![]() In some other countries, the anime adaptation was also called Cooking Master Boy. #Hitori sushi boy seriesThe story is centered on a boy whose aim is to become the best chef he could be.Īn anime television series adaptation by Nippon Animation aired on Fuji TV from April 1997 to September 1998. From 1995 to 1996 it was serialized as Chūka Ichiban!, however, during serialization, the character '真' was added, so from 1997 to 1999, it was serialized as Shin Chūka Ichiban! ( 真・中華一番!, True ver. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 1995 to May 1999. Back home, some of these people do not live long if they spill the beans on a friend.Chūka Ichiban! ( 中華一番!, The best in Chinese (food)) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Etsushi Ogawa. Some of them would even say, I am going to tell your wife. Anyways they have no strong commitment and will side with their Japanese compatriots when it comes to who is in the wrong or right. I learn a lesson, when it comes to friends, anybody except Japanese. They only know that one friend is all they should have, and if you have other friends, it is like you are cheating them as if you were husband and wife. The other problem is that Japanese are disfuntional when it comes to maintaining friendships. It kind of has similarities with some extremist religions which I do not want to mention. The problem with Japanese women is that they have bought the story about being subservient to their husbands to the point that is their duty. So, when they marry, they expect the wife to continue as sort of a servant. Here is the problem: Japanese men are too pampered by their mothers to the point they become mama's boys. “I have a boyfriend, but to be honest,” says another young woman, putting the essence of the solitary social life in a nutshell,” it’s more fun without him.” © Japan Today I’ll go to a nice place for lunch, then maybe to a planetarium, and then I’ll go to Yokohama for dinner at Chinatown.” Sometimes he’ll let me drag him along, but it’s always, ‘This is no fun,’ ‘Let’s go home already.’ So I go on dates by myself. “I like the sort of places where people go on dates,” she tells Shukan Asahi. Then there’s the 25-year-old office worker whose idea of the perfect date is to leave her boyfriend at home and go where she wants to go by herself. To work off the stress that builds up, I’ll come again on another day to sing alone.” You end up not singing what you want to sing. One of them is a third-year college student, who explains it this way: “When you’re with other people, you can only sing songs everyone knows, or songs that the others are in the mood for. “Now,” he says, these solitary women “make up 30% of our business.” No wonder they’ve come to think, ‘It’s more fun alone!’”Ī staffer at a karaoke box in Tokyo’s Shibuya has noticed over the past two or three years a growing number of women coming in alone. “Secondly, a woman is conventionally expected to adjust her behavior to the mood of her companion. “First, women have stronger social skills than men” - which presumably give them confidence to venture alone into the sort of place where everyone else is matched with somebody. “There are two main reasons,” says Tokyo University professor Chizuko Ueno, author of a book on the subject, “for the proliferation of ‘o-hitori-sama’” - the neologism coined to describe women soloing out on the town. If it is, more and more women are acquiring it - or maybe they were born with it. Shukan Asahi uses the expression “good at being alone,” as though it were a skill. With no friend or lover present, you can, for a while, live entirely for yourself.” “Alone, you can really savor the taste of your food. At the restaurants I like best,” she says, “I prefer to be alone.” “Once I took the day off and went to Yokohama for a full-course French dinner. A 26-year-old Kansai-area freeter penny-pinches her meager earnings as best she can, and then, when she has enough, she treats herself to a first-class restaurant meal. A working woman with a 2-year-old daughter has to hire a babysitter anyway, so when she finishes work early, she treats herself to a solitary sushi dinner and then goes out for a drink or two. It’s that - well, who needs them? Their presence only spoils that certain special atmosphere you can only create in solitude.Įxample follows example. It’s not that they don’t have friends and significant others. The key word is “all by myself” - which is how, Shukan Asahi finds, a growing number of women prefer to spend their time. “Over New Year,” a 30-year-old woman tells Shukan Asahi (March 27), “I rented a hotel suite and spent the night there all by myself, drinking wine in a bubble bath and reading a magazine.” She smiles. ![]()
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