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Y'all forgot the queens of oshare
 

charlotte really were the best.
 
however the amount of music that was crap then and still is crap is incredible for one subgenre.
 
 
 

charlotte really were the best.
 
however the amount of music that was crap then and still is crap is incredible for one subgenre.
 
 
 

charlotte really were the best.
 
however the amount of music that was crap then and still is crap is incredible for one subgenre.
 
 
 

charlotte really were the best.
 
however the amount of music that was crap then and still is crap is incredible for one subgenre.
 
 
 

charlotte really were the best.
 
however the amount of music that was crap then and still is crap is incredible for one subgenre.
 
 
 

Remember when back in the proverbial day oshare kei was considered by some circles as the uttermost depths of shit this scene ever delved into. If you were a frustrated male between the ages of 12 to 18 in 2005 to 2010 and enjoyed Dir en grey on more than a few occasions, such as myself, then you surely took part in this folly. 
 
Well now in retrospect I think anyone with a lick of sense has realised that we've rarely had it better. The best bands of the oshare bunch carried the torch of florid guitar noodling, big colorful outfits and nasally eccentric vocalists into their new ventures, all the while the rest of the scene was playing catch-up in black 50 dollar suit jackets with Dir en grey's angryman vocalist and nu metal stylings. Oshare's debt to older visual kei I think is often unjustly disregarded and the style largely considered as the scene jumping the shark, when I think this couldn't be further from the truth. That moment when all the Unsraw's in the world were stinking up the place, there existed a scene where one could Image an alternative reality where Japan had shut its borders in 1999 and the bandmen had to make due with their old Luna Sea and Kuroyume records. 
 
A good cutoff point for this fad I'd say could be Royz' debut ( prophetically named as "the new age". ) That kind of bijuaru did definitely exist prior to that, but I still consider it an important turning point from whence we've really hit the shits in way I'm not entirely sure we'll ever recover from.
 
I confess immediately that I'm definitely not an expert, but I know for a fact there are people on this forum who are. Some bands that were formed prior to this date, but continued after 2011, will surely apply in this topic such as Cindykate. I'd say the range is broad enough to include bands like early Dolly as well, though suppose someone could dispute that.
 
Please post and link away ( and save this thread from bombing ) because even at its very worst, this shit was at least infinitely more entertaining than all that new royzcore shite. Going to kick things off by posting some entry-level stuff 
 
 
 
Irokui never got shit in my opinion, which is quite a marvel. Stayed very consistent and their musical trajectory I thought was very logical for them, and it brought us classic tracks like Sakura Seven
 
 
Their early output was so sexy. Essential of the rainbow vomit bands that got progressively more domesticated as they went along.
 
 
Incredible from the first release until the que:sera single. They musically progressed and amassed fortunes for fancier recording equipment at a blazing speed that made me very optimistic about their future. Then the very moment they had chiseled their musicianship to almost Kiryu levels controlled chaos, they dun fuck it up with some menbas leaving and Emoro blowing his indie rock wad all over the final couple releases. Still I suppose not even at their last breaths, they never sucked.
 
 
Early Paradeis needs to be linked, not only because of what a shellacking it got on this board, but because they were unironically pretty good. If you don't like the vocalist, then you have no business listening to vk in the first place.
 
This is merely a scratch on the surface. There are tons and tons more to choose from like the earliest attempts at the style like Vinett, the more "acquired taste" like Dragonwappppper, left field like doginthepwo and the entire baroque influenced strand. 

Which of these three iconic songs all titled "Without you" is your fave????????????????????????
 
1
La'Cryma Christi 
 
Released at the peak of the visual kei bubble, this April 1999 single by one of the four princes of VK hit the top 10 (back when you actually had to sell to get in the top 10) with 35,000 sales. Iconic solo? Check.  Not featured on a regular album because they couldn't make it work? Check. Dancing in a futuristic grain silo? Check. 3 inch platform heels? Check. Power lesbian haircuts? Check. Overwraught nasal vocals? Oh fucking check.
 
2
Fantastic Plastic Machine 
 
The KING of Japanese electronica/dance not named Cornelius or Tetsuya or Nakata released this housey bop back in 2010. Featuring exotic Canadian vocals from the guy at Monkey Majik, this dance track is the only one here to be available on vinyl. Please consider this before voting.
 
3
X Japan 
 
Two overwraught brainwashed queens hug it out over some images of a guy who's been dead 15 years at this point and truly awful strings. 
 
 
 
 
 
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Which of these three iconic songs all titled "Without you" is your fave????????????????????????
 
1
La'Cryma Christi 
 
Released at the peak of the visual kei bubble, this April 1999 single by one of the four princes of VK hit the top 10 (back when you actually had to sell to get in the top 10) with 35,000 sales. Iconic solo? Check.  Not featured on a regular album because they couldn't make it work? Check. Dancing in a futuristic grain silo? Check. 3 inch platform heels? Check. Power lesbian haircuts? Check. Overwraught nasal vocals? Oh fucking check.
 
2
Fantastic Plastic Machine 
 
The KING of Japanese electronica/dance not named Cornelius or Tetsuya or Nakata released this housey bop back in 2010. Featuring exotic Canadian vocals from the guy at Monkey Majik, this dance track is the only one here to be available on vinyl. Please consider this before voting.
 
3
X Japan 
 
Two overwraught brainwashed queens hug it out over some images of a guy who's been dead 15 years at this point and truly awful strings. 
 
 
 
 
 
which is ur fave, like comment and subscribe
 

Which of these three iconic songs all titled "Without you" is your fave????????????????????????
 
1
La'Cryma Christi 
 
Released at the peak of the visual kei bubble, this April 1999 single by one of the four princes of VK hit the top 10 (back when you actually had to sell to get in the top 10) with 35,000 sales. Iconic solo? Check.  Not featured on a regular album because they couldn't make it work? Check. Dancing in a futuristic grain silo? Check. 3 inch platform heels? Check. Power lesbian haircuts? Check. Overwraught nasal vocals? Oh fucking check.
 
2
Fantastic Plastic Machine 
 
The KING of Japanese electronica/dance not named Cornelius or Tetsuya or Nakata released this housey bop back in 2010. Featuring exotic Canadian vocals from the guy at Monkey Majik, this dance track is the only one here to be available on vinyl. Please consider this before voting.
 
3
X Japan 
 
Two overwraught brainwashed queens hug it out over some images of a guy who's been dead 15 years at this point and truly awful strings. 
 
 
 
 
 
which is ur fave, like comment and subscribe
 

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Fyi for anyone who needs a recap of the thread
 
Kiryu : Bernie 
Noah : Trump
Yayoi : Hillary 

Fyi for anyone who needs a recap of the thread
 
Kiryu : Bernie 
Noah : Trump
Yayoi : Hillary 

Fyi for anyone who needs a recap of the thread
 
Kiryu : Bernie 
Noah : Trump
Yayoi : Hillary 

Fyi for anyone who needs a recap of the thread
 
Kiryu : Bernie 
Noah : Trump
Yayoi : Hillary