the beautiful, androgynous men of shōjo manga represent a third gender,

many shōjo manga titles at the time feature male rather than female main characters.

“the shōjo was rearticulated as a feature of Japanese late-model, consumer capitalism”

“hirahira imagery crosses a range of sensual boundaries, freely fluttering and floating back and forth. It does not belong to the visual, aural, olfactory, or any other sense in particular. Rather it is shared by each sense, and thus blurs the distinction of each from another. It dissolves the boundary between body and outer world and amalgamates body and mind […] By its constant association with ‘another world to be dreamed,’ it blurs the border between ordinary reality and the world of imagination. Ultimately hirahira is the image of the free”

These privileged girls, visible in public for the first time, became symbols of everything that had changed in Japan.

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.

I think that both my parents love (care about) me

(c) I think that both my parents love (care about) me

While they experience increasing pressure to develop unique attributes for identity development, they have to be responsive to conventional social norms (e.g., filial piety and social harmony) and the expectations of others (e.g., parents and teachers).

while Japanese people showed higher collectivism in some aspects (e.g., valuing working in groups) than European Americans, they did not differ from their European American peers in the core aspects of individualism (e.g., valuing personal uniqueness; Oyserman et al., 2002).

Between 1953 and 2013, the proportion of young Japanese who endorsed the traditional collectivistic way of life, termed selfless devotion to the society, decreased from 42 to 9%, while the proportion of young Japanese who endorsed individualism, or enjoying one’s own private life, increased from 38 to 67% (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2017).

But it really docs look gross. It's like there's something wrong with it. Tomorrow, when Ryuji sees me down there he's going to get turned off. It's okay if he hares something about my personality, but my pride would be hurt if he hated me after seeing part of my body.

I used to masturbate back in third grade,

To tell the truth, whenever Namiko and I get together, I feel like I'm yawning inside. I'd never imagined hanging out with a girlfriend could suck so much

Being with Ryuji is too exhausting. I never used to be this ditsy, but recently I've been forgetting to make a note of my homework, I smashed a glass beaker in chemistry class, pressed the wrong but­tons on the vending machine ... The list goes on. I need to get away from Ryuji and spend more time with my girlfriends.

The older ones are the best. They buy me anything l wane and lee me do whatever [like.But they're so clingy. They can't hide how jealous they are."

I've dumped all eleven girls Twas seeing. Well, there are still two char I haven't actually broken up with yet, bur I'm gonna real soon." He had elevm girlfriends?

Come on, when you gonna lee me do it?"

his is Ryuji, the man who has stroked my breasts, sucked and nibbled on my nipples. I wonder why he does chat? Suck­ing, biting, and stuff? He's begun to try to get me to hold his dick too.

"Thank you so much!" I tell them it's really cute.

Suddenly the guys we came with start picking on us, and laughing, "Guess you chicks aren't so hoc."

Later that evening, some punks on motorcycles turn up and ask the four high-school guys if they wane to exchange their two chicks for the two that are with them. The high-school guys talk it over. I kind of expect them to refuse right off. Looks like it's wishful thinking. amiko and I have a quick conference. It's probably safer to go with the strongest.

This trip to the sea is really lame.

Come to chink of it, I don't really trust Namiko. IfI tell her, she'll make too much of a deal of it. She'll try to analyze every lirtlc derail.

Bue I'm in a total bind, because I can't cell her about chat guy l've been seeing. The thing is, Namiko used co have a crush on him.

Ever}' guy who passes gawks at amiko's huge boobs

"You call chis asking someone out? This is so creepy."

Milk

guess being soul mates doesn't reallr mean chat much anyway

If you did chat with a guy at school, or an "insider" if you like, he wouldn't go for it. He'd gee mad and accuse you of picking on him. f guess that would be the normal response.)

she is sooo faking it.

When assaulted by a cerrain emotion, the disharmony elicited in him would lead him to recall elements of the disharmony he had felt before a word.

"What's there to get so sad about, just because we lost a baseball game?" He wondered about these crying faces, so alien to him. The boy knew that he felt things easily, but his sensitivity lay in a direction different from everyone else's. Things that brought others to tears failed to echo at all in his heart.

bulky lightness

"But if you were a real poet, a genius, wouldn't poetry save you at such a time?"

"But isn't poetry salvation at a time like this?"

One who makes beautiful things cannot be ugly.

"I don't like Goethe. He's an old man. Schiller is young. I like him better."