Now I can tell you right away of someone who did give out his phone number to his fans...and that was Dada. I have a feeling he came to regret it.
A fuckchan, by the way, appears to be someone who follows bands around with the hopes of sleeping with one of the members. My friend actually called me a fuckchan once (jibaku), but he was just joking because being called a fuckchan is a pretty strong insult. And I'm not. Besides, I'm the one who introduced the term to the foreign vis kei world, and so I will thus insist to the very end that it can't be used on me even if I end up, I don't know, sleeping with....uhhhh...Michiru? That's hot.

2003.12.07

Fans of visual bands also write fanletters.
There are various ways to send them with some people handing them directly to members while doing iri or demachi, and others even sending them to the offices. As you would imagine for visual kei fans, some do write with white lettering upon black paper with black envelopes, and then there are even some who use a black cat seal. But there is an unexpectedly large number of girls who use the kind of letter set you would expect them chose for normal use.
As for the contents of the letter, there are probably a lot of people who keep it simple, sticking to their impressions about the music or lives. After that there are people who write meanderingly about their daily lives, and some who even turn them into loveletters. In conclusion, it also appears some decide that they want to befriend the bandmen and include their photos or phone numbers with the line "please contact me if you don't mind"....
If that is you, it is possible that your letter was thrown into the livehouse garbage can!
People who think to befriend bandmen through letters are usually self-styled fuckchan after all. And I can't say absolutely that there aren't any bandmen who can be befriended this way, but generally usually they'd have to be pretty shabby for that.
As the bands get more minor, the number of fans of the band also decreases, and so necessarily the number of fanletters also decreases. In other words, the less famous a band is, the more chance you have of getting a reply.
But then there are some bandmen who will never send a reply to people who will send replies no matter how long it takes them, and so if you want a reply you should probably research into who replies and who doesn't if possible, and then give them a letter with an addressed envelope including your name and address, and a postage stamp.
And if you're wondering what sort of reply you might expect, it's not for me to go looking at other people's letters. But there were a lot that replied to the original letter or answered questions. And moreover, they come with "please come to our next live", or "please buy our CD". There's not been record of any letters containing a phone number or mail address. This only includes the range of people I was able to ask, and so it is possible that there have been cases, but bandmen who are planning on meeting with someone aren't thinking about doing it via letter. It's best not to decide you want to meet a bandman, write strange things, and then be doubted, remembered by face, researched, and then have strange lies spread about you throughout the bandman community.

An incident involving the time a fanletter response came to X.

Here is the conversation that occured after X came to school expressely with the intent of bringing the fanletter and let me read it.

Mari: X-chan, in class you were rummaging around and making a commotion, but why?"
X: Oh that. I had a lot of time on my hands and I remembered I got a reply to my fanletter. I decided to see if I remembered everything and wrote it down on a notecard, and then after I'd got everything down I took it out one more time and looked at it and was like "oh, I got this part wrong!"
Marii: Oh, I see.....

I expect she was happy, but I don't think memorizing it was necessary.....