The style is pretty much alive and well both in Japan and overseas, but Menhera=/=Yamikawa nor the other way around as it's just an aesthetic that encompasses any dark edgy style regardless of mental health themes (becomes obvious looking it up in Japanese anyways).

When being properly informed about the subculture it's far from dead and it's still one of the most thriving subcultures here in Japan, it is best to follow brands and artists involved in it for inspiration as opposed to hoping to find relevant content in the hashtags due to the sheer amount of tag spam (we still have useful links on our blog).

baby in the fashion here- can anyone tell me why it’s nearly impossible to find actual menhera coords anywhere?? im someone who is into decora already and wants to look into menhera as a more lowkey fashion to wear when literally going to the hospital as i do often nowadays. but when looking for inspiration or community i have to dig and dig to find any photos of actual clothing and the majority of what i actually do find is not comfortable easy to wear things like what i’ve been told this fashion is. have i been misinformed? are there tags im missing? or is it really just a desert out here for folks into menhera?

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RIP REITA of the GazettE

A great Japanese musician and legendary Harajuku style icon has passed away. There was no band more popular with Harajuku visual kei fans of the 2005-2010 era. The famous Jingubashi bridge was full of REITA/GazettE cosplayers every weekend back then. RIP 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Official Announcement From The Band

Reminder we still have a Discord (we really should update the graphics at some point).

How to do masculine Menhera makeup?

Still had this sitting in our inbox from ages ago, and today we finally came up with an answer: Just do it like Gerard Way did in his younger years and smudge red liner (really) under your eyes.

Boom, done.

And the last batch of Menhera wallpapers for today, these particular ones should also work well as blog background.

More Menhera wallpapers for your enjoyment.

As the Menhera tag keeps being invaded by people spamming it with irrelevant content, here some wallpapers.

Afterword

We felt that it would be a good idea to leave a memo here for those who have missed out on the closure of this blog. Back when we started this blog in 2015, we knew that someday it would be over, but we did not expect it to be over rampant harassment by certain groups of people. We actually wanted to delete this blog as whole just to be done with it, but our second admin has been missing and unreachable ever since, therefore it has to stay online.

The lesson of the whole ordeal was that interacting with the overseas community is not worth it. Over the years, we had to keep dealing with hateful and just flat out racist messages because apparently you need to be a walking-talking stereotypes of what overseas perceives as "real japanese people" in order to have your information taken as "legit". It has been a very hurtful experience, and we can see now why most locals avoid interacting outside of the jp online sphere. The moment you are somewhat decent in the english language, they will deny you of your background because those dumb japanese could never possibly write in anything but gibberish - at least that's how it sounds. Even stranger was those who claimed to be "real japanese", while constantly writting during peak US timezone hours, as part of the harassment. As a "fellow local", you are aware that a meetup would be an option to quickly settle this? Our head admin works for the media company stationed in the Shinjuku Ark House, it's not hard to make an appointment!

Having said that, our gratitude and thanks go out to those who have followed us and were by our side for those many years. This blog will remain inactive with our inbox still open for those who still need anything.

Goodbye.

Major shoutout to everyone who puts out warnings whenever people decide to incite harassment.

Menhera Checklist

As the term was originally born as a label for people who want to exchange about mental health in order to get better, it is important to not clog the tag with unrelated content as it doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation.

Below, contents that suit the tag:

informative articles on mental health

sharing experiences and coping strategies

cute vent art or edits, we call the later 病み加工 in jp

self-care motivationals

fashion with the two above points on it

anything else mental health awareness related, really

Reminder: Just because you consider yourself Menhera, it doesn’t magically make everything you do Menhera-related. You also wouldn’t put a random selfie of your face into the tags of other movements, no? It doesn’t look any different to outsiders invading safespaces by abusing them in a throwaway manner.

If you have any complains regarding this checklist, we will redirect you to 2Channel’s “Menheru Board” which gave birth to the whole thing as it’s their definition on what to post.

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