A Look at Tinoco

A Look at TinocoTinoco was a not so ordinary romance novel. Originally written by Mitsuko Uehara, the author of Tenshi Zenki and the Dragon Princess novels, Tinoco is a self-aware satire of what it means to be women in modern society. The book's plot is interesting and off-beat, and its characters are all quirky and interesting.The novel is also one of the first to feature a growing animosity between a man and a woman that take place on a physical level. By reading Tinoco, readers could understand a little bit more about modern Japanese society than they would if they just read about it on paper. By seeing how some Japanese relationships operate on a physical level, readers could get a better idea of how they would react to those dynamics.Tinoco began with Mitsuko Uehara telling her story about her own experience of having two husbands. Uehara explains how she did not marry the first of the two men who promised to help her through her divorce proceedings. Instead, she married the sec ond, leaving her two children alone while she walked away from a good job at a pharmaceutical company. She described how she never really fit in and that she never felt comfortable in her relationship with the second husband.Throughout the novel, the author would describe how the Japanese society treats women differently. Women who have romantic relationships with men are a different breed of women from those who are married to just one man. In addition, those who fall in love and marry another man are not treated as badly as those who are married to just one man.Minaho Wachi was one of those women who was 'unmarriageable' in Japan. She had the chance to marry the first man she kissed but chose to go to Western University instead. She and her husband were still trying to decide how to spend their time as a couple when he decided to propose. She remembers being shocked when he pulled out a ring and suddenly realized that she was supposed to get married to him!Once Tinoco came out, Ja panese society decided that it would be great if the only way for men to be able to get their wives was to get a divorce. The Japanese culture considers divorce as a cruel act for a woman and a man to do to each other. To prevent this, they make it hard for men to be able to enter into a relationship with any woman, because they know that once she gets married, she will consider him unmarriageable. Not only that, but even if a man is able to get a woman to agree to marry him, they know that the marriage will be gone in the very next six months.Since the beginning of Tinoco, readers could learn about how complicated and painful relationships in Japan are, and how those relationships could be reformed if they are allowed to. The authors explain in Tinoco how the women from that society could get back at their men, as well as how their society can help women find happiness again.