Sukeban (????/??/???) means delinquent girl or boss girl in Japanese, equivalent to the male banch?. A dictionary of Japanese slang says that sukeban only refers to the leader of a girl gang, not any member of the girl gang.
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Characteristics
The common signifiers of sukeban (described by the Japanese police in 1980s pamphlets as "omens of downfall") include brightly dyed or permed hair, and modifications of the school uniform such as wearing coloured socks, rolling up the sleeves and lengthening the skirt. Sukeban are reported to engage in activities such as stimulant use, shoplifting, theft, and violence, but if arrested, they can be charged with the lesser offence of "pre-delinquency". The word sukeban was originally used by delinquents, but has been used by the general population since 1972.
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In fiction
- In the 1970s and 1980s, sukeban became popular characters in seinen manga. Sukeban characters could also be seen in sh?jo manga publications; Sukeban Deka, YajiKita Gakuen D?ch?ki and Hana no Asuka-gumi were three popular sh?jo series that had a mostly sukeban cast.
- Single sukeban characters interacting with a more "normal" cast could also be seen--early on in her character design, Makoto Kino of Sailor Moon was intended to lead a sukeban gang, and in both manga and anime has curly, brunette hair, a long, calf-length school uniform skirt and a severe reputation for physical confrontation. However, the lengthened skirt did not appear in her costume in the 2003-2004 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
- In the manga Beelzebub, one of the supporting characters, Aoi Kunieda, is the third sukeban of the girl gang Red Tails. She later resigned her position after subsequently developing a girlish crush on the series protagonist Tatsumi Oga.
- In Onidere, the series focuses on the sukeban. Saya who is in a secret romantic relationship with a boy while trying to keep an appearance as being the biggest man-hater in her gang.
- In Kimagure Orange Road, lead female Madoka Ayukawa was a former sukeban, utterly feared in school except for the male lead Kyosuke Kasuga, the other female lead Hikaru Hiyama, Kyousuke's sisters Manami and Kurumi and a boy named Yusaku Hino.
- The game Project Justice has a sukeban named Aoi "Zaki" Himezaki as a playable character, teaming up with Rival Schools veteran Akira Kazama and Yurika Kirishima who, unbeknownst to them, is the main antagonist's sister, helping advance his plans.
- In Case Closed, Inspector Juzo Megure's wife Midori used to be a sukeban in her youth 20 years before the main storyline started. At that time, several sukeban girls were attacked by a serial killer, and she tried to bring him to justice with the help of the police, especially then junior-officer Megure. They were targeted and seriously injured by the culprit, and as a consequence they were both physically scarred.
- In Fruits Basket, Arisa Uotani is a sukeban who protects Tohru Honda from the Yuki club.
- In Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi the young ?kami is a former sukeban.
- In Tenjou Tenge Maya.
- In Ikkitousen Kanu.
- In Gokusen Kumiko.
- In City Hunter Sayaka in volume 2 of manga.
- In Nekketsu K?ha Kunio-kun the video game: Misuzu.
- In High School! Kimengumi the gang of girls.
- In the manga Sukeban Arashi the main character confronts a gang of sukeban with the all of the bancho recruited by a Yakuza clan.
- In episode 7 of New Cutey Honey, the main character meets a gang of sukeban.
- In the video game Shenmue the hero fights sukeban.
- In the anime Inazuma Eleven GO: Galaxy Episode 24 Mizukawa Minori was stated by Potomuri and Kusaka Ryuuji(Kageyama Reiji) to be a sukeban.
- In Oresama Teacher the protagonist, Mafuyu Kurosaki is a former sukeban.
- In the manga Confidential Confessions a group of girls who practice extortion.
- In the anime Hell Girl Aya Kuroda bullies and extorts Mayumi Hashimoto with two other sukeban.
- In the anime Girls und Panzer, the members of the Shark Team are sukeban
In film
Pink film director Norifumi Suzuki made the first films in the seven-film Girl Boss (Sukeban) series. He also started the four-film Terrifying Girls' High School series (1971-1972) featuring sukeban characters. Both series featured prominent Pinky violent actresses Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto.
On December 6, 2005, Panik House company released a four-disc region-1 DVD collection surveying Sukeban films entitled The Pinky Violence Collection.
Some notable sukeban films include:
- Girl Boss Guerilla (1972, dir.: Norifumi Suzuki; cast: Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike)
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973, dir.: Norifumi Suzuki; cast: Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike)
- Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw (2016, dir.: Hiroki Yamaguchi; cast: Rio Uchida, Seira Sat?, Y?ki Tamaki, Mari Yamachi, Seijiro Nakamura)
- Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003, dir.: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku; cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari)
- Delinquent girl boss: Worthless To Confess
- Shura no hana
- Schoolgirl Violence Classroom
- Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma monogatari, 2004), adapted from the book of the same title: Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuki develops feelings for Akimi (and/or Akimi's fiancé), the sukeban of her gang. Akimi eventually leaves the gang, and without a sukeban, The Ponytails become directionless, culminating in a massive, multi-gang fight. Ichigo also admits to creating a fantasy sukeban, named Himiko, presumably after the legendary Yamataikoku queen.
See also
- Banch? (position)
- Oira Sukeban (AKA Sukeban Boy and Delinquent in Drag)
References
General references
- Weisser, Yuko Mihara. (2001). "Japanese Fighting Divas 101". Asian Cult Cinema #31, 2nd Quarter 2001.
- Ashcraft, Brian with Ueda Shoko. (2010). "Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How teenage girls made a nation cool". Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-7700-3115-0
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