How old?

[Another Aoi Fan]

How old were you when you got into:

Visual kei, Oshare kei, or Japanese Rock in general?

I've met a lot of people who were acually 10-13...

I was curious how old you were when you got into JRock. Thank you! :wave: :wave:

I appritiate it!

[Cursed Wings]

i was 12 and that was around the end of may this year soo i havent known it that long

[YukiMizayaki]

Well, *looking at my age* I'm around 16 to 17 when I got hooked up on J-rock.

[Dr. Warumono]

I was 21... last year ^^!

[sunsweet]

I was 19...

[JoRuDeNnA]

I was 19 too, a little bit more than a year ago :-)

[sadie_sue]

About 12-14, but I worked my way from loving Japanese movies to loving the music.

[wandering.legy]

I was and still am 16....haven't been a jrock fan for very long ^^ But like sadie i loved japanese anime/manga/movies and moved on from there :-)

[Tomino]

i was 13. well i still am ^^!
it's more than 1 month from the discovery now!
but the first anime i saw was when i was 7. i fell inlove with animes (though i couldnt watch many) :hihi:.

[Anousenka]

I think I was about 18, in 2003 :) I hadn't heard of it until then, heehee :)

[SaKeVi]

I was... five?? I don't remember if I had 4 or 5 years, my older brother used to play Loudness & X songs to me before I went to kindergarden, to raise my spirit, hahaha.

It has been around 18 years since then... yeah, I'm 23.

[wandering.legy]

wow Sakevi, you're a real jrock veteren. I wonder....has jrock changed much from the last decade? Is it better now? Worse?

[Kinsao]

I was 25. :blush:

[klick]

i was 14 1/2 or 15..i donｴt know^^ XD

[jounetsu]

i was um... 15! yes that's what i was :relief:
and soon 17 :-) so almost two years as a
dir en grey fan yay!

[inki]

i was 23 ... still a newbie :relief: ... listen to jrock 1 year

[Another Aoi Fan]

I was... five?? I don't remember if I had 4 or 5 years, my older brother used to play Loudness & X songs to me before I went to kindergarden, to raise my spirit, hahaha.
It has been around 18 years since then... yeah, I'm 23.
WHOAH!! :silly: :silly: :bravo: Congrats!! WHOAH! Thats amazing! :silly:



Anyhow, thank you everyone! I'm so happy to see people posted! Its soo intresting looking at these. I really appritiate it! :-) :-)

[Precious4e]

I was 18. It started with Luna Sea.

[Chicho]

i was around 13-14 (thats this year) and my first reaction: OMG MIYAVI LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!!!!:okashii:
:bluush:
but that is past know! lolll

[SaKeVi]

wow Sakevi, you're a real jrock veteren. I wonder....has jrock changed much from the last decade? Is it better now? Worse?

Well, it has changed a lot, in the 80's the music industry didn't take seriously rock music, they preferred pop singers and some overseas artist, but rock started to gain some field, and bam!! X appeared and f*cked up the poppish music agents, opening a big industry and a huge marketing to rock.

It's hard to say if it is better or worse now: this days we have a huuuuge music scene, and lots of good and crappy bands, music has changed too, we have many music style fusions to satisfy any kind of music taste hehehe.

You know, I'm al oldie here, in my opinion, I prefer japanese 80's bands, I grew up listening to them, and I think that in those years, the best bands were created and taught everybody how things should be done in music, hahaha.

Se you later!!

[wandering.legy]

Well, it has changed a lot, in the 80's the music industry didn't take seriously rock music, they preferred pop singers and some overseas artist, but rock started to gain some field, and bam!! X appeared and f*cked up the poppish music agents, opening a big industry and a huge marketing to rock.
It's hard to say if it is better or worse now: this days we have a huuuuge music scene, and lots of good and crappy bands, music has changed too, we have many music style fusions to satisfy any kind of music taste hehehe.
You know, I'm al oldie here, in my opinion, I prefer japanese 80's bands, I grew up listening to them, and I think that in those years, the best bands were created and taught everybody how things should be done in music, hahaha.
Se you later!!

Wooo go X Japan! Legends to the end hahaha. And i agree, a lot of old rock bands are really good. But i like the modern stuff too. I guess i just love rock music overall, no matter where it's from or what language it's in :D:D

[Another Aoi Fan]

i was around 13-14 (thats this year) and my first reaction: OMG MIYAVI LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!!!!:okashii:
:bluush:
but that is past know! lolll
x3 Wow.

@SaKeVi-Do you think people like us, ect. would like the 80's? Or is it just you? Sounds intresting.

[SaKeVi]

@SaKeVi-Do you think people like us, ect. would like the 80's? Or is it just you? Sounds intresting.

Probably, that's where all started!! hahaha.

If you're a rocker, punk or headbanger, you will definitely love the 80's, you will get crazy with the japanese 80's music, in my opinion, those years were when the scene reached its climax, also, you will find that japanese bands were important to music styles all over the world, like grind (S.O.B. was one of the precursors of that) fastcore or well called japcore (Gauze) and also (and sorry for the U.K. lovers) a band called SS were one of the first hardcore punk bands in the whole world (they started in 1976)

Remember that the 70's and 80's brought us Loudness, Seikimatsu, X, Luna Sea, The Stalin, Anthem and so many awesome bands with fans all over the world, even before Visual Kei kind of "opened" that market.

For the Visual fans, you should check Visual Scandal, those guys were like the reminiscence of Visual in Japan, they started in 1979 and disbanded in 1985 =P

[Anchyyy]

I was around 13 i think.

[DmJapan]

I was 21.
Last year i bought Shine from Luna sea and started listening to Jrock.

[Numbarina]

I loved Japanese songs from anime since I was little,but seriously I started listening to Jmusic on the 1st of October last year. :-) It'll be a year soon!!! :yeahh: Oh,I rembember that day pretty clearly! :p

[butterbrickle]

14. I'm still 14... nice long experience there.

[mizerable_d]

14? ya 14

[Nicholas Tse]

Me?! NEVER!

[Funky Monky]

I must have been 13-14 when I started to listen jrock etc.. :souka: I'm not really sure because it was near my birthday when I started and I don't remember the exact day. It started with Dir en grey of course. XP

[shalinn]

i was around 13-14 (thats this year) and my first reaction: OMG MIYAVI LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!!!!:okashii:
:bluush:
but that is past know! lolll

lol you sound just like me :D

i was 14-15, almost a year ago, and my first thought was also about miyavi: "he looks like a girl! how can ppl find him sexy?? =o" but.....well, he's deadly sexy now xD

[Nana007]

I started listing to J-Pop when I was 14. I got into VK at 17.

[Kagura]

I listened to jrock when I was 13, so it's gonna be about five years, the first band I listened to Malice Mizer when my friend made me watch Illuminati ><. NOT a good first video!! But after that I was hooked XD

[Noseybonk]

Not long. Since I was 18 and I saw a Puffy Amiyumi show. The show is rubbish, but I got interested in the music, which led me to Jref:happy: and I got to learn about other groups and artists:yeahh:

[elanor]

Since I have 15 and studying Japanese in high school. I wasn't into pop so naturally even with foreign songs I looked to the rock genre.

I started with the legends X and Hide... then moved to Glay and Laruku... and then Diru.

In between I've bumped on and listened to other singers and bands but they didn't make as big as an impression on me as the ones I listed.

[Rancid__]

I was 19 when I first heard Dir en grey, been hooked ever since (now I'm 21:blush: )..

[Gacktness_lover]

well, my dad loves Japanese music so since i was very very little i started listened to J-rock/J-Pop... the first song i learned, the first song that i could officially say: i like that song was The fourth avenue cafe - L'arc en ciel and i was in 1996 so, i was a little 5 years old girl that liked L'arc en ciel one day my dad played songs in my room and i listened a lot more L'arc en ciel songs, then i started listening to Malice Mizer in the Gackt Era, my first MM album was Merveilles and i was like 9 years old, in 1999 Gackt left MM and Kami died, i remember that i cried so much cuz' he was my MM favorite. I started to "follow" Gackt's solo carreer but still i was too young to keep in touch with Gackt new releases so i listened my old Malice mizer and L'arc en ciel songs until 2003 when my dad gave me a Gackt CD "Moon" and i loved that CD!!! after that i got a computer and later i got Internet that was like in the middle of 2005 and i've been downloading all the songs that i didin't listen of Gackt and L'arc en ciel and checking other bands and singers, now im 14 years old and aproximately 90 Japanese Bands/Singers that i like and that i love listening. :-)

[ingeborg100]

I was 13 when is was on my first dir en grey konzert!

[*~EnvY~*]

i was ...16...17? started with malice's gekka no yakusoku and then i went to gackt and then dir and now...loads :p
it's been..nearly 3 years now

[RukaNightmare]

Gacktness_lover: you're lucky that ur dad is one who listens to those songs XD And it's nice to haf a girl as young as 5 liking laruku XD

For japanese music i got into them when i was quite young but for jrock it was really late... around last yr october... I wonder why i didn noe abt it earlier >.<

[sugoi_aki]

^ same here, i got into Japanese music years ago, but I was just interested in Jrock about mid of last year.

[FrostPixie]

I think I was about 13/14. I found a site with streams of JPop and JRock songs and I started listening to some songs by Ayumi Hamasaki and Hitomi Yaida (because they had been recommended to me). Then I found songs by Youjeen (I love that woman) and when I looked for more rock-y stuff I started listening to L'arc~en~ciel, Luna Sea, LIV, Malice Mizer,, Dir en grey, X Japan (I think Kurenai was one of the first JRock songs I heard), Buck Tick, Penicillin, etc. And it sort of grew from there.
Since MM were one of the first bands JRock bands I heard, I guess I discovered Visual Kei around the same time, lol.
And I know for a fact that Youjeen was one of the first J-music artists I heard and she is still one of my favourites, despite her not releasing anything anymore.

[pinkbuta304]

I was 16 and my friend had me listen to SID because i thought that the picture of Aki on her binder was amazing. Then she had me listen to diru's tsumi to batsu, but it wasn't until i heard the song for a second time that i became hooked! :-)

[Bloopie]

I was eleven when I listened to my first JRock song.

[RukaNightmare]

sugoi_aki: Hey! Fella singaporean XDD Nice to see u X)

bloopie: What was that song? :-)

[Bloopie]

It was Dir en Grey's Cage.

[Kuroyume]

I was 15 or 16 when i've heard my first J-Rock (Dir en grey Withering to Death)

[dorikura]

I was infected with jrock virus when I was 9 actually (at that time I heard for X-Japan for the first time from my mother) but I started to listen to it much later..not sure..but I thing I was 12...XD

[Amaya]

I was 16 when i begon to listen to jpop and stuff like that.. And 17 when i first listen to jrock ^^

[Miyavi-Lover]

I became on like 1 september fan of miyavi i was 12 and 6 september i became 13 xD and now its 14 august so nearly 6 september xD

[SushiShin]

there isn't an option <10 year?

i listen to J-music when i was 9years,

[xGarnetx]

16. And I'm still 16. I listen to it only for a couple of months.

[BlackSoul]

I was 16 when I first listened to jrock. It was about august, september last year when a friend of mine burned me a CD with Gackt, Hyde, Laruku, Gazette and Alice Nine...and in November I became 17^^

[Dutch Baka]

To break the Jrock section a bit.

I got into contact with Jpop when I was about 18 years old. I was traveling in Australia and I met some nice Japanese who introduced met to some band such as Dreams come true and Smap... I'm not such a big smap fan (I only like to see them on tv), but I love Dreams come true

[HitsugiMad4eva]

That sound cool

i was 13 and im now 14 lol so it's been a year

[Arlet]

I met Jrock when i was 14 years old... :p
H=L was listeling to miyavi.
When i turned 15 i start listeling to Morning musume and Mini moni (jpop)
And now im listeling to all kinds of asian music :win:
AND I STILL LOVE IT :love:

[HanaKagari]

I was 9 years old when I came into Jmusic ^^ Started of with Ayumi Hamasaki

[Baka Gurl YuKii =3]

I just been listen Jrock musics only half year . >.< When my friend send GazettE , Miyavi , SID songs for me , and I loved them xP

[semi~sweet]

i was 18 when i first got in to J-Rock

[Liquid Fantasy]

I was 15 when I started listening to Jrock. Now, I'm 16 and still listening to it. I'm slowly liking Jpop, though.

[yumeitsumo]

I believe I was around 13 when I began to indulge in the JApanese Culture. I got inspired by Fullmetal Alchemist to love Japan. Why? All because of that song "ready steady go". :)

[Suzuki_Akira]

I was 15 when I first started to like Jrock. I have really only been into it for a couple months so I am still kinda new. :wave: The first song I had heard was Vanilla - Gackt. :emblaugh:

[Kumi-chanmi]

I just graduated from middle school and was going into high school, so I was about 14. And now I currently make my friends listen to it, and we are even spreading the music into our school. :-)

[joaniedark]

Let's see...I was first shown Mana-sama in 7th grade, which started me off on Jrock at...age 12 or so, I suppose.

[rockbera~]

hmmm i think i was 13 or 14 when i got into j-music :blush: it all started with utada hikaru and the opening to kingdom hearts i think :yeahh: lol

[CrimsonMasquerade]

now i understand why are an cafe and all oshare so popular :D

[vampiric-androgyne]

I was twelve-thirteen something... was watching videos on YouTube one evening and stumbled across Dir en grey's raison detre... everything that has gone wrong with me since then has been blamed on that PV...

[^nemo^]

I quess I was almost 15 when I started listening Jmusic..At first there was Dir en Grey and Miyavi:)
now I'm almost 19

[Kinsao]

I'll buck the trend :D I was about 25 when I started listening to j-rock, or maybe 26.

[Yurga]

When i started listening and liking J-rock i was 17-18yeras old~
so it was about 2-3 years ago~
And first band i heard was X Japan and i am very glad that it was
them i heard first.

[~AXI's.black.neko~]

i was 18 when i saw gackt because he was the reason i liked j-rock

[dakkii]

^same

i got into it around 11 or 12... and now im 17 so do the math :3

[AJBryant]

Where's the selection for "never did"? ;)

Tony