well...

Romantica isn't the only band "aproved"...(it's about visual kei or partly based on it..) Tenshi no Yume is also aproved, Eimin, the tiny group picture from Serafilia i saw seems good, Le Mal est Fee from france. but yes, only a few are aproved, things like closer i think are good try but not enough.

First i see the looks, you can sound great and that's good, but if you don't put an effort on your image to look visual keish, what's the point saying you are VISUAL kei..???

I support only the aproved bands, I would love to suport all the bands but... most of them suck.. what can i do. I think it is some bands that are really cruel destroying the same style they are suposed to like.

Being black african you have to put more affort on your "visuals" if you want to look at least visual keish, it's just because of your charasteristics. for example, in mexico most people have brown skin, appart from others face charasteristics, but still i think things like tenshi no yume does a good job in not looking like a regular mexican man. just as mana and many others doesnt's look like regular japanese.. that simple.. but well. there are diferent aestethic charasteristics between races (apart betwen people in general), for somes it will be harder to have some looks, for others easier.

There is a big difference about USING photoshop and ABUSING it... noses can disapear with lighting... but drawing your make up with photoshop is another thing.... if you see Mana on the streets after you saw a photo without nose, you can still recognise him easily, but some people in western (not only in bands) are almost or totally unrecognisable (i don't know how to spell correctly) with their photoshoped photos.

sorry my english