About the Blogger

Hello, Everybunny!

Hello, hello! My friends call me Prince and I am a cosplayer, idol, yumeshipper, and Japanese fashion enthusiast located in the Northeastern United States... unfortunately. I'm loud, I'm proud, and I'm unapologetically myself! I got my first piece of genuine Japanese fashion in October of 2016, but I had been putting together closet coords for a while before then, and doing research even before then, so it's hard to really put a start date on my time in this circle. I like Vocaloid (MEIKO, my beloved), Project Sekai (everyone tells me I'm so Tsukasa Tenma), Ensemble Stars (MadaraP, RinneP), all kinds of alternative and strange fashions, Kitchen Princess (the manga), horror games and movies (especially Resident Evil, the original Scream, OMORI, and Dead by Daylight, but I'll give anything a chance!), body art and modification, and social justice.

The primary fashions I wear are:

  • Gyaru, of course (primarily rokku, but I've been known to indulge in hime from time to time)
  • Jirai kei (mostly mizuiro, oshi coords, and redxblack colourways)
  • Lolita fashion (mostly hime lolita and country lolita)

(Honorable mentions to visual kei, Goth, and ouji fashion).

Let's not forget my boyfriend, of course-- he's pretty into jirai kei (primarily monokuro dark girly and sabukaru jirai). He's the best and sweetest~!

Ten YEARS in Japanese Fashion Spaces?

That's right! I began looking into lolita fashion around 2014 to 2015-- back then, I was what the kids called scenemo (following the trend of many lolita fashion enthusiasts before me, haha); I got my first dress, petticoat, and accessory from Bodyline back in 2016, just after my sixteenth birthday. From then on, I learnt the secondhand stock market and everything there was to know about the fashion. I watched almost every video, heard a million perspectives, could guess the secondhand price of a piece within five USD, and knew all the best places to get your hands on whatever piece you were dreaming of. I even had a small TikTok following back in 2020-2021, making content in full coordinates... mostly political ones, admittedly.

This was during my high school days, obviously. I lived in the library. I loved manga, I loved using the computers to listen to old Vocaloid-- which I'd been into since 2012 or 2013-- and I loved to learn! And then, one day, something got moved into the manga section that would genuinely change my life... "日本愛/Japan Ai: a Tall Girl's Adventures in Japan" by Aimee Major Steinberger, about a cosplayer's trip to Japan. I snatched that book up, wanting to learn more about lolita fashion and cosplay. However, it was even better than I hoped for it to be! I flipped through it every time I could. It sort of centers around this person's trip to Japan to buy a Volks doll-- which got me totally obsessed with Volks and BJDs in general, by the way-- and chronicled everything else that happened during the trip. Admittedly, I mostly just skimmed this book, but! It taught me so much about Japan and the street fashions found in 2008 Japan! I learnt about Visual Kei, I heard about the author's view on lolita fashion, and-- of course-- I learnt about gyaru. Fifteen, sixteen-year-old me was absolutely not ready for that yet, but it did influence me later on, and so I wanted to mention it here.

During my early college years (2018-2020), I had a friend who was obsessed with Liz Lisa. I didn't really understand what Liz Lisa was... going for? I was absolutely not a fan, but I tried to support this friend. Then, lockdown hit and I had lots and lots of time to learn to coordinate outfits properly and refine my own personal style and create almost a mathematical formula for the perfect outfit! ... but the more time went on, the more I felt lolita wasn't for me. I'd coordinated my entire room to be lolita themed with a sampler and dolls... but that soft, antique aesthetic was no longer my whole world. I mean-- I'd worked in a museum from the time I was about ten (2011) to the time I was about fourteen (2014), so it felt like something I was going to keep with me forever. and then, my friend brought up the term "jirai kei", and I fell into my new rabbit hole. After all, I'd gotten really into selfshipping culture, body modifications, and having BPD-- it seemed like a perfect fit!

And yet... it still wasn't totally me! By 2025, it felt like things were shifting. I had finally gotten the aesthetics of it all down, my makeup was improving, my coords were cute and unique to me, and I was getting into oshikatsu and ita bag culture! ... I just felt that I was too loud for that subculture to feel like a perfect fit, and it was totally draining my mental. What else was there for me?

I got to thinking... say, didn't I try himegyaru once in 2021?

Maybe it was time to try that again.

And that's, that! I started learning how to get the gal mind, letting it guide how I do my gal make and my gal co*des. I wanted my loud and unapologetic look to reflect my attitude, and my mindset-- the gyaru mindset that says conformity doesn't bring you happiness, that being loudly and unapologetically yourself is the only way to learn who you are at your most authentic, and that having fun with your friends will forever beat just being an NPC in your own life. Like one of my gyaru idols, Lavender Gilliam, said once-- gal is mind, but that mindset should naturally show on your body and on your face.

Anyway, that's a suuuuuuuuper long-winded way to say that I'm not really a newbie to the Jfashion scene and I feel like I can help do some of the beginner education and archival things that some of my gal idols do and/or did. Peace!