Heso. The navel. Our original source of life. Our shared trait. Some things, though, we don’t necessarily share: ideas, values & ways of life. There’s always another way (which usually deserves mutual respect). Something outside the box. The flipside. The road less traveled. The “Other Paradigm.” There is homogenous Japan and its ethnic minorities—like the Ainu. There is mainstream society and there are special communities—like Christiania. There is male-dominated Japan and the power of the shôjo. There is film realism and there is anime. There is the path of good… and nothing else after that matters.

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