Line art drawing of three Galo Sengen gyaru characters shouting

Galo Sengen

2011viral videoclassic

Published October 15, 2026

GAL男宣言, usually written in English as Galo Sengen, is a 2011 animated rap music video by Japanese hip-hop group Policeman that satirizes the gyaruo youth subculture by turning its tanned, bleached-blond protagonists into Dragon Ball Super Saiyans1. Western anime fans circulated the clip through 4chan, FunnyJunk and Reddit over the following year, and by January 2012 it had earned a slot in the /a/ board's banner rotation5.

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Overview

Policeman's video follows a group of young men who transform mid-song into glowing, blond-haired warriors, directly spoofing the Super Saiyan sequences from Dragon Ball Z while the group raps about club nights, tanning and gyaruo pride1. The track's hook, built around the repeated chant 'Go go go go go Galo Sengen,' is the chunk that English-speaking viewers tended to clip for shorter reposts3.

Reposts usually left the Japanese audio untouched and relied on the goofy character animation to deliver the joke to viewers who did not understand the lyrics6. The gyaruo look it mocks, platinum hair, dark tanning, flashy club outfits, had already peaked in Japan around 2007, so the clip arrived as both parody and nostalgia for a fading subculture2.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (origin) / 4chan /a/ (viral spread)
Creator
Policeman
Date
2011

YouTuber POLICEMAN110Tube uploaded the music video on January 9, 2011, as the official clip for the Policeman track GAL男宣言1. Over its first 13 months on the site the upload gathered more than 900,000 views along with roughly 8,000 likes against 350 dislikes before Western audiences discovered it4.

Policeman produced the song and its animation themselves, and the group hosts related material on its official site8. The gyaruo subculture it parodies is a male counterpart to the gyaru fashion trend, which was itself rooted in the earlier ganguro look of blonde or orange hair with heavily tanned skin7.

How It Spread

4chan picked up the clip early. A thread on the /v/ video games board noted on January 15, 2012 that Galo Sengen had been added to the banner rotation on the /a/ anime and manga board, which gave the song recurring visibility to Western anime readers5. From there the chant spread onto aggregator sites.

FunnyJunk hosted a repost on June 17, 2011 that drew over 3,000 views across its first eight months on the site6. On August 4, 2011, Redditor heroinahood submitted the YouTube link to r/videos under the title 'Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Galo Sengen!!', though the submission stalled at three upvotes before being archived3.

By early 2012 the song had moved onto Tumblr tags and deviantArt fan art pages, and a dedicated Galo Sengen Facebook page had collected 526 likes as of February 7, 20124.

Timeline

2011-01-09

YouTuber POLICEMAN110Tube uploads the Policeman track GAL男宣言 (Galo Sengen) to YouTube[1].

2011-06-17

FunnyJunk repost of the clip is published, drawing over 3,000 views within eight months[6].

2011-08-04

Redditor heroinahood submits the video to r/videos, where it stalls at three upvotes[3].

2011-10

Japan Times publishes an article noting that the gyaru trend parodied in the song has been declining in Japan since its 2007 peak[2].

2012-01-15

A 4chan /v/ thread confirms Galo Sengen has been added to the /a/ board banner rotation[5].

2012-02-07

The dedicated Galo Sengen Facebook page reaches 526 likes[4].

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