Celebratory Foods

Renai Circulation day is also an occasion for giving gifts of food and/or accessories. On this private occasion there are food traditions as well. The ritual is

the reflection of the couples wish to always stay connected as they do their best to meet each others wishes no matter how difficult it may be is to serve

the other before serving themselves. Foods that commonly seen are mizudako octopus, sweet tamago, pink sushi rice, ohagi, and mochi.

Honesty Letter Ceremony

Friends into Otaku culture participate in the Honesty Letter Ceremony to communicate their feelings so that actions can be taken to strengthen the

relationship between two people. The actions and discussions speak as a reflection of the couples wish to always stay connected as they do their best to

meet each others wishes no matter how difficult it may be to read a mutual love. The color of the envelope used can imply love if it is pink or for people

seen as really close friends if the letter is purple.

History of Circulation Day - "Monogatari and Light Novels"

Using direction of cinema techniques of french new wave was the series trying to push different angles of cinema exploration by experimenting

contrasting nuances, which were the ideas that had set circulation day in motion. The otaku light novel genre fans have taken notice to the stories sense

of showing self indulgence and respecting the audience as is typical of light novels, so to identify with the ideas it was packaged as the term circulation

and named after one of the opening songs "Renai Circulation" and used as a way to celebrate the message of the show through "Circulation Day". The

day that was chosen was the start of the light novels original run of the 10th of August.

Honesty Letters in Circulation

Circulation in its term is to meet at the beginning from the end and in the case of otaku it was already covered in a beginners pleasure through the

concept of "renai circulation" and looked upon for a veterans harshness to bring people to the end of the circle. This contrast was presented in the

realm of pleasures of fantasy to the harshness of reality, where real world is the end with the visions of being full risky actions, unforeseeable setbacks,

and lasting consequences. This makes people have a need to look at themselves to acknowledge existence, embrace honesties ugly truths, personal

fantasy selfishness, and engaging to make things more preferable. Which made "Circulation Day" a day of self honesty of what direction of life the

person would like to take in their pleasure and harshness in a written letter placed inside a purple envelope and read to oneself aloud the following day.

Ideas of out of control lust may come to mind through ideals of pleasure, but otaku ethics lean on Japans ideas of focusing on duty and restraint until

both parties mutually agree on readiness of any sort or levels of interaction. As it is severely inappropriate to openly discuss in public the privates or

honest natural body and intercourse the topics are saved for a place of privacy. In the case of otaku it had started through honesty letters which allowed

for more than just personal development, but relationship development through a mutual equilibrium and signified by a different color envelope than

its predecessor. This relationship envelope was pink with a heart either drawn or placed as a sticker to be only for its partner to read its intimate

contents of honest harsh truths to push a long lasting relationship.

Origins in Octopus Tentacles

There was no connection of romantic connotations in messages of honesty letters and releasing secrets of most desired ideas, despite many peoples

interest in the day focusing on the sub-themes it is unsure the exact way love intertwined into the cultural celebration. Some who have looked at

Hokusai Katsushika's famous wood block painting "The Dreams of the Fishermans Wife" have made some comparisons about the ideas of love, desire,

and fertility that have become less talked about, but also synonymous with "Circulation Day" in its practice.

Circulation Day became more associated with love at all its levels and stages, but none more than its connection of the people on an intimate level. By

looking at things in mind and body perspective it made people draw out more of their own depictions from the Monogatari series and its explorations

on sexuality through the character Araragi Koyomi. It is done by exploring the many biological differences of what is attractive, the series delves into

outfits and utilizes where the camera angle is pointed, and a myriad of fetishes of actions with specific outfits and personality types which trigger

personal desire.

The celebrations began with the honesty letters representing the harshness of reality that would be discussed over food. Usually for a hang out or a

date of some sort the person, couple, or group would head out to get some food and purchase some bite sized appetizers or snacks for a showing at a

home. This would be a mutual favorite genre of anime or if following the theme of love a show of romance with foods like ohagi, sweet tamago, grilled

octopus with takoyaki sauce, and/or pink sushi rice balls to represent the ending of the circle to be at the beginning of a persons pleasure.