Monday, March 5, 2012

J-Drama Clichés: Those Bullying Arm-Crossing Girls

Futatsu No Spica
You want a drama with trios of girls running around a school bullying all the weaker girls beneath them? You got it! J-Dramas are positively lousy with trios (or, occasionally, quartets, but never more than quintets) of girls running the hallways, all of them dramatically crossing their arms in a superior way to make the oppressed feel even more helpless!
Hana Yori Dango 
Cat Street
Deep Love
Yasuko To Kenji
No, seriously, what’s up with all that arm-crossing? Tends to look quite wonky after a awhile, and if there’s one thing that Hana Kimi did well was take this oft-used cliché and turn it into one of the most hilarious spoofs with poor Mayuko Iwasa and her group of cohorts (with a young Mirei Kiritani, no less) getting the short end of the stick in every situation, AHAHAHA! 
Hana Kimi