Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno: Tokyo Teen Fashion Subculture Handbook by Evers Izumi & Macias Patrick

Author:Evers, Izumi & Macias, Patrick [Evers, Izumi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2010-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

(Top) 2006’s most famous Manba, Pinky, dances Para Para for a Japanese TV news show in Harajuku.

(Bottom) Kyoko Nakayama (middle) of the Gal Coordinator company promotes her business using Para Para.

Images from a typical Manba double date in Shibuya. The boys and girls adjust their hair using mirrors in a karaoke room (left) and later kill time in Tsutaya video rental shop (right).

By 2003 the guys who hovered around the clubs, feeling left out, began to imitate the Manba style (lipsticked, tanned, multicolored hair extensions, decals on their faces, accessorized within an inch of their lives) and earned the label Center Guy (a play on the Japanese name for Shibuya’s Center Street—Center Gai).

One such Center Guy confessed to the Japan Times in 2004, “Life for men is a real drag. We don’t get to put on makeup or dress up fancy. If I could be born again, I’d want to be a girl, and work in a dress shop.

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