# Japanese girl gangs **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659 "2003-02-26T16:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/1 "2003-02-26T16:29:36Z")
In anime/video games, I often see female gangs which often consist of bizzarrely dressed, mask wearing, chain wielding high school girls involved in unsavoury activities. Is this anything close to actual gang behavior girls exhibit at Japanese middle/high schools? Are female gangs more common in Japan than in the United States? ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/2 "2003-02-26T17:12:07Z")
It’s probably a reaction to all those sexually predatory tentacle monsters that roam at will throughout Japan. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/3 "2003-02-26T17:26:55Z")
… or probably a wish-fulfillment kind of thing… “Actually, I wouldn’t mind a bit of temptation, really…” – Lancelot ---
**Author:** ![stuckinthemiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@stuckinthemiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuckinthemiddle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/4 "2003-02-26T18:58:30Z")
Girl Gangs in Japanese Anime are like those women’s prisons in trashy American movies. Everybody knows what one’s supposed to look like, but nobody has ever seen one. In reality there are some girl gangs that are somewhat like the ones you describe in larger metropolitan areas, but they are pretty rare. Oh, and Ethilrist, wasn’t your quote by Gallahad, not Lancelot? I thought the whole point of the joke was that Gallahad was supposed to be the pure one, but he was actually inviting temptation… (Why can I remember this, but I can’t remember where I left my keys?) ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/5 "2003-02-26T19:19:33Z")
Damn, why can’t we have some hot girl gangs here in the US… ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/6 "2003-02-26T21:08:13Z")
Yeah, I wouldn’t mind being “roughed up” by a gang of Japanese girls. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/7 "2003-02-26T21:12:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*Yeah, I wouldn’t mind being “roughed up” by a gang of Japanese girls. \*\* Yeah, you say that now, but when you’re hog tied and have wasabi dripping out your ass while some Japanese girls is violating your mouth with a strap on you’ll be thinking twice about. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/8 "2003-02-26T22:54:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amp \* > \*\*Yeah, you say that now, but when you’re hog tied and have wasabi dripping out your ass while some Japanese girls is violating your mouth with a strap on you’ll be thinking twice about. \*\* Mmmmm… I’m thinking twice about that right now! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/9 "2003-02-26T23:37:47Z")
I heard they maintain order and leadership in their gang through phsyical violence and torture. And spankings 🙂 _and spankings! and spankings!_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/10 "2003-02-26T23:50:08Z")
While not girl gang activity per se, about 1 in 20 Japanese high school students have padded their shopping budgets through [“paid dating”](http://www.jinjapan.org/insight/html/focus07/being_young/paid_dating.html). A scary thought, even if they leave the wasabi alone. ---
**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/11 "2003-02-27T12:02:09Z")
The clothes and masks are all part of the “scene” - literally hundreds of these girls congregate near Shinjuku Station on Sunday afternoons in Tokyo to have their photos taken by tourists and pervy middle aged men and, I dunno, talk about mascara. I don’t think they’re in any way violent, however. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/12 "2003-02-27T12:23:17Z")
Links to photos? ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-girl-gangs/157659/13 "2003-02-27T14:59:35Z")
**stuckinthemiddle** , you are correct. It was Galahad. Lancelot was the one “rescuing” him: G: Look, as a Knight of the Round Table, it’s my duty to sample as much peril as I can. L: No, no, it’s too perilous. . . . or something like that. RR