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British teens copy Japanese gyaru fashion

BBC radio reports that young people in Britain are copying Japan’s hideous gyaru style:

manba

Young people in the UK have been learning about the intricacies of ‘manba’ by making friends on the other side of the world using social networking sites and learning how to re-create the style through videos on YouTube.

Listen to the report and watch videos of the girls dancing here.

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46 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 1, 2009 at 9:45 am

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: gyaru, manba

http://www.joesblog.jp Joe

Stupid, stupid people.
ah

Haha, well done on the file name for the story photo James!
Scott

Remember that it’s not just “hideous”, it’s “intentionally hideous”.

Rebellious clothing and fashions are always popular with a small part of every population.
Dchama

That’s more of the “Ganguro” or Yamanbe style. I LOVE Gyaru! The egg cover model type though.
Montsan

Oh dear god why?

I mean, I’m all for people dressing how they like, it just boggles my mind how something like this has lasted as long as it has.
http://www.chirimotsumoreba.net Jordan

Hideous.
Rated-R

Uhhhh… are those brittish MEN? wtf… fucking clowns.
Jessi

Aren’t they, like… 10 years late?
http://www.drazenj.com Draz

Not all subsections of gyaru are hideous my gf is into hime gyrau which looks overly cute ^^ *ok she doesnt do the gloves and hairdye but sticks to the cute clothing*
http://blog.livedoor.jp/auberginefleur/ auberginefleur

Isn’t that special!
Mark

gyaru sucks, Emo rocks

sdasdasda

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, funniest comment ever cos emo sucks so much balls, even more than this.

Mark

lol – so wrong, nothing is worse than yamanba – even hippies look better

schwelty

Both “scenes” are a cry for help. Neither is better, both are equally horrible.
Mark

a cry for help? thanks for that one, lolz
jonny

Hey atleast the hippies had some form of point to them Yes they smelled, and they were a bunch of layabouts, but they had a message, they had morals and if anything they gave us some good tunes. THIS is just a ridiculous fashion trend, a garish waste of makeup on some snotty teenagers who think they are cool. Total tools, same goes for emo’s too, don’t get started on those vain, overly theatrical spoiled little shits. None of these groups have any backbone, they’ll be forgotten in 2 or 3 years time. Shit that lame wears off by the time your 20, and if your still into emo shit by then, then god save your soul you sad waste of space.

Sen

Emo rocks? nice one

Jack the Tripper

…oof!
hawken king

it’s “yamanba” – meaning mountain witch.
http://www.euniqueflair.com/ euniqueflair

are they men? they look like one.
KudouUsagi

The part I find more creepy then people outside of Japan doing it is that one of those is a GUY…. even in Japan I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a guy dressing like that.

me

You haven’t? Visit Shinjuku nichoume on a Saturday night

Paul M Doherty

I’ve seen these kids in London’s Japan Centre (big, central J food/book store) before and I’m in awe.

They’ve obviously studied the (albeit defunct) sub-culture thoroughly and get everything right, right down to the Disney towelling.

It’s quite disheartening and somewhat surprising that there are negative comments here, on a site focused on Japanese culture. This is an incredible example of reverse maneru , and presumably the majority of visitors to this site have an interest in Japanese culture. Can it really be fair to criticise these kids while listening to your Gackt MP3s, building your Gundam doll or jerking off to your hentai?

Also, so what if it’s “10 years too late”? I still see enough kids in Nirvana T-Shirts or dressing like it’s 1954. Perhaps they’re simply spearheading an international revival.

Miss_igirisu

“Can it really be fair to criticise these kids while listening to your Gackt MP3s, building your Gundam doll or jerking off to your hentai?”

My hat goes off to you, sir.

jonny

Actually i came here for a laugh, whilst listening to Oasis.

http://theinconvenienttruthonwhaling.blogspot.com/ kujirakira

Can it really be fair to criticise these kids while listening to your Gackt MP3s, building your Gundam doll or jerking off to your hentai?

I find those people exist predominantly in Japanese Language courses while getting their Liberal Arts degrees and few of them ever make it to Japan.
God I hated having every group project involving Japanese language being subverted by “witty” references to Gackt, Inuyasha, or some other junk manufactured anime.

And of those few who do make it… they probably just end up disillusioned listening to more emo and either leave, cut themselves, or join the angry debito fanclub.

Buster

On the one hand it looks ugly, on the other hand we are talking about English women…, so it shouldn’t matter all that much.

SCNR

http://www.joesblog.jp Joe

hey hey hey, there are plenty of fit english women.

me

No.

Just no.

humantrick

I intended to watch the video on the bbc, but I simply couldn’t…
http://www.ldnneko.com Ricardo Gallardo

Oh yes, I remember seeing this in the London Underground some time back, thought it was just a cosplay for a convention or something.
Had no idea it was an actual lifestyle choice catching on here >.>
http://colininjapan.com Colin

They look like dear!

…blonde dear!…
helical

If I shot one, would that count as self-defense for assaulting my eyes and sanity?
Eddie

It’s probably no more than 10 people doing it.

It’s kinda ironic, seems as London is the World’s most fashionable city.
Sandy

It’s not exactly becoming a national phenomenon. I’m from Britain and haven’t seen any of it.
namika

oh i think these guys are soo cool! Near the japan center in London there is a print club on the second floor of the China Town mall and they have been there (the owner put their photo on the wall- they don’t always look like that as the owner has shown us photos of them in normal clothes)my friend and i are fascinated by the effort they put in, plus we love telling other customers that they are boys hahah.

Plus even though they might be behind the times japan styles wize, you should give these guys a break, its amazing to see how trends and styles can transgress cultural borders, plus what makes them any different looking from the chavey overly faked tanned bimbo fake ‘wag’ girls? At least they look like they are having fun

Eilish

im a girl!
there were two guys, but now only one guy, and me, a girl! lol~
i look so rank in that BBC video, plus i had been drinking the night before, explaining the manly voice haha

http://i38.tinypic.com/2rhqzo0.jpg manba

http://i38.tinypic.com/iqhl05.jpg normal

up to you

http://ryobase.com RyoBase

*face palm* this is wrong. It is just wrong.
http://www.orienthq.com hmm

Very unappealing…
Corporal Filth

It looks like shit in Japan. It looks like shit in Britain.

W’ll be avin peeps drivin carz wit lauhd mufflaz, lohwad seets n inglish writin on da windos nekst.

bo!
Ummn

WHY?!?!?!?! Didn’t this trend end like 2 years ago?! ITS A DEAD TREND! Keep up with the times ppl! Its all about GALS now
http://myspace.com/me_luvs_chaos Damaris

Well these are obviously dummies who really don’t keep up to date with actual gyaru fashion. These days gyaru still wear pounds of makeup but they are also into actually tanning and not just painting black all over the face. If you wanna see how thety look today just look at Ayumi Hamasaki, Sifow, Koda Kumi, Namie Amuro and more… They may not blend in with society but they sure don’t make fools of themselves like they use to.

jonny

There only doing it for attention, and they love getting it. There are talented, good minded, special people out there who could contribute a lot to society, but instead attention in this day and age is more intereted in losers who wear too much make up.

anon

Doing it for attention? have you heard about having a identity? It’s normal when you are young(sorry grandpa).

What do you mean by contributing to society? Posting a bitter comment accusing people of wanting your precisous attention while you are the one doing it only for our attention?

Get a life.
- no, i’m not on these creepy fashion(opinion).
- look at the date, this is a dead thread. You can’t have that much attention.
- people do not need to pass the time “contributing to your society”, aka: producing to improve your life, your highness.

PS: Sorry for the english. I’m not native speaker.

jorja gore

this isnt gyaru this is ganguro the two iften get confused however gyaru is a much prettier style and more subtle based of a doll eyed look and long blonde hair a model who makes this look verry popular is tsubassa massuwakka, ganguro is dark faces with white eyes lips and nose stripe
jorja gore

this isnt gyaru this is ganguro the two iften get confused however gyaru is a much prettier style and more subtle based of a doll eyed look and long blonde hair a model who makes this look verry popular is tsubassa massuwakka, ganguro is dark faces with white eyes lips and nose stripe

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