Alexander Williams

It all started on this thread, which got into transplanting Panty Explosion to South Korea, then Andy bust out with the awesome. That got me thinking about psychic schoolgirls and the culture they live in. It would be an odd culture indeed that has no supernatural elements, and women are particularly apt to be painted into the dark and dangerous side of the supernatural. There's the whole oppression thing, and the feminine mystique angle, none of which I'm equipped to examine in depth, all of which is interesting anyway. You have your shamans, your witches, your miko... And of course it's not all old-school. Lain from the anime Serial Experiments Lain? Totally psychic schoolgirl, born of the modern myth and horror of computers and the Web.