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Lolita and Popular Culture
Besides fashion, the Japanese Lolita subculture incorporates music, art, film,
animation, literature and a doll industry. As highlighted in the case of
Shimotsuma Monogatari, the movement often overlaps several forms of media
and popular culture: this example encompasses Lolita fashion; Takemoto’s
novel; Nakashima’s film; graphic-art literature (Fig. 59); and music, with the
soundtrack, successful in its own right, incorporating tracks by the two
leading actresses, Kyoko Fukada (Fig. 58) and Anna Tsuchiya, who are also
both J-Pop, or Japanese pop, stars.
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Figure 59: Cover of the English-language graphic-novel version of
Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma Monogatari), 2006
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