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visual kei

noun
/ˌvɪʒuːəl ˈkeɪ//ˌvɪzjuːəl ˈkeɪ/UK

Etymology

From Japanese ヴィジュアル系(けい) (vijuaru-kei, literally “visual style”), composed of ヴィジュアル (vijuaru, “visual”), itself from English visual, and 系 (kei, “style”).

  1. derived from visual

Definitions

  1. A Japanese music and fashion movement that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by a bold,…

    A Japanese music and fashion movement that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by a bold, extravagent, androgynous style influenced by glam rock and goth culture.

    • Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of visual kei

  3. Alternative letter-case form of visual kei.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for visual kei. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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