But which demographic listens to instrumental Rock guitar music?

Since when the audience was middle aged males ? Literally every single time I went to see a all female band in japan the venue was filled with young people males and females

@@jonasw3945 In California, at each the BAND-MAID and NEMOPHILA shows I've attended (five so far), men with gray hair composed more than 50% of the audience. I hope the fan bases of those bands will expand over time, but we will see. Alos, the audience at BAND-MAID YOKOARE concert looks to be overwhelmingly male and 40+yo.

What do you mean by forgettable ? Is it just that the song isn't catchy with some mainstream pop chorus and with a standard verse-chorus verse-chorus-bridge stucture ? Because in that case I'm pretty sure that's the point As for Saki's direction, she isn't any big departure from her usual self, she's been making solo guitar music for years now and involved in many side projects which included Nemophila and she is continuing on what she started

​@@jonasw3945It is forgettable to me. Because to me it sounds like the same stuff she always puts out just like most solo guitarist do. While those albums and songs have some amazing guitar playing in them they all start to blend and nothing stands out. I have been listening to solos artist for 35 years. While I enjoy most of them and their songs they never stick to my memory like a song structured around a whole band with a singer. It has nothing to do with pop or mainstream which I do not even listen too. Been a metal and hard rock fan most my life. So you can take that pop assumption and throw it out the Fing door and if people do prefer that type of structure to a song and not just a solo focus then that is their opinion. who gives a shit!! Also you do not need to tell me anything about Saki. I've been following her for many years since she first got started and have friends in Japan that keep me up to date on just about anything I want to know. I know what she has done in the past and 3 years ago I told people she would not stay with Nemophila forever. Because I know Saki past.I knew she rather be out on her own eventually. My question about direction has to do with is this how she is going to proceed? Just as a solo and playing projects? If she is happy with that then I'm happy for her. Will she eventually form a new band or join another? Can she do great as a solo? Sure to a point but she can do even better with a band and get even more exposure. She was great with Nemophila but Hazuki is great too and while they had some amazing solos and playing together it not easy to give them time to really shine in the songs without having song after song where they trade off. they are both too good for that honestly. I have a feeling you are a Saki superfan. You seem not to like my opinion that it is forgettable. It is not an insult to Saki that is just my opinion on this type of music. I have followed her like many artist and bands over the years and enjoy them very much but does not mean I have to like everything or crazy love every bit of music they put out.

My speculation is that Nemophila wanted to just keep doing what they do best and Saki wanted to go off and do something entirely different which is what she is doing now. The rest of the ladies in Nemophila are having a blast playing their music and having fun. I have friends in Japan that have seen their shows the past month and they said the ladies are kicking ass still and all smiles and look to be having a blast. Saki mentioned back in January she wanted to do more things for herself. I truly think the musical direction difference was her. Nemophila is going with a new producer too but I don't read into that much because bands change producers all the time. I expect to see more like this from Saki even though I'm not as big a fan of this song and I expect to hear Nemophila to keep putting out heavy music with Mayu screaming her head off haha. But yes your speculation might be spot on. Love them both but Im down with more fun and less serious :)

Probably just music direction, just like with Lovebites, we know that Lovebites does what Miyako wants in terms of musicallity, its just that with lovebites Midori also is more "neoclassical power prog" influenced so they dont headbutt and Miho was not like that, she left as the band turned to making more prog sounds in their recent albums. Saki probably wanted a more technicall stuff as she already had this "heavy" type of exp with Marrys Blood and Nemophila and Nemo began as a side project that grew way to much it seems. I mean... Its really hard to find out what type of music direction Saki wants because she does different music all the time.

@@NerdChannelBrasil Yes Saki has done it all. I feel like she wanted to keep doing more new things and also have the freedom to make most the music the way she likes. I think the the rest of band will mix it up of course. Bringing in a new producer also to mix it up but they will still stay with that same sound overall. They know what got them to this point and they won't veer off it too much. Saki is Saki. Love her she is great but she always seem to me a bit of an introvert. She is going to do things her way in the end. She broke away from that in Nemophila to be a good band member but like she said in her New Years post she was ready to start doing more things for herself and honestly if you look over the past couple years the other 4 seemed more like a tighter group and Saki was more on the outside. Just an observation I saw and others have mentioned too. But both parties seem to have moved on and are a happy. That is what you do in life you don't dwell on the past too much you start a new. If some people or fans don't like it well that is their problem.

She did hardly write any songs with Nemophila. Only Monsters, Rollin Rollin, Enten and Night Flight. Most of the songs in Nemophila are written by their producer Kensuke Akiyama (there are only about 10 tracks that were written by one of the members and an other 5 or so that were co-written by a member with Akiyama). She did write a lot in Mary's Blood from when she was with the band, probably most out of all of them, but the others wrote music as well. I am not convinced Mary's Blood will be back to be honest since the rest of the members are all doing solo stuff as well, but who knows. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to it, I enjoy their music.

She only wrote a handful with Nemophila. Most their music is written by their former producer with other members writing parts too. Mayu wrote a good chunk of the lyrics off the first album. Saki did write the lyrics to Now I Here off the second. Also I don't see Mary's Blood coming back. All the other members are doing their own stuff and even if they did it will only for nostalgia. That bands time has come and passed.

@@Reaper77-wn7ot I honestly wasn't even aware Akiyama left/was fired. That's very interesting with how much of the music he wrote (and yes, obviously most members would have had some input on their parts). Curious how this is going to go.

@@MaartenT They all had nice things to say about the time they worked together and look forward to working together in the future again. People make big deals about this when it really is not. Most bands do not keep the same producer album after album. They want a different fell or different input. you cannot keep on reproducing the same thing over and over. Also just because they change producers or go at it solo too does not mean they are going to go softer or totally change their sound. I have seen people comment and worry on this and all I can do is laugh. Im curious like I always am what their next album and songs will sound like just the same as I have always been curious even when they had saki and the same producer. Just like I am always curious about all the other bands and artist I like but I never worry if the music will change because that is beyond my control.

@@Reaper77-wn7ot I am especially curious because their producer wrote as much of the music as he did, not just because they changed a producer and not because I think it means everything is going to get bad or something like that. I actually already felt like Nemophila was drifting away from what I liked about them the most (their harsher early sound), so this actually makes me more curious about their next album than if they had stayed with Akiyama. I do understand why people get worried about something like this, a lot of people don't like change in something they love, but all of the members are talented enough to do whatever they want. I might stop buying their albums if it's really a direction I don't enjoy, just like with any other band, but I don't see that happening. Also, I hope Haraguchi-san gets more freedom to write more songs, I typically love what she writes. Anyway, I wish them all the best with the new direction, hopefully it does well.