The fact that someone drew the kanji for meat on the cover of this free paper is unremarkable, but what if I tell you that they also drew it on almost every forehead of every picture inside! That’s dedication.
Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Game|Life, and The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at Cafe Pause.
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Jean Snow is the design/culture editor at Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx, here.
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that 肉 thing is a manga character, can’t remember his name, something kinniku? (which links this to the last post at neomarxisme)
it reminds me of the way japanese manga are sold in malaysia. on top of the factory-whited out genitalia someone goes over with a black texter and blackens out all nipples. quite remarkable when it’s done on a several meters high stack of say young jump books each the size of the yellow pages.
(The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ?)
Yeah, it’s for Kinnikuman, a sort of space wrestler. But it’s funnier when you just think of it as “meat.” Hehehehe…