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The translation of love : a novel
An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister.
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Fujoshi: Fantasy Play and Transgressive Intimacy among “Rotten Girls” in Contemporary Japan
This article is a theoretical and ethnographic inquiry into intimate communication and friendship among young women in contemporary Japan. The group I am considering consumes, produces, and reproduces mainstream manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese animation), similar to the phenomenon of fan fiction and fan art in the United States and Europe, with a focus on imagining unintended romance and relationships between male characters, much like slash fiction. Fans produce works not only for personal pleasure but also to share them, facilitate interaction, and bridge a shared imaginary. In Japan, as elsewhere, women account for the majority of this activity, but unique to Japan is the relative autonomy this group has achieved and the high visibility of their activities. The existence of overlapping spheres of virtual and physical fan activity on the present scale in Japan provides a unique opportunity to analyze emergent patterns of intimacy at a time when interactions with media and technology are playing an increasingly important role in shaping communication and friendship. My case study is a group of young women who identify asfujoshi, or “rotten girls.” This article examines how they produce, consume, and share fiction, as well as the discussions and relationships that these practices make possible across physical and virtual space. The major focus is on playful interactions with the text and with otherfujoshi, which contributes to “getting out of hand” and exploring what I call “transgressive intimacy,” which is imagined between characters and betweenfujoshithemselves. I apply the theory of “netacommunication” and develop an alternative, “moecommunication,” to explain this phenomenon.
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Kiniro mosaic. 7
\"Shino and friends are a little uneasy about moving to a higher grade, but a school trip to Nara and Kyoto (and the chance to make new memories!) is just around the corner! As a huge fan of Japanese culture, Alice should be excited, but she's just too worried. The new school year is about to begin-- will everyone still be in class together for their last big high school excursion?\"--Back cover.
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Writing Same-Sex Love: Sexology and Literary Representation in Yoshiya Nobuko's Early Fiction
From the 1910s through the 1930s, same-sex love was particularly associated with young women receiving post-primary school education, most often students attending higher girls' schools (koto jogakko; Furukawa 1995, p. 207; Pflugfelder 2005, pp. 133, 136, 142).6 In addition to the general term doseiai (same-sex love), referring to both male and female relationships, a number of specific terms were created to describe female same-sex love, including ome and esu.7 The meanings and nuances associated with these and other terms shift during this period, but, broadly speaking, same-sex love was construed through what might be called a dualistic continuum; on the one hand, there was the adolescent romantic friendship, pure and platonic, and on the other, sexual deviancy practiced by degenerates and/or so-called inverts (seiteki tentosha) born with an \"inverted\" masculine nature whose desire was for members of the same sex.
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Idoru
SCIENCE FICTION. Set in futuristic Tokyo, rebuilt after an earthquake, this is the story of a rock star who decides to marry a non-existent, virtual reality girl; the bemused American security consultant who has been sent to take care of him; and, a teenage fan. This is a witty futuristic thriller.
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Deadly flowers : a ninja's tale
\"Kata, a ninja, embarks on her first solo mission, for which she must enter a warlord's castle and make sure that a certain sleeping occupant never awakens. But then Kata discovers that her target is just a young boy (and that her new accomplice is that boy's slightly older sister), and suddenly her mission is much more complicated than she bargained for. Faced with taking someone's life or confronting the dire consequences of failure in her mission, Kata must make a hard choice, one that leads her into a more dangerous battle than she ever expected.\"--Amazon.com.
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Deadly wish
\"In this sequel to Deadly Flowers, set in Feudal Japan, girl-ninja Kata must outwit other ninjas; her enemy, Saiko; and a cast of dangerous, supernatural creatures, as she tries to dispose of a magical pearl without wishing on it--the demon in the pearl can grant any wish, but the demon will win the soul of the last wisher.\"--Publisher's description.
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A darkly beating heart
\"No one knows how to handle Reiko. She is full of hatred; all she can think about is how to best hurt herself and those people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt at her home in Seattle, Reiko's parents send her to spend the summer with family in Japan, hoping she will learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping backward in time into the nineteenth-century life of Miyu, a young woman even more vengeful than Reiko herself. Reiko loves escaping into Miyu's life...until she discovers Kuramagi's dark secret and must face down Miyu's demons as well as her own.\"--Amazon.com.
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Your name. Another side: Earthbound. 01
\"Seemingly at random, Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, finds himself waking up in the body of Mitsuha, a girl from a small rural town. The days when he's 'Mitsuha' are a constant struggle to navigate speaking, behaving, and dressing like a girl. Despite Taki's best efforts, though, everyone can't help but notice that Mitsuha is acting a bit ... odd.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tokyo mew mew omnibus. Volume 2
The female fighting force Tokyo Mew Mew is on a quest to discover the Mew Aqua, a powerful element that can purify anything contaminated.
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