Kogal Love

I had been a subscriber to She magazine from issue 1. It was a magazine devoted to cat-fight culture, girls fighting each other in movies, pro wrestling, and specialty mail order video and magazines. It was a really good magazine.

After a couple of irregular published issues, the focus changed slightly as the editor of the magazine got a English teaching position in Tokyo. Here was a Asian genre movie buff, in the VHS capitol of the world. Reading his pieces on life in Japan were a real treat.

Seeing fads come and go first hand as a high school teacher and then writing about for North American consumption gave readers a leg up on your average Japanophiles. One such craze written about in the pages of She magazine was the new Kogal fad.

The Kogal style is less drastic
now then it was

Girls were wearing bronze make-up, dying there hair blonde, and talking in surfer girl accents. Keep in mind this was in 1995 a good five years before kogal's were widely talked about in the U.S.

Although the kogal style has toned down over the years, they are still a popular social group in Japan, spawning specialty porn, beauty products, and fashion.

Johnathan Ross did a great documentry on kogal's in his spectacular BBC series Japanarama.about allsorts of Japanese bad girls or Gyaru. Submitted for your approval is the entire episode broken into three parts discussing Kogas, Gonguro, and even Yankee Girls.

Part 1

 Part 2

 

Part 3

 

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