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Wikipedia：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_J...
REUTER：http://www.reuters.com/article/us-jap...
REUTER‘japans-masked-pop-idols’：https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/...
NEW YORK POST：http://nypost.com/video/is-this-japan...
KAMEN JYOSHI：http://www.alice-project.biz/kamenjoshi
Kamenjoshi
They are the idol group wearing eccentric hockey mask in Akihabara Japan.
The members of the group are the "non chosen person” and have no place in entertainment industry so gathered and obtained strong identity as a group besides abandoning personal identity by wearing the mask and hiding their face.
They call themselves “underground idol”, perform their concerts above 1000 a year.
Now they command the name of the best underground idol.
～ Passion Hidden Behind the Mask ～
Ever heard of an idol unit called Kamen Joshi,whose members wear masks when they perform?
Not in any way they're unattractive or anything but these girls choose to eerie hockey masks (Friday the 13th Jason Goalie Mask, anyone?) and gas masks to conceal their faces in giving you over-the-top, extreme stage performances accented by stage diving and headbanging.
In this era we think a girl idol is synonymous with her looks, why on earth do they have to keep hiding behind their masks?
The underlying reasons are not masked,however. But rather stirring up debates among youth, going well beyond the boundary of Idol Otaku. Could this whole thing be "coup d'etat" against the whole entertainment business or an act of "overthrowing the powerful?"
To join Kamen Joshi, girls are never asked of "perfect performance" pegged with mainstream idols. If anything, "Alice Project" itself that gave birth to Kamen Joshi was just a small-market agency, virtually ignored by all existing talent agencies. You see, all the girls made it to this place had spiraled out of success, failing to get noticed in every audition they took part in, and naturally feeling desperate for any success.
After all, the girls had to realize they had no business trying out for auditions of any major talent agency, didn't they? Yet, for most of the girls, that wasn't exactly the thing they had to worry about. They were swindled of huge sum of money for so-called photo session expenses and lesson fees, and even falling prey to "sexual harassment" coerced for an alleged future fame. The world of showbiz treated them like "another raindrop in a storm." Are they just gullible or positive thinkers? Each girl kept trying and knocked on our door, clinging onto the last hope of someday becoming an idol.
There, they finally set sail on a long, hard journey with Alice Project, searching for answers how they can be the precious drop of water in the ocean that contained the mother of all powers.
Their answer: The Mask.
As girls of their generation were selling millions and gaining more exposure on TV shows, our unwavering girls kept on performing 365 days on the Akihabara stage with their eerie masks―never can we see them as cute or Kawaii by any stretch of imagination―on their faces. Girls turned their anger and frustration into all-out performances, while concealing their sorrow and chagrin.
At long last, people began gathering one by one for live shows. The masks couldn't completely hide girls' passion. Emotions oozed out during their performances, and smacked the heart of audience, who also were feeling abandoned and unsure if there was any solace in life.
Message was sent.
Now, more and more people started to flock to P.A.R.M.S. Theater. For TV and Internet media too, weird appearance of girls and excitement of fanatic fans were too out-of-ordinary to pass up.
Now, it's 2014 already. Girls' single reached #１ on Oricon Chart, they also performed before the audience at Budokan. They brought delights to faces of the fans, and girls' anger and sorrow faded, too. It now seems a distant past that they were adamant to get back at the world.
Haven't they already gotten this far?
But still, they don't intend to take the masks off. It's the battle an amateur agency and once defeated idols waged against the stale idol industry.
Now, the second act begins. They made it through a slaughterhouse. With helping hands of fans, they are now engaging in another battle, not as "insignificant bunch of newcomers" but as a "group of artists". How far can they go, and how bright can they shine in this field of idols?
We can't take our eyes off their fight.
