Music: visual kei

Here's a friendly strawberry-loving sweet lolita who we snapped near the famous LaForet department store in Harajuku. You might remember her from our Golden Bomber concert snaps last year. Her outfit features an Angelic Pretty strawberry print dress with ribbon

Here's Suiya, the singer for the Japanese oshare kei band DecoLa Hopping! This is the second time we've run into Suiya in Harajuku recently and she has been super-friendly every time we've stopped her. Suiya is wearing a colorful fairy

The popular Japanese visual kei band Versailles (aka Versailles Philharmonic Quintet) played the final show of their "Chateau de Versailles" tour at NHK Hall in Tokyo this week. But the concert on December 20th 2012 was much more than just

We met the fun Ayano in Harajuku when we noticed her red and black outfit, featuring a devil horns hoodie. We talked to her and found out that Ayano is 15 years old, a student, and a fan of visual

We spotted Toshiki, the lead singer of the Japanese visual kei band Pan-d-ra, in Harajuku recently and his androgynous look stood out. You might remember, we have snapped him previously. Toshiki is wearing all black, with a drop shoulder top

Here are two Harajuku girls who are each pursuing their own individual style. The girl on the right with white thigh highs and a lavender hair bow is Moko, a 23-year-old student who we have photographed before. She's wearing a

Here are two cute blonde students, both 19 years old. On the left is Manamin, wearing a pink jacket with scalloped black lapels from mmts. She's also wearing a black graphic top from Katie and short pink skirt from H&M.

This guy with long braids and partly shaved hair is Yune, a 21-year-old fashion college student. He's wearing a vinyl jacket from Milk Boy with a jersey top from Gadget Grow and Uniqlo pants. His bag is made from woven

This cool guy is Toshiki Asaki, vocalist for the visual kei band Pan-d-ra. When we photographed him in Harajuku he was wearing a long velvet military coat with silver trim and buttons from Tetragrammaton over black 5351 pants and a

Here are two colorfully dressed Japanese girls we met near Jingu Bashi in Harajuku. Their detailed outfits and bold hairstyles instantly caught our attention. Even though we were rushing toward Shibuya to take Coming of Age Day kimono pictures, we