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Rei Kuromiya
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Rei Kuromiya is a Japanese Idol who grew to stardom due to her awesome vocals and musical talent and also her modeling career.
She is one of the founders of the band ‘Ladybaby’ which is a Japanese ‘kawaii metal; a genre of music that mixes elements of heavy metals and J-pop and was first introduced in Japan about a decade ago. Rei left the band on the 17 th of November 2017.
She is also a member and vocalist for the band named ‘BRATS’; A Japanese girls’ band group formed by Rei Kuromiya and her sister Aya Kuromiya.
She is famous also for being the winner of the Miss iD competition.
Kei was born on the 29 th of November 2000 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She has been singing since her childhood. She become a vocalist at the early age of 10 while her sister, Aya was a bass player. In fact, the 21 year old started her entertainment career at a very young age.
She had started a career as a gravure model in her junior days. She had to be careful delving into such a career though because gravure modeling is quite controversial and Japan does not allow for any form of nudity. However, she flourished in the field showing off in mostly swimsuits.
Rei pursued a career in fashion and has appeared in a couple of fashion magazines. She is regarded as a fashion icon and one of the top young models from Japan.
Rei’s first photoshoot was at the age of 9 in 2009. This was when she began posing for brands and agencies that had picked interest in her. Over the years, she has modeled for brands such as ‘Clearstone’ and’ Pink House’.
She has notably distinguishing physical features which mostly contrast with her personality. However, she was the most popular model in her agency as she first started her career with a small brand and then moved up the ladder to join ‘Bambina Pro’.
Her features really set her apart from other models and quickly brought her fame.
She first started her music career with just her first name but later incorporated her full name after a while. she was the first part of a band where most of its members had no musical skill or training and so they spent a year learning how to play certain instruments and touring from house to house to show off their skills.
From the beginning of her career to date, she has released over 80 major works and the most notable was released in March 2016.
Rei joined the 80’s-themed independent design and music studio, ‘Trillion Starlights where she played the role of Rei Hoshino. She sang on tracks produced by the studio and even some kawaii tunes where she had to sound different from used to.
By 2016, she had released two CDs under the studio.
She was a child judge at the TV Tokyo’s comedy show titled ‘Piramekino’. This is obviously one of the many things Rei has a talent for and tried out as a child.
Apart from entering for and winning the ‘Miss iD’ modeling competition, Rei also entered for the season 6 edition of ‘Sakidol Ace Survival’. A competition put together by a magazine and after all the votes came in and were collated, she emerged third.
Apart from her musical background and even her gravure-modeling career, she has been featured in TV shows and movies as well. She isn’t mainstreamed to a particular style of entertainment but she tries to touch on everything possible and she does really well at them.
She started a crowdfunding project in September 2017 in order to raise money for her own fashion brand. Luckily, she had the support of other brands, chains of stores, and Village Vanguard. Her goal was to raise a million yen and within a few days, she reached her target and even surpassed it.
Rei loves dogs and eating Sushi. She also enjoys playing basketball and she considers it her hobby . It also goes without saying that she enjoys looking fashionably good and singing too.
After working on so many projects, performing for crowds at different events, and being all ‘loved-up’ with each other on social media, Rei Kuromiya and her friend and partner in the music business; Rei Kaneko had a fallout.
It was confirmed on a TV show in February 2018 after a lot of speculations that rose from the strange bodies and social media ‘language’.
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Note: If you want to get a handle on everything that happened with this story, why I added the point below, read the comments.
This is something that people need to take in.
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If you can’t Japanese, Viz Major provided a translation (with extra clarification in the comments) [Viz Major’s post was taken down; a translation appears in the comments]. This is important stuff.
The girl in the picture is Kuromiya Rei, mostly known for her work in Ladybaby but also of Miss iD and Brats fame. She shared this photo as a celebration of her 16th birthday. The image belies real emotional damage being worked out by a young woman who’s been an object of sexploitation since she started modeling at an age in the single digits. Her history has been covered here and extensively gone over all over the J-music world. It in no way should be considered an indictment of Rei, but of the adults who exploited and failed her.
There’s a lot of pain in her message, and the emotional and psychological damage are written plainly on her face, but she also shows hope and happiness with where she is now.
Editing to clarify: The updated translation paints a different picture of Rei’s current state; she is happy with where she is now, and doesn’t feel dead inside the way she did before. Her biggest issue is the mounds of haterade from people who want to hold her responsible for the choices made for her by her parents and agents when she was a child. Basically everybody that I just mentioned who isn’t named Rei should be thrown off a bridge.
Returning to original: Her story is working toward a much happier ending than I’m sure she sometimes feels.
That happier ending, as if this somewhat-buried lede weren’t fairly obvious, is a lot of forward movement in her musical career. The Idol Formerly Known as Ladybaby are releasing their first major single with King Records ( full MV here ), and her band, Brats ( Facebook fans! ), is on the move again, with the theme for Slaveman :
That’s only slightly weirder than Haruno Megumi’s thing ! But Brats is an interesting band; I’ve always preferred them to Ladybaby/The Idol Formerly Known As.
Note to like every other teen band; this is edgier than you, with none of the irony
Which does remind me to eventually get around to playing Idol or Not Idol, but I digress.
Rei’s situation isn’t unique in idol*; most of the girls who are used the way she’s been don’t have her prospects or level of support, either. It’s cautionary in the sense that what we see publicly may be masking deep trauma, and that the industry chews up and spits out young people at a shocking rate; while we can see situations like Sakura Yuki’s for what they are, the fact remains, for instance, that the Alice Project has had plenty of accusations hurled against it and is just one example.
For now, we can support Rei (and other girls like her). Acknowledge where she’s been, congratulate her on where she is and celebrate where she’s going. You don’t have to be all about the creative product itself to support the performer, but give the music a listen and buy it if you like it. Tell other people about it. Build support on top of your own.
*Seriously, a lot of the things that people try to pin on idol as some kind of singularly nefarious entity are prevalent across the arts all over the world. Talk to people who work in fashion about the treatment of teen models. Dancers. Actors. Athletes. Basically, creeps are attracted to places that put them in proximity to vulnerable young people who implicitly trust the adults in that circle, and they can and will take advantage. It’s tragic that I’m pointing out how prevalent this is, because it is that prevalent.
So for reasons that aren’t particularly clear, like the entire J-whatever Internet world seems to be required to do or say something about Ladybaby. Why be left out? Because death pop is undeniably a thing, and occasionally it’s a worthwhile thing, and Ladybaby is undeniably death pop, they’re profiled on…
I thought this would be a light week! Jeez Louise ... First, a short programming note: Have I ever mentioned the most important music blog in the history of music blogs? No, silly, not Homicidols.com, and not even any of our good friends with the links over there on the…
As you may recall, Ladybaby underwent something of a reboot lately, being rechristened as the Idol Formerly Known as Ladybaby and signing with major label King Records. Their first single (see the tweet) is due at the end of the month, and people have been anticipating some kind of pre-release…
Thank you for the great article and for putting it in simple terms.
Everyone out there just remember to give as much support as you can. Use that crappy Japanese translation that Google gives you. They will know the gist of what you are saying, Or just say it in English.
Just remember it can be the smallest thing said that can help the most. Anyone can be the one that makes a difference.
Rei Kuromiya is one of the most interesting idols in entertainment to me. I think one of the things that factor in to making her so interesting is this dark past that she has. It sort of goes along the lines of the controversy surrounding Brooke Shields and the photos of her modeling in a bathtub when she was a minor. I believe whenever someone has to battle personal demons it can really show in their character.
With Rei it is quite evident in her physical being. Her face can often be very expressionless and her eyes can tell a story. I have known girls in both the entertainment industry and the adult entertainment industry and also dated an exotic dancer and the pain & hurt within them were definitely expressed through their eyes. Rei also used to post on her Twitter very dark messages often times full of anger. Curse words and knife emojis were also rampant in her tweets. Then there were the photos of cuts on her arms which were quickly deleted.
Some would argue that it’s just her being a teenage girl who is going through that phase of hating the world or whatever, or that she is just playing in to the persona of the “bad girl”. I mean it could really be plausible but I mean if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck….
It’s really sad… she’ll end suiciding herself, and we all now it… even worse i can say that many of her fans are kind of waiting for it… she has been destroyed already, there is nothing we can do. I even remember there’s a picture where you can see her arms with many scars… i love her and i would like to help her, but she doesn’t want help, that photo made me realize that she just want to be happy as much as she can… and the idol life is enhancing her bipolarity, i really wish the best for her.
suiciding herself lol i meant killing herself… sorry it’s 3 am here.
I don’t think she will be doing anything to herself of such drastic measure. If anything the bias and negativity towards her has made her a much stronger person. She seems to be a very strong individual. In her post she is telling everybody this. That she can see past all the drama and the hate with all the rude comments toward her from people telling her that she is “kuso” (“shit” literally). I believe this post was her telling the world that she knows the deal about her past is public but she does not regret it or will not hide it from everyone because it in fact has made her a stronger person. It’s great to see she has many fans who care for her and have nothing but the best interest for her considering there were probably many guys who were just a fan of her based on the wrong intentions.
This is based on an incomplete and misleading translation of Rei’s words, used to twist Rei’s situation to the authors preferred world-view. This is the correct translation. Bracketed parts are from the translators
“Today was my birthday. I don’t like birthdays very much or to be congratulated by so many people. Nevertheless I was happy from the bottom of my heart. To be able to have another live event like this, with everyone’s happy words, expressions, feelings, dirty stuff (cheeky crude comments probably), I fucking loved it all.
I used to be in a genre called Junior Idol, I became like a robot and I was killing my emotions. I know that the general public are against it and the world cannot accept it.
But I don’t want my fans to be concerned about me for that reason, or say I am unpopular because of it. I don’t care about being compared to others, and I don’t think I’m cute anyway.
Still I do not regret my past and do not want to hide it, but it seems that everyone is arbitrarily concerned with the past of other people.
People who can’t properly live their own lives, they see a person weaker than themselves and think “that person is worse than me”, and it makes them feel better. For that kind of person, I am shit and useless. I live my life thinking, “Honestly I want to die, really die, absolutely going to die! Will die!”. It’s a secret you know, lol.
In this small world we call life, I’m like the shit that no-one can accept, the shit that no-one wants to accept. Nevertheless to the people who have accepted me, I fucking love each and every one of you. Add to that the recent major debut (King Records release) – it’s too amazing.
When I write this kind of thing, there is an “idol feeling”, a sense of cleanliness. I hate that so I don’t write very often. But my emotions were on the verge of an explosion so I wrote this.
To be honest, although I don’t want to be forgotten I am worried that I surely will be forgotten and it’s scary. To be forgotten is the same as dying.
Anyway, I’m 16 now and more than ever, the number of people who are thinking about me and getting involved is increasing, so I’m happy. So to repay you all (for your support) I will live as best as I can. Thank you.”
Original on instagram, user: suicide_u
Translation checked by a Japanese person who has fluent English (a Ladybeard fan). We both have known Rei for a long time (we both were at her birthday) so we know all the context.
Notes:
“I was killing my emotions” is clearly stated as something that occurred and finished in the past. She is *not* saying her emotions are dead now.
The part about thinking “…I want to die…” appears to be sarcastic. Because of the exaggerated 死にたい→しにて～～ and the lol(笑) at the end. Rei has lots of haters who regularly write messages saying she should die because of her junior idol work. It is the hate she has to put with that has lead to her depressive attitude. She appears to be mocking the haters by confirming she thinks she should die.
The part about “idol feeling”: Rei does not like to conform to the behaviour of an idol, she despises the happy pure fakeness of all that. Rei is saying she doesn’t like to write this kind of message because she might appear like an idol. I suspect it is the gushing thank-yous she doesn’t like as much as anything, lol. If you ever wonder why Rei doesn’t write so much on twitter / instagram, this is the reason.
Doing Rei a Disservice:
The pain that Rei has to put up with is not some repressed trauma from her junior idol days. Whatever our opinion about it she has repeatedly said she does not regret that work. She tells us not to concern ourselves about it. She is still with the same management team and they support her with all her current work (BRATS, Ladybaby etc).
Rei’s pain is the hate she gets from people who despise her because she did junior work. She has talked and written about this before. Putting Rei in some default “abused-child” box and twisting her words to confirm baseless presumptions and make some cheap copy does not help Rei with her real pro
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