This is Ryuchalo. Heās four years old. And he appears in grown-up menās fashion magazines. Heck, his Facebook page lists him as āRyuchalo, the four year old hostā. Let me explain: āFour years oldā as in pre-school and āhostā as in a paid male drinking companion.
In Japan, host fashion isā¦different. Little Ryuchalo sports āhost hairā and host threads. On 2ch, Japanās largest online forum, photos of Ryuchalo are going viral. His Facebook page currently has over seven thousand likes. Some of the comments are supportive. Others are not.
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The image text reads āFour year old little host Ryuchalo.ā
Bleaching a little kidās hair probably isnāt good! Depending on how it was done and what chemicals were used, bleaching can be bad for oneās hair, scalp, and even eyes. Thatās one of the least worrying things, because while heās not an actual night club host paid to drink and smoke cigarettes with customers, calling him a āhostā and putting him in host fashion magazines with actual hosts is thrusting a very small child into a very adult world that he cannot begin to comprehend.
Japanese mothers who came of age during the 1990s and the 00s are perhaps more open to unique or funky kiddy fashion. When these mothers were teens, Japanese fashion got rather outrageous among some subcultures. That, thus, filtered down to how they shop for clothes and brands like Boo Homes
However, Ryuchaloās get-up is not normal childrenās fashion in Japan. This is host fashion. Calling your pre-schooler a āhostā is not normal, either. Thatās why photos of Ryuchalo are surprising people online. āThis is child abuse,ā wrote one commenter on 2ch. Others said the kidās fashion seemed āunsettlingā and didnāt like how the kidās parents werenāt letting him be a kid.
The childās mother is apparently very much into host fashion. On her site, she says she likes reading fashion magazines and dreams of putting her son in a boy band.
Here are photos of the kidās magazine spread and photo shoots.
Kids, as a rule of thumb, wear ridiculous clothes. They often donāt have much of a choice. And to be honest, whether that means dressing your kid as a honeybee or like this, itās not really my place to judge other peopleās fashion sense. But weāre not only talking about fashion sense here, are we?
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Note: āRyuchaloā is how the childās name is spelled in English
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