Каме может, и я смогу
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Japanese women go gaga over Buddha boys

The Japanese media is famous for creating categories to describe people and trends, like “soshoku danshi” (herbivore boys), who are more interested in hobbies than the opposite sex. Now, we have the “bosatsu danshi,” or Buddha boy.

The Buddha boy is not about loving the belly. Literally, a “bosatsu” is a Bodhisattva, or enlightened being, which in statuary form are often rather thin and intense-looking. A “bosatsu danshi” likewise “has a beautiful face, smooth skin, slim body, but is not too feminine. Theirs is an attractiveness and sensuality beyond mere sex and age.”

That description is from the Jan 20 issue of women’s magazine An-an, which provides real-life Buddha boy examples — actors Masaya Kikawada, Go Ayano and Yoshihiko Hosoda.

And in manga. No, not Osamu Tezuka’s “Buddha,” but Buddha as a hot young man living as a poor bachelor in the suburbs of Tokyo with a Jesus Christ who thinks he looks like Johnny Depp. This is “Saint Young Men,” a manga by young female artist Hikaru Nakamura that has morphed from a one-shot gag into a cultural phenomenon. Volume 4, released last October, sold 321,000 copies in one week, topped the Oricon Biz comics ranking the following month, and was voted to the number one spot in This Manga is Incredible 2009. It also won the 13th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award in the Short Story category.

@темы: японский, we are too busy pretty-ing the world, манга

Комментарии
04.09.2016 в 14:53

My happiness is your nightmare
Ну что тут можно сказать...
Да они е*анулись.
Но мангу добавила в список
04.09.2016 в 15:19

Каме может, и я смогу
Liyirna,
если что, ее на ридманге переводят. я ее обожаю, реально классно и с юмором.
readmanga.me/saint_young_men

можно вообще с аниме начать, там две ОВАшки по полтора часа:
findanime.ru/saint_onii_san
04.09.2016 в 15:30

My happiness is your nightmare
korolevamirra, на инглише вроде значительный кусок переведён, но заброшен.
04.09.2016 в 15:33

Каме может, и я смогу
Liyirna,
я что-то до 30 какой-то дочитала на русском, сейчас пошла продолжение читать, а там какой-то перевод странный, я ничего не понимаю ((
надо бы на инглише глянуть, да.