Figures for Final Paper

***Please refer to these figures as they are mentioned in the paper. All photos are borrowed, and are the property of their respective owners.***


-Figure 1: Video : Black Sabbath, “Paranoid,” 1970: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jdAwXV7eVM






-Figure 2 : Video : YMO, “Computer Games” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHhYbVVDuoA








-Figure 3 : Example of blurred gender lines in Visual Kei (http://theanimeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/visual-kei.jpg). These are all men.

















-Figure 4 : 70s glam rock was an influence on Visual Kei artists. Alice Cooper (top, http://img361.imageshack.us) and T. Rex (bottom, grumpyrabbit.co.uk)

-Figure 5 : Compare the similar images of pop/rock act Malice Mizer (top, image from Wikipedia.org) and speed metal group X Japan (bottom, metal-archives.com)

-Figure 6 : Loudness (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/)

-Figure 7 : Tell-tale cover of X Japan’s 1988 debut record, “Vanishing Vision” (metal-archives.com).

-Figure 8 : American rockers Britny Fox (top, http://www.freewebs.com) and Cinderella (bottom, http://media.photobucket.com) are not too different from their Japanese rivals.

-Figure 9: Girl Tique (top, metal-archives.com) and Aion (bottom, metal-archives.com) wear costumes reminiscent of Anime or Japanese video games. “Aion” is actually also the name of a game.

-Figure 10: Cover of Loudness’s 1985 release, “Thunder in the East” (top, loudness.jp), and a photo of the band Virus (bottom, metal-archives.com). Notice the man on our far left with the kimono and traditional hair-bun.