![]() ![]() The first is a chauvinistic and patronizing concern for high school girls in the wake of the Kobe child murders of 1997, which added fuel to the fire of debates surrounding “compensated dating” (enjo kōsai). I argue that Kirino is exaggerating the misogyny implicit in two widespread media discourses of the turn of the millennium for the purpose of cultural critique. ![]() This affective nastiness is targeted at adult women in particular, and the misogyny underlying such attacks is striking in a novel written by a female author known for her thematic focus on politicized gender issues. Over the course of the novel, each of the four girls unleashes a litany of petty complaints against her parents’ generation, thus exposing the ugliness at the core of her personality. These four friends have nothing in common with the boy save for their shared hatred of adult society. ![]() In Kirino Natsuo’s 2003 suspense novel Real World (Riaru wārudo), four high school girls help a young man who has killed his mother evade arrest. ![]()
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