Visual-Kei demo tapes. To me, these are the most exciting, interesting, and my favourite objects to collect. The way they fit in your hand, the whole handmade aspect, the low-budget music, the visual style bands generally applied on them… It’s all so perfect!
But it has become general knowledge that a lot of fake demo tapes exist. And while that is true, often, the panic is a little to extreme, stopping people from buying demo tapes that are probably real, or making people stressed when they see something on sale. Sometimes people wrongly assume a demo tape they own is fake, and then they become dissatisfied with the treasure they own.
While you can never 100% know it’s real, sometimes you can get really, really close. This webpage will not serve as a definitive, absolute guide to tell you “THIS IS REAL!” or “FAKE!”, but it will be a very handy tool, full of useful, interesting information, which will help you judge for yourself if what you own is genuine, or a bootleg, or if you should buy that very exciting tape you see for sale!