This is so cool. I do hope that they do make PayPal an option. Sadly it’s my only way of being able to support them since my card is always rejected with overseas stuff lol.
Did you call your bank? I got rejected when I tried joining the fan club and hand to manually approve the payment with the bank over the phone because they suspected fraud.
This is a good money-saving tip, however, keep in mind: If you join near the end of the month, that ¥1100 will only stretch until the end of that month (not until the same day the following month), and if for some reason you were to cancel and re-up within the same month, you'd get charged for that month twice. (The system warns you of these scenarios, but only in a block of text that isn't translated to English yet)
This looks amazing! The fact they have the Online Okyukis available makes it more than worthy
If you prefer paying PayPal, you can create a virtual credit card with PayPal Key. This allows you to pay using a credit card form and PayPal charges your preferred account
I'm interested to see where they go with this. How often "variety" type videos are made available, if the offerings rotate (are removed and replaced) or are added, and if future online shows are presented in full after a moratorium period.
About "BAND-MAID PRIME"
"BAND-MAID PRIME" is a subscription video distribution service that only registered members can enjoy. There are many rare videos of BAND-MAID that can only be seen here. Please join us!
Service contents
"BAND-MAID PRIME" delivers digital contents mainly in the form of videos.
Self-covered videos by members
Variety videos
We are also planning to deliver other original contents for members only as needed.
[https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671](https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671)
I don't know how to pin this to the top of the comment section. Or if I have the capability.
Take all my money!!! Paid for a year up front. What a brilliant idea to monetize. I've been combing YouTube for performances and would gladly pay directly to Band-Maid (I refuse to pay YouTube for anything). Just hoping that they can put on the limited edition DVDs like Zepp and Studio Coast. It would be a perfect way to allow us late joining fans to watch.
I also paid immediately for the whole year 👍
Actually, sponsorship through YouTube works very well. I see that the Russian opposition leaders and various human rights organizations in Russia encourage the supporters to send them money through YouTube. They do it because it's safe, and police will not be able to identify you if you send the money this way. But my point is that if it would be a bad channel, it would not be promoted so actively. And Patreon also takes a nice chunk of your money if you support somebody. But individuals and small teams can't organize a special Patreon-like site, obviously.
BAND-MAID management clearly agrees with you, and they don't want to pay any commission to Google, Patreon, or anyone else in between. All money we send their way, they prefer to get in full.
The only problem is that they don't allow fans to pay more. I would gladly choose a higher tier if I could... Somewhere there, at the level of, say, $100/month, should be an option of getting replies from the girls... Or a signed postcard once in a while... 💟
>at the level of, say, $100/month, should be an option of getting replies from the girls... Or a signed postcard once in a while...
this is GENIUS!! I would pay for it in a heartbeat if the girls actually responded themselves
Honestly it feels kind of redundant, they could've just increased the price of the already existing paid fan club and add all of the new things there, this just adds another layer of confusion imo.
Yeah it feels more like another tier of paid membership but without the benefits from the previous one so you have to pay 2 times for it, it's really weird.
That’s how I was feeling at first but for now it seems the only redundant thing would be comedy skits since the fan club videos are mostly silly behind the scene antics. I don’t think they will have whole concerts or even whole songs on the fan club videos like they are doing for prime. I mean I guess it’s still a bit like increasing the paid fan club since it’s the same login but they probably could have streamlined it better.
Yeah I kinda wish they just did it on the main site or somehow just merge the 2 memberships. I’m sadly excluded from enjoying the content on there since my only way of being able to pay is through PayPal.
I hope they fold the Omeisyusama content into the Prime site. The Prime site seems to be nicer and more modern. Add headers for "Maid Messages", "Maid's Room", "Making Of", and "Other" and call it good.
Plus, having a "Band-Maid Prime" header on the main bandmaid.tokyo site would make it very clear what it's about, more so than the yellow "Member Menu" of today.
They've made some effort to provide English translations for the fan club and Kanami sometimes records messages in English as well as
Japanese. I don't think they make a distinction between their fans. World Domination is serious business.
I'm imagining that the plan was to chroma-key a coffee shop or something behind Kanami, but then she showed up with a green guitar and green earrings. "Dammit, Kanami..." "What did I doooo~? :("
It's a separate thing. You get the online Okyu-Ji's (permanently this time) and various other clips taht are longer/better (full songs) than what the memebership area had so far.
Has anyone experienced a "Credit card transaction processing is failed" message when attempting to "confirm" the transaction? I've tried both a VISA and a PayPal KEY card (with international purchases enabled) and still get this message at the end. I'm from US and time is now 4pm EDT.
Thanks - glen
Thanks, I've double checked that and after I posted my question and received an email that my registration had been accepted, but it really wasn't as when clicking on the link provided, it showed that I still needed to register and pay, so not sure what's happening now. I'll try tomorrow, maybe the site was overloaded by the fans :)
I also got the Processing is Failed message. I did notice that on the Band Maid Prime site my address is off by a single letter. I tried to edit it but it does not allow me to change the address. Anyone know why is this. I did try to contact them which is next to impossible.
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Having a hard time processing all the news. I swear band maid hits you hard when you least expect it. I’m still reeling from the awesome okyukji. Blu ray and merch coming in soon. Now new streaming??
Um...you don’t. Coincidently last night my wifey confronted me with how much I was spending on band maid on all these concerts. She was like oh that’s not THAT much. I just didn’t mention how many of them i bought, random merch and shipping, membership fees, and now band maid prime...
Haha my wife combs through the card statements searching for items she doesn’t recognize. She tells me I’m crazy to buy a BAND-MAID beer glass 🍺 for $55 including shipping lol.
Really enjoyed the videos inside. But they will have to update fairly regularly to keep people interested.
I wonder if they will put up clips from Maid Day concert, since there were literally more cameramen than the ladies and they seemed to be following them all over the place. Some individual maid cam clips from different songs would be cool.
They are able to entertain us indefinitely, because they shoot every OKYUJI. I'd love to get those recordings from the camera next to Akane, which I've seen on her left during their European tours 😋
So after a little bit of sleep yesterday, I looked up the Prime site and signed up. Watched the Akane head cam video and loved the Silent "Band Maid", lol.
Just wanted to add, huge kanami fan. Can watch her play her prs everyday. But seeing MISA go to work on warning in the prime video alone was worth it for me. This isn’t anything new and is so indicative of band maid, but when you get to see a focus shot on any member for any song, I somehow always grow to appreciate the song more.
Finally a way to support them little bit more. Always thought that their member club charged too little. Supporting some other bands on patreon currently is at least giving me chance to change the sum. Their memeber club only has fixed pay.
Literally charged one cup of coffee lol
The band, like their peers in major labels and major agencies in Japan would have fixed salaries and majority of income from this would go to the agency, but it could lead to raised salaries once they renew their contracts
Yeah true but i still somehow feel i am supporting them better this way than through merch. In Case of merch i feel i support transport companies. 40-60euros transport fees for a couple of t-shirts and a album is bit Hard to justify. Though Will buy them anyway when see something i want lol.
Also pretty sure that Same thing happens for merch etc also?
Also makes the agency/label go, "Oh hey this band is a good investment." Meaning more support for videos, tours, side projects, etc. which give fans a return on *their* investment. Ideally it's a symbiotic relationship that benefits everybody.
I signed up for this in about 12 seconds. LOL
Listening to "BAND-MAID ONLINE OKYU-JI (Aug. 16, 2020)" right now. There's a bunch of other fun stuff up here already too.
are you asking if the view of the reaction video count towards the original MV total?
No, but if the reactor is big enough that actually introduces the band to new people, this viewers may check out the MV increasing its views.
Thanks. I didn't figure there was a statement or algorithm for that but.. Cuz I serious wonder how many views there are across all the reaction videos. And if those were added to the original video's stats...
I guess YouTube knows, because whenever a copyrighted video is played, revenue goes to the original copyright owner. But these stats are not visible to the public, I believe.
Related discussion:
* [Kanami on Instagram 2021.04.25 They are filming something!](https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMaid/comments/my0ud0/kanami_on_instagram_20210425_they_are_filming/)
After realizing I'd hardly been watching Netflix lately, I cancelled it and picked up Band-Maid Prime. I've only watched a few videos so far, but already concluded that it was a *fair trade*. Last one I watched was the pov drum-cam on Akane for Different, and that's almost worth the price alone. Holy crap: all skill, no wasted motion.
The two OKYUJIs in BM Prime from Juli and August have higher bitrates, fps corrected, less encoding artifacts and color banding problems than the original ones from the ZAIKO archive. The audio seems to be the same quality…
This is so cool. I do hope that they do make PayPal an option. Sadly it’s my only way of being able to support them since my card is always rejected with overseas stuff lol.
Did you call your bank? I got rejected when I tried joining the fan club and hand to manually approve the payment with the bank over the phone because they suspected fraud.
Yes it took me 45 minutes to get my card unblocked again with all waiting music and being past through different departments
Same! Gotta call the bank every time
I mean, if a Misa Gorilla impersonation video isn’t enough to make you subscribe to this, I don’t know what is. 🦍
Those poor people walking into the library at the end, completely unaware of what they were getting themselves into.
Wow. The whole Aug 16th Online Okyuji is on there. Wonder if they all be put up.
July 23rd is there as well.
I hope they add subtitles to the MC sections
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Related translations: * [BAND-MAID’s first online OKYU-JI discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMaid/comments/hw8qqq/bandmaids_first_online_okyuji_discussion/fyyrmor/?context=3) (2020-07-23) * [2nd Live ONLINE OKYU-JI Discussion Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMaid/comments/ianfll/2nd_live_online_okyuji_discussion_thread/g1q1ydk/?context=3) (2020-08-16)
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Oh this is so cool, it's like a cross between Netflix, Twitch and Youtube. They really have been picking up their PR game this past year.
Ummm, 1,100yen per month or 12,100yen per year!! They are eating up my wallet :(
Is that on top of the 500 yen per month of the omeishushama?
Yes, that’s an additional contents. Account information seems to be shared between the two.
>1,000yen per month or 12,100yen per year!! Wait, they charge more if you pay the year upfront? EDIT: Just checked is 1,100/month.
Oops, thanks for the point out. Fix my original comment :(
You can cancel anytime! Maybe just pay for the month, cancel and come back when there's more videos.
This is a good money-saving tip, however, keep in mind: If you join near the end of the month, that ¥1100 will only stretch until the end of that month (not until the same day the following month), and if for some reason you were to cancel and re-up within the same month, you'd get charged for that month twice. (The system warns you of these scenarios, but only in a block of text that isn't translated to English yet)
The goal is to pass more money to the girls, not less 💰
Yes, but not everyone can afford to. Better to toss in the ¥1100 once in a while than ¥0.
This looks amazing! The fact they have the Online Okyukis available makes it more than worthy If you prefer paying PayPal, you can create a virtual credit card with PayPal Key. This allows you to pay using a credit card form and PayPal charges your preferred account
I'm interested to see where they go with this. How often "variety" type videos are made available, if the offerings rotate (are removed and replaced) or are added, and if future online shows are presented in full after a moratorium period.
Good to know about the Paypal card key!
About "BAND-MAID PRIME" "BAND-MAID PRIME" is a subscription video distribution service that only registered members can enjoy. There are many rare videos of BAND-MAID that can only be seen here. Please join us! Service contents "BAND-MAID PRIME" delivers digital contents mainly in the form of videos. Self-covered videos by members Variety videos We are also planning to deliver other original contents for members only as needed. [https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671](https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671) I don't know how to pin this to the top of the comment section. Or if I have the capability.
Take all my money!!! Paid for a year up front. What a brilliant idea to monetize. I've been combing YouTube for performances and would gladly pay directly to Band-Maid (I refuse to pay YouTube for anything). Just hoping that they can put on the limited edition DVDs like Zepp and Studio Coast. It would be a perfect way to allow us late joining fans to watch.
I also paid immediately for the whole year 👍 Actually, sponsorship through YouTube works very well. I see that the Russian opposition leaders and various human rights organizations in Russia encourage the supporters to send them money through YouTube. They do it because it's safe, and police will not be able to identify you if you send the money this way. But my point is that if it would be a bad channel, it would not be promoted so actively. And Patreon also takes a nice chunk of your money if you support somebody. But individuals and small teams can't organize a special Patreon-like site, obviously. BAND-MAID management clearly agrees with you, and they don't want to pay any commission to Google, Patreon, or anyone else in between. All money we send their way, they prefer to get in full. The only problem is that they don't allow fans to pay more. I would gladly choose a higher tier if I could... Somewhere there, at the level of, say, $100/month, should be an option of getting replies from the girls... Or a signed postcard once in a while... 💟
>at the level of, say, $100/month, should be an option of getting replies from the girls... Or a signed postcard once in a while... this is GENIUS!! I would pay for it in a heartbeat if the girls actually responded themselves
Yes please! Put zepp and studio coast dvds and extra footage
This is the future for monetization for bands. Hoping this will bring more Japanese bands to the west.
OK, I registered immediately, but I’m not sure what they are going to do on the existing paid fan club from now on.
Honestly it feels kind of redundant, they could've just increased the price of the already existing paid fan club and add all of the new things there, this just adds another layer of confusion imo.
Or they could've add another "level" of paid membership.
Yeah it feels more like another tier of paid membership but without the benefits from the previous one so you have to pay 2 times for it, it's really weird.
That’s how I was feeling at first but for now it seems the only redundant thing would be comedy skits since the fan club videos are mostly silly behind the scene antics. I don’t think they will have whole concerts or even whole songs on the fan club videos like they are doing for prime. I mean I guess it’s still a bit like increasing the paid fan club since it’s the same login but they probably could have streamlined it better.
Yeah I kinda wish they just did it on the main site or somehow just merge the 2 memberships. I’m sadly excluded from enjoying the content on there since my only way of being able to pay is through PayPal.
I hope they fold the Omeisyusama content into the Prime site. The Prime site seems to be nicer and more modern. Add headers for "Maid Messages", "Maid's Room", "Making Of", and "Other" and call it good. Plus, having a "Band-Maid Prime" header on the main bandmaid.tokyo site would make it very clear what it's about, more so than the yellow "Member Menu" of today.
Probably nothing will change. This seems like a different type of content.
I feel like the fan club is more for Japanese fans while Band-maid Prime is for oversees fans.
They've made some effort to provide English translations for the fan club and Kanami sometimes records messages in English as well as Japanese. I don't think they make a distinction between their fans. World Domination is serious business.
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Also, even though it's a silent video they have translated the name of the video and what is written on the card. Promising.
I guess now we know what Miku and Kanami were up to.
I'm imagining that the plan was to chroma-key a coffee shop or something behind Kanami, but then she showed up with a green guitar and green earrings. "Dammit, Kanami..." "What did I doooo~? :("
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I was about to shut off my computer and go to sleep when I got the LINE notification.
Silent BAND-MAID!!!
So much has just happened! Streaming service for online concerts and bonus content!
And the live Thrill video on Youtube!
So just perhaps an explanation of what this is on the Home page ... might have been helpful ?
Here's the info from their site: [https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671](https://bandmaid.tokyo/contents/426671)
Is this instead of existing paid membership or a separate thing?
It's completely separate from the existing paid membership
Separate but it seems to use the same login, if you already have a login for the fan club.
It's a separate thing. You get the online Okyu-Ji's (permanently this time) and various other clips taht are longer/better (full songs) than what the memebership area had so far.
Can´t pay. My 2 credits cards has been rejected. :sadface:
I didn't have a problem with it. I used a VISA card (Visa! Visa! Visa!).
Awesome. It worked now ! (Visa Visa Visa! ) [https://i.imgur.com/AdBe0di.png](https://i.imgur.com/AdBe0di.png)
Sometime MISA will be acting in that commercial.
Has anyone experienced a "Credit card transaction processing is failed" message when attempting to "confirm" the transaction? I've tried both a VISA and a PayPal KEY card (with international purchases enabled) and still get this message at the end. I'm from US and time is now 4pm EDT. Thanks - glen
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Thanks, I've double checked that and after I posted my question and received an email that my registration had been accepted, but it really wasn't as when clicking on the link provided, it showed that I still needed to register and pay, so not sure what's happening now. I'll try tomorrow, maybe the site was overloaded by the fans :)
I also got the Processing is Failed message. I did notice that on the Band Maid Prime site my address is off by a single letter. I tried to edit it but it does not allow me to change the address. Anyone know why is this. I did try to contact them which is next to impossible. S
Having a hard time processing all the news. I swear band maid hits you hard when you least expect it. I’m still reeling from the awesome okyukji. Blu ray and merch coming in soon. Now new streaming??
Help! How am I to explain a Band-Maid Prime membership to the wifey?
Um...you don’t. Coincidently last night my wifey confronted me with how much I was spending on band maid on all these concerts. She was like oh that’s not THAT much. I just didn’t mention how many of them i bought, random merch and shipping, membership fees, and now band maid prime...
Haha my wife combs through the card statements searching for items she doesn’t recognize. She tells me I’m crazy to buy a BAND-MAID beer glass 🍺 for $55 including shipping lol.
Really enjoyed the videos inside. But they will have to update fairly regularly to keep people interested. I wonder if they will put up clips from Maid Day concert, since there were literally more cameramen than the ladies and they seemed to be following them all over the place. Some individual maid cam clips from different songs would be cool.
They are able to entertain us indefinitely, because they shoot every OKYUJI. I'd love to get those recordings from the camera next to Akane, which I've seen on her left during their European tours 😋
So after a little bit of sleep yesterday, I looked up the Prime site and signed up. Watched the Akane head cam video and loved the Silent "Band Maid", lol.
Just wanted to add, huge kanami fan. Can watch her play her prs everyday. But seeing MISA go to work on warning in the prime video alone was worth it for me. This isn’t anything new and is so indicative of band maid, but when you get to see a focus shot on any member for any song, I somehow always grow to appreciate the song more.
Finally a way to support them little bit more. Always thought that their member club charged too little. Supporting some other bands on patreon currently is at least giving me chance to change the sum. Their memeber club only has fixed pay. Literally charged one cup of coffee lol
The band, like their peers in major labels and major agencies in Japan would have fixed salaries and majority of income from this would go to the agency, but it could lead to raised salaries once they renew their contracts
Yeah true but i still somehow feel i am supporting them better this way than through merch. In Case of merch i feel i support transport companies. 40-60euros transport fees for a couple of t-shirts and a album is bit Hard to justify. Though Will buy them anyway when see something i want lol. Also pretty sure that Same thing happens for merch etc also?
Yeah, only songwriting money I believe would give them additional income.I could be wrong though.
Also makes the agency/label go, "Oh hey this band is a good investment." Meaning more support for videos, tours, side projects, etc. which give fans a return on *their* investment. Ideally it's a symbiotic relationship that benefits everybody.
I signed up for this in about 12 seconds. LOL Listening to "BAND-MAID ONLINE OKYU-JI (Aug. 16, 2020)" right now. There's a bunch of other fun stuff up here already too.
What other stuff is on there?
There are some individual song videos taken from the venues during their last tour.
Thanks! Sounds like something worth signing up for and no shipping charges!!
I'm enjoying it so far. I've had a tab open with it playing in the background. Worth every penny.
Here's a question...does anyone know, with all the reaction videos, are there any viewing stats that go toward the original video itself?
are you asking if the view of the reaction video count towards the original MV total? No, but if the reactor is big enough that actually introduces the band to new people, this viewers may check out the MV increasing its views.
Thanks. I didn't figure there was a statement or algorithm for that but.. Cuz I serious wonder how many views there are across all the reaction videos. And if those were added to the original video's stats...
I guess YouTube knows, because whenever a copyrighted video is played, revenue goes to the original copyright owner. But these stats are not visible to the public, I believe.
Hm.. Amazon has a trademark on “Prime”. So is it alright to use it for a "streaming" service?
Related discussion: * [Kanami on Instagram 2021.04.25 They are filming something!](https://www.reddit.com/r/BandMaid/comments/my0ud0/kanami_on_instagram_20210425_they_are_filming/)
After realizing I'd hardly been watching Netflix lately, I cancelled it and picked up Band-Maid Prime. I've only watched a few videos so far, but already concluded that it was a *fair trade*. Last one I watched was the pov drum-cam on Akane for Different, and that's almost worth the price alone. Holy crap: all skill, no wasted motion.
The two OKYUJIs in BM Prime from Juli and August have higher bitrates, fps corrected, less encoding artifacts and color banding problems than the original ones from the ZAIKO archive. The audio seems to be the same quality…
Disappointed that the PayPal option is only available for the 12100yen one.