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I was thinking about Needy Streamer Overload and how it uses jirai kei to visually capture Ame’s personality. Even as an outsider to NSO and someone who it doesn’t appeal to, the choice to have her in jirai kei is one that encapsulates her so well. Jirai kei being a subculture mostly built on the unstable woman (literally meaning landmine) due to the wearers usually being into sex work, drug abuse, alcoholism, and extreme behaviors. Ame perfectly fits into this subculture, being a reclamation of the term as she herself is very emotionally unstable and attached to the player character. She literally is the aforementioned landmine girl, properly actually being what the subculture was originated as. A lot of the discourse surrounding jirai kei is interesting because a lot of people who engage with it purely for the aesthetics want to cut off the more unappealing aspects of the subculture, saying that it encourages harmful behaviors. The thing is that this obviously would cutting out the very people who originated jirai kei. Jirai Kei is a lot like punk/goth in the way where it is a lot more DIY and messy, but has been sanitized for the sake of consumerism. How can you engage with the aesthetics of a subculture and not understand the roots or even what the name means. This was all started because I was having trouble sleeping because I thought about that one time my friend said that they didn’t like NSO because they said and I quote “it sexualizes jirai kei” and “makes jirai kei look bad.” Girl, this subculture is based on girls who ABUSE DRUGS and SELF HARM and DO SEX WORK !!! Ame isn’t really anything that the subculture wasn’t originally. — Mars ᓚᘏᗢ |
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