Suddenly starting a tough diet!
The shirts barely manage to close the gap between school skirt and skin.
Instagram is the big thing.
Hey guys and girls it's Cathy Cat.
You won't believe the things Japanese girls do!
We went out on the streets of Tokyo and asked Japanese girls
what the new generation of girls in Japan is into and got some very interesting replies
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What are Japanese girls like? What are you girls into?
Or things you tend to upload online.
Japanese girls are geeky.
We will upload the picture of our favorite boyband member around.
Do you also carry items of your favourite?
I have a fan of his and such...
Even if a girl doesn't have a favorite, she will come to birthday parties for her friend's favorite idol.
You girls throw birthday parties for your favorite boy band member?
We do.
Even if he is not present, you will celebrate his birthday. - We do that.
What do you do on your favourite idol's birthday?
We will order a cake, that has a print of his face on top of it.
We will eat the cake together. Then, on a big screen...
We will watch his live performances - And celebrate like that!
That sounds fun! So that boy might have girls celebrating his birthday all over Japan...
Yes that's a thing here!
For a party like that, how many friends do you call in to celebrate?
We just celebrated recently as the two of us. But other girls assemble as 10 people or more.
There are big parties too.
That sounds fun! When did you last do that? - We held a birthday party for him in February
Did you have fun? - It was so good!
So next year in February....? - We will definitely do it again.
Does that mean you are supporting the same boy?
No we like two boys from the same idol group and their birthdays are close to each other.
So we decided to make a party for both of them.
So apart from the birthday party for your favorite boy...
Do you also buy extra clothes for going to a live performance,
or similar?
I will suddenly go on a harsh diet!
What do you mean? - Before going to a live show I will start going on a diet
You diet for visiting a live show as guest? - Yes.
We want our idols to think we look cute, even if just a little.
In case they look at you from the stage? - Yes.
How early will you start going on a diet in advance?
About a month in advance.
Wow you are trying your best for the show.
What type of diet did you do?
Limit my food intake and such.
I also did a lot of sport for a month.
Did you loose weight in that month? - Not at all.
What's a typical thing Japanese girls do?
Highschool girls in Kansai will wear their skirts really long.
How long exactly?
Covering our knees and even longer than that.
The longer the better. - Why so?
I don't know but it's been like that for a while.
It's our culture. - Yes culture - It's a trend with girls.
You are not making your skirt shorter to show off more leg, like other schools?
Mine was like that. How was your school uniform? - Mine was super short.
Right the other way around. - The right opposite. - And how did you wear it personally?
Mine was super long.
Wearing the school uniform in the proper long way. - Yes
Seems like the teachers would approve of that.
We would try to open the zip on the side to make the skirt even longer.
They would tell us to close the zips properly.
How did you wear the shirt then?
Can you still push the shirt inside the skirt if it's so low?
The shirt barely managed to close the gap between skirt and skin.
Why was your skirt short then?
In my hometown, there was a cleaners who would cut our skirts to make them short properly
And wearing them short was fashionable for us.
We had a GAL fashion boom at the time. I had mine short.
Is it ok to actually cut your school skirt off?
It was a secret!
Didn't your school have a day when you needed to wear the uniform properly?
For those days I had a normal skirt. I always kept two. One cut and one long
I changed them depending on the occasion.
When you went to school with a short skirt, didn't the teachers say anything?
Yeah they told me off but...
It was our trend, so we all ignored what the teachers said and cut them anyways.
Isn't that cold in winter? - We showed a lot of effort for our style.
Is there something else that girls in Japan commonly do?
We will use smartphone cases with big cute characters on them.
At the time, the bigger the case was, the better.
For example huge cases with the bear from Toy Story on it...
The case would be this big.
These big cases, with Spongebob and such, would be like a status symbol for us
What's a common trope that Japanese girls do?
If a new store opens anywhere, we will look it up and go there straight away.
How do you look it up?
On Instagram and such.
Did you do that recently?
I did. That's actually why we are here.
What type of store did you find?
There is a cafe themed after the anime "Kimetsu no Yaiba" we went to.
We looked it up.
We stood in line for it but all tickets for today were sold out already.
We couldn't visit the cafe in the end, but we bought some goodie.
You need to research well, or you can't even go into new places like that.
Be honest with me, you didn't do enough research this time? - I didn't.
Did you think of a common trope of Japanese girls?
Going out to drink Tapioca milk teas is a big trend right now.
True! Right now at every Tapioca place in Harajuku is a long line!
Do you follow that trend?
I had one yesterday. - Yesterday. How about today?
I haven't had one yet but I plan to.
Those were all our questions. Thanks for taking part in the interview.
Throwing a party for your idol and
maybe going all the way and actually trying to loose weight
just so you look better during a live performance...
they might glance at you and think you look cute.
That is a big thing that I have actually heard about before,
from Japanese girls telling me all the efforts they will go into to....
celebrate the idol that they love, spend time with them, spend money on them, spend...
time supporting them ....
so there is a high support for Japanese male idols here in Japan...
and also obviously guys but girls go on a whole new level with things...
As far as I have seen I am really surprised.
The director just walked though.
Through the screen there for a moment.
So that's a big thing.
But also the other things: Standing in line for a long time for fancy stores
Japanese people will really....
REALLY wait for a long time if it's something that's new, that's fancy, that's "IN"
that people will talk about or write now that it looks good on Instagram.
Some people spend...
Up to 2-3 hours doing...
just standing in line for stores.
One of the stores we visited with ask Japanese was a rolled ice cream store.
We did a video about that one.
There were people in line who had waited in line for 2-3 Hours
Just to get that rolled ice cream.
Needless to say when we both went there in winter...
No one was standing in line, it was really easy to get in...
It still looks good and in summer quite a lot of people will go back to it...
But the store had just opened, it looked good on Instagram
and it was in Harajuku so quite a lot of people
were there standing in line.
That's a big thing that Japanese girls will do.
The length of school uniform skirts seem to vary on the region.
I didn't know that. Generally in Tokyo the skirts are pretty short....
if you come and look around.
On the countryside they tend to get longer and apparently in Osaka...
They are super long. I did not know that.
The kind of things girls will do for the sake of fashion.
Well there is worse I guess.
How about you guys? What is a typical thing that girls in your country do?
You're like "Ah that's so *girl from xxxx country*"
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