For decades, the enduring image of the Japanese FX trader has been “Mrs. Watanabe“: the well-heeled housewife who controls the family finances and uses them to dabble in currency trading while her husband is at work.
The stereotype has been out of date for years. In Japan, as elsewhere, housewives are a near-extinct breed with most households dual-income. Perhaps it’s time for a new face of FX investment. Step forward Kurumi, the pink-haired college student protagonist of a new anime based on retail-currency trading.
Kadokawa, the entertainment conglomerate giant part-owned by Sony Group, said last week that it was adapting “FX Senshi Kurumi-chan” (“FX Fighter Kurumi-chan“), a manga first published in 2021 after starting off life on a web comic site. The announcement couldn’t have been better timed, coming in one of the most exciting weeks in the yen market in recent memory, as the currency strengthened amid speculation of coordinated intervention by the U.S. and Japan.
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