"With those memories, I can continue on alone." Never in her wildest dreams did Rose imagine that she'd hold a proper conversation with her crush--yet here she is, enjoying the tea and apple-flavored snacks he brings just for her. It's enough to almost make her forget that their peaceful days together will only last for so long. After all, once the potion is completed, that'll be the end of...whatever this is...

This is the first in-depth examination of "half-Japanese" girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied 'hybrid' identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities into positions of contestation and control over marginalizing discourses which disempower them as 'others' within Japanese society as they begin to mature. Paradoxically,...