内容紹介
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential is a must for anyone curious about the girls that dominate Japan’s pop culture. For years schoolgirls have shown up in internationally popular anime and manga such as Sailor Moon, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and Blood: The Last Vampire. There are kick-ass schoolgirl characters in videogames like Street Fighter, Quentin Tarantino included one as an assassin in Kill Bill, and magazines such as WIRED keep an eye on the trends emerging among these stylish teens.
With chapters covering everything from sailor-suited pop-idols and cult movie vixens, to the power of shopping and uniform fashion, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential takes you beyond the realm of everyday schoolgirls to discover the secrets behind this iconic creature. Learn the origins of their famous sailor-style uniforms, and how they became a brand used to sell anything from kimchi to insurance. Discover why these girls have become such a symbol of girl power, and why they are so very, very cool!
With chapters covering everything from sailor-suited pop-idols and cult movie vixens, to the power of shopping and uniform fashion, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential takes you beyond the realm of everyday schoolgirls to discover the secrets behind this iconic creature. Learn the origins of their famous sailor-style uniforms, and how they became a brand used to sell anything from kimchi to insurance. Discover why these girls have become such a symbol of girl power, and why they are so very, very cool!
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
日本の女子中高生と彼女たちが創出してきた様々な文化に関する本。
著者について
Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda are a husband and wife team based in Osaka, Japan. Brian is the author of Arcade Mania! and a Senior Contributing Editor for the video game site Kotaku.com, one of the world’s most read blogs. As well as working as a Contributing Editor at Wired magazine--and writing countless “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” columns--he has written for the design magazine Metropolis Maga-zine, Popular Science, Otaku USA, the British tech magazine T3, and The Japan Times newspaper, among other publications. Shoko has been a research assistant for Wired’s “Japanese Schoolgirl Watch” column and is a former Japanese schoolgirl. This is her first book.
