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1. Anime and Manga: Fox-Girl Characters and Archetypes

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   The fox-girl (often stylized as kitsune-musume or kitsunemimi in Japanese media) represents a distinctive character archetype in anime and manga that synthesizes traditional Japanese folklore with contemporary aesthetic and narrative conventions. Emerging prominently in the 1990s, this archetype draws from centuries-old mythology surrounding the kitsune—a shapeshifting fox spirit from East Asian tradition—while recontextualizing these figures within modern storytelling frameworks. The archetype has become sufficiently ubiquitous tha…

2. Romanticism

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   The Supremacy of Emotion
   Central to the Romantic ethos was the belief that authentic human experience was rooted in powerful feeling. This manifested in art through the dramatic depiction of ecstasy, melancholy, terror, and awe. The Romantics believed that deep feeling acted as a direct conduit to higher reality, often symbolized by moments of intense, almost painful nostalgia.
   Individualism and the Cult of the Genius