Playback ’94] “Where are your clothes? Dancing around in the daytime in a state of undress… The reality of “Kogyaru Backstage Party

What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In “Playback Friday,” we take a look back at the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we bring you “Crazy ‘Ura’ Party: The Abnormal ‘Sexual Attitudes’ of Naked Kogals, ” which appeared in the July 8, 1994 issue 30 years ago.

In the previous two issues of this magazine, we infiltrated a party held by high school students who rented out a certain disco. There, the unbelievable scene of junior high and high school girls dancing around in their most outrageous outfits in the middle of the daylight was unfolding. In this article, we go behind the scenes to hear from three high school girls who are well-known in Tokyo for their playful ways. The girls, who have been attending parties since junior high school, call themselves “party people” and “event people” (the descriptions in parentheses below are taken from previous articles).

Selling tickets to parties is “alchemy.

“The purpose of having a party is to make money and to become famous. The cost of a disco (venue) is about 300,000 yen from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The last party I threw was 1.7 million yen. The party I threw the other night made about 1.7 million yen. About 600 people came to the party, but we sold twice as many tickets. I ask my friends to buy 10 or 30 tickets at 1,000 to 3,000 yen per ticket. Sometimes there were girls who were forced to pay as little as 5,000 yen.

For the event organizers, the sale of tickets for the party was a bit of “alchemy” at the time. However, the actual sales method was not so different from “mugging” in many cases.

《”When I was in junior high school, a senior student forced me to buy 10 par coupons worth 200,000 yen. But they didn’t sell that many, so I stole them from my mother’s purse and paid for them. In the old days, there were the “three principles of Shibuya,” where you would pick a fight with any girl you saw on the street and threaten her with, “Which do you want, a parlor ticket, a beatdown, or money? I would threaten them with a “perk” ticket, a “bump” ticket, or money. Usually, they would apologize and say, ‘Please give me a par coupon,’ so I would force them to give me 200,000 yen.

However, the police have become more picky, and such rough tactics are no longer seen. …… By the way, the kogals dancing in their underwear or in even more extreme costumes are not strippers or prostitutes, but genuine junior and senior high school girls. When we interviewed them on the spot, they said they were only doing it to liven up the place and have fun themselves. During the party, they didn’t drink or do drugs, but just danced and made a lot of noise.

But what about the actual situation? “Sometimes there are girls who do drugs,” he said, “like smoking ganja (marijuana) in their seats. They do coke and speed in the bathroom, but there are very few girls like that. Getting physical in the bar?　None of my female friends have. There are guys who say they have done three guys in one day, but most of the time they pick up girls and take them to their houses. But most of them just go to parties, meet people they know, sell their faces, and dance and make noise. It’s all about how much face you can get.

But isn’t it a challenge to manage a party of this scale with only high school girls?

“If there is any trouble, my senpai will come to my aid. If there is a dispute over money or a fight with a boy, I can’t do anything by myself. But in the old days, you needed a proper “backer,” but nowadays you can get by without one. We don’t have to have a team to crash a party,” she says.

It seems that they have the support of “adults” in their own way. The kogals, who are able to socialize with adults without resistance, are also aware of their value as high school girls, which they can only do while they are still in high school.

My friend bought a car with the money she made at a party. I’m going to make a lot of money and save it before I go to college.

In the 1980s, “gyaru” referred to all young women in general, as in “pichi pichi gyaru” and “ikeke gyaru. In the 1990s, high school girls who imitated “gyaru” and faked their age to go to clubs began to be called “kogyaru,” which is said to be the origin of the term “kogyaru. The year 1994 was also the year of the “kogyaru” boom.

At the time, there were quite a few parties organized by high school students, renting out discos and clubs and gathering only with their relatives. They were also called “subrocks” because they started at 3:00 p.m. and ended at 6:00 p.m. It had been common for college students to hold “dumper” parties before this, but it was no longer the high school students who played the leading role in these parties.

It was precisely because the adults were paying the price for the bubble economy and were not in high spirits that all kinds of girls, including honor students, delinquents, and high school girls with brucellas, were able to get into the party just by being called “high school girls” (although some of them were junior high school students, too, it seems). (Some of them were junior high school students.) It may be that all kinds of girls