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Transvestite Swedish Boy is a niche Japanese guitar god

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IF this singer was a contestant on The Voice, there's a good chance you'd see Seal, Delta and company fall off their chairs when they turned around.
With this artist, what you see and what you hear are two totally different things - and it's all part of his appeal.

Meet Yohio, a 16-year-old Swedish boy who dresses like a doll, sounds like a man, speaks perfect Japanese, English and Swedish, and shreds guitar like nobody's business.

Despite his European heritage, he's developed a cult following in Japan and is lauded by teenage girls because of his "feminine beauty".

Describing himself as a "bishonen" - a Japanese word meaning "beautiful youth (boy)", Yohio prides himself on his doll-like features.

According to his blog on Japanese social networking site AMEBA, the Swedish teen became interested in Japanese culture when he was introduced to Anime at the age of ten.

He then developed an interest in learning the language, and started reading Japanese blogs and following Japanese celebrities on Twitter.

After starting a Swedish Visual Kei band called Seremedy he was signed to Universal Music Japan and quickly developed a cult following because of his beauty.

Yohio released his "Solo Debut Mini Album", Reach the Sky, on April 25 this year.

His debut single

He shreds. I liked the song.
 
I'm waiting for the twist in which he's actually also a robot sent in by a Japanese robotics manufacture to infiltrate Sweden.
 
Music ain't bad for sure.

Is he a travestite or just ultra visuaru? Don't know where to draw the line.
 
I really would like to know about his childhood. Like seriously, what sort of circumstances would lead a 16-year-old boy to be like this?

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just very interesting.
 
I really would like to know about his childhood. Like seriously, what sort of circumstances would lead a 16-year-old boy to be like this?

Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just very interesting.

Anime can be very influential to the development of a supple young boy, both mentally and physically.
 
caucasian teen wants to be japanese, I mean it's not THAT big a story



it's the "and is pulling it off" part that makes it a story.

Like that magibon chick with the fucked up grill who gets 10 billion views for each vid on youtube just for looking at a camera and not opening her mouth.
 
Yeah; he is a guy that dresses like a girl but identifies himself as a guy. That's the entire gimmick of certain part of the visual-kei movement.
 
Isn't cross-dresser synonymous with transvestite? It doesn't claim he's transgender or transsexual.

Alyssonwheel put it well in the transgaf thread:

Transvestite: guy who wears women's clothes for comfort or pleasure. Not bothered about passing, will do stuff like wear stockings under their work clothes.

Crossdresser: guy who wears women's clothes for comfort or pleasure, or because they just fit their personality better. May or may not want to pass but definitely wants to appear attractively feminine and will put a lot of effort into doing so. These people are fucking hot.

Drag queen: guy who wears women's clothes for performance. These people are also often hot but usually gay so not interested in me :p

I'm none of the above so yell at me if I got it wrong or mixed up :)

Feel free to disagree but I thought it was pretty succinct.

But more on topic, it seems like a stage type thing for this guy, so I would call him a cross-dresser.
 
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