Embodying Japan: Cultures of Sport, Beauty, and Medicine 2017 Main Menu Eugenics: Creating a Japanese Race A discussion of the "Japanese Race" and Japan's Eugenics Movement Genderless Beauty? Shiseido's "High School Girl?" Advertisement A Sign of Progress in a Traditional Country Are You Considered Beautiful In Japan? Exploring Some East-Asian Beauty Standards & Their Meanings Hope for the Future: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder The Future of Beauty in Japan 100 Years of Japanese Beauty Exploring The Truth, Meaning and Evolution Behind The '100 Years of Japanese Beauty" video Not Beautiful Enough To Live in Korea? Dismembering over-broad arguments and assumptions against and about Koreans - and Asians in general Q&A Session With Dr. Kim Soo Shin: A Renowned Korean Plastic Surgeon's Perspective I asked Dr. Kim Soo Shin, a South Korean plastic surgeon, for his thoughts on beauty and the popularity of cosmetic surgery in South Korea and East Asian in general. The Salaryman, Hikikomori, and Hostesses Japan's capitalist driven gender identities and the consquences that result Hafus: Mixed Race People in Japan (Part 1) Bodies and Hygiene in Japan Salaryman Culture and Masculine Identity Analysis of salaryman culture and how changes lead to development of other masculinities, mainly "herbivore" masculinity Gender and Identity in Modern Japan Globalization, nationalized pressures, and how Japanese youth are responding to a history of gender Japanese Beauty Standards in Music and Fashion How are Japanese beauty standards conveyed through alternative youth street fashions and pop music in Japan? Beauty Regime The main page for the Beauty in Japan Group Sex & Sexuality

'Gattai' as a cycle

17482
I’d like to present the following idea: the concept of gattai has been reinforced in a continuous cycle, causing the creation of the Go Renjā show.  While a bold claim, I believe this holds some truth.  Go Renjā began in the 1970s, but was not the first aspect of Japanese culture to establish the idea of gattai.  In Vivian's page on firefighters, she proposes the idea that the union of firefighters as a team may be the origin of gattai.  While it may be the origin of gattai, I do not believe that it is the beginning of gattai as a cycle.  In fact, I don't think there's a clear beginning point.  Gattai as a concept may have roots long before the scope of this project.  However, I do think that baseball, or sports in general, provide a great world/national stage for this concept to be presented.  
Baseball, more generally the concept of sport, long predates the existence of television programming.  Through the promotion of sport and the idea of bio-power, the government or those with power can reinforce the concept of gattai.  When this idea is constantly being reinforced, eventually creative minds are going to create things that also reinforce this same concept.  That is how I believe Go Renjā came to be.  While the creators of the show may not have known it, because they have been conditioned over time by the culture surrounding them, they created something that reinforces the ideas of their culture.  This representation of culture through art is a recurring theme in history, as all minds are influenced by what surrounds them, even if they are not aware of it.  In Japan, the concept of gattai has been reestablished and reinforced throughout history, eventually leading to the creation of the Power Rangers.
This cycle isn't strictly limited to Japan, however.  In the American animated series Steven Universe, characters often undergo an act known as "fusion," which involves characters combining to form a bigger, stronger body.  While not ever explicitly mentioned to take inspiration from Power Rangers or Go Renja, the show has included many, many references to Japanese television shows.  It is clear that inspiration is taken from Japan and the East in Steven Universe.  So, in a way, the cycle that exists within Japan may not just be limited to within their country's borders.  Shows like Steven Universe have already taken ideas from Japanese television (gattai) and brought them into the American television world.  While the cycle of gattai may not be in full swing in the States, it may have recently begun with the introduction of gattai in an American-made television show.

This page has paths:

  1. "Gattai" and the Power Rangers Jordan Van Glish

This page has tags:

  1. The Cycle of Power Claire Sodam Yang
  2. Biopower Han Claire Sodam Yang
  3. Biopower vwik
  4. Becoming One: Firefighter “Gattai”? vwik
  5. Pop Culture Shannon Brooks
  6. Japanese Popular Culture Laydon Hutchins
  7. sport Jordan Van Glish
  8. Jordan Van Glish Jordan Van Glish

Contents of this tag:

  1. The Cycle of Power
  2. Biopower: Hikikomori is not mental illness
  3. Jordan V's Sources
  4. Origin Story of Biopower: History
  5. Biopower &Tech: Hikikomori extreme?
  6. Biopower: Rebellion & Hikikomori