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I\'d recommend looking up early written interviews/TV appearances of bands such as X Japan, Buck-Tick, D\'erlanger, and the others that kind of kicked it off for what was available in public (and surprisingly quite a lot was, especially in the days before the scene solidified and codified and tried for more public acceptance, and when SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll was more celebrated and scandals were sought rather than avoided.) Also, look up stuff (what you can find, anyway) about bosozoku and yankii in the 80s - early 90s as the communities overlapped. If you have the great luck to find someone who was active in v-kei at the time (and there are some bandguys especially with smaller bands - not the members of say X or Buck-Tick but look up smaller bands, even on Facebook and the like, and they might even be more open to you than they would to a journalist IF you make it clear the story is original fiction, so there\'s no risk of scandal or legal complications, and they won\'t be named as a source) that\'s a good place too. For a general overview, there\'s a book called \
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I\\\'d recommend looking up early written interviews/TV appearances of bands such as X Japan, Buck-Tick, D\\\'erlanger, and the others that kind of kicked it off for what was available in public (and surprisingly quite a lot was, especially in the days before the scene solidified and codified and tried for more public acceptance, and when SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll was more celebrated and scandals were sought rather than avoided, though for obvious reasons a lot of those bands will NOT be so open now and may even deny stuff they said back then or try to get it scrubbed) Also, look up stuff (what you can find, anyway) about bosozoku and yankii in the 80s - early 90s as the communities overlapped. If you have the great luck to find someone who was active in v-kei at the time (and there are some bandguys especially with smaller bands - not the members of say X or Buck-Tick but look up smaller bands, even on Facebook and the like, and they might even be more open to you than they would to a journalist IF you make it clear the story is original fiction, so there\\\'s no risk of scandal or legal complications, and they won\\\'t be named as a source) that\\\'s a good place too. For a general overview, there\\\'s a book called \\\"Speed Tribes\\\" that you might also want to start with. 2Ch Tanuki, if you can read Japanese, also has a wealth of information about visual kei both past and present, though it\\\'s also a shitstorm of rumors, haters, and bullshit with some nuggets of truth so it\\\'s better taken with a grain of salt. I want to help you more, but the problem (and why this wouldn\\\'t work as a wikipedia page) is much of the info has a way of vanishing (the DataVampires are not kind, especially with how Youtube deletes news interviews and info, how Geocities hosted a lot of older info and it went down with it, how people who post various things leave the scene and don\\\'t update...) so people who\\\'ve been in visual either as fans or especially as the people in it know, but it\\\'s hard as hell to thoroughly cite for a variety of reasons.
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I\'d recommend looking up early written interviews/TV appearances of bands such as X Japan, Buck-Tick, D\'erlanger, and the others that kind of kicked it off for what was available in public (and surprisingly quite a lot was.) Also, look up stuff (what you can find, anyway) about bosozoku and yankii in the 80s - early 90s as the communities overlapped. If you have the great luck to find someone who was active in v-kei at the time (and there are some bandguys especially with smaller bands - not the members of say X or Buck-Tick but look up smaller bands, even on Facebook and the like, and they might even be more open to you than they would to a journalist IF you make it clear the story is original fiction, so there\'s no risk of scandal or legal complications, and they won\'t be named as a source) that\'s a good place too. For a general overview, there\'s a book called \
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I\\\'d recommend looking up early written interviews/TV appearances of bands such as X Japan, Buck-Tick, D\\\'erlanger, and the others that kind of kicked it off for what was available in public (and surprisingly quite a lot was, especially in the days before the scene solidified and codified and tried for more public acceptance, and when SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll was more celebrated and scandals were sought rather than avoided.) Also, look up stuff (what you can find, anyway) about bosozoku and yankii in the 80s - early 90s as the communities overlapped. If you have the great luck to find someone who was active in v-kei at the time (and there are some bandguys especially with smaller bands - not the members of say X or Buck-Tick but look up smaller bands, even on Facebook and the like, and they might even be more open to you than they would to a journalist IF you make it clear the story is original fiction, so there\\\'s no risk of scandal or legal complications, and they won\\\'t be named as a source) that\\\'s a good place too. For a general overview, there\\\'s a book called \\\"Speed Tribes\\\" that you might also want to start with. 2Ch Tanuki, if you can read Japanese, also has a wealth of information about visual kei both past and present, though it\\\'s also a shitstorm of rumors, haters, and bullshit with some nuggets of truth so it\\\'s better taken with a grain of salt. I want to help you more, but the problem (and why this wouldn\\\'t work as a wikipedia page) is much of the info has a way of vanishing (the DataVampires are not kind, especially with how Youtube deletes news interviews and info, how Geocities hosted a lot of older info and it went down with it, how people who post various things leave the scene and don\\\'t update...) so people who\\\'ve been in visual either as fans or especially as the people in it know, but it\\\'s hard as hell to thoroughly cite for a variety of reasons.
