Novala Takemoto, award-wining Lolita & youth culture novelist (Source: fan.videocaptor.net)
There are not many Lolita fashionistas out there that don’t know about the movie ‘Kamikaze Girls’ (Shimotsuma Monogatari or 下妻物語), which was based on an original novel by Novala Takemoto (嶽本野ばら), a writer who’s stories follow the lives of fictional Lolita characters. For English-speaking lolitas, a translation of ‘Kamikaze Girls’ has been available for quite sometime, but his other works have been hard to get a hold of until now. On August 18th, Viz released English translations of Missin’ and the sequel Missin’ 2: Kasako.
Missin’ was Mr. Takemoto’s first widely published work and was originally printed in 2000. From Viz’s press release:
MISSIN’ focuses on obsession and how it can bring one to the brink of madness. In this bittersweet short story, the themes of KAMIKAZE GIRLS (rococo, punk rock, high fashion and rebellion) are pushed even further toward the edge of reason. A young woman estranged from the modern world longs for the feminine ideals and companionship depicted in the tales of a bygone era. When she finds her mentor in a rebellious punk rock singer named Missin, how far will her infatuation take her in a world where no one understands? And in “Little Shop at the End of the World,” the designs of the legendary Vivienne Westwood keep a young woman with a secret from losing her mind.
Cover art for Missin' by Novala Takemoto (Source: Viz Media)
Hit the jump for information on Missin’ 2. (more…)
