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@saiko thank you ;_; my biggest inspiration is Kameno-chan from KISSxxxx, and Kusumoto Maki's girls as well!

Omg, I love it! Which retro manga heroine is your inspiration?

Being a vintage manga heroine is a hard work, you know. Especially when my "date outfits" always sxcks...

Its the beginning of the end. Which really means its the beginning 😉

Yukika from Etcetera or some other Yukika? I imagine there is probably more than one dude named Yukika

Decadence and Raven should be on a top-50 historical hits of the scene. I agree with @Linh-san that the quality of their material grew up more uninspired with more getting closet to their disbanding.

i wll definitely agree that prior to 420 theatrical roses they were a MUCH better band. i feel like in their later material tzk started to lose his voice. i could sing you all of Fallen MARIA right now, but it's hard to even think of a chorus from anything they did after 420 theatrical roses.
 
also, i forgot about the absolute anthem that is DIVERGENCE. i always come back to the MV every so often because it looks like they're having so much fun.

Agnus Dei was one of the lesser known Key Party bands out there, but they really had some nice potential. Their Valse album was good but their demos are some of my favorites, it's a shame they never took off.

Interesting music. The uploader did mispelled the romanization the band real name though, it should be Agnus∻Dei.

Black:list, Deluhi, Cocklobin

Raphael probably.

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At least he had the confidence to continue on and eventually somewhat pick back up lol

I looked up for her immediatly after having read about into some Malice Mizer biography. 
 
Her first two albums are insane. I'm spinning them a lot.
 
The influence they had over MM and Lareine is clear. Core arragments of some tracks where clearly taken by Mana and Közi, and Kamijo and his colleagues as well if them being roadies for the firsts actually happened. 
 
I think finding her should have made Mana and Kamijo go nuts! I mean, it's like Versailles no Bara going goth, what else could be a wet fantasy for them? lol

She is the french branch of Lareine. 😂 The song also has the same title/intro concept as Machi's solo song.
 

blood were on darkest labyrinth tho... which is presumably most famous kiwamu associated act, mostly because the scene was doing better back than, they had the opportunity.
 
starwave seems like a low-budget collaboration between kiwi and FWD where bands that no longer get kagerou sales numbers come to sizzle at.
 
I'd say tokami were doing pretty well for a SW band, and they birthed zin who later went onto jupiter and w/e she does now.

I remember that i thought at first also they are a visual kei group. Beside the visual kei connections from some band members i think the main reason comes from them wearing costumes on stage, then their bassist asa crossdresses often, it comes easy to someones mind they could be visual kei.  There is a high chance that the vk refusal had to do with them being a major band like Himeaimichu stated. (They was contracted to avex)
Also Machiya is Machiya in Waggaki Band but Shin Oumura(its his real name) in m:a.ture and his solo stuff. 

BLOOD was pretty well-known in the overseas vk community at the time they were active I think (they even toured abroad a few times)... but other than that idk any newer bands with that level of "relevance" (if you can call it that, heh).

I'd assume it's partially because most of them aren't going to get signed to any other labels, and partially because most Starwave Records artists get to go overseas at some point. In just the past few years, THE SOUND BEE HD went to the US and Mexico, Mikansei Alice went to Europe, and Scarlet Valse were set to go to Europe before COVID too.

If you're a basically unknown VK band with 20 fans that dreams of performing in America or Europe, it's not the worst move you could make.

her label probably picked up the "5 diff types = same content" scam from mylene farmer
 
(i didn't know she pregnanted tho)

I believe it's because these bands were originally rooted in the doujin/touhou scene which, from my understanding, isn't traditionally associated with Visual Kei. Though I doubt the two are entirely mutually exclusive.

Their Taiko drummer, Shakuhachi player and guitarist do have Vkei cred. Kurona and Daisuke played together in CrowXClass, which did call themselves Visual Kei. Machiya (I heard he goes by Omura now?) Used to be in some Vkei bands before starting m:a.ture, which Wajow from The Gallo was also in.
 
I think the main reason they're not considered Visual Kei is just music industry stuff. A lot of Vkei artists are inclined to deny being Vkei because of the image Vkei has. 
I would say that unlike other "semi-visual" (as I call them) bands, such as Unlucky Morpheus, Wagakki really tries to just sell itself as mainstream J-Rock. Afaik, they haven't really put anything Metal out in years, and whatever Vkei looks they were serving, they aren't really anymore. 

I thought the same as well for artists like Ali project, Unlucky Morpheus and Bridear. For me they are VK bands at least visual wise, and music wise in some cases. Talking about Wagakki, they definitely have lot of arrangments that perfectly match with the cliches of the scene.

hide didn't die for this shit 😢