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Girls with eye patches, bandages endear themselves to 'otaku' crowd
What is it about the girl in the eye patch? Would she be so cute without it? Does her bandaged arm enhance her beauty?
Bandages were forced on the attention of the general public just before the July Upper House election, when then agriculture minister Norihiko Akagi faced a press conference with a mysteriously bandaged cheek. It's nothing, he said when asked about it. He declined to elaborate. The effect was anything but sexy; certainly it did nothing to save his Liberal Democratic Party from a vicious drubbing at the polls.
So voters don't like bandages on politicians. But guys like them on girls, says Weekly Playboy (Sept 3), and the “moe” world is lately awash in them.
“Moe” is a neologism that escapes easy definition. It means something like puppy love with a gimmick – like the love object is a comic book character, or a cafe waitress in a maid costume, or a girl wearing an eye patch. To help us understand what’s going on in “moe-land,” Weekly Playboy composes a presumably fictional dialogue, in which several representative characters figure.
It opens with a “freshman Weekly Playboy staffer” named Dasao, who enters wearing a surgical mask. What’s up? asks “Tacapo,” a “moe” idol researcher.
Dasao explains that he saw an “idol” wearing a mask on a late-night TV show; people seem to like it on her, so maybe they will on him too.
Tacapo erupts at this; he gives Dasao a good beating. “Idiot!” he rages. “In ‘moe-land,’ glasses are out, surgical masks are out – now it’s injuries that are cool!”
Enter “Nonoko,” a waitress at a maid cafe in Akihabara, the capital of “moe-land.”
“That's true,” she says. “Bandages and eye patches are everyday fashion items among the Lolita girls. I myself wear an eye patch with my maid’s costume, and I bandage my wrists and ankles. The guys who come to Akihabara say, ‘Oh, that’s so cute! That’s so chic!’”
“R-really?” stammers Dasao, who looks in need of a little bandaging himself.
Definitely, affirms “S-ko,” a “costume player.” “When you’re wearing a bandage and look like you’ve been hurt, everybody notices you. They’re worried about you. They ask you how you hurt yourself. It makes it easy for guys to approach you. It makes them want to protect you. And their air of concern is so nice.”
“You hear that?” thunders Tacapo to Dasao. “Your injuries will help you meet girls!”
“Yes, I see,” says Dasao, ready now to admit that Tacapo has done him a good turn.
“What it all boils down to,” sums up Dr Yukyu, a psychologist, “is weakness. A maid waitress with thick glasses who clearly can’t see well and addresses her patrons very respectfully and timidly as ‘sir,’or a waitress in bandages or an eye patch suggesting serious injury – weakness is what all this has in common. The people around her think to themselves, ‘I want to protect her.’ In these days of gender equality, there are more and more strong women around. So men with a protective instinct are on the lookout for weak women.”
“I... I see,” burbles Dasao – who, presumably a man, seems to be missing the point that the male is supposed to be protective, not himself in need of protection. But “moe-land” is a big place, and getting bigger. There’s surely room there for him too.
August 23, 2007
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vase   (Aug 23 2007 - 17:44) | Rate | Report |
I asked the teacher. This only generated more questions such as "What?? are you talking about?" and "What??"
I am even further confused by this explanation. Bandages are in? So it's cool to wear a bandage and eye patch?
I guess it doesn't matter that you're not really injured!! How do you respond to "How did that happen?" when it's just a bandage. Do you come up with an elaborate story "I was fighting in my Gundam when these missiles from behind clipped my wings"? or do you simply reply with the obvious "It's just a bandage...what's wrong with you"?
I have great difficulty understanding this moe-moe thing...someone help me *wink wink (through my eye patch)...
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| pandaclair (Aug 24 2007 - 04:00) | Rate | Report |
Y'arr...
| Moe | |
| lostrune (Aug 24 2007 - 15:57) | Rate | Report |
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| girl_in_tokyo (Aug 26 2007 - 15:39) | Rate | Report |
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| Zorro (Aug 28 2007 - 10:00) | Rate | Report |
I have always found eyepatches to be sexy the few times I have seen them on women. I guess I am just ahead of time. What is under the eyepatch could be a turn-off tho.
Only an uncouth foreigner would ask such a question! Most Japanese would wait for them to explain on their own I think, just in case the answer is embarrassing, they dont want to put the person on the spot.
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| bebert (Sep 1 2007 - 12:37) | Rate | Report |
| Girls with eye patches, bandages endear themselves to 'otaku' crowd | |
| frontandcentre (Sep 3 2007 - 14:51) | Rate | Report |
| Pussies | |
| bebert (Sep 3 2007 - 16:49) | Rate | Report |
Here we go again with another episode of the Vagina Monologues. What an ignorant thing to say. Why not attack women with a "maternal" instinct for choosing to protect and raise their children rather than dumping them into a nanny's lap and pursuing their destinies as fighter pilots and astronauts? Some men are born and raised with a tight bond to their mother and a feeling of obligation to protect their sisters. There is nothing wrong with that. It's instinct. It carries over into their personal lives. If a guy seeks out a "weak" girl, that shouldn't be condemmed. Only what happens afterward. If he keeps her weak and insecure through head games and the like, yeah, he's a loser, but if he takes this weak girl and builds her up and makes her happy, you'd be an ass to call him a pussy or a predator. He'd be what you'd call a partner and a friend.
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| Sarge (Sep 3 2007 - 17:03) | Rate | Report |
:-O
| Girls with eye patches, bandages endear themselves to 'otaku' crowd | |
| matsellah (Sep 11 2007 - 13:13) | Rate | Report |
| this is a made up article | |
| urko (Sep 11 2007 - 13:20) | Rate | Report |
I hope people don't think its a real article.
Dasao? = its a play on dasai...
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