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Guns are perfectly legal in Japan. The process to do so legally is simply extremely strenuous. To whit: You must join a legally recognized gun club or hunting organization, then you must get a doctor to certify you mentally and affirm you have no drug dependency. Then you must make an appointment to attend a full day gun course on safe use and storage of a firearm (these are held three times per year). Then you must pass an interview with the police on why you want a gun, AND pass a background check where police will investigate if you intend to use the gun for crimes (including if you're likely to use one for robberies due to poverty). Then you must apply for a gunpowder permit and a certification from a licensed gun dealer. Once those are approved you need to buy a gun locker and an ammo locker for safe storage (which was covered in your full day training course). This will allow you to own a shotgun. Then you must own a shotgun safely for three years, after which you can go through an expedited version of this process to apply to own a rifle. Legal to own, they simply have implemented a sequence of metaphorical hoops that are extremely effective at weeding out the kinds of people who can't be trusted not to use a firearm to intimidate and threaten others.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Yoshiki is notably one of the few Japanese rock musicians who has rarely, if ever, posed with even an obvious prop gun nor used firearms or firearm iconography in his personal imagery. He's posed with knives and other weapons and blood, but the absence of guns (especially since guns are the definition of a shocking image in Japan where they are forbidden by law to all but the police and yakuza) is definitely notable.%% *{{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Yoshiki is notably one of the few Japanese rock musicians who has rarely, if ever, posed with even an obvious prop gun nor used firearms or firearm iconography in his personal imagery. He's posed with knives and other weapons and blood, but the absence of guns (especially since guns are the definition of a shocking image in Japan where they are forbidden by law to all but the police socially taboo and yakuza) nigh impossible to acquire) is definitely notable.%% *{{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
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* BleachedUnderpants: His classical solo career seems to be taking this turn, as he wishes to be serious and appeal to a wide demographic, which frequent use of the ClusterFBomb, IntercourseWithYou songs, and ShockRock tropes generally ''don't'' help, at least in the traditional view. Whether he will continue on with the process of remaking his image, or try to fuse classical to rock more as he's mentioned wanting to do (and therefore potentially bring in the rock demographic, while taking the risk of spurning more traditional classical fans), no one knows.
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* RatedGForGangsta: His classical solo career seems to be taking this turn, as he wishes to be serious and appeal to a wide demographic, which frequent use of the ClusterFBomb, IntercourseWithYou songs, and ShockRock tropes generally ''don't'' help, at least in the traditional view. Whether he will continue on with the process of remaking his image, or try to fuse classical to rock more as he's mentioned wanting to do (and therefore potentially bring in the rock demographic, while taking the risk of spurning more traditional classical fans), no one knows.
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* {{Uke}}: One of the first VisualKei musicians to either incorporate what would later be considered "typical uke traits" into his persona, or simply to just have a bunch of the traits that would [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny later be attributed to stereotypical "ojou" yaoi ukes]].
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* {{Uke}}: One of the first VisualKei musicians to either incorporate what would later be considered "typical uke traits" into his persona, or simply to just have a bunch of the traits that would [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny [[OnceOriginalNowCommon later be attributed to stereotypical "ojou" yaoi ukes]].
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* AuthorAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties. %% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* AuthorAppeal:CoolCars AuthorAppeal: CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties. %% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* AuthourAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties. %% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* AuthourAppeal:CoolCars AuthorAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties. %% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* AuthourAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.
%% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
%% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* AuthourAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties. \n %% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
bathroom...%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* BloodBath: Once took such a bath in fake blood (while fully clothed) during a photoshoot for Fool's Mate magazine and, in the past with X Japan, has written a song about the TropeMaker UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory entitled "Rose of Pain".
%% * BSODSong: ''Art of Life'' for Music/XJapan. ''Without You'' could also qualify.
%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
%% * BSODSong: ''Art of Life'' for Music/XJapan. ''Without You'' could also qualify.
%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
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* BloodBath: Once took such a bath in fake blood (while fully clothed) during a photoshoot for Fool's Mate magazine and, in the past with X Japan, has written a song about the TropeMaker UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory entitled "Rose of Pain". \n %% * BSODSong: ''Art of Life'' for Music/XJapan. ''Without You'' could also qualify.
qualify.%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Yoshiki is notably one of the few Japanese rock musicians who has rarely, if ever, posed with even an obvious prop gun nor used firearms or firearm iconography in his personal imagery. He's posed with knives and other weapons and blood, but the absence of guns (especially since guns are the definition of a shocking image in Japan where they are forbidden by law to all but the police and yakuza) is definitely notable.
%% * {{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
%% * {{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Yoshiki is notably one of the few Japanese rock musicians who has rarely, if ever, posed with even an obvious prop gun nor used firearms or firearm iconography in his personal imagery. He's posed with knives and other weapons and blood, but the absence of guns (especially since guns are the definition of a shocking image in Japan where they are forbidden by law to all but the police and yakuza) is definitely notable.
notable.%% * {{Dominatrix}}: *{{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
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* GriefSong: Tears, which was written for Yoshiki's father who committed suicide when Yoshiki was 10, and then rededicated to hide. Without You, which was written for hide. Also a very common theme in his Music/VioletUK work.
%% HamToHamCombat: With Creator/{{Gackt}}.
%% HamToHamCombat: With Creator/{{Gackt}}.
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* GriefSong: Tears, which was written for Yoshiki's father who committed suicide when Yoshiki was 10, and then rededicated to hide. Without You, which was written for hide. Also a very common theme in his Music/VioletUK work.
work.%% HamToHamCombat: With Creator/{{Gackt}}.
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* MaleFrontalNudity: SubvertedTrope: Yoshiki has an infamous photo book entitled "Nude." However, due to the photo book being shot and primarily sold in Japan, which at the time (and currently) insists on at least token censorship for male genitalia, he has a sheet and lighting covering it in every pic where it could possibly be seen.
%% * ModestyBedsheet: This was how he covered himself in "Nude."
%% * ModestyBedsheet: This was how he covered himself in "Nude."
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* MaleFrontalNudity: SubvertedTrope: Yoshiki has an infamous photo book entitled "Nude." However, due to the photo book being shot and primarily sold in Japan, which at the time (and currently) insists on at least token censorship for male genitalia, he has a sheet and lighting covering it in every pic where it could possibly be seen. \n %% * ModestyBedsheet: This was how he covered himself in "Nude."
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** One of his most famous {{fanservice}} photoshoots is him as uke to Atsushi Sakurai of Music/BuckTick, who is playing the role of seme.
%% * VampiresAreSexGods: One of the competitors for this in VisualKei.
%% * VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
%% * VampiresAreSexGods: One of the competitors for this in VisualKei.
%% * VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
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** One of his most famous {{fanservice}} photoshoots is him as uke to Atsushi Sakurai of Music/BuckTick, who is playing the role of seme.
seme.%% * VampiresAreSexGods: One of the competitors for this in VisualKei.
VisualKei.%% * VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
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* AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
* BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video. Subverted ''and'' played straight in RealLife: for a while, he was more well known in RealLife as a DrunkDriver who DrivesLikeCrazy, but seemed to become safer and more responsible after a license suspension and other life events - to the point that when [[TooDumbToLive fangirls jumped on his car]] as he drove into a 2010 show, he managed to avoid hitting or running over anyone and no one was hurt, playing the trope straight.
* BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video. Subverted ''and'' played straight in RealLife: for a while, he was more well known in RealLife as a DrunkDriver who DrivesLikeCrazy, but seemed to become safer and more responsible after a license suspension and other life events - to the point that when [[TooDumbToLive fangirls jumped on his car]] as he drove into a 2010 show, he managed to avoid hitting or running over anyone and no one was hurt, playing the trope straight.
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* AuthourAppeal:CoolCars have often made their way into videos for the band (such as the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.
%% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.Subverted ''and'' played straight in RealLife: for a while, he was more well known in RealLife as a DrunkDriver who DrivesLikeCrazy, but seemed to become safer and more responsible after a license suspension and other life events - to the point that when [[TooDumbToLive fangirls jumped on his car]] as he drove into a 2010 show, he managed to avoid hitting or running over anyone and no one was hurt, playing the trope straight.
%% * AwkwardlyPlacedBathtub: See BloodBath below. There's a bathtub but that's no bathroom...
%% * BadassDriver: Played straight in one Music/VioletUK video.
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* BSODSong: ''Art of Life'' for Music/XJapan. ''Without You'' could also qualify.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
* CoolCar: He likes driving supercars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, and similar, and these expensive Cool Cars have made their way into videos for the band (the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
* CoolCar: He likes driving supercars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, and similar, and these expensive Cool Cars have made their way into videos for the band (the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.
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%% * BSODSong: ''Art of Life'' for Music/XJapan. ''Without You'' could also qualify.
%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.''
* CoolCar: He likes driving supercars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, and similar, and these expensive Cool Cars have made their way into videos for the band (the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.''
%% * ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Yoshiki's Music/VioletUK song ''Blue Butterfly.
* CoolCar: He likes driving supercars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Maseratis, and similar, and these expensive Cool Cars have made their way into videos for the band (the 2010 version of Rusty Nail), and quite a few of his photographs. He and Music/XJapan also once sponsored a Le Mans race team in TheNineties.
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* {{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
* DramaQueen: Has been one at quite a few points, and used to play up the overly dramatic diva image back in the early days of his career.
* DramaQueen: Has been one at quite a few points, and used to play up the overly dramatic diva image back in the early days of his career.
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%% * {{Dominatrix}}: These tend to show up in Yoshiki's work occasionally, out of AuthorAppeal.
* DramaQueen: Has been one at quite a few points, and used to play up the overly dramatic diva image back in the early days of his career.AuthorAppeal.
* DramaQueen: Has been one at quite a few points, and used to play up the overly dramatic diva image back in the early days of his career.
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* FollowTheLeader: Was a huge Music/{{Kiss}} fan and started the whole VisualKei thing as a way to take the band's tropes up to eleven.
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* HamToHamCombat: With Creator/{{Gackt}}.
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* MeanBoss: [[http://youtu.be/1x6KN76iRqc If you don't know what you are doing as a recording engineer]], it's probably not a good idea to seek a job at his studio unless you enjoy getting yelled at for it.
* ModestyBedsheet: This was how he covered himself in "Nude."
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* JustForFun/OneMarioLimit: If you're a Japanese musician named Yoshiki, just ''try'' to not have people confuse you with the most famous one. Even people who were active before/contiguously with when ''this'' Yoshiki became famous (e.g. the guitarist of Guitar Wolf) often get confused (even if by FanDumb or outsiders going "what is Yoshiki doing playing with Guitar Wolf?").
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* JustForFun/OneMarioLimit: If you're a Japanese musician named Yoshiki, just ''try'' to not have people confuse you with the most famous one. Even people who were active before/contiguously with when ''this'' Yoshiki became famous (e.g. the guitarist of Guitar Wolf) often get confused (even if by FanDumb or outsiders going "what is Yoshiki doing playing with Guitar Wolf?").confused.
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* SelfServingMemory: Compare his recollection of some events in "YOSHIKI" to [[Music/TaijiSawada Taiji's]] recollection of the same events in "Sei To Shi." And as an example of an endless loop, now go to Taiji Sawada and look up SelfServingMemory.
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* TrashTheSet: He was and is one of the more notorious Visual Kei musicians for doing this.
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%% * TrashTheSet: He was and is one of the more notorious Visual Kei musicians for doing this.
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* VampiresAreSexGods: One of the competitors for this in VisualKei.
* VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
* VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
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%% * VampiresAreSexGods: One of the competitors for this in VisualKei.
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%% * VerbalTic: Has a tendency to say "I mean" a lot in his sentances in interviewes where he's speaking English.
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* OneSteveLimit: The above has resulted in many modern artists who fall into NamesTheSame whether as a result of fan parents or spectacular bad luck or simply its commonality as a name picking different StageNames, altering the spelling or capitalization or pronunciation, adding their last names, or otherwise doing something to try to differentiate themselves, ''especially'' if they play the same instruments or are composers.
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* OneSteveLimit: The above has resulted in many modern artists who fall into NamesTheSame whether as a result of fan parents or spectacular bad luck or simply its commonality as a name picking different StageNames, altering the spelling or capitalization or pronunciation, adding their last names, or otherwise doing something to try to differentiate themselves, ''especially'' if they play the same instruments or are composers.
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* FollowTheLeader: Was a huge Music/{{Kiss}} fan and started the whole VisualKei thing as a way to take the band's tropes UpToEleven.
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* FollowTheLeader: Was a huge Music/{{Kiss}} fan and started the whole VisualKei thing as a way to take the band's tropes UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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Creepy Cool Crosses has been renamed to Creepy Crosses as per this TRS threadZero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit the trope will be removed. The trope is about crosses being used as a symbol of the occult.
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* CreepyCoolCrosses: Wears one of these fairly often as they are part of his jewelry line. There are several variants: the one with his name symbol on it, the one composed of daggers, the crucified doll one, the one that resembles an "[[Music/XJapan X]]"...
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This is In Universe only.
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* AscendedFanboy: Working with Creator/StanLee.
