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Frankly VK has very little to do with musical style (or quality) and all to do with the dress up. One of my Japanese Goth friends described them as mainly half-assed synthpop sounds performed by starlet wannabes and was pissed as hell when overseas people frame VK as anything approaching Goth.
And believe me, if you are in Japan that is pretty much the truth. Overseas Japanophiles have it lucky because only the half-decent or better VK/VK nu rock/VK nu metal bands get outside Japan. You get the cream of the crop. The rest are crock.
Of course, the real goth scenes here are so small you barely hear anything overseas, but they rock and kick ass here. If any of you get a chance to go to Japan make time for Tokyo Dark Castle or Midnight Mess or one of the other local events - no Kei.
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