Ganguro

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

If you sprayed that thing with water, you'd find out that there is no longer a girl under all the makeup and trinkets.

How the Ganguro culture decides supremacy among themselves.

OH LAWD, IS DAT SOME BLACKABOO?

A now traditional fashion trend in Japan where the less up-to-date Azn girls (and a few faggy pimps) try to tan themselves as dark as they can to look more like spear chuckers, bleach and dye their hair to something vaguely resembling blonde, and wear bright makeup and flashy clothing that causes the viewer to have seizures. It's not cool and most of the apparently normal women think ganguro girls are whorish freaks, although their style bears a resemblance to that of women in Florida. Like punk, the style has become increasingly bizarre with diminishing novelty. :(

Aside from wealthy US seafront retirees, other inspirations were the images of women in crap R&B bands like Destiny's Children, and the Black and White Minstrels. Talk about mixed messages.

According to Something Awful's Dr. Thorpe:

They're sort of like the opposite of goths. Dark makeup [burnt over-tanned skin], white circles around the eyes, bleached hair, bright clothes. And somehow they're much, much scarier. Goths could learn a thing or two about true evil from these cats. In order to taste true darkness, you must trade in Bauhaus for The Vengaboys.

The ganguro subculture is widely believed to be matriarchial due to the aggressive nature and characteristic insanity of its females, who often rely on cannibalism for survival.

[edit] Origin

The name "ganguro" is derived from the Japanese gan, cancer, and guro, kuro, black.

Kuro is also the Japanese pronunciation of the Italian and Spanish word culo, which is asshole in English.

[edit] Sources

1. Something Awful article.
2. Gayness galore.
3. More galore.
4. Ganguro Girl flash game.