As Lucy Glasspool observes in Chapter 9: "Japanese pop culture (unlike Japanese mainstream society) abounds with gender-ambivalent characters" (see Chapter 9, p. 254). The prevalent traditional expec- tations concerning gender are dramatically contrasted with a certain liberty to express non-...
We can’t contact Y. We have a million questions about the kids. I spend much of the day roaming the airport grounds in search of somewhere, anywhere, with at least a 3G connection. I’m torn between wanting to see the kids and leaving ASAP but it is ambivalent because for C, it’...
The time spent waiting at Kii was an opportunity for Nishikaichi and Harada to converse on the beach by themselves. The pilot apparently had sensed Harada’s ambivalent loyalties, and he began to play on them. If the shaky defense of Oahu was a typical American response, he told the uncert...
25Fukushima, ‘Ambivalent Mimicry’, 28, 34. 26Ibid., 23. 27For a history of how blackness is used in Japanese mass culture, see Russell, ‘Consuming Passions’, 126–27. 28Russell, ‘Consuming Passions’, 151–52; Kelsky,Women, 145. ...
Architect and interior designer Jeffrey James admits an ambivalent attitude towards nature. Here he turns that ambivalence to positive effect through a series of poetic digital collages that provide a mediation between ‘our incomprehension of the vast magnificence and complexity of the natural world and...
The word shōjo conjures images of both an innocent teen girl in a school uniform and a sexualized female character, both the fictional fighting girls of anime and the love-struck girls of shōjo manga. The word shōjo, written using the characters for “small” and “woman,” is usually...
expressing his ambivalent loyalty. Li was also at the social centre of a group of like-minded collaborators and accommodators in Nanjing, bound by their common practice of classical-style poetry and arts. Their community thus becomes a special case of study for the sociology of survival under ...
“pre-mist” function that basically wets down the inside of your toilet seat so that your poo doesn’t stick to the porcelain. These things don’t matter that much to me, but one friend went so far as to say that the pre-mist function was cool enough that he’d buy one for that...
This cult calls to mind that of the “back door” (ushirodo) of Japanese Buddhist temples, dedicated to Matarajin or similar deities, protectors with a dubious past or an ambivalent nature. The image of Daruma is usually located on the left (the northwest), Daigenshuri on the right (on...
DE GRUYTERManga visions ofhikikomori153ture and pervertedotakuand gave them “a particularly negative connotation”(Azuma 2009: 4, 123).For a short moment in time, theotakuseemed to represent all of the con-cerns about Japanese society: social fragmentation, media addiction, and theloss of bonds...