An ex member of the visual kei/ Oshare kei band An Cafe
Yes there are. Exist trace and danger gang are all-female visual-kei band.
The names sound cool and you'd identify visual kei easily by the band name. Also, the band names tend to mean something when they're in French. For example, L'arc En Ciel means 'the rainbow'. A band that was once hugely popular in the visual kei scene, Malice Mizer, often used French words for the titles of their songs.
Sads
Yes. they have JRock, JPop and Visual Kei.
The Visual Kei movement is associated with Japan. It is used primarily by musicians, mainly heavy metal bands. It is a type of "look" used by these musicians, composing of make-up and hair designs.
The scene look started in the mid 00's; around 2005. It was influenced from Japanese fashion such as visual kei, decora kei, and oshare kei. It was also influenced by 80's fashion.
Yes. Ruki does have a substitute. Every well-known visual-kei in japan has one...If you do some research on google you'll find out most of these visual kei bands ' vocalist/one of the member have the same style/look as members of diffeent band.
"Kei" does not have a direct translation in Hawaiian. It may be a name or a word from another language.
if you're shopping online you can search for lolita kisama or cosmates, or just go to eBay.if you live in socal, theres a store called 'jungle' in little Tokyo in LA that has a shop for cure magazine in it. they have very good visual kei clothes.
the wierd visual kei person (a man dressed as a woman with make-up)
Jrock is Japanese rock. There are many variations of the style, like visual kei. Visual Kei is a more Visual style of music, for example over the top costumes and make-up, it has long been a question as to whether this should be considered as a different music style. There is also Jpop which is just Japanese pop, again there is a Visual Kei branch off to this. If you want to research some artists here are a few- Gackt (mixture of pop and rock, mostly rock) Malice Mizer (Gothic Rock, Visual Kei) X Japan or X (old Rock, Heavy metal, Visual Kei, Ballads) Antic Cafe (Dance rock, in there own words, heavy pop-ish) Dir En Grey (Very Heavy Rock, Screamo) the GazettE (rock/Visual Kei) Mois Dix Moi (Gothic, Heavy rock Visual Kei) Alice Nine (pop) L'arc~en~ciel (Pop, Rock) hide (Rock) Miyavi (Rock, bit heavy) SuG (Oshare Kei/Pop) If you want more info, my email is tildy_rox@yahoo.com.au