"weekly gendai" pointed out that "seventeen"s "radicality" had escalated since around 2005, because of the strong influence of the now-defunct lifestyle magazine "burst". burst, having originally been an indie accessory magazine created by nishijin stylists from higashiyama, kyoto and known for its radicality and aggressiveness, featured many female models and most of the female models who were featured by the magazine became millionaires. soon after the magazine stopped publication, seventeen hired at least three former burst editors as prominent staffs. on the editorial of "weekly gendai" (june 4, 2007), described seventeen as the "flaming pastel-colored magazine being taken over by the ghost of burst", and he pointed out that many "characteristic phrases" of burst have appeared in seventeen, especially as its headlines, since around 2005.