⸮i mɒ oʜw

So you made it here, grats! I guess you wanted to know about me, huh?

I go by Kou, but my old friends call me Neme still. Either works! I'm a 37 year old visual kei fan and metalhead, with a penchant for horror, all things dark/edgy/macabre, and spending way too much time on my PC gaming, chatting, working on things!

I'm also an artist, writer, sometimes photographer, and some of you may know me by my youtube channel where I upload 2000s Visual Kei videos upscaled to HD!

I also still do roleplay writing, so if you're an adult writer that's interested in this, you can always DM me. Many a age ago, I ran the jrock/visaul kei roleplay called Fake Stars on greatestjournal (fucking RIP), and played someone in the Livejournal community Jrockroleplay for a while.

Currently I only write for Niko, my Brujah OC, and Ryu, my Visual Kei vocalist. You can read about them in the story page!

So about Visual Kei. I first found Visual Kei in either very late 1999 or sometime in 2000. My poor memory only goes so far, lol. My earliest bands were Dir en grey, Pierrot, Malice Mizer, Penicillin, and a few others. I ran quite a few VK fansites (listed below!) in the 2000s, maybe you've seen them if you were a fan around that time? I was also very active in the Livejournal Visual Kei community (I ran or co-ran several communities like versaillesfans, traumaradio, romaji, and a few others), as well as places like Batsu, Tonberry, and so on. I think I was also on Tainted World and a few other places, but now my forum home is JROCKONE. You can also find me around Discord in several different Visual Kei discords, I always have the username koutetsuhime! I even have my own 21+ only Visual Kei server as well. If you're interested in joining, DM me on Discord!

If you're also an older fan that was in these communities backthen, perhaps you might recognise my older usernames: awakenthesadist, medicalshower, 37564, and I think I also went by ね☆め, and ☆戮 ☆ on Batsu back in the day. Might've been a few other usernames, but those were my primaries!

I missed having a goofy little personal site like I used to in the early 2000s, so I decided to hop on this bandwagon and join my friends in making some nostalgic styled sites.
I went for the sort of look I often saw on Japanese personal sites, with a bit of a modern touch. Kind of a menhera/iryou theme! I hope you like it.

my former sites
visualongaku (general vk fansite)
aizome kyoto (aikaryu fansite)
trauma radio (one of the earliest english gazette fansites!)
last quarter (unsraw fansite)
keloid milk (dir en grey fansite)
the revenant choir (versailles fansite)