During my fieldwork over Summer 2023, I investigated the ways that anime series Love Live: Superstar!! has transformed the Harajuku area. I was interested to see how Harajuku as a setting is re-imagined and animated… Read More »Animating Love Live: Superstar!! in Harajuku
In recent years lolitas in Japan have decided to change the spelling of their name from ロリータ (pronounced roriita) to ロリィタ (pronounced roryita). At the time of writing this post, “lolita” in English spelling is… Read More »Alice Karasuma’s “roriita (ロリータ) and roryita (ロリィタ) are different”
As part of our research, my co-researchers Rei Saionji and Tomoe Hojo and I are working together to document the many ways in which the word “lolita” is used in girls and women cultures in… Read More »The Heart of a Lady: Yasuko Aoike’s Hadashi no Lolita (1968)
This post is an extended version of my Twitter thread here and article with Unseen Japan here. On the 5th of May LARME magazine released a short promotional video for their 10th anniversary fashion show.… Read More »Setting the Cute World on Fire: LARME’s 10th Anniversary Fashion Video
Hello and welcome to my blog! In this post I want to introduce myself, and outline the types of topics this blog will cover. This post is an extended version of my tweet thread here. I’m… Read More »An Introduction