Kamikaza Girls: Kamikaze Girls (Novel-Paperback) (Series #1) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from VikkiLaw

This book, originally written for a Japanese audience, assumes that the readers are familiar with Japanese culture, subculture and geography. I, however, am not. It might have helped if I had realized that there was a glossary to explain some of the terms used, like Yanki, so that I didn't go thr...

from VhartPowers

Momoko is a Lolita. She lives by the Rococo lifestyle and dresses in frilly little girl clothes. She looks down at the Yanki's or uneducated. Then she meets Ichiko (who's real name is Ichigo/strawberry), and she is a hard-core biker. She may not be as intelligent, but she has the ethics that Momo...

from Redon

The story starts out slowly, with fifty-some pages of the narrator, Momoko, rambling on about Rococo and her family and her town, but while it rarely becomes what you'd call fast-paced, it gets progressively more entertaining as the two main characters meet and begin bouncing off each other. Momo...

from Kirkengaard

Kamikaze Girls is a light-hearted tale of the unlikely friendship between two high school girls who embrace very different lifestyles. Momoko dresses in the Lolita fashion, specifically the Rococo Lolita, which emphasizes beauty, indolence, and frilly clothing. Ichigo is a member of a Yanki girl ...

from othersam

Momoko is a Lolita. She loves frills, flounces and beautiful embroidery. Ichigo is a Yanki. She loves pachinko, fake designer sportswear and her biker gang. Who is the toughest? How could two such different people possibly become friends? You'll be surprised. Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto is ...