Visual kei (Japanese: ヴィジュアル系 or ビジュアル系, Hepburn: Vijuaru kei or Bijuaru kei, lit. "Visual Style"), abbreviated v-kei (V系, bui kei), is a category of Japanese...
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Japanese street fashion (redirect from Decora kei)
L'Arc-en-Ciel, An Cafe, Malice Mizer, and Diaura. Oshare Kei is the opposite side of Visual Kei, with bright colors and many pop impressions. This said...
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This is a list of visual kei musical groups. This list does not include individual solo musicians. Contents !–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T...
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Onnagata (section Significance in visual kei)
onnagata on Japanese culture has also played an important part in the visual kei subculture. The subculture emphasizes gender-nonconforming expression...
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Japanese rock (section Visual kei)
Japanese metal and rock bands gave birth to the movement known as visual kei. Taking visual influence from Western glam rock and glam metal, it was pioneered...
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Jiluka (category Visual kei musical groups)
Jiluka (Japanese: ジルカ, Hepburn: Jiruka, stylized as JILUKA) is a Japanese visual kei metal band initially formed in May 2013 but restarted in February 2015...
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Ero guro (category Visual kei)
considered separately. Some visual kei bands have a concept or theme relating to ero guro, most notably Cali Gari. Western visual kei fans assumed their theme...
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Japanese idol, visual kei, Gothic Lolita, Nagoya kei and gyaru. A distinct youth culture began in the mid-1980s with the style visual kei with bands such...
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Shibuya-kei (Japanese: 渋谷系, lit. "Shibuya style") is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s...
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Japanese popular culture (section Visual kei)
wave of visual kei came to an end at the time of X Japan's lead guitarists death in 1999. A few years later, the second wave called neo- visual kei transpired...
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