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Of course, the majority of Goths are unique in their style and music preferences. However, within the subculture there are certain "types" of Goth with particular characteristics. And it can be fun to classify them. Naturally, classifications for each "type" vary from person to person, so you may disagree with what I say here!One of my favourite looks, thanks to the time I spent in Harajuku. Apart from the Lolita, it was really difficult to think up a typical "style" for Visual Kei - the movement's very eclectic.
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I listen to Visual Kei inspired music sometimes and I like looking at Lolitas online.
It makes me wanna dress up as one.
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THIS IS ME XD im visual kei and sometimes have lolita elements to my look. Β but malice mizer is not cheesy euro pop >_>
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Well i could kill you for calling Mana-sama's gorgeous and artistic band Malice Mizer "cheesy Euro-pop"
Sry that just needed to be said.Β
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Hey if it wasn't for the gothic culture, we wouldn't have awesome and spooky looking anime shows like black blood brothers, helsing, vampire knight, soul eater, black butler, death note, Tokyo ghoul, bleach and school of the dead, leave the Japanese goths alone
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Even though I'm not Japanese, I like Goth lolita.
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sorry, but this is poorly researched. Only the first sentence is really right, as in that what we foreigners call J-Goth has nothing to do with Goth. Japan actually has a goth scene, but it is just an underground thing, that gets no attention by media. Those goths look exactly like the ones we have everywhere else and most of them would laugh at you for comparing them to Cosplayers or Visual kei.
Visual kei has absolutely nothing to do with Goth. Visual kei is not even a genre, but an umbrella term for bands for who styling is as important as making music. Because of that everything can be "Visual kei", from Metal bands to cheesy 0815 pop. The music does in fact not matter at all whether a band is Visual kei or not. It's true that early VK derived influence from Glam, Metal, Hradrock, Punk, Pop or New Wave, but most bands don't play this genres straight. And since the mid 00s VK tends to borrow elements from Dubstep, Techno, Metalcore and Nu Metal as well.
Nobody really considers VK to be a form of gothic or goth at all, except a bunch of fashion and music industry people who want to put the gothic label on everything. The reason I am saying this is not because I am such a mean elitist, but because this assumption that VK is goth, harms Japan's local scene. Most foreigners have never heard of actual Japanese Goth bands, such as Madame Edwarda, G-Schmitt, Auto Mod, 13th Moon or Gille's Love and that's a shame.
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Oh I'm fucking loving this coment.
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I love this style. I listen to Visual Kei music myself.
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Nevermind.Β
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Well, here I disagree with some parts. For example I see gothic lolita (and elegant gothic lolita) as lolita styles not goth styles.
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Gothic lolita is gothic lolita because she is GOTHIC lolita. Β© ?- 2014 Truth
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You should set the differnces between this kind of goth and the Gothic Lolita style, wich is also japanese but quite diferent.
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I know that not all of the information in this is not correct, but then again, it does say "Goth [stereo] type" for a reason (at least, I believe so). Your style of drawing the characters is cute still.
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A shame that you forgot to mention the most famous visual kei bands like The Gazette, Nightmare, Moi dix mois, versailles and of course X-japan
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Actually lolita doesnΒ΄t really have anything to do with French maids except a FEW dresses maybe, but those mostly arenΒ΄t considered lolita by the lolita community. In fact that outfit in the drawing would be shunned by everyone in the lolita community.
Gothic lolita is more like this: [link]
and I think it's more 'goth' than some of the other stereotypes in the series. I think the problem lies a bit with mashing all those styles under "j-goth"
Still love the series though, but felt the need to respond to this anyway haha xD
Keep up the good work! :3
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Actually lolita doesnΒ΄t really have anything to do with French maids except a FEW dresses maybe, but those mostly arenΒ΄t considered lolita by the lolita community. In fact that outfit in the drawing would be shunned by everyone in the lolita community.
Gothic lolita is more like this: [link]
and I think it's more 'goth' than some of the other stereotypes in the series. I think the problem lies a bit with mashing all those styles under "j-goth"
Still love the series though, but felt the need to respond to this anyway haha xD
Keep up the good work! :3
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If I ever had the money for gothloli, this is how I'd dress (and if I wasn't going to die from heat stroke in the summer). ^_^
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First I'd like to start off by saying I love your goth stereo types. But this one gets me. I dress in Lolita. But I would like to note, Gothic Lolita is not the only Lolita style, it is mearly a substyle. Lolita has many styles just like Goth, each with their own elements of the style. I'd just like to make clear that Gothic Lolita, while popular, is quickly falling to the new rising style and more prominent style, Sweet Lolita. Lolita's prefer that the Gothic be dropped unless the outfit is specifically Gothic. A common mistake by many unaware of the complex ins and outs of the fashion. So I would not consider Lolita as part of Gothic subculture. :3 As most of the other styles are as far from goth as you can get. The most popular now adays are Sweet, Classic, and Gothic. But there is also, Mori, Deco, Kuro, Shiro, Pirate, Sailor, Aristocrat, Dandy/Ouji/Kodona/Prince, and many other smaller less popular styles. Just thought I'd explain that a bit. :3
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"Cheesy Euro-pop"? XD!!! Well the Gackt Era, perhaps. The KLAHA era, on the other hand...Malice Mizer is pretty impressive. As soon as Gackt left they got really...well take a look yourself. SERIOUSLY. NOT THE SAME BAND YOU ONCE KNEW. NOT AN ASPECT.
Two songs with Klaha singing:[link]
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One when mana and Kozi took over: Kyomu No Naka De Yuugi [link]
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I can't say i agree that people enter this scene via anime or whatever. With my experiences, people who've gotten into this are usually the ones leaning toward goth before finding their style. Yeah, they usually find the specific scene through an interest in japan, but it feels wrong to say that without that, they wouldn't be dressing goth.
Maybe that's not what you meant though 
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I really like the look of gothic lolita it reminds me of victorian goth which I have to admint looks elegently dark
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J-goth is goth.. its basically a childlike take on victorian goth.. and i find it very very cute.. :3
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everyone problys knows that this fashion was started by Manna from MOi Dix Mois, and he is a guy in a dress
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I'm okay with the so called "J goths", horewer, I think they entirely miss the point of being goth. I've seen only a couple of true J-goth rock bands, the rest are jokes (seriously ppl, how can Dir en Grey count as Goth? They're friggin metal!)
J-goth gigs are like fashion shows: the music is only there to distract the audience while they look at crazy costumes.
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why didn't you do a page for just Gothic Lolita and dandy? it's a great combo of Romantic goth and Cuteness.
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..Lolita that has maid elements of maid is a misconception made by anime fans
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I LOVE LOLITA!!!! This is one of my favorites too
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The ones that resides in Europe and America are better known as "weeaboo-goths".
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really dude. only the cra cra animu desu folks are weaboos, not ALL the westerners who dress in lolita or other j-fashions.
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It was meant as a joke.
But in all honesty, if they dress in Lolita or other J-fashions, they're probably anime/manga fans.
And those who go to such lengths might just as well be weeaboos.
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J-Goth? as in Japanese person who is Goth? as in one of my OCs!? yeah, I have an OC who is a Japanese goth girl. that's a category? I guess I should remember this in the future...
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I had a colleague who was all into the Lolita-Goth look. She resembled your female caricature pretty closely, though with girly pigtails and sometimes a pink dress instead of black.
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the pink dresses are caled sweet lolita, goth lolita is just kinda of a general name frthe style to some.
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Gonna be biased a sec and say that the only thought going through my mind when I see J-Goths is BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD AND SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
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sorry to be picly, but this is one of my main styles i wear so i must represent
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And goth lolita is just a sub catagory of lolita fashion. sweet/candy lolita, goth lolita, classic lolita, punk lolita, hime lolita, sailor lolita, there are tons.
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