For those of you obsessed with Japanese girls in cute outfits (like me), you will find the March 2009 edition of PINKY magazine to be quite the treat. As always, the PINKY princess Nozomi Sasaki looks adorable as she shows girls how to dress. I almost missed this issue of PINKY magazine. I owe the popular female DCer Angry Mimi for posting a question on which outfit you would want Nozomi to date you with (same question again on Mimi’s blog). When I realized I didn’t have this magazine scan, I went into a heightened state of panic as I frantically searched for them. Luckily I found them…stress levels back to normal.
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Aww thanks for mentioning me! Nozomi Sasaki looks so amazing in all of her pictures! ^__^
Having witnessed Lady Nozomi shining so vivid a light in these uber-kawaii costumes, all of the sudden, I began to ask myself the question of the day: “What outfit would I put on my own humble self, were I ever to be given a chance to date this Earth Angel?”
Re-examining closely my own wardrobe, though taking pride as a metrosexual man about town, more or less, I’ve realised I looked more befitting for any given L’Arc-en-Ciel or Alice Nine concert, escorting Anna Ohura or Hitomi Tanaka, than going out on a date with the Right Honourable Lady Nozomi in Tokyo’s Shirokanedai! : – )
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@Mimi – no problem
@Tyler – L’Arc-en-Ciel fashion seems pretty normal to me…It sure beats my usual stereotypical IT worker style of jeans + dress shirt. Of course if hell froze over and I had a date with Nozomi, I would go for something more formal like a suit.
L’Arc-en-Ciel fashion changed according to the respective theme of their albums in question.
My-Bad,
for not being specific: I was thinking (of) “Awake” (darker and Gothic, typically a la Japanese Gothic-Glam Rock — check out “New World,” and “Killing Me” VDO clips at YouTube),as opposed to, for instance, “Smile” (also Laruku’s; the one including US Billboard smash hit, “Spirit Dreams Inside,” the Final Destination original soundtrack; and the Alchemist anime opening theme, “Ready Steady Go”).
This means Laruku, as well as many of other Japanese mainstream acts, is (and must be) relatively more “variant” in terms of wardrobe than the American counterparts.
Think the difference between Christina Aguirela’s first album (the 1999 and 2000 blonde-teen next door look a la “Genie in the Bottle”) and the second one, which flopped, commercially (the darker and Gothic Year 2000 “Stripped”).
The same goes, too, between Japanese Lolita (white and pinky theme), and Japanese Gothic lolita.
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