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1970s. [edit] The word gyaru is a japanese loanword which comes from the English slang word "gal". When it first started to be used in Japan in the 1970s, it referred to energetic women brimming with youthful energy. Although it has not been fully confirmed, some people say that the term gal also became popular when Wrangler released women's ...
Etymology. The word kogal is a contraction of kōkōsei gyaru (高校生ギャル, "high school gal"). [6] It originated as a code used by disco bouncers to distinguish adults from minors. [6] The term is not used by the girls it refers to. They call themselves gyaru (ギャル), [7] a Japanese pronunciation of the English word "gal". [6]
To Love Ru (Japanese: To LOVE （ とらぶ ） る, Hepburn: Toraburu) is a Japanese manga series written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Kentaro Yabuki.The manga was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from April 2006 to August 2009, and the chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes.
Aya Oosawa (大沢 綾, Ōsawa Aya) Voiced by: Akari Kitō (drama CD) [2] A gyaru high school girl who has an interest in rock music. Aya first gets acquainted with Mitsuki through stumbling upon the CD shop by chance and develops a crush on Mitsuki's workplace persona as she continues to frequent the shop, not knowing that it is her classmate.
Gyaruo (which can be written as ギャル男, ギャルオ, ギャル汚 in Japanese) are a sub-group of modern Japanese youth culture. They are the male equivalent of the gyaru. The o suffix that is added to the word, is one reading of the kanji for male (男). And recently, the kanji for 'dirty' in Japanese (汚), which also has the same ...
Sukeban. Sukeban (スケバン/助番) is a Japanese term meaning ' delinquent girl', and the female equivalent to the male banchō in Japanese culture. The usage of the word sukeban refers to either the leader of a girl gang or the entire gang itself, [4][better source needed] and is not used to refer to any one member of a girl gang. [5]
No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (Japanese: 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い!, Hepburn: Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!), commonly referred to as WataMote (わたモテ), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by two people under the pseudonym Nico ...
Chūnibyō (中二病) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers. It translates to "middle-school syndrome" (i.e., middle-school second-year).