Visual kei popping up in unexpected places

[shane 24]

1 hour ago, Total Saikou said:

I was looking for a SHAZNA album cover today when I found out that Winter's Review by SHAZNA was used as the Ending theme for Japanese dub of The Rugrats Movie?!?! Now that's what I call unexpected. I saw the Rugrats movie as a kid and seeing SHAZNA play over Rugrats footage is so surreal for me.

 

That’s interesting! Speaking of odd music choices, they got Bowie to do the theme for the Rugrats movie too but in the end it didn’t get used.

 

Edited May 21, 2020 by shane

[monkeybanana4 1732]

Speaking of Gackt-inspired characters, there's also a vocaloid character created/named after him called Camui Gackpo, lol.

 

 

[saiko 429]

In spanish we say, "qué tiene que ver el culo con pintar", which could be translated as "what [the fuck] has ass to do with painting".

 

 

[Total Saikou 735]

4 hours ago, saiko said:

In spanish we say, "qué tiene que ver el culo con pintar", which could be translated as "what [the fuck] has ass to do with painting".

 

 

Wow, an actually good sounding Kpop song--HEY WAIT A MINUTE

[R/O 36]

On 5/21/2020 at 2:24 PM, Gesu said:

That reminds me; Genesis Rhapsodos from FF7CC was based on/voiced by Gackt.

 

 

Also, his song Redemption was in FF7DOC.

It’s Final Fantasy though... the series that gave us Squall and Kuja. Is it really unexpected when it’s Final Fantasy?

[Tokage 5930]

Talking about SHAZNA/Izam - there's also this rather unfortunately titled endorsement:

[Furik 832]

 

 

[少女椿 343]

As a manga nerd I know a lot of references but time flies and my favorite -thing- is Hakuei'ish main character from "Ludwig kakumei", hehehe.

 

 

[Total Saikou 735]

I nearly fell out of my damn chair when I saw Miyavi being mentioned in a currently trending Buzzfeed article of all things

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/amazing-performances-by-nonactors

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He’s a Japanese rock star who was handpicked by Angelina Jolie

^THIS RIGHT HERE 

[Katt 63]

Besides finding Vk related items in resale stores, the best two experiences for me was going to a Mitsuwa and hearing "I for you" by Luna-Sea, and then going to a generic weeb store in a small shopping center and they were blasting an cafe, nightmare, gazette, and miyavi lolz.

[Rahzel 110]

Not sure how "unexpected" this is but:

 

Argonavis aka Boydori now has a character who is a bandomen yay

Also oldies popular shoujo manga Kaikan Phrase had a band whose guitarist was ex-vk (but since Ayabie covered Datenshi Blue as if it's a vk song ... is it unexpected?)

[violetchain 912]

Dragon Ash has been one of my favourite bands for 10+ years, and their original bassist IKUZONE was a massive hide fan - so much so that he had a hide tattoo and performed with hide plushies on his gear a lot. I mean, it's not really all that unexpected, but I did a bit of a double take when I first saw one of the plushies while I was watching a DA live DVD back in like 2007.

 

Here's his tattoo:

 

And here are some of the plushies he had:

^I think this is from one of the memorial exhibitions for IKUZONE

 

You can see his plushies in a lot of the older DA live videos on YouTube too.

 

 

[ICEMYLIFE 1]

weird one, and maybe someone's pointed it out? Jon Davis on the Opie and Anthony show recommends DEG and talks about them for a minute or so. was genuinely a bit shocked even if I knew they were on Korn's tour. it happens at 9:40:

 

 

 

[Gesu 1537]

You can't tell me Yuri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses wouldn't be a bandman if he were real

He's even got purple eyeshadow.

 

Speaking of games, there are more than a few characters in The World Ends With You who have a kind of VK/psuedo-VK look although I'm not sure if that counts as unexpected since the whole theme of the game is Shibuya youth culture.

[R/O 36]

If it isn’t “Gekka no Yasoukyoku” (barely) in disguise...

Edited September 29, 2020 by R/O