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INTERESTING JAPANESE MAGAZINE #4:

AIR STAGE

this is also an amazing japanese magazine that i have. If it was just a porn magazine for guys with stewardess fetishes, it wouldn't be amazing. . . but what other country could have a whole magaine for WOMEN who fetishize a stewardess?? (i can't help wondering if some of the same women watch yaoi porn also... that would be twice as inverted) and again, it's one of these, 'WHY AREN'T THESE PEOPLE CONSIDERED OTAKU?' type totally obsessed magazines. the audience doesn't want to have sex with a flight attendant, they want to BECOME a flight attendant. and apparently there's enough japanese women with this obsession to keep this totally expensive, slick, glossy, thick magazine in business EVERY MONTH. they have features like , 'how to pass the interview for japan airlines', or 'how to do your hair for asiana airlines.' plus the cover story -- the BIG NEWS as it were. . . the magazine scored an 'interview with an ACTUAL stewardess' . . . it's like Kerrang! interviewing Yingwe or something--a major coup!

here's a website that has already written extensively about the bittersweet absurdity of AIR STAGE:

Please click on the link and then scroll to the bottom of the page.

http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/japannotations.htm

actually this guy's whole , big, fat website is amazing. you should totally check it out.