Are tamas gettin too girly?

[Yellowmoodtama]

I think everything before the V4 was pretty neutral, but after that the designs seemed to be more on the girly side, except for the Tama-Go which is also pretty neutral. At my Walmart where I buy my Tamas, they're actually not put in the girl section. They're put in section with other small electronic toys.

 

[chib3h]

I thought they had a poll or something... And it showed that there were more guys that owned Tamas than girls... =.=

Or maybe they could have neutral designs like they had on the v6?

 

[Sugar Bunny ♥]

TamaMum is correct about Tamagotchis being intended for girls and Digimon for boys, but that was back in 1997, and I liked both either way. Since it turns out that a lot of males also like tamagotchis, though, Bandai does need to be carefully gender-neutral in designing their shells. I think we're seeing that in the Tama-go which seems equally suited to both genders to me: blue, green, or white with interchangable face-plates? Yes, thank you! However, in Japan I believe that the demographic is currently young girls, younger than the average tamagotchi owner in the United States.

 

[Dolphin Girl]

I first bought my purple translucent V4 when I was 5 and you call that young or what?! Here are a list of my Tamas and their shells:

V3 - faded green with spider webs (more boyish I think)

V4 - translucent purple (girly)

V4.5 - leopard spots (neutral)

V5 - white with houses on (pretty neutral)

Music Star 1 and 2 - red (neutral)

Music Star 3 - orange and purple (just slightly on the girly side)

Tama-Go - blue with Memetchi (pretty neutral)

TMGC+C - blue (neutral)

I didn't even have a choice about my designs, each version was painfully hard to get in any design! The V4.5 was supposed to be Chocolate Argyle but the delivery people didn't get it right

 

[Luna_Solara]

I think V1 had a pretty neutral selection. I had a pearlescent pink one, and when I talked my guy friend into buying one he got a neat looking green one. V2... I can't remember what other options they had (a good 5 years ago), but I got the baby blue one with flowers on it. V3 I think had fairly decent options, I got the pink one with ice cream cones on it (it was the only I liked when I bought it). I agree that V4 was a bit girly... Mines red with pink and yellow hearts on it. V4.5 I think had decent options, I got the stained glass one. V5 had good options, I got 'groovy' I think. And finally, my MusicStar, I didn't get to see the other options, the Walmart I went to only had 1 left (on clearance, just got it yesterday) and it's the blue one with a music equalizer design on it, looks pretty universal to me

 

[TamaLover1990]

yes, they are. i love the girl designs....well, some of them anyway. i think they should make more guys designs too because i like the boys designs too also. and im a female/tomboy.

 

[purpurn]

THE DREADED PINK ISLE!!! I'm a girl.. actually I'm a woman - not even a teen anymore... <_< ; so going down the pink isle just seems weird. I always pretend like I have kids, or someone I know has kids since it's kinda that age level for me. But it's still really weird.

I actually miss the V3 and V4 days - it seemed they had a nice mix of guy and gurl designs. I actually have to say some of those years are my favorites since they seem to actually have put time into thinking out how each tama should look.

I think Bandai has just tried to push the best marketing since it apparently hasn't been to busy for them in the tama department - so they went directly to gurls cause they knew they would be the majority buying it... at least that's what I assume happened. :<