visual kei

English

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”).

Noun

visual kei (uncountable)

  1. (music, fashion) 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.
    • 2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime‎[1] (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*[email protected]>:
      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.

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