NEVER SOLD OUT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYUICHI, MY LOVE!!! : O !!! <3 !!!

Two days before Ryuichi's 54th birthday I went full force into my LUNA SEA love again.

I first started it as a way to show a friend how I sometimes get into drawing practice by making a drawing in the span of a song.

I ended up drawing, in that spirit, the whole "NEVER SOLD OUT" live double album from the may (29th) 1999, the whole 24 songs.
Despite them all coming from different live performances, from 1991 to 1998, it really felt like a full live experience to me. I barely took any breaks during the full 2H27 total run.

Happy Birthday to Ryuichi! I love you. I love LUNA SEA.
J, Shinya, Sugizo and Inoran... I hope you all make music for a very long time! Thank you.

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As usual my art wishes no harm, discomfort or disrespect to anyone!

The light shipping, sensual or violent elements are all here for symbolic. It's really light and general audience (no nudity, no gore,...) but just in case. It is also quite queer, but, come on! It's Visual Kei!!

Sorry also if the quality isn't extremely good. It was me, PaintToolSai and my little tablet against the world, and I had no idea I would make it a zine and that I would want to put it somewhere to be seen by other than my friends. But as Ryuichi's birthday is today, I thought "What better occasion!!"

Only the cover was done afterwards (the day after)

And as parting words, what my friend said to all this (I forced him to see):
"Never sold out to anyone"

ROCK ON!!

edit: I can't do maths, the zine says 53rd birthday but it's his 54th... I already had to correct it once because I originally said 43... OTL...  AAAAAAA, Visual Kei artists don't age ANYWAY!!!