Monday, November 11, 2013

Twin tails

A twin tail is a hairstyle for girls where long hair is bunched into two and tied like ponytails.

Kagami from Lucky Star, Azusa from K-ON, Miku from Vocaloid and Rin from Fate series has this hairstyle. It is also commonly associated with tsundere.

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One thing you might not know is the fact that this hairstyle (at least the name of it) originated from a kaiju (monster) from The Return of Ultraman (Kaettekita Ultraman).

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The monster Twin Tail was a shrimp-like monster with two tails on top and its head at the bottom. It appeared in episode 5. Its weight was 15,000 tonnes and was 45 metres tall.