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- From: U5A6B%WVNVM.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Jerry Burchard)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
- Subject: Re: KOR: Of Akane, idol-worship, and unusual
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:27:13 GMT
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- To: "Japanese animedia and other animation news." <ANIME-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
- In-Reply-To: Message of 12/28/92 at 05:07:58 from ,
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- On 12/28/92 at 05:07:58 A Techno-Discordian said:
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- .....Some text deleted for brevity's sake.....
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- >If I remember correctly from reading Manga! Manga! by F. Schodt.,
- >Japanese boys and girl read manga partly to gain information about the
- >opposite sex because of the sex-separation of the typical Asian society,
- >so sex in manga is somewhat higher than the American stuff. On the other
- >hand, the closet socialogist in me may be reading between the lines.
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- Now, THAT'S frightening, the idea that many young Japanese's view of the
- opposite sex is based primiarily on what they see in mass media (any
- mass media, not just manga).
-