[ichigoichie]

Hi! I've often heard that Japanese manga/anime changed concepts about love relationships, femininity, masculinity, even life itself.

For example, KAWAII (Cute)-ness and childishness depicted especially in Shojo-manga/anime have given an alternative to western notion of feimininity which tends to value matureness.

If it's true, I'm so interested in hearing how your ideas about love life, relationships (friendships, family relationships etc), life itself have been changed.

In my case (a Japanese female), I longed for too-much romanticism about love relationships with my boyfriends. So, in many cases, our relationships ended up my disillusion. (But now I'm mature enough to understand that commited relationship has to do with not only romanticism but also other things (pains/hardship/respect/responsiblity etc). But still I love being cute and want to be thought as a cute woman.

How about you?