Yasu during early Janne da Arc days had hell of a stage presence
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Yanno, he was absolutely wild back in the day. Yasu was one HELL of a showman.
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Atsushi Sakurai was able to command a stage without resorting to a lot of theatrics. He just had a dark and brooding presence that swallowed the entire stage.
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After recent events I wanna add Ryoga from RAZOR here 
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Iām gonna say Kiyoharu even though heās slightly aged out of being VK.
He has a larger-than-life stage personality, and heās so dramatic and cool. And incredibly professional too. He regularly does like 3 to 4 hour lives where heās actually singing the whole time.
here's a long anecdote from when i went to one of his solo lives
Last year I attended a live that got pushed back 30 mins because Kiyoharu was apparently feeling unwell. It was the opening show for the (at the time) new livehouse Yokohama Reny, so understandably, it couldnāt be rescheduled.
Youād think heād show up, play 1.5 hours and leave, right? Nope! The man walked out, told everyone he had a raging headache and just took meds for it, then played for 3.5 to 5 hoursā¦
And he didnāt even sound sick at all until the MC, when he was like, āIām super sick rn, I wish I could go home, but you all want more of this, right? Sometimes itās really exhausting to be Kiyoharu, you know.ā
Then at around the 2 hour mark the main set ended. At that point I started feeling sick from heat exhaustion, so I hung out outside the hall.
He came back out for the encore after about 10-20 mins with a guitar. For about 10 mins he fiddled with it and it seemed like he was too sick to play. Like his voice was still as good as ever, but he looked really tired.
It was too hot in the hall for me (btw, this was all happening in a packed live house with the AC off in August) so I left the venue to go sit outside while my partner was still enjoying the show.
I thought the encore would be around 30 mins, but he went on to play for 2 HOURS. While sick! And my partner said after like 15 mins of messing around w/ the guitar he ended up playing completely normally. What a beast.
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Feel like im overdoing saying Kyo but he genuinely has a such a feel and intimidating presence on stage. Especially seeing him live, he just puts everything into his performances, genuinely one of the best metal frontman out there.
Aside from Kyo, Yoshiatsu genuinely knows how to get the crowd going and it shows, he put in such great effort at Anime Expo to get everyone singing.
Gackt also belongs as one of the best, fully dedicated to his craft with an amazing voice, hope i can see him live one day.
On top of the classical and already said answers like Kyo, Ruki, Sakurai and co.
Iād add Shou 
( but with Alice nine, earlier in their work. He was great ! ).
And also ! Ryoga ( BORN, RAZOR ) ! Love the guy and his voice or not, I think he go that flamming charisma and presence that attracts everyoneās attention.
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Lime 
Ok, I donāt think there is a best one, it must fit with the band and fans.
Makes me wonder thou, how often are the frontman the vocalists vs any other band member 
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Not very often. Honestly the only cases that come to mind are Yoshiki. But he is ā¦ you know him.
And maybe Manaā¦ after Gackt eraā¦
But both are still debatable. Of someone said they think the vocalist is still the frontmen, I wouldnāt fight them.
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Not keeping it exclusive to vkei bands atleast, Band-Maid, its pretty clear Miku(guitarist) is their frontman and Saiki sorta takes a backseat.
Vkei wise, itās pretty hard to find since the singer is the defactor frontman. But its not really a common situation barring lineup changes.
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Oh now that I think of it I agree. Itād apply to Yoshiki, Mana, Kisaki..
often happens when the leaders are not vocals, and rules the band like true dictators..
During Phantasmagoria era, itād be debatable to say Riku was the frontman, even to he had the visbility and the charisma for, but still Kisaki was pretty invasive.. and letās not talk about Lin.
Same for Mana but only in MDM, in no way iād ever consider Juka or Seth ( as much as i love them ) frontmen. In Malice Mizer at least, Gackt had an enormous aura and presence.
come to think of it, everytime there are two extravaggent " wanna-be-the-center-of-the-world " people in a band, it ends up badly lol ( Mana VS Gackt, Yoshiki VS ToshI )
That had nothing to do with them fighting for leadership. They are childhood friends and Toshi ended up in a cult 
I think Toshi isnāt even the typ who wants to be center of the stage.
It seems Sono (Matenrou Opera) hasnāt been mentioned.
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technically youāre right, i added him quickly at the end with the others because of the feud with Yoshiki but shouldnāt have as i never thought he had the diva disease ( and the actual story that you mentioned ) my baaad
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Sono has vocal staying power. He doesnāt exactly have stage charisma, as hes singing some really tough shit. Though he can be very playful.
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I would also recommend his fellow bandmen, itās almost silly how good they are with their instruments.
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