Kamikaze Girls
How can I be SO SLOW.
The pink cover of the book never did appeal to me as with most pink things. However, the cover did fall somewhere near fuschia actually, so I didn’t really mind it. Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto is known as Shimotsuma Monogatari (下妻物語) and has been adapted to both Manga and film. The website in English is right here.
I bought the book in late october and read it on the way home since it was difficult playing my ndsl while standing in a crowded train. It starts off nicely, and gives one a very tame (in my opinion) of the Lolita culture in the initial pages. But readers will find themselves plunging into an almost bizarre world where the Lolita and Biker Girl Lifestyles are put so close together, they somehow attract – as it did happen with the two main characters of the story.
Now I have been poupee-ing for a little more than 8 months. (gasp!!) And I’ve become familiar with labels like Vivienne Westwood and Baby, The Stars Shine Bright (I LOVE!). The story, since it involved a Lolita, discussed so much about the label that I went to the website to take a look at the stuff I would buy so that when I go to their boutique, the staff would recognize me. My purchases would be full of black items of course. This book became something I couldn’t put down somewhere before the middle of the book (and it’s not a thick book). It is such an easy read and is so entertaining that I honestly just kept going. So yesterday, although I stayed up to watch tv (evangelion 1.0 was on), I still decided to finish it.
I would say it’s a story of a most bizarre but wonderful friendship. And although sometimes we would say ‘I will never (insert something you’ll never do here)’, there are times when you learn to tolerate it and perhaps understand it. The two main characters start off not knowing each other, and then strangely, like diffferent magnetic poles, started to hang out together and yet still retain their distinctive identity. The story really made me laugh out loud at times, and using embroidery to connect the two cultures together, albeit in a rather subtle manner, was such a clever idea on the part of the author.
Now I feel like learning embroidery too, HAHA.
So anyways, it looks like I’m going to look for more books by the same author, and perhaps start searching for the sequel as well. 
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