Voluntary Labour Corps. Admitted into 2nd SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich.”

ZERO:
“Born 25/12/1918”
“Japanese-German. Recruited from voluntary labour corps as an emergency wartime conscript in June 1941. Member of German National Defence Force's Armoured Instructional Brigade 9's Mechanised Infantry Battalion 92.”

Oh and on an amusing side note, in the prologue of the ЯRII tour document where Gackt Describes the scene in the opening movie of ЯRI, he makes a teeny historical blunder:

“…the man, who was wearing the uniform of an officer of the Waffen-SS…”

In the opening of ЯRI, as in the rest of the tour Gackt wears a black Allgemeine SS uniform, not a Waffen SS uniform. The uniforms of the Waffen SS were grey-green.

Okay so now that we have that out of the way, lets move on to a more pertinent matter:

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