Snowflake 2026 #4
Jan. 7th, 2026 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
visualjyushiRec The Contents Of Your Last Page: Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!
I went into this with the mindset of "which websites would I show people to get them into my interests?" And thought of three.
vk.gy — a visual kei "library" of sorts. A good English resource for finding info on any band that was/is active in the vkei scene, including member profiles, discography lists, rough timelines of their activities, and more. They even have a news page featuring articles written by the mods about any vkei related news (like disbandments, comebacks, album/single releases, etc). I like to check it periodically!
EnstarsMasterlist — a fanmade archive of various fan translations for Ensemble Stars stories. It's a decent resource for getting into the series. Of course, translations are added with permission from the translators, so not all stories currently have a link to one. Fans used to compile their own translations onto the fandom wiki until Happy Elements finally cracked down on it to launch an EN server for their mobile games. I still prefer to read the fan translations because TL;DR the official translations are... not great! You can tell that Happy Elements just sort of hired whoever to do them (and they probably rush the translators too).
Hypmic Drama Track Archive — similar to the one above, a fanmade archive of various translations for the Hypnosis Mic drama tracks. Which is arguably one of the best ways to get into the project. Hypmic is weird and has multiple canons. Pretty sure it started with the drama tracks though.
I went into this with the mindset of "which websites would I show people to get them into my interests?" And thought of three.
vk.gy — a visual kei "library" of sorts. A good English resource for finding info on any band that was/is active in the vkei scene, including member profiles, discography lists, rough timelines of their activities, and more. They even have a news page featuring articles written by the mods about any vkei related news (like disbandments, comebacks, album/single releases, etc). I like to check it periodically!
EnstarsMasterlist — a fanmade archive of various fan translations for Ensemble Stars stories. It's a decent resource for getting into the series. Of course, translations are added with permission from the translators, so not all stories currently have a link to one. Fans used to compile their own translations onto the fandom wiki until Happy Elements finally cracked down on it to launch an EN server for their mobile games. I still prefer to read the fan translations because TL;DR the official translations are... not great! You can tell that Happy Elements just sort of hired whoever to do them (and they probably rush the translators too).
Hypmic Drama Track Archive — similar to the one above, a fanmade archive of various translations for the Hypnosis Mic drama tracks. Which is arguably one of the best ways to get into the project. Hypmic is weird and has multiple canons. Pretty sure it started with the drama tracks though.
