I have yet to find a lot of people who like this band. For those of you who don't know they are a Visual-Kei band from Japan. Visual-Kei are usually boy bands that focus of fashion before music, although their music is usually fantastic anyway.
The guys of An Cafe are... hot. I like Kanon. <3 Actually hearing how awesome he is at bass (along with some other bassists) it has reignited my passion to learn bass.

Sooo..... who's your favorite? How did you learn about them? What is your favorite song? Do you have any bass sheets? (Hint, Hint)

1. not anime or game related
2. should be in music discussion
3. every girl says every VK guy is hot, because every girl is secretly a lesbian who likes girls or anything that looks like a girl

and with that i end

..... Ok, well then. Thanks for being a jerk about it. I'm new so I don't know where to put these kinds of things, also I REALIZE that it is not anime, that is why its in the GENERAL DISCUSSION thread. I'm not ASKING for sheets I'm just saying that if someone has them to let me know. Also, I like guys from Visual-Kei because I don't like particularly muscular men or men with facial hair, etc. THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'M A LESBIAN. For god sake why are being so harsh?

http://www.freewebs.com/nyappyworld/acFM8074.jpg

What the hell? And I thought Gackt was bad.

Visual Key bands are all gay. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a shame the fangirls don't seem to realise.

Hyde looks worse XD

But honestly, I never fully understood the whole mixing "music and fashion" scene. I would much rather prefer them to focus on a unique music style and unique songs rather than mixing two categories and splitting their attention (I'm looking at you Malice Mixers).

Lol visual kei >.>

THANKS VISUAL KEI! :bleh:
IT took me the longest time to find out that this was a guy
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm47/sakurai79/Hizaki.jpg
pretty smexi imo......

now, an cafe (aka antic cafe, aka antique cafe,) encyclopedia dramatica states that they are in fact oshare kei (and ed is never wrong). BUT as for the whole "kei" scene, its just appealing to all the fangirls/weaboos/wapanese.

correction, hyde was worse
http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww53/anemone1806/HYDE/1493.jpg
lol, crap. i hate myself >.>

Lol visual kei :lol2:

so why does an cafe get a whole thread to itself while the rest of much better J-music industry gets a dead thread?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/Raioh/maximum_the_hormone.jpg

Completely out of topic img of Maxi because they're just so much better. and not visual.

I will not proceed to
EAT.
MY.
HAIR.


Lol visual kei >.>

THANKS VISUAL KEI! :bleh:
IT took me the longest time to find out that this was a guy
[img]
pretty smexi imo......

now, an cafe (aka antic cafe, aka antique cafe,) encyclopedia dramatica states that they are in fact oshare kei (and ed is never wrong). BUT as for the whole "kei" scene, its just appealing to all the fangirls/weaboos/wapanese.

correction, hyde was worse
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lol, crap. i hate myself >.>

Not all Kei music is bad. After all the term just means "of [proceeding]" or, more loosely, style. In fact, all music in Japanese culture has an associated "kei" to it, just like how in the United States we separate regional music styles (northern, southern, eastern, and western rock). I quite like Shibuya-kei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya-kei) and Picopop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picopop) music. Both are mainstream and, for the most part, normal.

Haha, sorry M.
Picopop sounds cute.
Why is this thread active :o?

because the original jpop/visual kei thread is either dead or i can't find it and we need a thread to let our secret jpop fanboy/girl selves out loose


I will not proceed to
EAT.
MY.
HAIR.

But its so fun!

Lol visual kei :lol2:

so why does an cafe get a whole thread to itself while the rest of much better J-music industry gets a dead thread?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/Raioh/maximum_the_hormone.jpg

Completely out of topic img of Maxi because they're just so much better. and not visual.

But the woman and the naked tattoo-man do act as if they're rappers/gangstahs which is equally lame :P

But the woman and the naked tattoo-man do act as if they're rappers/gangstahs which is equally lame :P

Oh...there was a woman....

Visual-Kei...I don't dislike it, the music anyways. The "fashion" on the other hand, I have (or rather, had) a friend who tries to become a visual kei person, minus the music since he can't play worth crap, hahahah

But the woman and the naked tattoo-man do act as if they're rappers/gangstahs which is equally lame :P

You can't have everything, it's Japan after all ~_~

Lol visual kei >.>

THANKS VISUAL KEI! :bleh:
IT took me the longest time to find out that this was a guy
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm47/sakurai79/Hizaki.jpg
pretty smexi imo......


:eek: NO WAY!!! Thats a boy?!? Liez/?!?!

it's ok

as a consolation

http://pink.reveries.info/public/transvideogame/bridget.gif

As for that ^
Girl or guy, you decide :P

I uh... Wasn't trying to start anything. I just like their music is all.

Eh, its okay. But some of it sounds poser'ish. But i dont have any room to talk since i listen to gackt >.>

visual kei in my library
-ayabie
-Malice mizer
-versailles

Im such a hypocrite...damn
But its a love hate relationship between me and an cafe.
Theyre decent :o

Well, usually the music is okay (although male visual kei singers all have the exact same voice) but they shouldn't bother with the dressing-up-like-girls thing.

and who can forget one of the pioneers of VK, XJAPAN \o/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/X_promo_shot.jpg

poor hide.

and who can forget one of the pioneers of VK, XJAPAN \o/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/X_promo_shot.jpg

X Japan - everyone's respect for their music is implied the moment they post here without having to bother specifying it

*crosses arms*


I still hate their dress-ups though :mellow:

Hey, if they were around in the 80s, they'd fit right in. (I'm assuming they're a modern band. I can't be fucked to look it up.)

So basically Visual Kei is just stuck in the eighties...

A bit like glam rock, I think...not the music, the dress-up part
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3316/wewantmore.jpg
Except glam rock has no gender-bending, as far as I know

The japs look better as drags.