Ganguro

Oddly Enough this morning I was looking around to see if I could find out when or even if there was going to be a fourth season of Japanorama.  I liked that show. It's probably a good thing that the Ganguro scene girls are gone they just didn't look all that good and often times just messed up.  

(ID #17132) Posted on 2007/12/25 23:56

reply to gregory_gdp's comment

"I look like a panda" as one of the girls stated explains this whole thing to me

(ID #17249) Posted on 2007/12/26 09:28

reply to Chris-クリス's comment

Loved Japanorama, good show, hoping for a fourth season too.

And I also love ganguro, and it was unfortunate I didn't see any when I was in Tokyo ;(

(ID #17463) Posted on 2007/12/27 16:57

reply to Hatix's comment

3d ganguro girls suck ^^;
btw i couldnt turn my sound on at the moment so i couldnt hear anything in the movie maybe thats why i dont like it just by looks

(ID #17133) Posted on 2007/12/26 00:00

reply to メタルおたくmetalotaku's comment

You see Parents love stuff like this.  Let those crazy kids go wild - take pictures and then when they're older you use the photos for extortion.

Don't want to help at the family reunion?  Remember those ganguro pics?  Hahahah!

(ID #17155) Posted on 2007/12/26 00:53

reply to jimmykitty's comment

LOL! That's wonderfully twisted. 

(ID #292216) Posted on 2008/09/06 00:56

reply to Poofiemus's comment

hate ganguros, i prefer the girl next door type.

(ID #17159) Posted on 2007/12/26 01:09

reply to Setsuna-san's comment

sorry but Ganguros look like bad female clowns if you ask me

(ID #17171) Posted on 2007/12/26 01:51

reply to Setherzam's comment

Agreed.

(ID #17297) Posted on 2007/12/26 22:12

reply to Tempest's comment

Me too..

(ID #17633) Posted on 2007/12/28 11:33

reply to Sakari's comment

Some fads come and go. You look at them and think "what sillyness." Some make you stare and smoe are just for fashion. Then there are fads like these that just make me want to stab myself so Ill never have to look at them again.  think this is probably the first thing I have ever seen that I don't like about Japan. 

(ID #17185) Posted on 2007/12/26 02:54

reply to MACdaddy's comment

we chineses call them the 109辣妹 aka 109 girls. if memory serves, 109 refers to the shopping mall in Shibuya. ('~')

(ID #17192) Posted on 2007/12/26 03:41

reply to gordon's comment

Strange fashion..

(ID #17196) Posted on 2007/12/26 03:54

reply to Benjamin Takeyo's comment

papua new guinea ritual make up?

christ, that look like a cannibal make up ,damn.

(ID #17287) Posted on 2007/12/26 17:12

reply to hendrik's comment

They look like the peroxide-haired, super tanned girls around here. When they get old they will look like they were rode hard and put away wet.

(ID #17216) Posted on 2007/12/26 06:10

reply to DRAGUN's comment

Wasn't this done because of the tanned, blond women here in the US? They wanted to look as western as they could? 

(ID #17222) Posted on 2007/12/26 06:27

reply to Glasseyelashes's comment

I thought it was because they liked the "black" americans look. Kinda like the hiphop teenager style. I remember reading somewhere that the people who do this [and the dudes] are trying to well, "be black." I wonder though what the real answer is...

Maybe there are many reasons they do it. Some for this, some for that.

I grew up as a skater, stoner, preppie, jock and a noone finally before I dropped out. So yes I had issues, but people from all of those groups always seemed to try and "fit into" that group for different reasons... 

(ID #17227) Posted on 2007/12/26 06:50

reply to MACdaddy's comment

When I first heard about these girls a long time ago, I thought it was a shame to ruin ones appearance like that just for a trend.

On the bright side, if I ever decide to play pirate someday I'll know where to find one of these girls to be my 'leathery wench'. Yo ho ho... arggggh.

(ID #17225) Posted on 2007/12/26 06:42

reply to FatBastard's comment

Some of the Ganguro girls look like Kabuki, but with blonde hair instead of red one and dark skin instead of white plus weird clothes.
Looks more like a failed suntan session than anything else to me... and it would not be good for camouflage anyway. ^^;

This kind of girls surely would make me run for the hills rather than appeal me, but hey, freedom of expression and choice (And yes, I'm quite picky and simplistic at the same time).

(ID #17232) Posted on 2007/12/26 07:49

reply to D_Blade's comment

It does seem that the negative reaction to Ganguro is universal... there is a good book about this sort of thing - it seems strange to be promoting a paper (!) book (!) on a blog site but it's Patrick Macias' "Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno". Get it from Amazon, it's bloody excellent. 

(ID #17243) Posted on 2007/12/26 08:38

reply to junq man's comment

"Dont see many now but there was a time when the streets of Shibuya were full of Ganguro girls."

Umm...that's definitely a good thing ^_^u

I don't get the motive behind this look at all.

(ID #17251) Posted on 2007/12/26 10:21

reply to Guarayakha's comment

Haha! Didn't expect to see Wossy on dannychoo XD!

(ID #17267) Posted on 2007/12/26 11:57

reply to Louis's comment

LOL the new "Black" ROnald McDonald I'd rather not hit it Bla bla bla bla... No offense

(ID #17275) Posted on 2007/12/26 14:07

reply to lostandfound's comment

Guess black was the new white back then...

(ID #17278) Posted on 2007/12/26 14:57

reply to Makanator's comment

I hope that ganguro will not be that popular anymore. I just don't imagine standing next to a ganguro on the street

(ID #17279) Posted on 2007/12/26 15:07

reply to Katsuyoshi's comment

Maybe they've migrated out of Japan... A few weeks ago I was stunned, on consecutive days, to come across two different groups of gyaru in Perth, Australia. They weren't fully ganguro, but the slightly lighter variety.

While you see and hear ordinary japanese around and about town a lot, this was the first time I'd come across gyaru/genguro outside Japan.

(ID #17281) Posted on 2007/12/26 15:21

reply to Miki-kun's comment

I find ganguro fashion to be alien

(ID #17360) Posted on 2007/12/27 03:47

reply to onehp's comment

ganguro gyaru kogals whatever seem to me like the polar opposite of a goth/emo chick. both equally sadden me.  however if the prospect of a legal and consensual sexual encounter is the result of taking one of these things out for a spin i'll bring the paint thinner

(ID #17381) Posted on 2007/12/27 06:42

reply to necrophadian's comment

They want to go casting for scary movie  or apply job to working in haunted house. what are Ganguro thinking to make up like that ?

(ID #17411) Posted on 2007/12/27 09:01

reply to Fummofu's comment