Re: Play Ganguro Girl Full Version
Agathe Thies
Nice idea in fact ive been working on a guide for ages for all you pervs out there so if you want the info jsut lemme know ive onl.y perfected one of the guide as it has to be perfect so we dont see any more pervy ganguro questions...
ya, why do they? the whole point is to f*ck the girl, but i can't believe that guys hav enough
patience to work for sooo long to get it! why not just download some porn? i mean, if you're playin it for the fun of the game, thats fine, but personally i find it quite boring....but then again, i'm a girl, so maybe i just don't see its charm.....
ok heres a hint 4 the game even tho i have the full version and beat it already since it came wit cheats. BUT NEWAYZ when it asks 4 a name press backspace as far as it will go then type 20 . it gives u bout 400 hp and $999999 and ALOT of items and presents. jus dun go 2 sleep or it wil take ur hp back 2 100
The Shibuya and Ikebukuro districts of Tokyo were the centres of ganguro fashion; it was started by rebellious youth who contradicted the traditional Japanese concept of beauty; pale skin, dark hair and neutral makeup tones. Ganguro instead tanned their skin, bleached their hair and used colourful makeup in unusual ways.[1]
Ganguro has a connection to Japanese folklore of ghosts and demons who are depicted with a similar appearance, such as those in kabuki and noh costumes. This connection is further underlined by the off-shoot style yamanba, named after a mountain witch in Japanese folklore.[2]
The ganguro trend started in the mid-1990s and reached its peak by the latter half of the decade; it purportedly became almost obsolete by 2000 when a bihaku (light skin) craze emerged among young women who wanted to imitate the look of their favourite popular singers,[3] specifically Ayumi Hamasaki,[4] who debuted at the time. The ganguro trend faded out afterwards, although its influence can be observed in yamanba style.[5]
Ganguro appeared as a new fashion style in Japan in the mid-1990s and was prevalent mostly among young women. In ganguro fashion, a deep tan is combined with hair dyed in shades of red to blonde, or a silver grey known as "high bleached". Black ink is used as eyeliner and white concealer is used as lipstick and eyeshadow. False eyelashes, plastic facial gems, and pearl powder are often added to this. Platform shoes and brightly coloured outfits complete the ganguro look. Also typical of ganguro fashion are tie-dyed sarongs, miniskirts, stickers on the face, and many bracelets, rings, and necklaces.[6]
Ganguro falls into the larger subculture of gyaru (ギャル, from English "gal"), a slang term used for various groups of young women, usually referring to overly childish women. Researchers in the field of Japanese studies believe that ganguro is a form of revenge against traditional Japanese society due to resentment of neglect, isolation, and constraint of Japanese society. This is their attempt at individuality, self-expression, and freedom, in open defiance of school standards and regulations.[citation needed]
One of the most famous early ganguro girls was known as Buriteri, nicknamed after the black soy sauce used to flavor yellowtail fish in teriyaki cooking. Egg made her a star by frequently featuring her in its pages during the height of the ganguro craze. After modeling and advertising for the Shibuya tanning salon "Blacky", social pressure and negative press convinced Buriteri to retire from the ganguro lifestyle.[7]
Yamanba (ヤマンバ), also sometimes shortened to just manba (マンバ),[8][2] is a more extreme style that evolved from ganguro. Old school yamanba featured deep tans and white lipstick, pastel eye makeup, tiny metallic or glittery adhesives below the eyes, brightly colored circle lenses, vibrant clothing, and incongruous accessories, such as Hawaiian leis. While yamanba faded in popularity it also started to become more extreme, with multicolored and usually synthetic hair. Manba in 2008 saw a darker tan, and no facial stickers. Hair was usually neon/bright colors, with pink being a favorite. Wool-emulating dreadlocks, extensions, and clips were worn to make the hair appear longer. Clothing remained the same, although leis were worn less frequently.[2]
The male equivalent is called a Sentaa Guy (センターガイ),[9] a pun on the name of a popular pedestrian shopping street near Shibuya Station in Tokyo called Center Gai (センター街, Sentā-gai).
The Geisha girl with ebony black hair, pale white face and bright red lips has been a part of Japaneese culture earlier than the 18th century. They played the role of female entertainers for the high society.
When I sat down to write today's column, I resolved to focus on one of the greatest controversies within the Pokmon fan community. This is a matter that has ignited countless flame wars and furious exchanges. Any mention of the subject is liable to trigger argument and strife.
Pokmon, like any large franchise, has attracted its share of controversies. Some have been based largely in fact, like the seizures triggered by rapid flashes in an early episode of the anime. Some are based on opinion, like the argument that the games promote animal cruelty. And then there are the more... fringe objections to the series, consisting mostly of claims that Pokmon promotes Satanism, or Zionism, or Communism (I made that last one up, but I'm quite sure that there's a website somewhere putting forward that case). One of the biggest scandals of the series' history involves the design of Jynx, the Humanshape Pokmon.
In 2000, the US cultural critic Carole Boston Weatherford published an article entitled Politically Incorrect Pokmon, in which she argued that: "The character Jynx, Pokmon #124, has decidedly human features: jet-black skin, huge pink lips, gaping eyes, a straight blonde mane and a full figure, complete with cleavage and wiggly hips. Put another way, Jynx resembles an overweight drag queen incarnation of Little Black Sambo, a racist stereotype from a children's book long ago purged from libraries." This wouldn't have been the first time that a blackface-style character had shown up in a Japanese series: Dragon Ball's Mr. Popo was another example cited by Weatherford. This article had significant repercussions within the Pokmon franchise, not least of which was the alteration of Jynx's skin to purple instead of black.
So, is Jynx based on a racist stereotype? If not, what else has contributed to her design? There's no short answer to either of those questions, because Jynx most likely has no single specific origin. There are many things that may have contributed to her design to various degrees, and I'll be taking a look at each of them in turn.
Let's start with blackface, then, since it's already been mentioned. 'Blacking up' for theatrical purposes goes back hundreds of years, and was an established practice in Shakespeare's day. Blackface, however, is arguably more than a white person simply putting on make-up to adopt the role of a black person. It carries with it a whole slew of vaudevillian traditions that date back to the 1830s, and were popularised by a white actor named Thomas D. Rice.
Rice picked up a popular African-American dance routine about a wily escaped slave called Jim Crow. Blacking up his face with burnt cork, Rice adopted exaggerated 'black' mannerisms, perfected the routine and quickly became a star. Within a few years, he was known internationally, and his performance became the template for the blackface minstrel act.
The success of the act also led to a very particular visual shorthand for representing black people. Often referred to as the "darky" icon, featuring black skin, pop-eyes and prominent white, pink or red lips, this seems to have been directly inspired by blackface make-up. Many early cartoons from the likes of Disney and Warner Brothers readily incorporated this imagery into their output, which has since resulted in rather conspicuous gaps in their modern-day re-releases.
It wasn't until the Civil Rights era that blackface minstrel shows began to fall from favor in the US. In the UK, which didn't have a sizable black population until the post-war era, blackface minstrel shows clung on even longer. It wasn't uncommon for comedians to black up as late as the seventies, and the BBC broadcast The Black and White Minstrel Show for twenty years, finally ending it in 1978 (astonishingly, it continued as a touring stage show for nearly ten years after that).
And what of Japan? Well, post-war Japan took many cues from American media, and blackface was among them. And it's still there to this day. You can still sometimes see blackface on Japanese television, for example, to the astonishment of Western observers. As often happens when cultural concepts cross oceans, the original context has been lost. In most cases, it seems to be a way of portraying black people (albeit for comedic purposes) rather than invoking the mannerisms of Jim Crow. There is even a Japanese pop group, the Gosperats, who perform their whole act while blacked up. The band seemed perplexed that anybody would find their act offensive. Japanese blackface, one could argue, doesn't carry the connotations that made the Western version so vile. And yet, at the same time, it does, at least to us. It's likely to make the average Western onlooker rather uncomfortable because of the genre's history... a history that would be largely unknown to a Japanese onlooker.
Dragon Ball's Mr. Popo is undoubtedly a product of this: even though he isn't a human in the context of the series, his origins seem quite obvious. The original Jynx shared many of his features: the black skin and prominent lips bearing a startling resemblance to the "darky" iconography now largely abandoned in the US. Mr. Popo has since been edited in Western versions of the series to tone these elements down. With Jynx, Game Freak went a step further and revised her design permanently, and in all regions. Whether or not the claims were accurate, they were enough to provoke the creators into taking action. So... was Jynx a blackface caricature?
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