This is a sub-culture I know very little about.

I am only guessing here.

The name "Horror Girls" is my own.

For lack of a better one.

What is going on here?

All I have are three links

in the genre.

 

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Look at the link and the photo's inside,

then return here.

http://www01.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/da2/hiroki-i/top.htm

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I have heard about the girls

who walk around Tokyo's trendy Shibuya District

dressed in their school uniforms with blood

soaked bandages wrapped

around their arms.

Or they wear bloody eye patches.

I have yet to find any photos of this fashion,

I guess the "trend" photo police

just aren't up to it.

If I find photo's I will post them.

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On the Japanese link page that I first found the above site

(Which was a cos-play homepage)

the following link was to a Dario Argento site.

Dario Argento made the horror classic,

"Suspiria"

and of course "Demons" and "Dawn of the Dead"

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Was this a coincidence

or directly related

to the "Horror Girls" site?

Another question is

are the people in the previous link

a part of the the girls who walk around Shibuya

wearing bloody bandages?

Or are they something different?

?...

Does all this even qualify as a sub-culture?

Here is a second link

very much like the first.

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http://www.pcs.ne.jp/~ammonite/undervision/gate.html

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The third link

is pretty out there, and the reason I put a warning on this page.

It has simulated death and torture on part of it, I was

disturbed, don't go there if you don't want

to see such stuff, it is more of the above but just

more extreme and

It makes me wonder if these are just s/m fetish sites

and have nothing to do with youth culture at all.

(As an afterthough I decline to link

to the above page, It doesn't belong with the StarLit 501 project.

If you are so inclined

you can root around on the link page to the site above it

and get to it from there.)

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There is a plethora of violent/torture "hentai" manga

in Japan. These comix books are

directly related to the above site in imagry and context.

There is a definite fascination with blood

for the Japanese, their literature

and films are flowing with it.

The rituals of blood and suicide are

very much part of the artistic

and cultural tradition...

Oh, as usual I have mainly observations and in this case,

no conclusions.

I'm grasping for straws...

Maybe it's better left that way.

My aplogies if you were overly disturbed by all this.

Sub-cultures are not always pretty.

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Presented researched & written by; byronicman 09.05.2000

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