Nerds in other countries should do stuff like that. Then they could blame their lack of girlfriends on it.

America; a wonderful place where, in many places, wearing anything other than denim is considered “dressy”. This is not so in the wonderful land of Nippon. So many interesting species of Japanese people. Today on this version of J hunter, we’re going to look at a variety that is much harder to find than it was just a few years ago. Harder to fine does not mean uninteresting as we will soon find out.

A lot of Japanese people (Look ma, I’m stereotyping! [but it's truish]) have a propensity to not know that there are some things that you just can’t say. Another variety of this is that there are somethings you shouldn’t really do. The type of individual that I will talk about manages to do both with very little trouble.

You know how I said species of Japanese person? Well, I don’t think Japan is like Pokemon, it’s more like Final Fantasy. Anyways, this class of Japanese person generally goes by the name of Ganguro (ガングロ or 願黒 – blackface). Wonderful, isn’t it? They’re black mages like Rikku; you’d know if you played Final Fantasy X: Barbie Edition.

Oh yeah baby. Show me your dress sphere.

Umm… yeah. So, if you haven’t guessed already, these girls do something with black and faces. Luckily, because of millions of years of evolution have allowed us to put 2 and 2 together, we understand what they do. They, through a process that science calls tanning, make themselves many shades darker than they were when they were birthed. The question I’m hoping is on your mind right now is “Why the hell would they do that?” The meaningless, and senseless, answer is because they think it’s cool. Please don’t ask me why they think it’s cool I don’t know; luckily no one else does either.

This is where cancer comes from.

As you can tell from the pictures, they do a little more than just lots of tanning. A lot of the time they also will lighten their hair a good deal. They will go further down the path of ocular torture of the mass populace by putting on white or light colored eye shadow. When the process is finished, they look as beautiful as fresh pig intestines. Yum.

If you lick them, they taste like dashi flavored BBQ

Unfortunately (what?), this fashion style has heard the call of the siren and has run aground. There are few people who still go so far as to do everything that would make them qualify as a ガングロ, but there are are plenty of other people who have just resorted to the halfway style. Maybe I’ll talk about that soon.

“If I do this, maybe I’ll get SEX!”

For some odd reason, some guys fell for this as well. WTF people, WTF.