Peter's Japan blog

Kamikaze Girls (or Shimotsuma Monogatari in the original title) tells the story of 2 girls who are at the total opposite of the fashion universe & lifestyle. Momoko is a normal girl who lives on the country side, well, normal in her eyes. She is a girls who dresses in lolita fashion and swears by it, only eats sweet stuff (even for lunch) and does not have any friends (not that she has a problem with that). Then there's Ichiko, a "yankee" biker gang chick, who is tough (and spits, which annoys Momoko a lot). They both go on a journey to find what to do with their future and start an unlikely friendship.

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