A pigtailed heavy-metal singer and his cute sidekicks are a J-pop sensation

 By 
Jenni Ryall
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All your nightmares -- or fantasies -- have come at once.

Introducing Ladybeard, the Australian man taking J-pop by storm, otherwise known as Richard Magarey. From humble beginnings in China, where Ladybeard was just a pigtailed, cross-dressing, heavy-metal singing wrestler to internet super stardom, Magarey is dominating the Japanese musical genre.

Magarey and two Japanese girls, Rie Kaneko​ and Rei Kuromiya,​ have formed the pop-metal band, Ladybaby, and have climbed to 3 million YouTube views in just a few weeks with their debut single, Nippon Manju.

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