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A Japanese teenager who might not really be either Japanese or a teenager wins millions of viewers with cutesy, subtly sexual, surreal, mainly pointless videos. Discuss.
  • Art imitates life imitating the art of Japanese animation

    To sell ads if not products, actors used to be filmed in evening gowns wearing very knowing looks. Subliminally AIDs makes such sophistication suspect. The genius of these videos' is their realization of a desire for naive reverential attention (peace be with you, master) that we satisfy by adopting loving pets.