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Today is world goth day
 
I am thinking about doing some cool makeup

Today is world goth day
 
I am thinking about doing some cool makeup

Regular cheaper edition is next month 

Decided to quit my current job and spend awesome time with parents and cats before Japan adventure and quest with finding job to get working visa (^w^)

For me I've found that the best way to deal with being single is just accepting it and finding other ways to fill that void. I've spend my free time learning new things or building on my hobbies. And in between, spending time with friends and family. And if all else fails, I find that music is the one thing I can always go back to in any number of circumstances.

Dating apps are fun from time to time, but there's just this ambiguous wall that I have a hard time getting past when I match with people. I try to just have fun with it and use it as a platform to meet interesting people, even if we don't meet irl. 

You figure with a population of over 5 billion people and a large number of those people seeking a relationship, finding a potential mate would be somewhat within the realm of possibility 😂

Moshi moshi, Doppio desu
  
 
i'm trying to act like an adult... but fckn jojo

Finally got a new haircut, I was delaying it for months xD

Welcome!

I'm fine. Broke some hearts along the way, but I keep going. I am not searching everywhere for someone like I used to do, lol
 
Also Tinder sucks so much around here, I wonder how it's going to be in Vancouver
 
 

What's going on here guys lol
 
Anyway since I left my 3 years relationship I just don't care about being alone anymore

I like Kanon Wakeshima, particularly her older stuff. I'm not counting her as VK because a) she's more goth-loli than VK, and b) she's kinda moved away from gothic stuff since her career started.

Finally got a new haircut, I was delaying it for months xD

Hi guys~ 
 
Im Rica and I have been a guest on this forum for a few years, and finally decided to join the family and introduce myself. I am 19 and I'm from Hong Kong(yup, technically part of China but also not really!!). This forum is so useful and informational. I started liking Visual Kei at about 2015, youtube recommended me Kiryu's Amaterasu MV out of nowhere. And I have been in the circle since.
 
I'm not a really active bangya, since I couldnt travel for lives; I got my friends to bought a few CD for me from Japan when they go travelling. Personally, I dont know anyone who know visual kei around me, since it is a very very niche thing in HK. I can only tell my sister and to few of my close friends. So it's great that I know there is a forum like this where I can talk about and read about things that I love. I am actually going to travel to Tokyo next week and I am super excited about it, too bad non of my favs have any lives during my stay :(. 
 
(sorry if i am too long-winded, im a bit excited). 
 
Few of my favorite bands are(in no specific order): 
Kiryu they got me into this whole thing, 
DIV heart broken when they disbanded but was predicted since their last single was uneventful to say the least, 
MejiBray still hasnt got excited about the 8psb thing, 
Clowd sad that they disbanded as well, 
Royz only for their music occasionally and for the kami- Subaru, 
Arlequin love their music and getting their songs on spotify is really appreciated, 
The Raid got into them recently because of kabukicho rainy, love their music and the vocalist's voice
Unite. like their song style occasionally, came across them because they are in the same company as DIV
Babykingdom their songs are so catchy and shogo is so cute~ (not sure if it is a guilty pleasure here)...
零[hz] here for their personalities, mainly cuz they are in BPR
Kizu love love love their music
I also listen to other bands based on the songs, I'm mostly into Vkei for the music to be honest. 
 
Other than vkei, also have an unexplainable love for Motely Crue, Queen, and any other songs occasionally popular to millennials these days.
I am so happy to be here~ and nice to meet you guys~   guess im talking too much for an introduction post  looking forward to be educated about band dramas and news, since i dont really know japanese and am very unfamiliar with fandoms. 
 

FYI this is totally me. 
 
Bork? 

(yay! It works!) 

I was celebrating my birthday on sunday o3o

You're extremely cute both ways

Have you guys ever stopped hearing some kind of songs for some time and after you hear it again you are like "wth did I stop hearing this"

Definitely HIZUMI esp in Fuyuushita Risou.
 
4K quality
 

Have you guys ever stopped hearing some kind of songs for some time and after you hear it again you are like "wth did I stop hearing this"

People already have mentioned most of the important influental gothic rock and post-punk bands, but I am surprised nobody has mentioned any japanese ones yet. Groups like Madame Edwarda, Phaidia, Neurotic Doll and Sadie Sads had quite a similiar style to many of the post-punkish early visual kei groups of the early 90s, especially Nagoya kei groups like Silver~Rose, early ROUAGE or Gilles de Rais.
Makes sense, since this groups operated within the regions and venues were Visual kei groups later would form, so there was a direct influence.





Also compare Sadie Sads' Glas Bruch (I feel it has quite a strong proto Visual kei flair). G-Schmitt should be worth mentioned too and of course all the other underground gothic rock bands from Japan (ASYLUM, Sex Android, Geil). Some of them are technically considered oldschool visual kei, such as EX-Ans or VOISS.

Oh and: if you mention Bauhaus then you should not forget Siouxsie and the Banshees. Their influence on early visual kei is often overlooked, maybe because it's not all too obvious, but the Banshees were quite big in Japan (and Siouxsie herself was influenced by japanese fashion and culture). Siouxsie was your typical 80s goth prototype as a lot of (new) wavers, punks and new romantics aimed to look like her. Black backcomped hair, massive amounts of dark eyeshadow and red lipstick are her trademark – and you happen to see this exact look a lot in early Vk bands too. Inoran from Luna Sea almost looked like a male japanese version of her.




Big But: I'd rather put all of this bands in a seperate thread called "Influences/origins of visual kei". Because it's a bit weird to say that those groups remind me of visual kei, when it's rather that this groups influenced (among other bands from different genres) visual kei (so early Vkei reminds me of the old Punk and New Wave stuff and not the other way round). For me most of them are still post-punk groups. A thread about the history, influences and origins of visual kei (and how it shifted from Hard/Glam/Punk-Rock and New Wave inspired music into the weird style mix thing it is today) would be very interesting though! (especially since I only know about the wave and goth origins so i'd be interested to hear about the other influences).

When it comes to groups outside of the "has influnces Visual kei in soe way" spectrum... then I don't know any bands who remind me of Vk. Sure, a lot of goth, Hardrock, Nu-Metal, etc bands sounded similiar to the struff from the late 80s to 90s, but as said again: that's because those genres had a definite influence on Visual kei. I don't remember seeing so many other modern bands drawing influence from VK, let alone being similiar to it (without having the intention of being a VK band).
Some people would argue that groups like Black Veil Brides are reminding them of Visual kei because of their looks... I wonder if the band does even know about Visual kei's existence? (I don't know, I am not a fan of them). But I can see why people would have the idea that make-up heavy Metalcore (or Emo?) groups are VK, especially since the musical style became popular within the Visual kei scene in the recent years too.

There was even a time magazines tried to sell those finnish rock bands full of adrogynous men to sell as Visual Kei. And bands like Tokio Hotel... most of the time it#s just the look which is reminiscent (or comparable) to Visual kei, but that's it.

Check out this awesome live vid they've just put up:
 
 
Kinda weird hearing Yoshida on such 'pedestrian' drums beats, haha. It's all cool tho.

The band's classic album "IN THE DARK" has been remastered and re-released on 2015/07/08.
 

Their first super rare single ("Future Days") was posted on Tumblr a while ago, but it seems like it's been pulled now :/
Here's the title track though ...great stuff!
 

 
Hm, I wonder if Tatsuya Yoshida will be included in the lineup of the reformed PHAIDIA?
Would be kinda funny if he went all zeuhl on the drums á la RUINS
 

I can't even explain to you guys how expensive that is in Brazil. Our customs tax is 60%.