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MELANCOLY_GIRLS

                                           December 15, 2010
                                           February 27, 2011


In "The Melancoly of Haruhi Suzimiya",
Haruhi introduces Mikuru describing her     MELANCOLY
as a "moe" figure, but this doesn't just
mean that Mikuru is a high school girl.
For example, Haruhi talks up the size of
Mikuru's breasts with enthusiasm.
Mikuru is a "fetishized" woman, of a           This worship of bumbling
sort: cute, scattered, insecure,               insecurity may be the worst
large-breasted...                              aspect of Lolita-fetishes:
                                               A desperate need for a woman
    Mikuru (aka Miss Asashina) works           that isn't threatening.
    well as a foil to Haruhi...
    They are submissive and dominant                    CREEPING_SPEARS
    personalities taken to an extreme.
    Two ways of being feminine, and on
    the surface the story is about a
    guy who needs to choose between        And on the surface, Kyon
    them.                                  really prefers the Moe
                                           Mikuru, but is forced to
                                           play-up to the dominant
       The voice actress who does          Haruhi to keep the peace.
       Haruhi is Aya Hirano.  In the
       DVD extras, you can see her                 And myself, I'm inclined
       doing public promotional                    to think that this is a
       appearences: she does the shy,              blind: Haruhi's actual
       self-effacing japanese girl                 role is to push Kyon to
       thing, bowing, bobbing her                  do things, to make his
       head, compulsively thanking the             life more interesting
       audience.                                   than it would be if left
                                                   to his own devices.
       This could not be more different
       from the character she voices in               We like the weak,
       the series: Haruhi Suzimiya is an              but need the strong.
       overbearing girl who orders people
       around and never accepts no.                   KYONISM



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