My discovery of Visual-K bands.

I just absolutely love anything to do with Japanese pop culture and am ecstatic to discover, from a friend of mine named Mun Yen, that there is a band genre called Visual-K. Bands classified under this genre are flamboyant in their dress. Their music is very much like that of rock bands with a Japanese twist, which is unique.

These are the Alice Nines. They look really cool with their hair and style. At one point, Japanese traditional culture influenced their anime and manga. However, as anime, manga and games progressed, they took on a life of their own and developed styles and dresses that (at the time) only existed in their particular genre of entertainment. Of course, Japanese youth(and sometimes the elderly) copied the characters in manga, games and anime.

However, it was not long before the animated world influenced the real world. Hence the emergence of Visual-K bands who dress and pose like Japanese animated characters.

In their pictures, they adopt poses very similar to how anime and game characters would be drawn to pose in posters and wallpapers.

These are nice ones with light and fresh colours.

However, most of these guys have a punk-ish look. Ah!! I so miss my PS 2 back at home and my unwatched anime shows too!! These guys remind me so much of my anime and game characters back at home.

The thing about Visual-K is that some guys are given rather effeminate looks.