A Glimpse into the Life of a 14-Year-Old Kansai Girl: Chiharu's 2021 Lifestyle and Entertainment

In 2021, the lifestyle and entertainment of a 14-year-old in the region (including cities like

After school, the ritual began. Chiharu would collapse onto her futon, still in her uniform skirt, and open TikTok. The “For You” page was a kaleidoscope of escapes. There were the Juku girls in Tokyo doing synchronized dances to J-pop hits by Official Hige Dandism. There were ASMR videos of sizzling okonomiyaki on a griddle in Hiroshima. But her favorites were the “#KansaiLocal” creators—kids her age from Kobe, Kyoto, and Osaka who spoke with the same flat, humorous Kansai-ben dialect she used with her family.

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