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with English subtitles in 2006. While the book itself has been translated into<br />

English by Akemi Wegmüller (2006), it has also spawned both Japanese and<br />

English-language manga-graphic-novel versions, illustrated by Yukio<br />

Kanesada, and published in 2005 and 2006, respectively (Fig. 59). Shimotsuma<br />

Monogatari is an example of shōjo (teenage girls’) fiction that weaves together<br />

the stories of two unlikely companions, Ichigo (“Ichiko”) Shirayuri, a yanki<br />

(or delinquent biker-punk, and member of a rough all-girl bōsōzoku, or<br />

motorcycle gang); and Momoko Ryugasaki, a Sweet <strong>Lolita</strong> obsessed with<br />

Baby the Stars Shine Bright (Fig. 58). This cult film has helped to push not only<br />

the <strong>Lolita</strong> subculture into the limelight but has enabled Baby to become so<br />

popular with worldwide Gothloli that Isobe has since expanded into France<br />

and the US, opening stores in Paris’ Bastille district (2007) and San<br />

Francisco (2009).<br />

Image removed according to copyright law<br />

Figure 58: Kyoko Fukada as Momoko Ryugasaki in Shimotsuma Monogatari, 2004<br />

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