Outside of moments where Minami is able to lend her skills to a problem at hand, Minami’s old self endures: while playing a game with Haruka, Ayaka and Megumi, Minami runs afoul of the wildlife on the course and is reduced to running around in a blind panic when the wildlife chase h...
(Skt. = Usnisa) atop the Buddha’s head; the Butchō embody the power of the light emitted from that bump; they often appear as Bodhisattva, and can assume male or female form; in Japan, the Butchō are associated especially with rites for the dead, for their powers include purifying ...
Originally intended for teenagers, particularly girls, House pits a bunch of young female schoolgirls against a demonic entity and the result is a frenzy of nightmarish images including flying decapitated heads, a cannibalistic piano, a satanic cat, and laughing watermelons to name a few. Obayashi...
Ichikawa Kodanji IV as the ghost of Asakura Togo in the play Higashiyama Sakura zoshi, “The Story of Sakura of Higashiyama.” Based on historical events in 1653 with the characters’ names changed (Asakura Togo was actually Sakura Sogoro). The story tells of a village chief who was forced...
Starting with this first adaptation airing in 2004,Pretty Curehas become a magical girl franchise that has spawned numerous universes and spin-off stories that have charmed little girls all over Japan. The active Nagisa, star of the lacrosse team, and the book smart Honoka are chosen by the ...
male and female birds were randomly allocated to four dietary treatments. The birds in each treatment group were provided with 80% (DR20), 70% (DR30), and 60% (DR40) of their average individual feed intake, while the control group was fed ad libitum (ADL). Males and females were kept...
Those were two books I loved as a child, and I was suddenly back in them, imagining those places as Yoshida did. It took a while, but I finally went on to the houses, starting with the “Mischievous Bridge Tower Keeper” (“Nasty Bridge-Tower Keeper” in the original), enjoying the ...
Harukawa's women usually have an aloof look on their faces and often are doing everyday activities such as smoking or drinking a cup of tea. By far the most common Harukawa theme is female domination by facesitting for cunnilingus and/or anilingus. His work also includes smothering with ...
At a recent shareholders’ gathering of consumer loan provider Acom Co., an institutional investor from Europe proposed that its “articles of incorporation be revised to have at least one female director.”
Analysis reveals the gendered division of labor and status in the duties of food preparation in a late medieval (rodent) warrior household with male chefs in charge of flavoring and carving at the top of the kitchen hierarchy and female servants performing manual labor outside at the bottom. ...