Mino Sakamoto/Morita no Ogyaru Busters! | Suterarene-ze Mino (Sakamoto/Morita) no Ogyaru Busters! Gyaru comes from the English word "gal", and refers to a certain style popular among young Japanese women. They bronze their skin, dye their hair blond or light brown, wear heavy make-up in extremely pale colors, and if they're schoolgirls, cut their skirts ultra mini and wear HUGE slouch socks. However, that isn't the only thing. The "O" in "Ogyaru" means "dirty". Apparently, it's ALSO a big trend among the gyaru to not clean, wash clothes, or even bathe. For a week or more. [shudder] In this segment either Sakamoto-kun or Go-kun dress up as Mino Monta and take along another member of V6 for the "fun". It's literally the only Gakkou e Ikou! segment where, when the member of V6 says they don't want to be there, they AREN'T joking. Ken always tends to look a bit ill. They've also had special guests, such as Ueno Miku, Watanabe Marina, horror manga-ka Yamazaki Tooru, comedian Miyasakou, and a pair of horrified newscasters-in-training. First, the group waits along the street for some ogyaru to walk by. They can be easily identified by clothes, hair, make-up, and the fact that they all constantly scratch their heads. (Remember that they don't bathe often, and you'll know why...) After talking to the girls for a bit, V6 has the girls take off their shoes and put them through the "smell" test. I have no idea how bad it is, but everyone who's smelled it (including V6, their guests, innocent pedestrians, and the poor camera crew) all seem to agree that it's absolutely horrible. The smell is commonly identified as garbage or raw sewage, although I've also heard comparisons to wet dog, fish, and the mythological kappa. Most seem to agree that the ogyaru can't possibly be real women, especially Ken who appeared overjoyed at the sight of a girl with more hair in her armpits than him. One of the biggest concerns is always having the smelly item touch you. Ken wisely stopped, dropped, and rolled after getting a towel accidentally thrown in in his face by Sakamoto-kun. I've never seen Ken so upset in my life; he started yelling at Sakamoto-kun and seriously looked close to tears. Sakamoto-kun, of course, could barely stand he was laughing so hard. After smelling the girls, V6 calls in the Shoushuu-tai (the Deodorant Corps) to spray the girls with fire extinguishers full of deodorant. Good idea. After a while on the streets, V6 usually gets information of even WORSE ogyaru and their filthy apartment. The guys cautiously approach the apartment and check the smell (although if you're Go-kun, you also shove your partner into the house and bar the door for a while). Then V6 puts on some white masks, rubber gloves, and enters the house. It's always an absolute horror, covered in bagged trash, month-old kimchi, semester-old lunch boxes, dripping take-out cartons, and random containers that the ogyaru didn't even remember putting in the microwave. Sakamoto-kun once stepped onto a mysterious, sticky blue substance which Ken helped remove from his sock. V6 puts some of their worst finds through the smell test, which usually sends them running for the windows to get some fresh air. Although my favorite reaction of all came from Go-kun, who simply looked slightly ill as he curled up against Sakamoto-kun and whispered, "It smells." I think that the top three worst finds I've seen deserve kudos: 3. Yogurt so old, that it was solid, black, and the consistancy of tire rubber. V6 had no idea what it was. 2. A used milk bath sitting in the tub. Remember that ogyaru don't bathe more than once a week, AND they use bronzer on their entire bodies. 1. The ogyaru who LOST their pet ferret, INSIDE their one-room apartment. They hadn't seen him in over three days, but they heard him rustling around at night, and assumed that he was still inside. After a hard search, Inocchi discovered him under the sink near the cleaning supplies. After searching the apartment, everyone helps clean the place out and gives it a good blast from the Shoushuu-tai. As punishment after losing the "Doko ni Iru n Desu ka?" Game, poor Go-kun had to do the segment without a mask, then without a mask and barefoot. Seriously nasty. Suterarene-ze! This later segment followed girls whose apartments were messy for a whole different reason. They were clean, free of smells, and free of actual trash, but thses girls were simply pack rats who couldn't bear to throw anything out of their little teeny one-room apartments. "Suterarene-ze!" is somewhat of a play on words that refers to these girls, with "suterarenai" meaning "can't throw away". After meeting with the girl and carefully inspecting her teeny apartment filled with crap, two members of V6 would invite movers to come in and move every single item from the apartment. It was then carefully laid out in an empty TBS studio by staff members who organized the crap into four groups: entryway, kitchen, living area, and clothing. With everything laid out, V6 helps the girl go through all of her belongings to determine what she actually needs and what she can afford to throw away. Of course, the girls don't simply throw away their old belongings. Everything is catalogued and sold to a secondhand shop so that the girls can earn some money for their troubles. It's amazing what treasures some girls find buried in their rooms: volumes of rare manga left over from an old boyfriend, piles of Gucci accessories and Louis Vuitton bags, a complete encyclopedia set, an entire setting of fake sushi... Other things aren't treasures, but you do wonder why they're hanging onto them. One girl, although living alone in a single cramped room, had piles of beer mugs and 10 large serving platters that she took from work. Apparently, whenever they had extra stuff around, she volunteered to bring it home. It's free, but still... Sell it! I've seen girls bring in as little as 5000 yen and as much as 70,000 yen for their piles of junk. In the end, the girls end up with shockingly bare appartments, as seen above. Note how much cleaner this girl's entryway and kitchen look without the teetering pile of newspapers by the door, and the giant box of pecans in front of the fridge. The moral of this segment? PLEASE clean every once in a while. PLEASE. Back | TV Index