Kigurumin, a sub-category of the gyaru (ギャル) sub-culture, is a style of Japanese street fashion. The fashion is based upon kigurumi (the Japanese name for costumed animal characters) where wearers parade around in full body pajama-suits with hoods or hats styled after animals or cartoon characters with accompanying manba make-up.

Here are three manba wearing Godzilla, Kanga from Winnie the Pooh and Pikachu kigurumi costumes.

Teacher, writer, performer and Mum, Wendy Horikoshi has lived, breathed and worked in Japan for a little over 13 years. Taking a left turn from tarting up medical journals and wedding speeches, she takes a look at the Kawaii culture that envelopes Japan.

If it isn’t Kawaii in Japan, it just doesn’t rate a mention.

With Hello Kitty everything, bank cards, bentos (lunch boxes), and dish sponges in the shape of characters and cake, you can’t escape the cute.

Now, I am not really a Kitty fan. Little white cat, with no mouth? Needs everything to be twee and adorable? Nah. Then along came my babies. Two hard core Kitty fans, both boys, with kitty spoons, socks, toothbrushes, pyjama’s and kitty dinner sets, my house is overtaken with cute. I am drowning in pink and white bows, little hearts and sparkle on everything.

Before I was somebody’s Mum, I was in a punk band, with black nails, purple hair, and many, many piercings. Cute just isn’t my cup of tea.

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“Keep it down back there, I’m trying to play Guitar Hero!”

Via Kotaku.

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