Ai yori aoshi tina foster tv#
Provided the main protagonist (if male) is a “badass” (see TV tropes). I’ve see a lot of anime, I’m mostly fan of more adult/mature sci-fi usually involving space travel and mechas give me a thrill, I also like super powered plots. It was funny at the time, and now I can see that gimmick from the other side. Looking back on American movies I’ve seen, I can think of several where a foreign exchange student was some sort of freak, pervert, or lunatic.
That sort of gives you an idea of where this joke is coming from. Spock and snapping him in the ass with a towel. Imagine going up to James Bond and giving him a firm swat on the behind with a, “What’s up, big guy?”. This is particularly funny when done to someone stiff and serious like Miyabi. So what we have is a Japanese-style prank being perpetrated by an American because it makes it easier for her (and thus the writers) to get away with it. But Tina’s status as an American gives her some leeway, since she comes from a famously oversexed foreign country with strange customs. If a native tried it they would be rejected as a freak or a lunatic. I won’t even repeat them here, but you can visit his site if you want all the strange and icky details.īut even allowing for the crazy pranks that Japanese students pull, the breast-grabbing is still outrageous behavior in adult society. They say and do things that would result in a life sentence of sensitivity training if done in this country. Miyabi is very humorless and stoic, so she is Tina’s most common target.Īzarel is an American teaching English to students in Japan, and he has many bizzare stories about the “pranks” the school kids play on teachers. The point isn’t to fondle the other person, but to humiliate them and thus shatter their overly dignified stance. She seems to do it as a prank, or when someone is being too stiff, reserved, or serious. It takes a while to see this through the eyes of Japanese culture. My thought was, “Hey! Americans don’t do that!” I mean, what the heck? At first I reacted as though they were trying to portray American behavior and getting it wrong.
Ai yori aoshi tina foster series#
The series is very clear that she’s not a lesbian, so this was hard to understand at first.
Tina also has this thing for grabbing the breasts of other girls. She can usually be counted on to introduce booze or wild behavior to a situation where everyone would otherwise behave sensibly. She’s often a catalyst for the sort of mayhem that gets Kaoru into trouble. Tina is a classic American stereotype: very loud, inappropriate, a party animal and an eating machine. On the rare occasions when the story isn’t focused on Aoi and Kaoru, it’s usually focused on Tina. She goes to school with Kaoru and lives in the mansion next door to him. One of the girls in Ai Yori Aoshi is Tina Foster, an American expatriate who is now living in Japan.