Twintails and Machine Guns - A Subculture On Its Own
If you have ever come across the sub cult of ‘Twintails and Machine Guns’ it’s in a class by itself.
A withstanding sub-genre of delinquent school girls characterized by their adolescent femininity juxtaposed to the masculine nature of them holding high-powered assault weapons. Glamorized through photographs of them pointing their guns at the camera looking innocent and sweet. Yet, don’t be fooled, they have a deadly drive to shoot you down!
This distinctive and memorable cult genre started in 1981 with the production of “ Sailor Suit and Machine Gun” [セーラー服と機関銃, Sērā-fuku to kikanjū] starring Hiroko Yakushimaru as a teenage girl who became the leader of the defeated Yakuza clan [ Medaka-Gumi] after her father died in an accident. While the film has a more Japanese naivety to it with a satirical tone, it spawned an entirely new persona of a young female character that was widely celebrated and had tremendous reception in Japan through a few movies and a television series that followed.
In the years following while there had been delinquent schoolgirl anime and toys etc produced among many things, there hadn’t been many massive successes until Battle Royale starring Beat Takeshi released in 2000
A decade and a half later, a revived sequel with Hashimoto Kanna was released in 2016 receiving praise and an award. Thus reviving this cult classic genre of clean pressed teenage angst driven school girls wearing polished uniforms waving M4’s, silenced uzis, and or berettas with extended mag clips or better yet desert eagle .50 heavyweight handguns.
Check out some of the the crazy images above
