The Benefit of being a 15-year-old Japanese Boy...

...is that you can pull off haircuts that only a 15-year-old Japanese boy can. For instance, in one of my classes today there was this kid who had a slight modification to his mullet, which made it totally awesome, and me quite jealous. (I was actually thinking of taking a picture of his hair, then going to have Sarah cut it for me, when I realized that it just wouldn't look the same on a 23-year-old gaijin girl.) So yes, he had one of the ubiquitous Rod Stewart-mullets, but it was like a half mullet. The hair on one-side of his head was really short, and on the other it was quite grown out. It looked quite punk-rock, especially for a 15-year-old boy who had just written his name tag with purple and pink markers. The gender-bending here is apparently unbreakable.