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I saw this a few days ago on Batsu (although I seldom go there because of the horrifying amount of fangirls and often lack of common sense; not a big forum fan I suppose), but I didn't post it since I didn't have the matching video clip for it. But anyway I finally found the clip so...
The clip was taken from the J-drama 3年b組金八先生 (San nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei). It portraits Visual kei fans in a bad light, like they are all rabid, anti-social fangirls. I've found some of the snapshots from this series on this Chinese forum.
Although the show did portrait some of the fangirls pretty accurate, but also it was an open attack at all fans even those who don't behave like that. It is simply prejudice towards fans and creation of stereotypes.
But most of all, it was offensive towards the people who actually love Visual kei and to who Visual kei represents much more than just music. I am not going to discuss here what Visual kei means for me (you know that already).
The airing of this episode was announced on the official the GazettE site, but without the knowledge about what the episode was about. After the episode was aired, no one mentioned it again on the web site, except Ruki on his fanclub blog. He apparently expressed his disappointment with the way they not just portraited the fans, but also the way people displayed Visual kei as a mass aimed shallow music trash.
I must admit that I agree with Ruki because I have never been approval of judging people based on their music liking. It is like criticizing someone's personal choice, because music is always a matter of choice and people should not be judged because of that. But yet again such things happen.
I just wanted to show this as one of thousands examples of how Visual kei is treated. Those who think it is different in Japan are wrong, because in Japan Visual kei is also facing the same prejudice, the same taboo theme label just as in any other country.
People just tend to judge things they don't know.
But most of all, it was offensive towards the people who actually love Visual kei and to who Visual kei represents much more than just music. I am not going to discuss here what Visual kei means for me (you know that already).
The airing of this episode was announced on the official the GazettE site, but without the knowledge about what the episode was about. After the episode was aired, no one mentioned it again on the web site, except Ruki on his fanclub blog. He apparently expressed his disappointment with the way they not just portraited the fans, but also the way people displayed Visual kei as a mass aimed shallow music trash.
(Translation taken from Batsu)"It’s impermissible for people to hurt other people who are chasing and striving for the same dreams as us with words like that on their own accord.
Anyone can say things.
Humans must not have the right to intrude, contaminate and criticize other people’s dreams."
I must admit that I agree with Ruki because I have never been approval of judging people based on their music liking. It is like criticizing someone's personal choice, because music is always a matter of choice and people should not be judged because of that. But yet again such things happen.
I just wanted to show this as one of thousands examples of how Visual kei is treated. Those who think it is different in Japan are wrong, because in Japan Visual kei is also facing the same prejudice, the same taboo theme label just as in any other country.
People just tend to judge things they don't know.
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