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So I actually did a huuuuge info dump about ouji lately… we can’t post images here so you’ll get my info dump without its images. "OUJI BIGGEST BEGINNER INTRODUCTION This introduction diverge from your typical lolita and ouji intro. Indeed, while most will say "Victorian Japanese style» and never go further than that, I plan on being truthful. Because I am tired of thinking I studied EGL enough only to be slammed in the face once I actually join a community. So, firstly, to understand ouji, is to understand lolita. Actually, most of this will be why lolita looks like this and that, and we’ll talk about ouji only in the last part. Part I - WHAT EVERYONE REPEATS While, yes, I said I was going to go further than what everyone says, I do think it is an important basis, despite this basis not being actually right. At least, not entirely. Overall, lolita will be talked about mostly as this Victorian inspired fashion. It isn’t, but, for a ouji goal, you don’t need to know everything, and we’ll come back to that later in the gothic related part. In overall, at the time of lolita fashion, in the 80s and 90s there was an enormous pressure upon women to get married, have babies, raise a family… Lolita fashion was against that. (Again, it wasn’t initially, but it evolved into that). There also was the economic bubble, which existed from 1986 to 1991. When that bubble popped, people in the streets of harajuku began to manifest by buying there, and forming a lot of new unique styles from it, lolita, included. In truth, this didn’t made lolita fashion, it just helped it become more than the small niche thing it was, to a lesser extent niche thing, with a specific audience. Also, you have to know that, in the start of lolita, DIY culture was enormous. Overall, this is what most will tell you about lolita fashion until you actually join a community. It is actually more nuanced than this, and we’ll delve into it. **__Part II - THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS__** Like any aesthetics, it often takes inspiration from multiple things, and that includes many different contexts. We will delve into those therefore. **The European Admiration** Here is a quote from this article(男性が作り上げた“少女像”への抵抗　ロリータファッションの起源と現在地), translated into English : "In the 1980s, a vague admiration for the West began to take hold as a fashion style. According to Mr. Kikuta, artists who had a big influence on the subculture scene of the time, including Lolita fashion, were artists such as Milk, Shirley Temple, Jane Marple and ATUSKI ONISHI), magazines featuring youth fashion and subculture such as Olive and Takarajima, and a music scene dominated by new wave. For example, fans of bands considered to be part of the so-called "visual kei" genre, such as Denki Groove's previous band Seikatsu, which was owned by the music label "Nagomu Records", and Uchoten, whose vocals are performed by the brand's owner, KERA. This fashion style is considered the cornerstone of Lolita." There also was a already Japanese culture phenomenon who contributed to it, with an overall fantasy over foreigners. Add to that the global romanticization of the French, and you can kinda already see where this was going. **The Kawaii Boom** Kawaii culture is crucial to understand our aesthetic and why is lolita sometimes done differently from ouji. So, see, post to World War II, japan wanted to move away from the harsh realities, and wanted to avoid being remembered for it. (Cough cough) ~~germany~~ (cough cough) Kawaii culture is pretty much its own very big subculture, like ouji and lolita. So it would be very hard and very long to explain to explain all of its inspirations. First of all, you need to understand that, translating kawaii as cute, is an over explanation. Indeed, the two digress in image significantly. We can observe that mostly with the Sanrio franchise. First image here is Japanese kind of Sanrio, second is western Sanrio. This culture boomed 1970s. Remember that. **Girly Kei, Lolita’s mother** Girly kei is by far, one of the biggest root to lolita, along with kawaii culture. Girly kei got to be born from kawaii culture, also. It started trending from another trend, which was the romantic movement, in the 1980s. Sanrio and idols also really helped that movement. Another great popularization of it were the magazines An-an and Non-no. They launched in the 1970s and heavily shaped women’s fashion, towards softer looks. **FINALLY, LOLITA’s BIRTH** Due to all of theses, girly brands like Baby the stars shines bright, and others, began to adopt the lolita label, while others rejected it, like Axes femmes, for wider audience purposes, since girly kei is considered normie, unlike lolita. **__Part III - How lolita was … t’ill gothic__** Because of all this, the earliest versions of lolita were very kawaii, cutesy, and frilly : there only existed sweet. The brands that didn’t reject the label started to settle onto a specific silhouette, hence why before that settlement, the most proto versions of lolita just looks like shapeless old school, without a specific idea in mind. Then they settled, and here you go with your bell shape silhouette. However’ something else was going on in a totally different context. I bring you to a visual kei band, with its guitarist, that we all call mana sama. For some short context, visual kei is a music genre who has the purpose of being over the top visually, hence the name. One of the group’s most beloved member passed away, and that shook the group’s direction terribly. After its death, mana began to take a more romantic yet dark and gothic visual direction. And he took inspiration from lolita fashion. In an interview with him, he claims to the journalist that he wanted something dark and cutesy. This was what he had in mind. Before gothic, lolita didn’t had much historical inspiration. It was maybe a bit frilly, but that’s it. Gothic changed that completely. And even then, it is just a fantasized vision of historical clothes. Hence, he formed his brand, that we today call Moi Même Moitié. **__Part IV - Classical birth__** Because of gothic’s birth, it allowed us to dive into the historical inspiration without its dark themes. There actually existed another trend in japan, which helped into classic’s birth. It isn’t used by the JP community, but we, westerners, call it, natural kei. Here is a doodle made by Banyu that explains this whole taking vintage inspiration history : **__Part V - Ouji, the adopted brother__** At some point in Japan, in the early 2000s, there was boystyle trend - there was a rise in boys fashion. It boomed due to multiple factors, such as visual kei female singers, crossdresses as men. Some of their outfits looked like a proto version of ouji, but there were many other types of boy styles. Some more elegant than others. It was the gothic lolita brands who started first, taking inspiration from the Vkei boystyle outfits, and ending up with a vampire-like kind of aesthetic. Eventually, sweet brands joined in, and went for a more regal kind of look. Classic and gothic already existed when ouji was born, and they were thoses who started to birth ouji, hence why most of ouji is gothic or at least classical. Unlike lolita, who started with kawaii inspiration. Ouji is technically just the adopted by lolita version of boystyle, basically, hence why its like its adopted brother, and you may see some people call it still boystyle today. Credit : banyureged on discord, who made the drawings included as well all the research’s here. "

I was a former goth industrial and now I identify as more emo goth. "When one has an identity, one has a chance to become a part of something bigger than himself." - BAUHAUS Post-script: Henrietta from South Park once said, "No one understands us." If I could talk with Henrietta for 45 minutes over coffee, then I would not say a word. I would listen.

Wonderful!!

Excuse me!?! The late 1900s!?😅😅

Lol I'm so glad there's a whole 6,000 pages on this shit, because some ppl need it lol

Great video! Is it alright that i use it as a reference for a project im working on? Credit to you always.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO BECAUSE IT IS SO INFORMATIVE!! Thanks to this I able to understand more about punkverse. This also helps me making my OCs, how I design them and all. I also watched that one video of yours about lolita outfit, and helps me too!! I'm both fan of lolita outfit and punk themes, so thank for those kind of videos ^^

Whoa 🤯🤯!!

I love Gerard Way

I always consider emo as glamgoth.

what was the song being played on the 1:23😿

What is decopunk?

Quite a bit of Cyberpunk is actually Decopunk, like Blade Runner & Bioshock.

Nice, but its really hard to understand you sometimes.

I wanna wear this 😭😭

Thank you for the video. I like going to the events for the music & I did pick an appropriate outfit for it & I did have a great time. Now however it's not my particular style all the time I'm more of a Trad, Victorian, Corp for work however I just feel more comfortable in just a Band T-shirts

My favorites are steampunk, clockpunk and solarpunk !

Life saver! My friend is doing rpg session in cyberpunk universe and I had no idea about what it is at all.

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A video I never knew I would need. Keep it up love. Wonderful content. Would be popular very soon

Can anyone give me information on Mantecosa (7:21). Both youtube and google can't find anything. Perhaps it is known by another name?

For those of yall with ADHD: Cyberpunk - Sim City: Cities of Tomorrow: Omega buildings Biopunk - pulling a “fine I’ll do it myself” with evolution Steampunk - 1800s (leviathan also has minor bio punk too) Clockpunk - 1500s meets 1800s Dieselpunk - what some people think is Steampunk Atompunk - post war fallout Solarpunk - Sim City: cities of tomorrow Academy buildings Rococopunk - pre revolutionary France. Silkpunk - Asian supremacy Scrappunk - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - the zone

Loved it!

I wish it was an Arabic translation 🇸🇦

I listen to post punk but I'm dressed in emo.

I loved this video! So calming yet informing, and I really like ur drawing :)))

Now know Venti and Freminent from genshin impact

Very useful video, Thanks for telling us about the important history of such a symbol

5:44 the flowers shown in the beginning parts of demon slayer

I am trying my best to get into Goth and the fashion is honestly one of the most interesting thing

I'm totally an emo

Thanks so much for creating this part 2! It was great. 😊 As someone who is a mix of dark academia, art academia, and theatre academia, it's nice to see bits of myself in your descriptions. And I loved that you included Florence Foster Jenkins. That is a great film for the theater academia fan! 💜

I believe that Prince is a part of the Windsor golf because of his fashion choices throughout the 80s throughout the 90s. He was very winter and the movie twitches one and two were very much.

I'm sorry. Do ppl actually give af? If so, that's absolutely fascinating

Still neglecting the legacy of Screaming Jay Hawkins

"Studying at night because you were procrastination during the day" what's more relatable than this line to a High school - college student?

Great vid ❤

There are numerous gothic horror books and films.

More!

I am a babybat🦇🦇 Thank you so much for the information you do about the goth world!!💗💗 I am so sorry that you have few subscribers, you definitely deserve more!

I’m so glad that you people have a harder time defining emo in ideology and style. Less predictable and stereotypical. Emo embraces a melancholy in life philosophy, the human state etc. It’s more poetic and abstract. IMO. All of those categories not necessary, music, style and ideology. People are dying to either box you in or to fit into. Defies the whole purpose of emo in the first place. Again, IMO. Perhaps I’m describing something entirely different. Whatever.

I love your channel! The videos are well explained and the art is great as well!

Horrible depiction of documentary !!!

I belong to Dark academic

What's your favorite piece of Gothic Architecture?