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Kaoru (Music)
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Kaoru Niikura, known mononymously by his given name Kaoru, is a Japanese guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known as the band leader and lead guitarist of the Post-Visual Kei experimental metal band Dir en grey. Since 1996 he has been involved in the Visual scene as a guitarist for CHARM and La:Sadie's.He has composed most of Dir en grey's songs and is credited as the band's primary composer and producer (Up until the Vulgar album, where individual credits were dropped). Many of his compositions display great variety in terms of sound, often ranging from soft, slow ballads to upbeat, aggressive metal songs. He is also a proficient soloist; his melodic solos vary greatly in feeling, tempo and technicality.Like fellow bandmate Toshiya, he is also an illustrator. | |
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Visual Kei | |
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Visual Kei: Went Post-Visual, but still associated with the scene. Since the UROBOROS era, he has experimented with VK once again (same applies to the rest of his bandmates), though his style leans more towards "wealthy metal rockstar" at best. | |
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Bishōnen | |
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Biseinen | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Almost in his forties, though he looks like one of the band's youngest members. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: His unclean vocals. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
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Ambiguous Gender: Plays this trope straight as far as appearance is concerned, even more so in his early days in the Visual scene. | |
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Renaissance Man | |
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Renaissance Man: Aside from music, he once said that, during his school years, he was known as an excellent student who specialized in arts and sports. He isn't exactly the most studious, however. He is also an illustrator. | |
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Our Zombies Are Different | |
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Our Zombies Are Different: Popularized Dir en grey's tagline: "Japanese Zombie Heroez" which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin — the band is usually portrayed in music videos as a group of Visual Kei zombies playing metal songs (as seen in the PVs for "OBSCURE", "THE FINAL", "Hageshisa to...," and "DIFFERENT SENSE"). He claims that it first appeared on his ESP Ganesa VIII in a live show and ever since then the tagline has appeared on every one of his signature guitars, picks, and straps. It has also appeared in the band's official merch and as a tattoo worn by some Visual Kei fanboys. | |
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy | |
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Has always been. | |
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Guyliner | |
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Guyliner | |
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Stage Names | |
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Stage Names: He goes mononymously by his given name. | |
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Elegant Gothic Lolita | |
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Elegant Gothic Lolita: During the band's most Visual phases, but averted in recent years. | |
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Mentor Archetype | |
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Mentor Archetype: Yoshiki helped shape his hide cloning attempt by injecting an X Japan esque vibe to his early works. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Presented himself as this in his early years. Even in some recent photos, he doesn't look like the manliest member of the band. | |
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Ojou Ringlets | |
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Ojou Ringlets: He has been curling his hair more and more in recent years; in 2011 he went for loose barrel curls, in 2012 he went for '80s Hair, and nowadays he seems to be going for a messier version of his 2011 hairstyle. | |
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Long-Runner Line-up | |
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Long-Runner Line-up: Part of one of Visual Kei's most long lived bands. He is somehow proud of it and considers the band and his bandmates as important. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: A blatant hide clone; he is almost in competition with fellow bandmate Die, and the two often seem to outdo each other. One of their more recent photo shoots has them looking like mirror images of each other.◊ | |
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Harsh Vocals | |
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Harsh Vocals: He tries to mimic Kyo's singing, though he ends up sounding like Maria Cross. | |
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Scary Musician, Harmless Music | |
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Scary Musician, Harmless Music: Inverted and, occasionally, averted. | |
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Follow the Leader | |
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Follow the Leader: A huge fan of hide and wanted to be like him (see above). He did. | |
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