Beautiful Fighting Girl

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Sentō Bishōjo no Seishin Bunseki (Japanese: 戦闘美少女の精神分析; 'Psychoanalysis of the Beautiful Fighting Girl') is a 2000 book by the Japanese Lacanian psychiatrist Tamaki Saitō. It was translated into English in 2011 and published as Beautiful Fighting Girl. Saitō analyzes the psychology of the otaku—a Japanese subculture focused around manga and anime—and its relation to the archetype of the sentō bishōjo ('beautiful fighting girl'), a form of bishōjo ('beautiful girl') character archetype. In contrast to prior social attitudes which generally saw otaku as socially immature and preferring fiction over reality, Saitō describes them as able to balance fiction and reality, embodied most directly by a characteristic ability to gain sexual release from fictional characters. He dismisses the connection between otaku's perverse fictional attractions (such as lolicon) and real-world sexual deviance, arguing that use of a fictional environment serves as an outlet for their fantasies. Saitō compares...

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