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..., the turn of the millennium ushered in a huge surge of garbage catering to the growing "otaku subculture" via shows rife with lolicon/moe tropes, casts that were invariably schoolchildren, blushing virgins built for ... of anime concerning the high-brow and the low-brow, in an effort to observe post-war Japanese culture through the eyes of the otaku. This (along with FLCL ) has actually turned out ...

Un-Lovely J-Fashion

...'d continue my little documentation of Japanese street fashion that I don't ... for something totally different, today's Japanese street fashion posting will be on ... against the traditional and fairly restrictive Japanese concepts of beauty and femininity. For... when smiling. In times gone by, Japanese women would always cover their mouth ... in general. It's a whole subculture you're examining when you're...

Saison Culture

... 1993 into a very particular time, place and culture. Anthropologists of 20th century Japanese subculture call the thing I encountered "Parco-Saison Culture". Press them for more precision ... separate impacts he had on a succession of Japanese generations, from the Baby Boomers and the Apathetics... TV commercial to promote Parco, a new Japanese department store. The ad showed Faye Dunaway ...

Man in Japan weds anime game character

... users — mashups of original art, pop music, anime, and web memes that only an insider to Japanese web geek culture can completely decipher. Sal9000 is an active member of the Nico Nico Douga community, so it ... by a guy determined to officiate his devotion to his video game, and to pay homage to the otaku subculture that nurtures this type of creativity. Enjoy! Source: BoingBoing , Youtube

Lolicore

...of pure kittens and orgasms. In essence, lolicore satirizes the obsession with hypersexualized young girls found in select Japanese manga, anime and J-pop idol culture by recycling samples and music from this subculture into abrasive collages that highlight the “wrongness” of a genre bordering on softcore pornography for pedophiles. ...

That guy, and that thing

... February." --- And finally, hey, so, if the bloke calls himself a PhD candidate, he can't be spending *all* his time (...and all his writing skills) on mass-market stuff . Gotta do something for that CV too. Well, hey: something! Galbraith, P. (2009). Moe: Exploring virtual potential in post-millennial Japan . Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies , 2009 volume , article 5.

...borrow such words as samadhi or moksha from the Hindus, or satori or kensho from the Japanese, to describe the experience of oneness with the universe. We have no appropriate word because our...the chemical mysticism of psychedelic drugs, and I have come to believe that the whole "hip" subculture, however misguided in some of its manifestations, is the earnest and responsible effort of young ...

Hibari-sensei’s Guide to Cosplay – Part 2

.... They can be either fashion or cosplay. A popular trend within the ganguro subculture, some girls will wear them on the street. Others treat them as costumes and ...—to mimic the monotone shading of an anime character’s skin. References tangorin.com Japanese Dictionary Kigurumin -related links: animegao_kigu , The FURSUIT TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL , kigurumin Continued ...

Hipsgrrrrrrrrrs

Gyaru is a subculture that is younger than most (You know: Goth,...of years they were almost tolerable by Japanese standards. Skirts got long and flowy for... option. Sure, we still have the Japanese men that think false eyelashes are too... and spidery. Sure, we still have Japanese parents that grudgingly allow their daughters ...'s perception of Gyaru as a subculture because, for once, looking "fresh" took...

Hibari-sensei's Guide to Visual Kei - Part 7

... that visual kei is not your subculture, there are artists still worth giving ...JaME World ) sound, yokai being mythical Japanese creatures. Inspired by both Judas Priest...of yin and yang” ( tangorin.com Japanese Dictionary ). Aural : “組曲『義経』～来世邂逅” (“Kumikyoku ‘Yoshitsune’ Raise Kaiko..., JpopAsia (lyrics translation), tangorin.com Japanese Dictionary Photo Sources Through jrock_scans :...