Subcultural Injection

One month ago, on April 17th 2007, Bou (g. of Antic Café) had announced on the official website that he’ll depart from the band; saying that there was something else he wanted to do. Not only was he the co-founder of Antic Café, but he was also part of the Oshare kei that the band had created. Oshare kei is a sub-division of visual kei that tends to incorporate sounds that are similar to pop punk while retaining the Visual kei rock style of mellow guitar solos and aggressive high pitched tones with songs that are around 5 minutes in length. The lyrics are likely to focus on subject matters that are optimistic, often about love and relationships. Fashion for the Oshare is usually bright and colorful that at times it doesn’t seem compatible.

Now that a month has past two new members appeared creating the new generation of Antic Café. Sorry to say…but although the guitarist (Takuya) that replaced Bou may look good…the new keyboardist (Yuuki) seems out of place. I just hope that the music would be just as good or better!