振り付け / Furitsuke

Let's start this fun topic with some dry terms!

振り付け || furitsuke (also furi)
Handmovements / choreography. This is very very typical for Japanese Visual kei lives. It is usually only done at Visual kei lives but it also depends on the band whether you do it or not. A common generalization is that the more indie and oshare a band is, the more you do furi.
Some songs have very specific furi and you have to learn how to do it, otherwise you'll be lost and the furi part is over before you realize how the choreography works. However, there are lots of movements that you just know are coming right now, depending on the sound of the song.
In some cases, the bands invent the choreography for a song and the fans copy it during the lives. But often also the fans invent the furi and other fans copy it. The fans who invent the furi for a song are usually the old fans of a band, who attend almost every concert and stand in the first row.
Furitsuke slowly takes on in the west as well. Some bands show how the furi is done to the audience and the fans adapt it. There are also more and more fans who have been to Japan and have taken a liking to furitsuke. They bring it to the concerts here and make it more known by doing furi at western lives. Western fans who cannot go to lives in Japan can learn furi by watching live videos, for instance. However, you should be careful with choreographies you learn by video. They might change over time. But it's certainly fun as well and helps you getting into it. (And in most cases, furi will stay relatively constant)

土下座ヘドバン || dogeza HEDOBAN (= kneeling down headbang)
You really kneel down to the floor and then headbang.

逆ダイ || Gyaku-DAI (= reverse-dive)
That's when you raise your fist but turn it inside out at the same time and also at the same time you throw your head downwards (like headbanging) and pull your arm down. It's a bit hard to describe, sorry.

ヘドバン || HEDOBAN
An abbr. for headbanging. Japanese fans really give their all when headbanging. Sometimes the vocal shouts "atama! atama!" (atama = head) when a headbanging part in a song comes up.

拳・拳盤 || kobushi・kobushi-ban
Raising the fist (kobushi = fist)
A kind of furi (hand movement) that suits death vocals. You pointedly shake your fist back and forth.

メンコ || MENKO
abbr. for MEMBAA KOORU = member call
I include this here because usually saki is done when calling the member's name.

咲き || saki (bloom)
Extending both hands and calling the name of your favourite member.
looks like this → ヽ(゜∀゜)ノ～♪
It means "Emabrace me!". It is usually done eg. inbetween songs, when the men appear on stage or when the concert is over and they leave the stage.

咲き声 || sakigoe (= blooming voice)
When you do saki and call the name of a member in a high pitched voice. Usually it's perceived as very annoying by western fans, but Japanese fans try to be cute and to be heard by the men this way.

咲く || saku (to bloom)
the verb for saki.

ソロ || Solo
In terms of furi, this is when you extend your arms and cross them. Then you wriggle with your fingers and move your arms up and down. This is done during a guitar or bass solo. If you do this, you turn into the direction of the men who is doing the solo and point towards them.

手バン || te-BAN
Derived from "headbang" (tebang = handbang).
It's a very common movement. You shake your hands alternately back and forth to the beat of the music.

手扇子 || tesensu (hand folding fan)
It's difficult to describe. Usually done when a song changes into a slower tempo. You do wave like movements above your head with your arms, turning them inside out.