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Azum had done a Vinett-like 180 as well XD This was what he was doin' right before ASS'n'ARRow
 
 

From them I always first and foremost remember this ballad lolol
 
 
Checking all my my vk boxes 'ere. It features mind blowingly elementary musicianship and a melodramatic chorus for the ages; and did I mention they look stunning in all their multicolored trinkets? I'll leave it for you to decide which of these three I consider most important attribute when it comes to the music I listen to...
 
 

Remember back when liking Oshare could get you banned from certain groups? Those were some good times.
 
No but, seriously, I think that most people who were vocal about their "hatred" of oshare more did it as a gimmick than anything else, oshare fans, who were often young girls, were easy bait for bored "edgy" teenagers who thought that trolling others favorite bands were a fun thing to do. 
 
I admit I prefer proto-oshare like Shazna to the more modern bands, but some bands like 愛狂います。 had great guitar-work early on and to be honest I never dabbled in the more obscure ones due to lack of time and too many other bands that more immediately appealed to my sensibilities.

The amount of musicianship and interesting compositions that lie beneath the copious layers of makeup and discount high-collar jackets is astoundingly big! I like most oshare bands, the exceptions being stuff like Maria Cross, whose voice is unbearable imo.
 
Aicle, Lolita23q, DogInThePwO are too good for me to ignore. Maybe it's the fusion of silly antics and noodley/technical guitarwork...

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

Here are some of my favorites band that i consider oshare kei (if i'm mistaken feel free to correct   )
 
Juliette. I love pretty much all of their songs. Recommend to anyone that is a fun of oshare kei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMSVvagYjQs
 
Early v(NEU) with Jun as vocalist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBT99kGUfsM
 
THE KIDDIE one of my favorite vk bands. Although towards the end they changed their style i think their early style can be considered as oshare kei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p36RWMEz24g
 
Canzel was fkin awesome as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yytIklgo3s

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. 

SuG.
Sometimes I feel like I'm 10 years too old to be listening to their music.

Scrolling through Tumblr and literally stared for 10 minute at just his smile. Such a genuine smile and laugh, wonder what he saw.

Too damn precious.

^Yep. It's from the 15th anniversary Niconico thing PLC did recently.
 

More Toshiya, cause I can. Right? xD

<3

Vovozinha..... estilo dela.... MASOQ 
 

amém amiga!!!

From this weekend with my boyfriend ~ I was happy with my look and makeup ;3;

 

Eu ainda to aqui por algumas pessoas e é claro:
 
DIVULGANDO E ENALTECENDO O TRABALHO DO MEU DIVO RYUTARO ARIMURA E PLASTIC TREE.
 

Holy fuck.
"Hell's kitchen" is awesome.

Not that it matters, but it's absolutely beyond me where people with the content count of 1 get the balls to go "HEY WHERE DID THE DL SECTION GO!?". When they're too dumb to figure that out I wonder how they even manage to get out of bed without forgetting to breathe at the same time.

finished Shigatsu... (which was truly amazing from beginning till the end <3 ) and started Mob Psycho 100. so far Mob was really great. love the style! too bad there's only 12 episodes, when it seems like manga has quite a lot chapters.
 
aaaand still catching up with Jojo :v

This 6 min animated music video by Porter Robinson told a better, heart wrenching story than the entirety of Shingatsu.  To me of course.

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso is pure love!! The feels are huge, but they're all worth it. Even though it can be sad at times, it always left me feeling good after each episode.
That said, one thing I said over and over when watching Shigatsu weekly was how it felt like a current generation's Honey & Clover, and wow, that's one of the biggest compliments I can think of about an anime. Honey & Clover is one of my favorite anime ever, and Shigatsu naturally became one too.
 
So.... this season, we have another "Honey & Clover", in the sense that a award-winner manga by H&C's author is being adapted into anime! 3-gatsu no Lion (English title: March comes in like a Lion) is its name, and all the H&C's feels on it ARE KILLING ME. Also reminds me a lot of Shigatsu, so it's a win-win situation. 2 episodes are out and it's been amazing so far, definitely AOTS for me.
 
 

I didn't bother watching the finale either. 
This season was set up, I loved Alaska but by the end I lost some respect for her. 
Bullshit Rigged show.

 
Safe to say: it is now.