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Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach Saint Crystal Wand in box. The Saint Crystal is part of the Saint Something Four. This was the first magical girl item I ever saw, and it inspired my insane obsession with RPG toys. Many, MANY thanks to the seller! ? | Elysion's Princess posted a photo:
Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach Saint Crystal Wand in box. The Saint Crystal is part of the Saint Something Four. This was the first magical girl item I ever saw, and it inspired my insane obsession with RPG toys. Many, MANY thanks to the seller! ? |
| Elysion's Princess posted a photo:
Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach Saint Crystal Wand in box. The Saint Crystal is part of the Saint Something Four. This was the first magical girl item I ever saw, and it inspired my insane obsession with RPG toys. Many, MANY thanks to the seller! ? | GerardusMaximus posted a photo:
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I didn't think this would turn out so washed-out, but I wanted to show this shirt anyway. It's some rare Japanese Sailor Moon Super S shirt my friend Helen found at a garage sale for me. She also found another rare SM shirt there, too. I have no idea how she got so lucky! | babymanji posted a photo:
Taken February 4th during a geek sleepover.
Sorry, I got behind on my postings. |
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I posted an entry on my Tumblr (LaurenNakaoWinn.tumblr.com) the other day. It pretty much told of this existential experience I had while observing the moon phases. During this time I questioned life, my dreams, my general dissatisfaction with the world, and how I accept this disillusionment to varying degrees. In the end, I resolved to pursue my dreams despite the hardship because that's all I know how to do.
My perseverance paid off sooner than I could have imagined. Just last night, I was commissioned by a band to cover their concert. This is my first paying job and it's what I want to do when I leave my university. I was so jazzed over the opportunity I almost forgot to check the moon. Then, sure enough, when I walked outside there it was: the full moon. Gorgeously bright and inspiring, I feel as if the orb in the sky coincided with the sudden change of events. It's absolutely exhilarating.
I know there will be more times when I stare into the sky and feel disillusionment once more. It's inevitable. But during those times, I'll think of last night and hopefully that will be enough to get me back into the state of mind necessary for me to succeed.
Also, I just started practicing lunar photography in the past month. This photo has been the best by FAR of all my photos! | timtak posted a photo:
As predicted, the alter-egos of Japanese superheroes are more individualistic than their super human forms, in the extent to which they will not sacrifice themselves for their groups and the extent to which they go their own way. It is the superheroes in their superform who are more conformist, more respectful of the needs of others.
The same tendency was found among Western super heroes from a Japanese perspective. The most commonly chosen Western superhero was Spiderman, who is encouraged to realise that "with great power comes great responsibility." Perhaps Spiderman is rather Japanese.
It would be ne interesting to do the survey among Westerners who know more unharmonious Western super heros such as the Hulk and the darker side of Batman. In spite of the data collected in Japan, I still predict that many Western Superheros are individualistic to the point of being anti-heroic in the 'go against the grain' sense, while often their alter-egos are at least pretending to be conformists. I.e. that in the images beneath the graph above, the individualists are on the right.
Unfortunately I do not have access to Western data but I predict that Western superheros may seem more individualistic than their human alter-egos to Westerners.
This data taken together with a previous study, may support the notion that, while Japanese superheroes are more collectivist than Western ones (by all appraisals) this may represent the socially desired norm, rather than the social reality. Or, more strongly, Japanese admire collectivists because they aren't, and Westerners admire individualists because they wanna be.
With thanks to Taku Shimonuri who suggested comparing the ind/col of superheroes and Yasuko Takemoto who pointed out that one needed to be an individualist to become a Japanese superhero. |
