Eye Patches in Visual Kei

[secret_no_03 959]

Just now I saw TOKIYA wearing an eye patch and now I'm wondering about all of the artists with eye patches. Off the top of my head, HAKUEI almost always wears one, I  believe Kyo (DIR EN GREY) has, I think Kirito has, but not sure. Any visual examples with pictures would be great too.

TOKIYA (SHIVA ex . Crimson Shiva)

HAKUEI (PENICILLIN, machine, etc)

[patientZERO 1066]

In the beginning of UnsraW's career, vocalist Yuuki wore a patch often.

Edited May 24, 2020 by patientZERO

[Ikna 1225]

[patientZERO 1066]

Develop One's Faculties' drummer Johannes always has one eye covered with a contraption of his making. Does that count?

 

 

[Total Saikou 735]

Off the top of my head:

Whats-his-face from OROCHI would always be wearing one in their band photos, don't think I've ever seen him without one

While not always covering one of his eyes, Hora is famous for having these interesting fashion pieces that stretch the definition of an "eye-patch"

And having one member wearing an eyepatch is the standard for Iryou Kei bands

Lulu:

+ISOLATION

Nightinggeil:

[Gesu 1537]

Teru (Versailles/Jupiter) in one of my favourite pics of him

 

[AnchuAnchor 32]

jk (Sex Machineguns) 

Reita (The GazettE)

And the legendary nose band 

Edited May 25, 2020 by AnchuAnchor

[secret_no_03 959]

23 minutes ago, AnchuAnchor said:

jkReita (The GazettE)And the legendary nose band (please excuse the structure of this post, I am using a virtual keyboard)

I'm not sure if the nose band counts or not  🤔

[secret_no_03 959]

46 minutes ago, Total Saikou said:

Off the top of my head:

Whats-his-face from OROCHI would always be wearing one in their band photos, don't think I've ever seen him without one

While not always covering one of his eyes, Hora is famous for having these interesting fashion pieces that stretch the definition of an "eye-patch"

And having one member wearing an eyepatch is the standard for Iryou Kei bands

Lulu:

+ISOLATION

Nightinggeil:

Oh that's right, Kon has off and on, think he did in CELL as well.

[secret_no_03 959]

48 minutes ago, Total Saikou said:

Off the top of my head:

Whats-his-face from OROCHI would always be wearing one in their band photos, don't think I've ever seen him without one

While not always covering one of his eyes, Hora is famous for having these interesting fashion pieces that stretch the definition of an "eye-patch"

And having one member wearing an eyepatch is the standard for Iryou Kei bands

Lulu:

+ISOLATION

Nightinggeil:

Also, for some reason those pictures are blank for me, not sure why.

[Total Saikou 735]

10 minutes ago, secret_no_03 said:

Also, for some reason those pictures are blank for me, not sure why.

Links are from Google and Last.fm but I'm not sure if that always results in blank images. Usually they blank out to me too if there's a problem. If you really wanna see you can just google the bands and there should be at least one of the photos I posted in the results

Edited May 24, 2020 by Total Saikou

[secret_no_03 959]

2 minutes ago, Total Saikou said:

Links are from Google and Last.fm but I'm not sure if that always results in blank images. Usually they blank out to me too if there's a problem. If you really wanna see you can just google the bands and there should be a pics few with eyepatch clad bandomen present.

Oh, no worries, just an aesthetic thing, thought it was just a problem on my phone.

[platy 3018]

Once upon a time, Koichi was really cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[monkeybanana4 1732]

Hakuei from Penicillin wears an eye patch sometimes.

 

 

 

[LIDL 692]

Kyo DEG/skky

 

 

Hazuki lynch.

 

 

IDK why? Maybe cos it is one of typical Japanese delinquents, (furyou), tropes, besides those baggy pants, sarashi, face mask, and pompadour hairstyle?? 

VK supposed to represent that kind of anti conformity in Japan stuffs, right?

[Nowhere Girl 189]

Ryonai from Blam Honey wears an eyepatch. In his case, this is apparently for medical reasons, as he has myasthenia gravis. They have a song about this on their final album Typical Ingeniousness ～suggest～.

 

 

 

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[seys 139]

4 hours ago, LIDL said:

IDK why? Maybe cos it is one of typical Japanese delinquents, (furyou), tropes, besides those baggy pants, sarashi, face mask, and pompadour hairstyle?? 

VK supposed to represent that kind of anti conformity in Japan stuffs, right?

it's because eyepatches are cool as fuck

[visvasrit 64]

i like the white medical eyepatches. i’ve always wanted one but i only find cloth ones online, not actual plastic ones like bandomen use.

 

karma should bring back the eyepatch fr fr 

 

[Nowhere Girl 189]

4 hours ago, seys said:

it's because eyepatches are cool as fuck

Also, they only have to apply makeup to one eye! Makes getting ready for a show or photoshoot so much easier.

[Seimeisen 4406]

22 hours ago, secret_no_03 said:

for some reason those pictures are blank for me, not sure why.

22 hours ago, Total Saikou said:

Links are from Google and Last.fm but I'm not sure if that always results in blank images. Usually they blank out to me too if there's a problem

This can be fixed by changing the .webp part of the image url to .jpg

[anadentone 478]

yall done forgotten about the king of eye patches? (Kimura from Jin Machine)

[platy 3018]

12 hours ago, seys said:

it's because eyepatches are cool as fuck

also:

 

-pirates

- depending on the band, it goes with their menhera/self harm aesthetic

[patientZERO 1066]

When Tsunehito (ex-SCISSOR, D bassist) was in +ISOLATION (Tomozo's Sequence Records pet project session band thing), he had an eyepatch.

[fruitfork 116]

There was that one shoot Hide did with Kyo where he wore a military uniform with an eyepatch