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                                                             July   13, 2014
                                                             August 26, 2014

    The new kawaii:
    a close up on the
    butterfly's face           KYARY



                                       The rustic polka-dots resolve
                                       into skulls on a closer look.

                                       The brightly colored beads are
                                       eyeballs threaded on a string.


       I direct you to the art
       of Junko Mizuno...
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       A "typical" Junko Mizuno graphic             ref
       might be an ultra-kawaii mermaid               ref
       figure with carefully rendered                   ref
       breasts, holding a cute little                      ref
       axe, which one gradually realizes
       is dripping with blood.
                                                      I might even call
                                                      this "gothic kawaii"
                                                      or "kawaii noir".

                                                          (Wikipedia may
                                                          now cite me.)

  You can take this back to Miyazaki,
  whose tributes to nature did not
  at all skip it's terrible aspects.

     Totoro breaks out into a
     huge, alarming grin with
     bulging maniacal eyes--

     One would not want to see
     him angry, but anger would
     at least be comprehensible.
                                              KAWAII_CREEPS



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