X JAPAN - TOSHI - Brain Washing Explained - Musician Spotlight

[@Misunao23]

Yoshiki and Toshi's relationship is flippin adorable. 40+ years of friendship and they still love each other all the same. Cute as pie.

[@PhoenixSplash]

Yeah, it's one heck of a friendship

[@anairafraser7520]

Their friendship is one of my favorite things about X Japan :3

[@Raymoiful]

From the amount they talk about being friends, you would expect they are close. From Toshis book its clear they are coleagues, not friends. Toshi never contacted Yoshiki when he was in life-threatening trouble. Yoshiki knew whats going on as even media picked it up and still did not even turn in hospital to help him after he was beaten. Some "friends" they are pfff

[@savanahk5044]

You apparently haven't been on nico nico, Japan Twitter, or Reddit They are co-workers. They may have started out as friends 41 years ago But that friendship is long dead... Only one that had hope for a reunion on stage was HEATH as he mentioned in Yoshiki's Dinner Party in August 2022

[@r4nkisser34]

you really can't blame him for leaving. he obviously was the victim of the situation. the thing about cults is they usually get to you when you are at your worst. being in desperation makes you do and believe a lot of things, even when you have your doubts in it. it is natural that yoshiki decided to disband x japan. i mean, imagine x with another vocalist. it definitely would not sound like them at all. he is undeniably one of the key members and without him, x japan would not be x japan.

[@atlantisitecrystal]

I sympathize with Toshi and brainwash shouldn't be the exact word to use for the cult who had manipulated and abused him. The proper word should be, Gaslighting. Love bombing and triangulation.The disgusting things that the cults did to Toshi make me strongly believe that they are narcissists. Whatever damage is done cannot be undone but I'm glad that Toshi is good now and I will continue to support him be it, X Japan or Toshi Solo. I'm with him atw!!!!

[@f_cyclameneleanor]

Finally you cover ToshI 😊. His voice is God sent. I already become fans of x japan before they disband so you can imagine what I felt when he quit. I even has mix feeling when he and yoshiki start reunion. After I read his book, I really feel sorry for him. But the past is past... what most important is now and future. I really hope x japan can rock for a long time. Regarding his solo, I only like few song Crystal piano no kimi is my favorite (I'm bias here :p)

[@PhoenixSplash]

Ha. I agree. I feel sorry for him too. Sometimes I don't though when I realize how much bigger X would have been. lol

[@f_cyclameneleanor]

Hmmm... And now another set back for x japan. This time from Yoshiki health problems. Never ending trial and problems. I really hope they can make through this one as well. Strength to carry on.. That's what I love the most from them

[@umihereuminoumi6177]

His story is really sad... ToshI is a sweetheart.

[@Misunao23]

Toshl’s solo work is SO good nowadays! He’s also published a game OST lately!

[@PhoenixSplash]

A game? Do you happen to know what game did he compose for? I'd play it lol

[@Misunao23]

Phoenix Splash TV It’s called Ordinal Strata. He’s actually the sound producer of the game and was featured as a character!

[@cookiemobers5650]

Hey Josh: I'm pretty cynical. Hell, I grew up in Los Angeles, in from the 1960s-1995. Hard not to be cynical. I tend to give people I don't know, at least people in the music world, the benefit of the doubt. I wasn't there, I didn't see what happened, and I have a hard time slagging Toshi off for the break up of X, much like the whole Taiji thing. I've seen enough on cults, (Heavens Gate, Manson, the Moonies) to know that if you are in a vulnerable state of mind, for whatever reason, these organizations/ people can really fuck you up. I can't tell you how many times Scientology tried to lure us off the street in Hollywood (different story, lol). What this whole story does say, is a lot about Yoshiki and the other members. The fact that they accepted him back into the band, even after all the bullshit, does say a lot about the character. Now I'm being a pollyana and believing that there was no tension with the other members, but hey, I wasn't there, I'm not privy to what's being said behind closed doors. Sorry for rambling as usual. That's what happens when you're a writer and there's a comment section.

[@PhoenixSplash]

I always enjoy reading your long comments :) I feel like Yoshiki was more broken about Toshi than angry. Hide was pretty pissed though. From watching the last live there's some interesting interactions. When they played Kurenai, Hide was giving him the evil eye when he sat close to him. Toshi put something around Hide too and Hide just stared at Pata shaking his head. It was pretty interesting to see...but yeah, It's cool that the band moved passed what Toshi did.

[@Xia-hu]

Denise Mobers Toshi also talks about this in a press conf and also in the docu that he became really intimidated as a singer, also because Yoshiki pushed him really hard vocally. Nowadays he is less strict with Toshi, but back in those days I can imagine how hard he pushed for the perfect sound. Toshi also had issues with his family, his brother embezzled money from X management and stuff like that. I can imagine that he was pretty broken and vulnerable emotionally and that is exactly when this woman appeared and seemed to offer him healing. It is easy to fall for that, when you feel like nobody else listens to you. Mind you, these are Japanese guys. They don't really talk about perosnal feelings even between close friends. Toshi mentions he didn't even know Yoshiki was writing his lyrics from the pain of his dad's suicide. They were childhood friends and he didn't even know that for a long time. I can imagine that they were also not talking about Toshi's inner struggling, either. And these guys are artists, they are usually emotionally more unstable.

[@hedwigtheowl8682]

I love his voice

[@metaku397savionburnette6]

I found it interesting why Yoshiki didn’t get another singer rather then ending the band which mostly bands do when their members quit.I think it’s because He was closer to Toshi then the other members so I think he didn’t want to go on without Toshi

[@JinyuBiao]

can't say 100% sympathize, but kinda feel understanding . Whether it was his decision or his wife prompted him to get brainwashed, the truth is getting brainwashed was not his original wish, or in other words, he got brainwashed unconsciously. Everybody has been through something, and some may leave scar on heart, which is unseen but miserable, therefore it is hard to explain why he would choose to look for something to rely on, but it is obvious he found the wrong one.

[@sknight2810]

that is sooo cute that yoshiki n toshi have known each other their whole lives

[@sueellen360]

I'm pretty sure his work until 1995 wasn't related to Masaya, I think those were pretty cool. T-Earth, instead, WAS a Masaya thing :) I love Toshi, one of my favorite singers of all time. His english now is about as good as a japanese singer can get, did you listen to La Venus?

[@PhoenixSplash]

sp_93 yeah i heard la venus and some other ones. his english is spot on these days!

[@alecbalecb]

I'm pretty sure Aoi Hoshi No Tabibito and Canary have nothing to do with Home Of Heart either

[@matthieuchristian500]

Do you have any proof for T-Earth being masaya's project ? that matches the timeline. But if it is the case that's gruesome... If you speak the truth I'm truly worried about the 13yo kid :/ (and other musicians of the project Shinya, Jun, Toya...)

[@ottkaji]

@@matthieuchristian500 There are several fan translations of his book out there. That says all.

[@matthieuchristian500]

​@@ottkaji yes, I've read the book in the meantime. But, as english is not my main language, what remains unclear : has Toshi become financially independent again nowadays? when I buy his solo albums or the new songs of X (post-2010) today, am I indirectly giving money to Masaya?

[@Xia-hu]

T-Earth was started when Toshi was still in Home of Heart.

[@melrissa219]

So Masaya and Wanku are still out and actively doing their thing after being exposed? Shouldn't they be in jail or something? lol. If I'm not mistaken, and you may correct me if I'm wrong, they brainwashed him during the period when Toshi felt conflicted with his family. So it's like a 'perfect timing' to get him down, so to speak. They used his conflicting feelings towards his family, his sadness and hate, as a base to in the process of brainwashing. That said, while I wholeheartedly sympathize with him, there's always a part of me felt disappointed at him because he chose to rely outsiders to sort out his issues. Toshi and Yoshiki have known each other for so long, I thought Yoshiki could have been Toshi's support system..but I guess that's just too much assumption. I felt sorry he had no one at the time. Now they're on acoustic tour and I'm so freaking jealous and bummed coz I'm not there to witness the concert. I wish they release something out of it. X

[@PhoenixSplash]

Yeah it's pretty surprising that Masaya got away with what he did...but his musical career is pretty much over. The evil of people never fails to surprise me lol

[@Nature.Meditation.]

@@bnr3314 i heard that Toshl resisted Yoshiki and felt distant and lonely...yoshiki was dealing with his own problems that time...toshl was easy to " catch". I w been there.. one cant explain - ppl are weack sometimes "went lost "and trust wrong and bad ppl.(sorry about the spelling)

[@mandya9067]

It's so cool to see that you did a video on his book, cuz I've seen some of your other videos. I'm currently towards the very end of the book and it's quite hard to believe this crazy cult shit. I'm also confused as to why masaya is not in prison xD Anyway, it's nice to see x japan together again

[@PhoenixSplash]

Yeah. It is cool to see them back in action!

[@Iyashikei-t4u]

Damn, I knew about the Home of Heart thing but I never thought X Japan quit because of Toshi. I did read that because of Yoshikis lyrics he got emotionally unstable and that this was the reason Masaya and Wanku got their way with him. Anyway I don't blame Toshi for quitting. After all Yoshikis lyrics can be quite depressing. Read the lyrics for Art of Life if you don't believe me. And if you're in such an unstable state it's easy for people to brainwash you. I'm glad that at least he got out of there as lots of people are not so lucky.

[@Misunao23]

holy sauron To be honest, back in the day, I think Yoshiki was unreasonable in putting pressure on a Japanese man to speak like a native. His expectations were too large and it affected the people around him. He later admitted that he was too harsh on him and blamed himself for leaving. When things fell apart, he said "As a leader, I had to blame myself. What kind of family did I create?". As they got older, Yoshiki and Tosh1 got wiser and more understanding of limitations.

[@metalfansavarani]

holy sauron the reason why his lyrics are so depressing was because he experienced a lot of pain with his dad killing himself and no one telling him why and being told he can’t play drums because of health reasons in fact he needed a oxygen tanks after every show so instead of complaining about his problems he wrote it with music.

[@nakama-tachivideo.official998]

I new in x japan and i love toshi he is the best singer well everyone always do a mistake in the past well past are past and i love how toshi now

[@matthieuchristian500]

After reading his book (12 Years of Hell), a question (amongst many other) remains : Toshi has been bought back (litterally) from Masaya by the former X manager. The contract stipulated that all Toshi's earnings shall go to Kaori & Masaya. Is the contract still valid ? I mean... I don't wan't to give money to those abominable pieces of shit when I go to see X and ToshI concerts, buy CD's etc. Please tell me that even if Kaori & Masaya stole everything Toshi had, they don't earn money anymore for exploiting him ? thank you if you can answer me :)

[@PhoenixSplash]

I believe from what I read, that he took them to court over it and I know Masaya's career as well as Kaori's is pretty much done...but yeah it's not very clear. I know that Toshi sometimes spells his name "ToshI" probably to get around the contract...but I doubt the contract is still valid, there would be no reason for Toshi or anyone to renew it. Makes wonder if that's the reason the album keeps getting delayed...but yeah your guess is as good as mine.

[@bnr3314]

As far as I know. They received his earnings upto mid 2009, after that Toshi snapped out of the shit and sued them.

[@jobethwenninger1535]

i didnt have a clue who ToshI was but yeah the lead Singer he alwayslooks completely different I Love Them Just always wanted to know why theyre sad on Tears Im Glad No One Died, thats what I thought IThe words to the song and their faces I didnt Know hugs to X Japan Love You and the guy that did the Story On Them Thaks You Did Great Huugs, Jo Jo

[@ganymede12283]

Toshl doesn't need to join the cult because he is already the cult! He is the boss! ✨😎✨

[@gemilangarya6211]

Dude tbh yoko ono was never ever near to this evil girl. John loves her a lot as well as yoko. Theres no shit organization tho, And iykwim the beatles break up cause so many factors especially pauls ego and johns who had different view for choose the new managers. HOH are the worst kind of people.

[@ultragames4life]

The yoko ono of x Japan and Toshi was the John Lennon

[@PhoenixSplash]

Ha ha lol yeah that's what I was thinking lol

[@X3000Chan]

Why is Yoko Ono the brainwasher? Why not Linda Eastman McCartney? Both were artists of other mediums who collaborated with their husbands. Does Linda being a white, blonde American not qualify her as band destroyer? And furthermore, McCartney and Lennon were both fully grown men who'd dealt with fame and were starting families. Don't blame women for their or John's decisions. John was perfectly capable of making his own decisions. Yoko was a popular visual artist in her own right before she even met him. If anyone tried to pull the manipulative move, it would have been Cynthia who was infatuated with him in school, dyed her hair blonde when she heard he liked blondes. He never wanted to marry her, but he got her knocked up so tried to do the right (or socially responsible thing). I know maybe you're just commenting that Kaori and Yoko look alike because they're both Japanese, but Kaori literally grew up in this cult. And toshi said in his book, that he later felt or realized that she'd planned with Masaya to attract him and bring him into the group when she met him in a musical they did together. But toshi thought that even getting him to do the musical in the first place might have been orchestrated by them. She lived with Toshi for one year and Masaya for the other 11 or whatever it was. It's just not at all the same as John meeting, dating, and marrying Yoko, and later on deciding he didn't want to go on with that project that had already passed the peak of their fame. Artists are allowed to quit their band and do other projects, even if they are The Beatles and the fans don't want it. Yoshiki was really dragging out the band at that time. They were all doing their own projects all along, which is great, but by Dahlia Tour (in which Toshi was already being drawn into the cult) the band had kind of hit the height of their fame and would have at least taken a break until 2000. Toshi's book was translated into English by some really amazing and dedicated fans. I'll post it in the main thread.

[@vicrattlehead6386]

and both are Japanese lol

[@tbrown55]

Also messed up is the way Bob Ross did not agree to sign over the rights to the use of his name before his death. The company took his name anyway. Check out the Bob Ross documentary.

[@antichristp0rnostar]

i really enjoy and appreciate your videos about x japan. i do not think it is toshl's fault to end x japan. i believe if home of heart hadn't caused for toshl to break up x japan, hide would've quit regardless if he hadn't died. he didn't fit in with x japan at all if you're looking at the last live. and if never for the cult, maybe hide would've stayed if they stayed together. but they were bound to end their visual style at some point... so maybe he would've left anyway. who knows.

[@inkoinfinity2]

Haven't finished video but toshi and yoshiki formed X then they later became X Japan.

[@RocDisjoint]

I found out about XJapan from their documentary and ever since then I have listened to a lot more Japanese artist. I like a lot of XJapan's songs like Jade. I don't like the songs that are to much screaming and noise and I don't mind the soft solo types songs. I would like a list of 10 or so of what is considered their best songs.

[@Nature.Meditation.]

Google : x japan best...they dont have bad songs anyway....

[@A1000-b9s]

I don't think you listened to them well if you think about them as ''too much Noise or screaming''

[@ラクスマン-x9o]

masaya's youtube channel kzbin.info/door/ohf4PVst1cXvT3SprFPvkQ

[@polimoli56]

A part of me will always blame him for the disbandment. I can't abide by the notion that he resented Yoshiki for not coddling him.pardon my biasedness but I am a believer of the saying "when the going gets tough, the tough gets going."

[@PhoenixSplash]

I'm a big fan of that saying. Too often times people have to watch what they say when trying to critique something or someone...and I don't think Yoshiki is the type of person to do that. lol

[@Xia-hu]

polimoli56 he resented Yoshiki for being too harsh with him. They literally only worked and haven't even talked to each other outside of the studio. Yoshiki can be a bitch at work.

[@polimoli56]

Teemeah I get that but what I don't get is why he never talked about it with other members of the band. by the way, do you have an Ao3 account by the same name

[@polimoli56]

Phoenix Splash TV I don't get what you are saying here

[@Xia-hu]

I have no idea what Ao3 is. About not talking, these are Japanese dudes. Japanese culture is really different, they don't encourage sharing personal issues and troubling others with your own inner issues. This is exactly why most japanese people are screwed up emotionally, and there are so many suicides there. they simply don't talk about serious emotional stuff. Hack, the Japanese don't even say "I love you" to each other. They don't use the word "aishiteru" which stands for love, they only say "like", the same word they use to like objects, food or other material stuff. It's a very emotionally restrictive culture. Pretty difficult for us to understand all of this, because we have a different background.

[@ziggystardust6418]

It is very easy to manipulate emotionally vulnerable people, look at Tom Cruise...And marriages and Bands can never exist together, being in a band itself is like living with 3/or more or less spouses, it is hard... I sympathise with Toshi

[@PhoenixSplash]

It depends on the girl in my opinion. The type of girl that likes to control their lover will totally destroy the band...and there are a ton of men and woman who are like that.

[@ryoga123456]

a resume of the toshis book prezi.com/y47hzmrl3xns/brainwashed-my-comeback-from-12-years-of-hell/

[@red5llaw]

*coughYOKO-ONOcough* Talking about chicks breaking up bands.

[@rajsmells0215]

i wonder why he wears glasses all the time

[@nptv5503]

what is the name of the first xjapan song in ur intro

[@speakingups]

It’s called “Jade”

[@sknight2810]

toshi was completely screwed over omg...why would u give 100% of ur income to- how was he suppose to support himself?

[@Kumanosuke]

"IV" is a Roman number and means 5 lol

[@PhoenixSplash]

It means four actually

[@sknight2810]

the fact that a grown man got brain washed by his girlfriend make me question....bc if a whole toshi can be brainwashed then anyone can... imagining leaving the band...THE X JAPAN for a religious cult.. idk if other members were disappointed or tried to talk him out of it back then bc i saw the last live and he felt so genuine and real you wouldnt think he'd leave the band for such reasons but i also think the band was also incapable of continuing...they were all physically impossible. Hide was struggling with a lot of stuff hence...1998 incident, Taiji had health issue (blood clot) years later, yoshiki would further harm his neck...

[@kyril98741]

Woman are really powerful as influencer, even country and city are fallen due to them. They can be a reason for greatness or pulling you to depth of hell. Really suck that two of my favorite band has same ending.

[@PhoenixSplash]

Yeah sadly...hopefully X will make a big enough comeback.

[@thegoatgotmilked373]

1:23 Girlfriend that ruines the band. Where have I seen this before.... Ah yeah! The Beatles XD So sad that his girlfriend tried to influence the band. Nice video!

[@PhoenixSplash]

Thanks! lol Yeah she's pretty much the Yoko Ono of X Japan...I would call Wanku the Japanese Yoko Ono...but Yoko Ono is Japanese already lol

[@aspirewot8408]

Home of hearts ? What type of cult is this

[@zhizian]

He killed Hide indirectly.... zzzzz

[@meganwastaken_]

i heard he’s one of those shapeshifting lizard people

[@A1000-b9s]

That's a bullshit and rude way of thinking