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A Japanese music and fashion style, translating to "fashion conscience." The bands of the oshare kei genre, unlike those of visual kei, are bouncy and bright, their songs focusing on happy and positive messages like friends and relationships though sometimes they can talk about heartbreak and other issues. Their style is colorful and vibrant, sometimes similar to decora, but usually much more toned down. Other than occasional eyeliner and colored contacts, they rarely wear alot of makeup, also unlike the visual kei genre. Oshare kei started to appear around 2001, and was said to have been started by Ryo of Baroque in their PV "Anakuro Film".
Kra, Ancafe, Irokui, Panic*CH, HeaRt, Ichigo69, Vinett, Lolita23q, Shelly Trip Realize, Charlotte, Clavier and bis are examples of oshare kei bands.

Osahre kei Is A Bright And Colorful Type Of Japanese Fashion.
It Links Closely To Harajuku Syle.
It Has A Mix Of J-rock, Lolita And Visual Style Thrown In To Make It Unique. Oshare Kei Is A Gorgeous Style And Looks Cute.
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Those who live outside Japan or who aren't Japanophiles (people obsessed with Japanese culture) have no idea of what Oshare kei is. They might have a faint idea of what Visual kei is but are totally clueless when it comes to all things Oshare. Well this article is here to educate you.

Oshare means "stylish" or "fashionable". It also means to dress stylishly. It follows Japanese street fashion and is usually modeled by male rock band members but usually is worn by female consumers.

Who started Oshare Kei? I don't know some band from the music scene obviously. Some credit Baroque as the band that started to whole thing.

Oshare kei is the more colorfully eye blinding side of Visual kei. Visual Kei has more of a gothic and depressing type of look while Oshare kei is more colorful, child-ish looking and happier musical tunes. Visual kei has more feminine qualities such as cross-dressing and men behaving like that of a woman but Oshare bands do that regularly too, for example one of my favorite Oshare fashion models is BoU from the band Antic Cafe, I didn't even know that he was a guy when I first saw him.

Thus said, bands under this style live up to the meaning by dressing up in colorful costumes, or in Decora and/or Friuts style. Fruits is a Japanese magazine which features regular people dressed in offbeat street fashions. If there are identifiable themes, they can broadly be described as fun, original, authentic, and the recording of emerging social trends and technology. "You are the best stylist to express yourself".It's so popular that even photo books sell well in the US.

Decora means decorated in Japanese. People who follow the Decora style are usually girls that sport numerous cute hair clips on their hair, have layered colorful clothing and have cute character straps hanging from their necks.

So, many of them are seen sporting massive amounts of jewelry and bags of cartoon characters and animals slung on, tons of hairclips that make you go dizzy because you'd lose count, and lighter make-up compared to Visual kei. The music is more happy sounding, the lyrics lighter and happier.
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11/30/11
Mikka-oshare
yeey oshare keeeiii <3
8/5/10
lovelydreams32
Oshare kei is the best thing in the WORLD!!!=^.^= I <3 BOU!!!<3<3<3<3
7/12/10
nadiire
Oshare kei boys always make me NYAPPY!!!
12/6/09
GoMiNyu
oshare oshare oshareeeeeeee :3 like the group ^^
10/2/09
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nice group
6/5/09
waratte14
nice group ^-^
5/8/09
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advance happy birthday to Takeru [ SuG] 11th of May!
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SoraCutie
sweet group! =p
2/25/09
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nice group =3 ^-^
2/5/09
Mealie
This is an awesome group ^^
1/28/09
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Thanks for the invite!
1/28/09
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Hey Me mod please I <3 this Kra song

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