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Hello my deers! I'm taking another break from my almost mori series to give you another mori music posts! I have another collection of individual songs for you this time. Hope you enjoy! 1) Suddenly by Predawn: This song is both charming and soft in tone, and also in appearance. The music video has such a mori vibe, and I think it is very lovely! 2) Rainy Day by Lucite Tokki: The only word to describe this song is calming. Between the rainy sounds in the background and the cute music, it never fails to cheer me up and relax me! 3)トイレの神様 (Toire no Kamisama) by Kana Uemura 植村 花菜: This soft, acoustic song by Uemura is both lovely and heartbreaking. It follows the real-life story of difficulties between Uemura and her grandmother as she grows up. Although it is rather long, I always find myself listening to it occasionally and humming along, unable to stop listening. It's a lovely, emotional piece, and soothing to listen to. 4) はるのはるか (Faraway Spring) by saskur...

Yes, you are reading that right. And no, it's not clickbait. And yes, I am just as surprised as you at this, and if you'll read on, I'll give you in-depth information on what I discovered, and how I discovered it. To make a long story short, I had posted my previous blog post about natural kei on the mori discord server, and we were discussing it there. One of the mori folks there, wistwarbler , mentioned that maybe reading more from Japanese sources might clear up the issues with inconsistencies I had found. I thought that was a great idea, and mentioned I might do that in the future. So, I had some free time that night, and I decided to browse a bit for articles to translate later on about natural kei in Japanese. However, I quickly ran into a massive roadblock when I discovered the term natural kei doesn't exist in Japanese.  To clarify, the fashion itself that is associated with natural kei does exist. Clearly, pictures exist, PINK HOUSE exists, etc. ...

UPDATE: I have recently found out some new information about natural kei's identity that I highly recommend reading in addition to this post. You can find it here . Welcome to the fourth post in this series, my deers! Today we will be discussing one of the longest-running natural Japanese fashions, Natural Kei. Natural Kei fashion is no longer a very active style, although it is by no means completely dead. However, it exists more now as a style in the collective conscious, rather than having an active community. If you are looking to learn even more about the fashion after this post, a good source on Natural Kei fashion is the now inactive blog  Moss Marchen . I recommend this blog the most, as the person who ran it was actually into the fashion themselves. There are a few other sources around as well, although they are few and far between, and are written from the perspective of someone in the mori kei community. They also tend to have some inaccuracies, but I will get i...

Today's Mori Music Find is a small indie group from Semarang, Indonesia: Chocopurin. Chocopurin is made up of two actual mori girls, Rona who sings and plays guitar, and Stefany who sings and plays bass, acoustic, and glockenspiel. Their musical style is soft and light-hearted. It reminds me of popular mori musicians from Japan, such as Ichiko Aoba and Popoyans. They have produced one EP to date, which can be found on soundcloud. The duo are currently on a break, but their music remains one of my favorites. I hope to see them back to making music soon! You can find them on Twitter , where they still post occasionally, and their Facebook .       There are a few videos of these lovely ladies performing as well on youtube! It's lovely to see two mori girls making lovely music. Have you ever heard of Chocopurin? If so, what did you think? If not, I hope you enjoy their music!

For today's Mori Music Find, I have yet another compilation of various songs from various artists. All are lovely in their own right, but none are long enough for their own dedicated post. So, I am sharing them here for you all instead! 1) 11.11 by sugar analog: This instrumental piece is charming and relaxing, with the lovely sounds of birds and airy voices, it makes you feel almost as if you were walking through a field of wildflowers on a sunny day!  2) Grizzly Man by Rockettothesky: This song is quite unique. It has very ubiquitous lyrics and a fantastical, mystical sound. The singer almost mumbles the words at times, helping immerse you in the music, feeling almost as if you were in a mystical world. 3) Love by Yozoh: This song is charming and simple. With a primarily acoustic sound and a soft singer, it's both relaxing and fun to listen to! 4) Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad (Traditional) by Patricia Hammond:  This song is ...

This post was updated in April 2020 to better reflect the views of the gyaru community on the difference between substyles and microstyles, as well as mori gyaru's popularity within the gyaru community as opposed to the mori community. Welcome to the third post in the "Almost Mori" series! This time we will be taking a look at Mori Gyaru! Mori Gyaru is another popular spin-off style of mori kei, but this style is unique because it is not just a spin-off of one fashion style, but rather a combination of two well-known styles: mori kei and gyaru. There are still a few good posts on the internet for extra reference on the style, such as the post by On the Streets of Sydney here , and also one in Portuguese  here . There is also an actual blog run by a mori gyaru here  that you can visit as well! However, the blog is now inactive, although it still has some decent resources posted. Mori Gyaru is a somewhat more popular style than the last few styles we have look...