Women in Visual Kei/ Inugami Circus Dan

Hello everyone,


Today I´m gonna introduce a japanese band to you that is called Inugami Saakasu Dan (犬神サーカス団), which means something like "The Dog God Circus Troup".
There are rumours that they chose to have the word "Inugami (God Dog)" in their band name because the main chracter of the manga series "Wolf Guy", which was written by Kazumasa Hirai in 1970, is named Akira Inugami .

Inugami Circus Dan have a very unique and original style and definitely get too little attention from oversea Visual Kei fans. After all, they've already started in 1994!
They mix Eroguro with Angura Kei (Especially the vocalist Inugami Kyouko is always wearing a Kimono) and their music ranges between Enka and Hard Rock/ metal.
I  really love how they successfully combine all these things and how Kyouko has that obvious "I don´t give a shit about being fat"- attitude.
Seriously, I think her attitude and also her voice is freakin´ awesome.

Inugami Circus Dan

Anyway, the reason why I actually chose to write about this band in the first place was that they have a female vocalist. The Visual Kei fans among you for sure know that there aren´t really any successful female Visual Kei bands. Okay, maybe Exist Trace or Yousei Teikoku, but that´s about it.
So that´s why I badly want to approach this topic and show you guys that there are really cool female or mixed Visual Kei bands out there. In fact, it makes me sick that there aren´t more.
Why? Probably because all the creepy fangirls don´t want women in Visual Kei and wouldn´t buy their CDs. Sad fact.

I also realized that there aren´t many lyrics translations of Inugami songs, so I decided to translate one of my favorites by Inugami. - Hakobune (箱舟, "Ark").
It´s quite a calm song and there´s not much eroguro in it, but maybe I´m gonna translate some of their eroguro stuff at some point, too.

It looks like Kyouko describes a scenario where our world goes down while all the people dream together for one last time and realize that they actually love each other.


Ark
Extinguish the light
of the sun and the moon at once
Are you burying the shadows in the dark
that have been pursuing you?

The two of us are riding this boat
And we´ll go to that faraway star
When I close my eyes and cling to you
I´m not afraid of anything

Above the bloodied raging sea
A shower of stones is pouring down
As people lose their senses
They obstruct the parade

The two of us are riding this boat
And we´ll go to that faraway star
When I close my eyes and cling to you
I´m not afraid of anything

These suffering, drowning people
They cling to each other
While they declaim what god tought them
They get swallowed up by waves and sink

The two of us are riding this boat
And we´ll go to that faraway star
When I close my eyes and cling to you
I´m not afraid of anything

The two of us are riding this boat
And we´ll go to that faraway star
In a world that is starting to break apart
There is nothing to think regretfully of

I will also uploaded a subbed version of the song on Youtube soon. Enjoy~


 

Kurenai