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.
