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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Very interesting to hear how you perceive this dress. I think in the west dresses with sleeves are more rare than without, especially long sleeves. In Japan and anime you still see sleeved dresses as well as collared dresses. For the west it’s quite old school. Usually people wear dresses only in summer, and casually. So to me it looks like a kind of typical summer dress except with pleats and a collar stuck on, instead of a shirt with the sleeves taken off and a skirts stuck on. Kind of the opposite way you describe it. It’s just interesting how two different people look at the same thing from a different angle.

    On the other hand you do seem to have the modern western perception that a collar makes it formal in some sense, and that collars mostly come on shirts. In the past collars were also casual as just wearing a shirt without collar was a big no no. And collared dress were also more of a thing. I completely understand it as in modern days just wearing a collared shirt with the collar open is already formal enough for most work related occasions. In a more classic understanding, the collar on this dress is a casual one because when buttoned up it sits quite low and doesn’t hug the neck closely. Of course in times where cleavage is acceptable in a lot of scenarios, closing the last button at all can be seen as being formal in a sense. I think in an SOL anime or Japanese context, this dress can still be considered casual. Japan still leans more to the classic/conservative side when it comes to clothing.

    Here are some Japanese examples from Yuruyuri seiyuus:

    I also think this dress is very cute! I hardly see collared dress or dresses with pleats “out in the wild” unfortunately. Slice of life anime like Yuruyuri and its fan art is a treasure trove of cute outfits. Namori sensei herself is very good at designing outfits in my opinion. And forgive me for typing lengthy paragraphs about clothes again 🤣.























  • I understand the embarrassment. Personally I’m kinda of over that (I just don’t care anymore lol). A lot of seiyuu events will have something where the seiyuu is pretending to be the character and the crowd might have an interaction, but when it comes to screaming OPPAI KINSHIII, things like that are very much a Yuruyuri thing not so much present in events of other anime as far as I know. It’s a bit extra embarrassing for sure.

    I’m not exactly made of going-to-japan money but if I were to go I guess I would visit a maid cafe to experience it. The main events would probably be things like the K-ON! or Non Non Biyori schools and the Lucky Star shrine. I would love most to attend a Yuruyuri concert but there is an extremely low probability that they do another one as well as at a time such that I would be able to go…







  • The first part is quite good but where he starts making conclusions he lost me a bit. It doesn’t really explore well why K-ON! has attracted this crowd as opposed to other CGDCT anime.

    The argument that the nazis like K-ON! in particular because of its never ending purity (permanently 12) does not make sense. He even describes The Tale of Genji as inducing mono no aware in the viewer, which the character in the story lacks. But K-ON! has very clear themes of mono no aware build in. And the characters do grow up and do realise the end of their ideal youth. This is even one of the must pungent parts of the anime. I mod !kon@lemmy.world and the banner depicts just after that very moment. The value of youth has significance in Japanese culture revered for its fleeting beauty often compared to things like the falling of the sakura leaves and the light of the glowing bug that lives only for one day. You could say that like Genji doesn’t want to see the moving of time in the girl he likes, the nazis try to ignore the mono no aware that is present in K-ON!. But if this is the argument it wasn’t clear to me that this in particular is the argument that is being made. Coming back to the forever 12 thing, there are shows where the characters are in a forever N years old time flow (like Yuru Yuri) so if this is the appeal you would think they would have chosen a show like that.

    I also feel like there is a bias in the west against mostly positive shows, put down as empty or just escapism. K-ON! is being compared to siren. And that only dark depressive and gritty media is cool and relevant. If you present an anime that is more positive than real life it is “just escapism” and “unhealthy fantasy”, but if you present an anime more negative than real life all of the sudden “it shows the nature of humanity” or something like that. Dark media is often descriptive, holding a mirror up for us to see ourselves in. On the other hand, fluffy media like K-ON! can be prescriptive instead, inspiring us to work towards a better self and world by giving an example of how things could be. For example in K-ON! instead of practicing very hard they drink a lot of tea. In a world mega focused on achievement, many could benefit from “wasting” a bit of time by drinking tea. There is even a whole arc where Azunyan doesn’t get that but she learns through time. Personally I take some Zen/Daoist messages from such things in CGDCT. “tanoshii wa tanoshii da yo!” - Hirasawa Yui

    Of course, !kon@lemmy.world does not have any nazi stuff so come have a look 🥰