Harajuku Fashion “More Freakish Than Ever”
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 28, 2012 23:34 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cosplay, Fashion, Gothic Lolita, Image Gallery, Lolita, Makeup, Shibuya
Harajuku’s latest and most extreme fashion tribes have been causing a stir online after recently being featured on Japanese TV.
Online there is not much appreciation for these daring fashionistas:
“Monsters!”
“Go back to the countryside!”
“Be realistic. These are like 0.05% of the people there.”
“Well, you can get away with this in Tokyo. I’ve seen a few on the trains, nobody bats an eyelid.”
“You can often see them on the Yamanote line on the weekends, and in Harajuku of course. It’s cool for them to group up in Harajuku and they seem to have a good time, but I feel a bit sorry for them thinking about them going home to the countryside all alone on the train dressed like that.”
“They say in the subs ‘we’re like western influenced’ – somehow I think not.”
“More like Blade Runner influenced.”
“They are more Heian than western…”
“Go and show off in the countryside instead of bothering Tokyo with your weird looks!”
“One’s 21 – no old women please.”
“It’s not fashion but a costume parade!”
“More like Halloween. Saying these are western influenced is like saying a foreigner running around dressed as a ninja and waving a sword is ‘Japan-influenced.’”
“This is just an escape route for uglies.”
“I think if a pretty girl did this it could be quite alluring… but they are all ugly and it is just guro.”
“Goth loli evolved.”
“This is basically like yamamba, but from the other side.”
“When I saw ganguro I just knew somebody would try it from the white side.”
“Well, I think expressing your true character through total fashion like this is cooler than trying to do it by just dying your hair.”
“If this gets circulated overseas they will all just think Japanese are totally infatuated with whites.”
“I think they will be reminded more of kabuki girls…”
“It’s nice that the capital is so liberal.”
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They're just out having innocent fun with their friends, so I see no reason to make fun of them.
Besides, I'd much rather see a group of girls having fun in a weird catgirl outfit or frilly lolita doll dress than than the packs of girls dressed like everyday sluts that I see over here in the states.
You are exactly right. This isn't anything new either, so I don't know why SanCom is making such a fuss about it. This is just the usual Harajuku girls and their over the top fashions.
Well fuck you. I LIKE looking at sluts.
Because no one is getting hurt, it makes it more legitimate to make fun of the dumb fuckers. God, they look so stupid.
You have a a point, but you still are in no position to bash your own country's stereotypes.
what a fag...
Looks more like cosplay
@01:32
You must be a bitch.
Tolerance for stupidity only promotes its perpetuation, regardless of what part of the world or age demographic you're dealing with.
We all do something stupid or another. Hell, you're on a site right now that at least "tolerates" if not outright encourages lolicon behavior--that sounds much stupider than some girls who like to dress in unusual ways. Being able to tolerate things you may not agree with shows a lot more maturity than hating people you think are "stupid" just because they're different.
Still, this is far more over the top than I saw when I went to Harajuku. I suppose, just like otakus, they're going further and further from the mainstream with their styles. I don't really like how they look but as the top post said, better that they're wearing kinda funky unique outfits than slutting it up like so many girls here. I'm all for sexual freedom, but there's such a lack of care with partners, STDs, pregnancies and the like that I do wish a lot of those girls were a bit more selective.
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Depends on what one defines as "stupid"...
Catgirls are acceptable.
We reached a point where it's not a fashion anymore , but more like a mental disease ;P
Well #10 is nice!
At least, the one on the right is.
Great now we have Japanese Jugglo hoes.The Insain Clown Posse will be happy to hear about this.
Where's the guro tag?
I think it's pretty hot.
Can we even call this fashion?
It's a bunch of people trying to look as ridiculous as possible.
Funny, a lot of the professional fashion models on the runways tend to look way more ridiculous than this. I mean, they even have clothes based on trash for crying out loud!
The girl on the left side of pic 4 and 8 is pretty hot.
Anyway, I don't really understand why they (or you) are making fun of them, they are just different, there is nothing wrong with that.
Did Diamanda Hagan recently visit Japan? In that case, all these girls are now lesbians...
the girl on pic 4 reminds me of jolyne from jjba
Western influence... Lady Gaga?
No, this stuff was around far before that thing was spawned.
All the extreme fashion/self expressionists we have in the west would just be some small clique in Japan.
Eh, they're having fun.
Bukkake Fashion.
So this is the opposite of blackface then? Did that trend die out in Japan yet?
Reaction in pic #5 is the best.
I came colors,nngghh!
Huh. I'm sort of reminded of those clown chicks from Batman Beyond. They were pretty though.
GO TO DMC DMC DMC!!!
Fuck YEAH!!
DETROIT METAL CITY---THE ONLY ANIME OF THE LAST 10 YEARS SPORTING A WORTHY PAIR OF TITANIUM BALLS.
FUCKINGHAM PALACE WILL SODOMIZE HOUKUGO TEA TIME FOR ALL ETERNITY.
That sounds like an idea for a truly epic doujinshi.
id still hit it :/
Shironuri's been around for a long time thanks to bands like Guruguru Eigakan and SEX-ANDROID, I'm kind of surprised anyone is taking note of them now. Well, it's just a phase for teenagers and young 20 somethings who follow these bands, it doesn't last.
'It's nice that the capital is so liberal.'
Ans: NO WAY.
I wanna live in Japan >:(
These are basically just goths aren't they.
Americans and Latin girls have been doing this for years lol
Guys can you wait just a second?
I'm trying to find my shotgun...
Get me a spare one as well.
Zombie apocalypse started too soon...
Indeed their makeups look like they were made for the zombie extras for an extremely low budget zombie movie.
What? I think it's okay...not all of them can pull it of but most of them are cute.
Youkai
Very nice!
... for Halloween at least.
I could hit that... with a hammer!
I'd say a sledgehammer
Go Triple H on them bitches!