Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Bishōnen" in English language version.
...popular music stars such as Gackt and Hyde, will trace their beautification efforts to a domestically - produced aesthetic. The recent appearance of living specimens of the bishounen...
Laura Miller refers to Gackt, a widely recognizable Visual Kei performer (and former vocalist of Malice Mizer), for example, as a "living … specimen of bishōnen,"45 relating his "baroque, androgynous indeterminacy"46 too to The Rose of Versailles.47
宗之瀟灑美少年 [He has Very High color and Beautiful boy.]
Western readers may perceive bishounen ambiguity as effeminate, but that is a misreading. Bishounen as perceived by the Japanese audience are neither effeminate nor ambiguous; rather, they are seen as "something like angels, wholly male and female." Thus the character is sexually liberated, or is it the Japanese reader who is freed from their own traditional social restraints?
