VISUAL KEI
In a place where everything always is and has been alike, the resentment and discontent below the surface is likely to overflow. To placate this affect of lifelong restrainment is Dramatization; sparkle and dark ribbon that buds from the confined minds and forbidden sights blind eyes are told to ignore. Japan is a place where every person is expected to look, think, and speak alike. To be different is to be impolite and frowned upon. To be frowned upon is to have failed. This aversion to difference is due in part to geography, as well as culture All of these rules in dress and manners are designed to make everyone similar and assimilated to avert friction. Yet in being polite one must not talk about the issues in a society and deny that problems exist. With such a need for rebellion as an outlet from so much conformity, and to lend a voice to taboo issues otherwise not discussed, Oshare and Visual Kei were created. Visual Kei began in the 1980s, mainly with the growi...