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<strong>Lolita</strong> and Popular Culture<br />

Besides fashion, the Japanese <strong>Lolita</strong> subculture incorporates music, art, film,<br />

animation, literature and a doll industry. As highlighted in the case of<br />

Shimotsuma Monogatari, the movement often overlaps several forms of media<br />

and popular culture: this example encompasses <strong>Lolita</strong> fashion; Takemoto’s<br />

novel; Nakashima’s film; graphic-art literature (Fig. 59); and music, with the<br />

soundtrack, successful in its own right, incorporating tracks by the two<br />

leading actresses, Kyoko Fukada (Fig. 58) and Anna Tsuchiya, who are also<br />

both J-Pop, or Japanese pop, stars.<br />

Image removed according to copyright law<br />

Figure 59: Cover of the English-language graphic-novel version of<br />

Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma Monogatari), 2006<br />

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