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Lolita and Rock n’ Roll: An interview with Aisya of Strawberry Quartz
Aisya is a “development employee by day, princess by evening” who champions inclusivity in lolita and infrequently works with BABY the STARS SHINE BRIGHT, who used GNC fashions of their most up-to-date present.
2024 Summer season Three-Episode Verify-In
Peeking in on a few of the most fascinating exhibits of the season up to now–and boy, have we acquired some mess, good and dangerous.
Delico’s Nursery – Episode 1
Can we give you some scorching dads on this attempting time.
What collection do you robotically affiliate with its dub?
In honor of Rachael Lillis, who handed far too quickly.
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Over 80% in Japan morning-after tablet gross sales trial need to purchase with out prescription: report (The Mainichi, Ayaka Kondo)
At the moment the tablet requires a prescription and prices between 7000 and 9000 yen.
The Japan Pharmaceutical Affiliation was entrusted with the trial sale by the well being ministry, and it started on the finish of November 2023 at 145 pharmacies. There are between two and 6 taking part pharmacies in every prefecture, every of which should have a number of pharmacists educated in dishing out the merchandise, be capable to fulfil requests at evening or over weekends, have non-public rooms for consultations, and be capable to work with a close-by obstetrics and gynecology clinic or division. The trial has been obtainable for ladies at the least 16 years outdated, with parental consent and accompaniment required for 16- and 17-year-olds.
In keeping with a survey challenge report launched by the well being ministry this previous Could, the precise variety of circumstances the place drugs have been bought from Nov. 28, 2023, to Jan. 31 of this 12 months was 2,181. Essentially the most have been bought in metropolitan Tokyo, with 266 circumstances, adopted by 231 in Kanagawa Prefecture and 169 in Osaka Prefecture. There have been 5 prefectures, together with Yamaguchi and Yamagata, the place gross sales totaled fewer than 10.
Surveys of purchasers have been performed proper after utilizing the drug and three to 5 weeks later. The primary survey had 1,634 respondents and the second had 1,063. A complete of 82.2% mentioned in the event that they wanted to take emergency contraceptives once more, they wished to skip going to the physician and purchase them at pharmacies with out prescriptions. A well being ministry official mentioned, “We confirmed that there’s a sure degree of demand.”
Concerning the consultations with pharmacists, 91.8% of respondents felt “very glad,” whereas 84.8% mentioned the identical of the eye paid to their privateness. Furthermore, 99.8% mentioned they understood the pharmacists’ explanations nicely.
Then again, simply 38.4% mentioned they have been very glad with the pricing, displaying that many felt the contraceptives have been too costly.
The Boyfriend Shines In The Shadow Of Terrace Home (Aftermath, Luke Plunkett)
Terrace Home was cancelled as a result of its culpability in participant Kimura Hana’s dying to suicide.
This present’s advertising has been very cautious with the way it pitches this system. It has rightly been hailed as a triumph of inclusivity in its native Japan, because it’s the primary ever homosexual courting present to air within the nation, and the way in which it’s in a position to depict same-sex relationships as one thing completely regular and never some unique spectacle is a triumph of each its setup and its manufacturing. The Boyfriend has been bought as a pioneering courting present, which in a technique is precisely what it’s, and has been an enormous success because of this.
However let’s be actual: as you would in all probability inform simply by watching the trailer above, that is Terrace Home rebranded. That is the successor present followers have been ready years for. Similar to Terrace Home, The Boyfriend is a couple of group of singles tossed into a flowery AirBnB, the place they need to juggle work and play, type friendships, discover love and be on digicam the entire time they’re doing it. The occasions are even narrated by a studio panel, which–in case you have been nonetheless on the fence after every thing I simply described–consists of Terrace Home veteran Yoshimi Tokui.
But for all its similarities, The Boyfriend additionally has some key variations that have been absolutely applied to keep away from the present repeating Terrace Home’s errors. Its stars have been solely thrown right into a home for a month, not months. There have been much less individuals in the home, all people was given their very own non-public bed room, consuming gave the impression to be far much less frequent and most plotlines gave the impression to be pushed out within the open as a substitute of behind the scenes, since stars have been repeatedly despatched out on work assignments (principally day-long dates) collectively, and have been filmed your complete time.
The Staying Energy of the Monogatari Collection (Anime Information Community, Christopher Farris and Steve Jones)
Consists of dialogue of the newest collection, the franchise’s first with a feminine director.
Chris: Wait, a novel-based anime, which turned an enormous hit in its period, emblematic of its medium and style, largely controversial due to its divisive protagonist? Monogatari actually was the Mushoku Tensei of its time.
I’m fairly cool with Araryagi myself. To me, he hits proper on the candy spot of being a relatable cringe high-schooler, vulnerable to moments of extremely poor, however extremely hilarious, judgment. Actually, even his seemingly worst moments of perversion come off extra like him doing bits that he simply winds up taking too far. And lord is aware of he suffers loads for all of it.
Steve: You recognize, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown to respect the presence of bits extra. I feel it additionally helps that the narrative is closely and more and more invested in dunking on Arararararagi’s flaws, each in jokey and severe methods. And lest I let that Mushoku Tensei remark move, nonetheless tongue-in-cheek it may need been, the comparability disintegrates whenever you examine the feminine casts in each collection. Monogatari legit has perhaps my favourite assortment of girls within the animesphere? They’re all so inspiring.
Chris: It’s debatable whether or not Monogatari is or ever was a “harem” collection. Regardless, this group of ladies stands out from different gaggles as a result of how absolutely fashioned they emerge, after which carry on going. Positive, they’ve all acquired their very own reliably repeated defining character tics. Say the road, Hanekawa:
However regardless that the narratives ostensibly begin with Araragi on the nexus of fixing these lady issues, Monogatari‘s writing, just about from the start, is solidly insistent about them finally being those to save lots of themselves. That type of ahead character movement propels them to additional progress after their introductory arcs are up.Steve: That’s why, as a lot as I like Bakemonogatari, I feel it finally ends up being the weakest assortment of tales as a result of its concentrate on easier introductory arcs. The true pleasure of this franchise lies in the entire character developments and interactions past that. And that’s why Nisemonogatari is the place the collection begins fulfilling its potential. The toothbrush incest is merely incidental. You discover the true meat within the lengthy stretches of dialogue that peel again extra of those characters’ souls.
Japan Practice Molester Arrested After Climbing “Unclimbable” Fence (Unseen Japan, Francesca Annio)
Whereas latest modifications to the authorized definitions for sexual assault are constructive, change is sluggish in coming.
These figures have been confirmed in February by a nationwide Cupboard Workplace survey. Amongst 3,804 younger respondents, a stunning 10% reported being victims. Even worse, a staggering 80% didn’t report it to the police, most as a result of they didn’t need to ‘make an enormous deal out of it.’
The 2024 survey revealed that practice stations are probably the most frequent web site for molestation, with 62.8% of incidents occurring there. The Saitama Police Railway Unit flagged the Musashino Line as having the best variety of groping studies in 2023. Whereas this doesn’t alter the societal roots of harassment, it does present that crowded locations present extra alternatives for offenders to behave.
The truth is that it’s not so easy, even when victims discover the braveness to talk up. So, if a sufferer does come ahead, what occurs subsequent?
The “best-case situation” is that if the molestation is caught within the act. In that state of affairs, bystanders can arrest the perpetrator on the spot, even with no warrant. This implies the offender will be detained and handed over to the police immediately, while not having additional proof.
The difficulty begins when an arrest can’t be made instantly. Even when harassment is confirmed by sufferer studies and surveillance footage, an arrest warrant typically wants extra proof—like witness accounts, additional footage, or fibers from the sufferer’s clothes. This course of will be intimidating, and the added strain would possibly make some victims hesitate to return ahead.
Chieko Aoki, a lawyer for molestation victims who has confronted it herself, recounted the ordeal vividly in an interview with Sankei Shimbun. In October 2020, after being groped on a practice, she courageously tried to pull her attacker to justice. Nonetheless in shock and injured from the person’s escape, she needed to hand over her underwear as proof. Aoki vividly remembers the extreme unease and anxiousness she felt throughout that second.
Stalker registers marriage along with her male sufferer, tough to annul (The Asahi Shimbun, Takae Kumagai)
The sufferer solely found the wedding when his stalker introduced it on-line.
Divorce skilled Mari Takahashi, a lawyer and former prosecutor with the Daini Tokyo Bar Affiliation, acknowledges that marriages are comparatively regularly registered with one celebration unaware of it.
She mentioned it’s completed for a spread of causes, together with when somebody tries to vary their id.
“These blacklisted as a result of having money owed attempt to change their names, in order to take out recent loans,” she mentioned.
Takahashi mentioned native governments will approve any utility that superficially meets necessities, as they haven’t any technique to decide whether or not the entries have been falsified.
If a single particular person information a wedding utility and it’s accepted, a letter is mailed to the absent partner. Takahashi mentioned many victims solely discover out about their state of affairs after receiving this doc.
When a case goes to courtroom, the perpetrator’s background and motivation tends to return to mild. This reduces a recurrence.
Nevertheless, discovering a perpetrator responsible doesn’t robotically nullify the wedding.
Additional selections or rulings are wanted to right entries on the household register, in order that authorized ties can formally be dissolved. This course of takes a number of months at the least, Takahashi mentioned.
Asylum seekers on provisional launch dealing with poverty in Japan (The Mainichi, Tomomi Akasaka)
At the moment there are roughly 4,000 detainees dwelling underneath these harsh circumstances.
A revised immigration regulation that took impact in June limits the variety of occasions overseas nationals can apply for asylum however permits them to reside elsewhere than immigration amenities, following a number of deaths of unlawful immigrants throughout long-term incarceration.
However the revised measures have drawn criticism from authorized specialists, who say they increase human rights considerations as they go away asylum seekers with out needed help for dwelling exterior the amenities.
“My medical bills have elevated by a whole bunch of occasions, and I’ve no prospect of realizing after I will pay them,” a Pakistani man in his 50s from Saitama Prefecture mentioned at a free well being examination performed by a nonprofit group in Gunma Prefecture in June.
He and his household are on provisional launch after his request for refugee standing was turned down in November. As his residency standing was retracted, he can’t work and has been charged in full for his medical bills to deal with a extreme persistent illness he suffers from.
Perhaps It Ought to Be Unlawful To Immediately Delete A Web site’s Archives (Aftermath, Luke Plunkett)
We may be in a terrifying period of file obliteration, truly.
Within the 21 years Sport Informer’s web site was open–and this was {a magazine} that was as soon as the centre of the online game media panorama because of its lavish reveal tales and covers–are you aware what number of different web sites linked to its posts? What number of Wikipedia pages, what number of studies on the pages of friends and opponents, what number of boards, emails, tweets and Fb posts? It have to be numerous.
Sport Informer’s posts–and the hyperlinks pointing to them–are the bedrock of our trendy, on-line historical past. A lot of the web is constructed round clicking one factor to be taken to a different, hyperlinks piled atop many years of older hyperlinks, that it’s turn into a part of our unconscious person expertise, as second-nature to being on-line as placing one foot in entrance of the opposite is to strolling down the road. However that clicking solely works when there’s one thing to click on to.
In tearing down Sport Informer’s web site, GameStop has torn the nervous system out of an enormous a part of gaming media’s dying physique. You now can’t learn any outdated Sport Informer posts, and many of the outdated hyperlinks pointing in the direction of them don’t work anymore. The place Sport Informer as soon as stood there’s now nothing however a gaping black gap, with torn wires hanging round its edges. Have been it not for the Web Archive (and Wikipedia editors’ herculean efforts in substituting its hyperlinks with archived substitutes) salvaging some outdated tales and hyperlinks, it will be as if the positioning had by no means existed within the first place.
Japanese Indie Otome You Can Play in English (Blerdy Otome, Naja)
A listing of accessible and upcoming titles with English translations.
In the previous couple of years otome video games have been booming within the West, with tons of nice titles making their English language debut! We’ve gone from one or two video games to 12 months to 10 or extra! It’s really a good time to be an otome gamer. However, with all the massive title titles from Otomate and Broccoli making their technique to the West, it’s simple to overlook out on a few of the smaller indie Japanese otome releases!
These quirky, enjoyable, and quick otome titles are simply as pleasurable if no more so than their mainstream counterparts. So, I wished to highlight just a few of the Japanese indie otome video games which are obtainable in English!
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It’s very cool to see so many recommendations, all from totally different eras.
Baccano! A collection set in prohibition-era America lands so a lot better when you might have the regional American accents, and Joel McDonald’s supply of “IT’S THE RAIL TRACAH!” will keep in my thoughts till my dying.
(picture or embed)— Buggy (@rebuggy.bsky.social) Aug 13, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Principally began my anime journey on dubs as a result of they’d be on TV like Pokemon and Cardcaptor Sakura, and household would purchase me DVDs from China which could possibly be in Cantonese dub (FMA, Hamtaro, Futari wa Fairly Treatment). I suppose I watched CCS and Pokemon in EN and Cantonese dub.
(picture or embed)— 猫猫茶 (@nekotea.bsky.social) Aug 13, 2024 at 10:13 AM
