Murakami has an affinity for warlike imagery, and the use of these jets invokes a violent mood, which conflicts with the usual feelings the innocent-appearing girl brings about in it's otaku audience. This could be a statement on Murakami's feelings about females, and the way gender roles also changed in post-war Japan. Murakami expressed his views that the rise of females to positions of power in corporations after the war pushed to further deepen the wound that the men were feeling. There was already a national feeling of incompetence, and the female work force moved up to more executive positions made this even worse for the men (“Infantile capitalism; Japanese contemporary art”), which could be a contributing factor bringing about the otaku culture, where hardcore otaku fanboys are actually afraid of talking to real females and instead idolize fantasy ones. However Murakami feels about this change in gender situations, these statues are direct acknowledgments of the existence of this change, and that the way the nation views females has changed.