HYDEOLOGY: the study of the man behind the myth.

let me share my experience with this, every year our school has japanese student visitors come from another school in japan and interact with us. We get to talk to them and be friends with them as part of the program and being a big fan of L'arc and hyde my first questions/s to them is always, "Do you know l'arc~en~ciel?" or "Do you know Hyde?"(they understand english by the way).Their reactions are always like "Oh! Haido-san?!" or sometimes "Laruku?!" and then they answer "Yes!". Not one of our visitors told me that they didn't know L'arc or hyde. Also based from the questions that I've asked them Hyde and L'arc~en~ciel has been a household name in Japan when it comes to music and fashion. So i can say that hyde is pretty influential in his own right, not only because he was part of L'arc but also he has set a trend in the music and fashion industry.