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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:08 pm
My non J-rock-y friends who aren't into anything like that find it hard to comprehend Nightmare is an all-male band. Perhaps it is the pictures I had taped to my binder, but even after printing out more pictures, the general population found them veeeery feminine, especially YOMI.
Something I've noticed is that in photoshoots the boys are all glammed up, so they DO look feminine. Also, that's how basically ALL J-rockers look, like girls.
I think this is due to the lack of my friend's comprehensions of J-rock and visual kei.
Mostly, everyone could tell Ni~ya, Sakito, and sometimes Hitsugi were guys, but there was mainly question over Yomi and Ruka.
Discuss:
-was it my picture selection?
- their lack of knowledge on the topic?
- or are our Nightmare boys downright girly?
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:05 pm
It really depends on the pics. There is a magazine shoot where none of them wear makeup. You can see Ni~ya hadn't really the most perfect skin (and he forgot to shave), Ruka, was basically hidden behind sigaretsmoke and a can of coke, though...
I must admit that I found Sakito girly (especially when he wore that belly exposing roundish top). And I have pictures in my collection with them wearing girly clothes (*coughdressesuncough*) I stared at Ruka or the longest time. I never thought I could doubt his sexuality >.< (even though I do not find him girly)
Oh, and part is their make-up, the way the do their eyebrows and the editing that is done on the pics. (Again the pics!)
But most V-kei-ers look girly. Regular Jrockers tend to be more on the, ahum, male side. Have you noticed how they are moving towards that look? Yes, they're still polished and shiney and all, but you can actually see them age (and, given the right clothes, look male)
Rambling. Did it make sense? wink
BTW, I am kinda curious which pictures you printed 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:43 am
Ah, recently I had to do a presentation on Nightmare.
My teacher too was "Is that a man?" when I showed pics of Sakito and Ni~ya (I had ensured Yomi to be male when I started) and just flatly stated that every member of the band is male.
It was so hilarious, since my teacher knows quite a lot of Japanese people and a lot about the culture xd
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:29 pm
Hey, hey sweatdrop ...Yomi and Ruka might look like girls for some of their shoots, but they're completely guy-looking in real life (except sometimes with Ruka plays with Yomi's nipples..lmao rofl ) besides, they're all gorgeous. whee
all the eye makeup does make them look girlish, and Yomi has a face that could be male or female, it's really gentle-looking. Ruka is more beautiful male than girlish looking male.
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:01 pm
i am guiltyyyy -.- at first i thought they were girls o.o i thot they were all girls cept hitsugi ( bad me!) but now theyyre all smexy and hott =3
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:19 pm
Haha I knew that all of them were males. I rarely questioned any bands of their gender, only when it came down to Bou from An Cafe (whoops! lol)
Alot of my friends do, however doubt they're gender. They're always going "Is that a girl?" in the end, they just gave up cause... all of them were males anyway. XD Ermm.. yep smile
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Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:40 pm
haha.. yeah, I doubted Bou's gender for a while.
but Nightmare, i've never had trouble with...
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:17 pm
ruka is gorgeous i thout shiyuu from devil kitty was a girl though he looks so pretty as a girl!
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:09 pm
they looks like guys to me
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:06 am
i believe its probably lack of knowledge, it seems i get the same reaction with almost every1 i go to school with i get the "is that a girl" comment. i also get stereotypes which tend to make me alittle "annoyed" because in the mind of alot of ppli go to school with "girly guy = gay" i really dislike that one. they also believed that i was japanese because i listen to japanese music, which is dumb...lol
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:22 pm
When I first watch the Raison D'Etre PV, I thought everyone was a male lol.
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Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:07 pm
#1 All people who don't listen to J-Rock or interact with it whatsoever, will think that they are girls. Beofre I started listening to J-Rock, I thought Gackt was a girl when i first saw him.
#2 In America, they look feminine, in Japan, thats apart of their modern day culture, so they don't look feminine to to the japanese.
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Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:32 am
I let my grandpa listen to one of my Nightmare cd's and he acctually liked it! heart He thought Sakito, Ruka, and Yomi were girls. They are all sexy to me, but I love Hitsugi best. mrgreen
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