Christmas cake girl что это
Christmas cake girl что это
Узнала о том, что в японском сленге годах в 90-х было популярно сравнение женщины за 25 с рождественским тортом. В японских статьях это даже называют «Теория рождественского торта».
Подобно тому, как Курисмасу кейки нарасхват 24-го числа, 25-го уже распродаются за полцены, 28-го истекает срок годности, а 30-го всё нераспроданное отправляется на свалку, так и женщине простительно быть гордой и неприступной в 24 года, потому что «спрос» на неё очень высок, в 25 ей уже надо снижать планку в выборе партнера, в 28 соглашаться на любого, кто снизойдет, а в 30, видимо, ползти в одиночестве на кладбище.=/
Однако, не пойду к японцам)))
А вот за что люблю британцев, так за то, что они любят кексы изрядно выдержанные. 
Протестую! Ёлочковый символизм вообще полон сексизма!!расрас 
Чего только одна эта песня про ёлочку стоит!
Свободу ёлочкам. 
. Простите, занесло.
Top 10 Favorite Christmas Cake Girls in Anime
The metaphor “Christmas Cake” is used to describe women who are past their youthful age, or in this case, women who are over the expiry date (usually over the age of 25) so they are deemed undesirable by men. There are many reasons why women are still single like they love their profession or simply they’re not attractive. So with that said, this list is about 10 “unfortunate” ladies who are past the age where one should marry.
You’ll be seeing a lot of teachers on this list many because, well, the school setting is the most popular setting in anime, so, of course, our lovely cakes are teachers. And at the end of the list, we will give you a slightly more in-depth description for the term “Christmas Cake.”
Let’s dive right in with our list of the Top 10 Favorite Christmas Cake Girls in Anime!
In times of crisis, especially in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, a soldier hardly takes a breather and the only break they can get is they get crippled in the conflict or mentally broken down. And for a soldier like Riza Hawkeye, a romantic relationship is not an option, especially during the homunculi threat. Strict, stern, professional and highly skilled with firearms of any caliber, Riza Hawkeye is the shining example of a model officer in the Amestrian State Military.
She hardly shows any emotion during duty, she is courteous and distant, but when she’s off duty, Riza is actually has a soft spot who understands the difficulty carrying a heavy burden. However, there are many hints suggesting a closer relationship between Riza and her superior Colonel Roy Mustang.
A lot of people rarely think about marriage and settling down when they’re dedicated to their job. Let’s face it, marriage is a crutch to some and if Kirihara Misaki is distracted with a relationship or concerned about marriage and her age, she wouldn’t function properly and wouldn’t be the badass police and became chief of Section 4, a division dedicated in investigation Contractors. Or maybe she hasn’t found the right man who is bad ass as she is? Hei was very close, though.
Either Yukari has extreme mood swings or is bipolar who can change moods regularly and sometimes unpredictably. She often drags her friend and fellow teacher Kurosawa “Nyamo” Minamo around during off days like going to drinking parties and eating food and Minamo ends up paying. You could say Minamo is Yukari’s friend with benefits. Heck, throw in any negative personality trait, Yukari has all of them and she’s is a total road monster if she gets behind the wheel often traumatizing anyone unfortunate enough to sit on the passenger seat. But despite all of that, though, Yukari is still loved by her students.
It would take a literal madman to date and eventually marry Yukari because you have to be equally insane to even get a chance, if ever. Yukari never made any clear mentions of her getting married, but looking at her chaotic life, her love for her students and having a friend like Minamo, Yukari will be single in the foreseeable future.
Very eccentric and egotistical, loves making frilly clothes and wearing them at school, and eternally 17, Yoshinoya-sensei is very notorious in a good way among her students and peers. While she’s a tad bit excessive with her cosplaying hobby, Yoshinoya-sensei is a perfect wife any guy would want. But alas, Yoshinoya-sensei is still single and she’s not upset about it. She has no plans on marrying because she’s content with her life and she does love teaching and have fun with her students. Yoshinoya-sensei is a cake and she wears the badge with head held up high.
After the family broken up after their father died, Touka left her younger sister Rikka and started living on her own because of her job as a chef. Touka did eventually return to show support Rikka financially and emotionally (sometimes it involves a ladle). There are a lot of reasons why someone prefers to stay single because of work or family, and it Touka’s case, it’s both.
In her high school days, Sawako is a very shy girl who fell in love with a boy. One day Sawako mustered all of her courage and confessed, but unfortunately, the boy prefers girls who are more “wild.” Undeterred, Sawako changed her image to more punkish and founded the metal rock group Death Devils.
Unfortunately for Sawako, she went a bit too far and the boy turned her down again. And when choosing her career, she worked to become a teacher because the boy she liked also aims to be a teacher. But sadly, the boy turned her down again, and 2 K-ON! seasons later, Sawako is still single. Maybe she still likes the boy she met back in high school and still working hard to win his heart, or she gave up because she’s one after the third strike?
Kozue is probably the only girl on this list who is constantly rejected by a lot of guys. Every time she is rejected, Kozue gets depressed and goes on a drinking spree, and ends up getting drunk and sometimes annoy the heck out of his little brother Souta, especially when she visits Wagnaria to complain about her not-so-successful love life.
It’s unclear why she often gets rejected despite her tall height, attractive looks and physique, very affectionate and is a self-defense instructor. But one thing’s for sure, at the age of 25, Kozue was rejected by more guys than anyone one else on this list. Kozue is trying, though… There’s still hope… Hopefully.
One of the talented and beautiful women in the series, Katsuragi Misato is your textbook perfect woman to be with. Unfortunately, Misato is still single and she is over 30 years old. Outside of work, she is generally a slob who drinks a lot, never cleans her apartment, and can’t cook. Maybe these are the reasons why didn’t marry or not appealing? Or is maybe is it because she is flooded with work as a ranking official at NERV, or experienced an “alleged” bad relationship with someone back in her college days, or has major daddy issues?
Matilda is an officer of the Earth Federation supply corps and she often ends up getting assigned to support the White Base with supplies and repairs. With her knack for showing up when the crew of the White Base is in trouble, she is seen as a guardian angel. Her resourcefulness aside, she is very beautiful and gets the attention of every young soldier in the army. Too bad for the boys though because Matilda is already engaged and will get married after a major military operation.
Sadly Matilda was later killed in action before putting on the ring. She died as a cake and is forever a cake.
Nanako Kuroi is an attractive lady and yet she is still single. Is it because she is too busy working as a world history teacher, or does she loves teaching she doesn’t want to settle down yet, or video games are more engaging than having a boyfriend? There are many reasons, but she’s not too worried about her single status… until one of her students Izumi Konata mentioned about the fate of the unbought Christmas cakes in Christmas.
Final Thoughts
The very definition of “Christmas Cake” is specific. A Christmas Cake doesn’t mean a woman who are over the age of 25 and not married, this term isn’t used to describe every unmarried woman Japan at all. In Japan, any woman over the age is called a “baba” or “old hag” and “arasa-” Engrish shortcut for “almost thirty.” The most plausible definition of the term Christmas Cake is “a woman over the age 25 who had no one to spend Christmas with.”
The Japanese celebrate Christmas in different ways like it is the time for the family and friends to get together, but Christmas is also a holiday for lovers to spend their time together, preferably alone. Similar to Valentine’s Day. If you’re a woman who is over the age of 25, still single on a romantic day like Christmas, then you’re a cake, an unsold and expired Christmas cake.
So that’s our list. Did we miss out other notable cakes on the list? Oh, and while we’re at it, can you name a girl who spent their Christmas time alone? Please don’t hesitate and post your thoughts and picks in the comments section below!
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Buying a cake for Christmas is a Japanese tradition. But these cakes have a definite expiration date — no one wants to eat Christmas cake after December 25th. And no matter how attractive a woman is, it’s said, no Japanese male will want to marry her after she’s 25. Thus, «Christmas Cake» is used as a metaphor term for a woman rendered unmarriageable because she is past the freshness of her youth; roughly equivalent to «Old Maid.» It’s a common trope for a character to at least be surprised that another isn’t married yet by this age. Even when the writers are sympathetic to the character, nagging to marry will still come from someone, usually her parents.
A Cool Big Sis may be one, or heading there, usually with extreme annoyance; referring to this character as Oba-san is about as tactful as referring to someone as Ma’am and is likely to induce a rage. Sometimes this is just a device to explain them hanging around other characters younger than them.
On the antagonistic side, a Punch-Clock Villain is often a Christmas Cake. She tends to be very attractive but is relegated to cake status by annoying habits. The other problem occurs if she’s also stuck in an Improbably Female Cast, a straight-up Chromosome Cast, or any such place where men are slim pickings. The Competence Zone might force her to hang around and even fawn over men much younger than her.
Interestingly, the more unexpected the presence of the Christmas Cake is, the more likely her being one is emphasized as being an attractive point. If a character expresses this point in-story, he Likes Older Women.
Another more modern, but no less blunt, term used in Japan is «urenokori», which is also a term for leftover unsold items in a store’s inventory. The Chinese equivalent for this is «shèngnǚ
«, and the male «guānggùn«, and they are more derogatory than the Japanese one.
See also Grande Dame and Maiden Aunt for the much older Western variants. Also see My Biological Clock Is Ticking and I Want Grandkids. Not to be confused with Fruit Cake. Not to be confused with being a lie, either. Compare and contrast with Stacy’s Mom, an older character who has an excess of younger suitors.
Oddly enough, guys (particularly otaku men) have a similar concept, though without the food metaphor: an unmarried/virginal man who stays that way by 30 is referred to as a Wizard, based on a self-deprecating image that takes inspiration from mages having Virgin Power in popular media. They may face career prejudice, as a man over thirty who hasn’t married shows a lack of responsibility and commitment, though this line is also becoming blurred as the average age for a man’s first marriage in the United States pushes closer to thirty.
In an ironic twist, in North American anime fandom, it has completely flipped meanings. Instead, «Christmas Cake» is applied to highly desirable women near/over 25, with message board arguments over who is best. No examples of this latter-day meaning will be added here.
To head off possible cross-cultural misunderstandings, traditional Japanese Christmas cake is a sponge cake with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, bearing no resemblance to the British-style fruitcake widely consumed at Christmas in Western countries, which is famous for its long (long!) shelf life.
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Nanako Kuroi, age 27 and still single. «You are wanted.»
Buying a cake for Christmas is a Japanese tradition. Unfortunately, no matter how tasty a Christmas cake is, no one wants it after December 25. And no matter how attractive a woman is, it’s said, no Japanese male will want to marry her after she’s 25. Thus, «Christmas Cake» is used as a metaphor term for what Western audiences might call an «Old Maid.» It’s a common trope for a character to at least be surprised that another isn’t married yet by this age. Even when the writers are sympathetic to the character, nagging to marry will still come from someone, usually her parents.
A Cool Big Sis may be one, or heading there, usually with extreme annoyance; referring to this character as Oba-san is about as tactful as referring to someone as Ma’am and is likely to induce a rage. Sometimes this is just a device to explain them hanging around other characters younger than them.
On the antagonistic side, a Punch Clock Villain is often a Christmas Cake. She tends to be very attractive but is relegated to cake status by annoying habits. The other problem occurs if she’s also stuck in an Fundamentally Female Cast or any such place where men are slim pickings. The Competence Zone might force her to hang around and even fawn over men much younger than her.
Interestingly, the more unexpected the presence of the Christmas Cake is, the more likely her being one is emphasized as being an attractive point. If a character expresses this point in-story, he Likes Older Women.
This is on its way to being a Discredited Trope: the latest Japanese census data shows that more and more people are marrying older, with most people under 25 remaining unmarried. Many teens and young adults have never heard of the concept and many that have think it’s old-fashioned. Having a character believing in the Christmas Cake concept may mark them as being likewise old-fashioned.
See also Hot Mom, Grande Dame, and Maiden Aunt for the much older Western variants. Also see My Biological Clock Is Ticking and I Want Grandkids. For people older than the average brand of Christmas Cake, see Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!. Contrast with Likes Older Women. Not to be confused with Fruit Cake. Not to be confused with being a lie, either. Compare and contrast with Stacy’s Mom, an older character who has an excess of younger suitors.
The Christmas Cake trope is related to Never a Self-Made Woman. As the Japanese-culture specific variant of Old Maid, only Japanese examples should be listed here.
Another more modern, but no less blunt, term used in Japan is «urenokori», which is also a term for leftover unsold items in a store’s inventory. Yeah.
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Nagato: I apologize for my daughter’s behavior. I believe she’s like this since she hasn’t been able to get married.
Conan (inner thoughts): With a personality like that, she never will.
Kataragi: It could still work out.
Touko: I’ll be in the magic world, and on top of that, an ermine! What the bleep kind of long-distance relationship is that!?
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Literature
«A woman of seven-and-twenty,» said Marianne, after pausing a moment, «can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
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Music
It’s sad but it’s true how society says her life is already over
There’s nothing to do and there’s nothing to say
Until the man of her dreams comes along picks her up and puts her over his shoulder
It seems so unlikely in this day and age
Christmas cake
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Christmas cake — Christmas cakes N VAR A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries … English dictionary
Christmas cake — n [U and C] a special cake that people eat in Britain at Christmas … Dictionary of contemporary English
Christmas cake — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, eaten at Christmas … English terms dictionary
Christmas cake — A heavily iced Christmas cake … Wikipedia
Christmas cake — noun a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Christmas cake — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms Christmas cake : singular Christmas cake plural Christmas cakes British a heavy fruit cake eaten at Christmas in the UK … English dictionary
Christmas cake — ➡ Christmas * * * … Universalium
Christmas cake — noun A rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing traditionally eaten at Christmas … Wiktionary
Christmas cake — noun Brit. a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing, eaten at Christmas … English new terms dictionary
Christmas cake — noun (C, U) a special cake eaten in Britain at Christmas … Longman dictionary of contemporary English