Tuesday 23 April 2013

MANNEQUINS ANIME

THE SUCCONS

Japanesse Sitcome By Yoshimasa Ishibashi (2002)



The Fuccons are a Japanese sitcoms and its originality and Bizzaria quickly became a cult.
Premiered in the original Oh! Mikey, it characterized to be fully played by mannequins property.  The program has as its protagonist an American family that moved to Japan, composed by father James, mother Barbara and little Mikey Fuccon.  



THE ALLURE OF THE FAKE : MANNEQUIN MEMORIAL DAY 



According to the japanese calendar of ephimery events “Metropolis”, the celebration of when mannequins where used for the first time in this country is celebrated on March 24th.  The connotation of the word “mannequin” has a very coherent meaning in Japanese, sounding like mane (calling) and kin (money).  The tridimensional figures are known as very efficient sales person who work 24 hours a day.

MANGA-ESQUE MANNEQUINS


Japanese have Mannequins partly because they are animistic, or ego invested in their bodies. Other ways of having mannequins that are acceptably non-human is to have headless mannequins or, recently, the manga-esque mannequins like those above.  I think that one of the reasons why Western mannequins are now less popular is due to the fact that with increasing numbers of westerners living in Japan, such manequinns, and indeed foreigners themselves, have started to look human.

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