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Tonight let's talk about women's fantasies.
Blushing, heartbeating, and the swaying skirt of the school uniform, the most exciting college love animation of this summer is probably "Fabricated Trap - NTR-". Pink girls hold hands and break through the boundaries of taboos in one fell swoop to compose a summer of domestic lilies.
Adapted from the work of the same name by Japanese manga artist Naoko Kiryu, "Fabricated Traps - NTR-" was published in comic lily magazine comic lily, which has been published since 2015 by Ichiseisha in Japan, and is still unfinished, with four single books published in two years, which is a popular work in the Lily manga.
The protagonist of the story, Yuma Okazaki, and Yuki Mizuka grew up together, and the two have been educated in the same place and are neighbors separated by a wall. When Mizuko was ostracized by the children around him when he was a child, Okazaki Yuma helped him, and the two formed a friendship and became inseparable friends.
After entering junior high school, he began to associate with boys, and after entering high school, he frequently changed boyfriends, from the football department to the basketball department, all the handsome men in the school were attacked, and the boyfriend in the second year of high school was Fujiwara of the basketball department. Fujiwara Tomomi is the main force of the basketball department, with a slightly cold personality but very popular with girls.
Okazaki Yumasa and Fujiwara belong to the basketball department, and after being confessed by takeda of the basketball department, Takeda, although not as dazzling as Fujiwara, is a gentle boy. The two couples often date together, and under the seemingly loving and fresh interactive appearance of the little couples, the dark wave surges.
Knowing that Okazaki is really interacting with boys, Mizuko still launches an offensive against Yumasa to help yumasa warm up. Yumasa is very resistant to the provocative behavior of the water family fireflies, but is honest about the aphid butterfly body.
The main content of each episode of the cartoon is to show two cute female high school students with red faces and sweating, and the single episode is ten minutes, which is not enough to watch.
As a typical lily anime work, in addition to containing the basic element of turning from female friendship to love relationship, "Fabricated Advanced-NTR-" breaks through the stereotype of the outside world for lily-oriented works, and the connotation of intimate interaction between two lovely female high school students is limited, but interpreting the relationship around these two girls may help to understand the direction and meaning of "lily-to-work".
Compared with Lily's works, the discussion of works of Beauty in literary criticism theory is more popular. Scholars and marketers in the comic book market often define the audience of the work as heterosexual women.
The main reason why these heterosexual women who are themselves heterosexuals pay attention to the works of Tammy is that most of the heterosexual comic works take the male perspective as the starting point, and the women are the objects of gaze and viewing, and are the passive objects of male desires. Even in girly comics, female characters still struggle to escape this limitation. Through the invisibility of women, The works of Tanmei turn the object of objectification into a male character, providing a reasonable outlet for the desires of female readers/viewers.
In fact, the vast majority of Yumei's works are written by women, and the pictures presented have no substantial relationship with real relationships between men.
Literary criticism theory is based on the premise of women's retirement to carry out a number of assumptions, arguing that the disappearance of women excludes the issue of gender inequality from the scope of discussion, providing a fuller space for true love;
Avoiding the presence of women makes the act of gazing at men justified, as a female reader/audience can not fully bring in the male character, so that while appreciating, it will not completely become the subject of lust, so as to avoid shame and betrayal when facing the affairs of men and women.
In the marketing of the manga market, "Lily" is seen as the antithesis of Tammy, which is aimed at women and Lily is aimed at men. In fact, it is not, and the hundred contracts are also works for women. The Fabrication Trap - NTR-is a good example.
Lily Xiang works are equally applicable to the American literary critic Frederick Jameson's theory of popular culture.
Zhan Mingxin believes that popular culture has the dual role of ideology and utopian ideals. The function of ideology is manifested in the attitude of support and affirmation of the current situation of society and the mainstream values of society. When faced with real-life dilemmas, popular culture will show the desire and pursuit of a utopian ideal world.
The protagonists of "Fabricated Traps - NTR-" Okazaki Yuma and Mizuko Hotaru still follow the mainstream values of society in form and make social mainstream choices, they interact with boys of the same grade, and also interact intimately with the opposite sex, with significant heterosexual female characteristics. Mizuko's attack on Okazaki Yumasa, who is half-pushed and half-accepted by Mizuko-Yuki, can be seen as an act of escaping from utopian ideals after reality is frustrated.
Hotaru Mizuko has a rich emotional experience, and her current boyfriend, Fujiwara, is perfect to outsiders, but inside he is a misogynist. Fujiwara does not like women, but is not exclusive of intimate behavior between the opposite sex, and actively pursues such behavior, and the water department is actually a tool for boyfriends to vent their carnal desires, and are mentally empty.
Okazaki Yumasa lacks experience in interacting with the opposite sex, and does not have a fiery youthful love for Takeda, but because the other party does not feel annoyed after confessing, he begins to associate, and he often feels nervous in the process of getting along with Takeda, and is slightly resistant to Takeda's request to quickly develop a relationship.
Whether it is Water Oryo or Okazaki, the comfort in heterosexual love is not very high, and they have to escape and run hand in hand to the utopian ideal country.
For the two boyfriends Fujiwara and Takeda, Mizuko's response to Okazaki is the "NTR" (that is, being forcibly occupied by others) in the title of the anime, but this "occupation" is actually the behavior of female characters who retreat to the second place because reality cannot meet their inner needs, which is a state of fictional idealism under the mainstream thinking of society, which fits the female psychology.
Just as the intimate state of male characters will be disclosed in works for women, lily will naturally disclose the intimate state of female characters to works, and women will return to the original point again and become objects for people to gaze and watch. But it would be biased to classify lily-oriented works as works aimed at male readers/audiences on this basis alone.
Whoever needs to escape reality and run to utopia is the audience of popular culture. As a branch of subculture, lilies and beautiful works, as a way to construct a utopian spiritual world, are themselves a way to relieve the pressure of reality, escaping shameful but useful, and trying to escape but not being able to do is the worst.