Japanese pop culture expert Patrick Macias takes you on a illustrated tour of astonishing people, places, and things found inside Tokyo's underground art, music, fashion, and otaku scenes.
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Minori at Harajuku Station, November 2016
Minori is a Shinouri (meaning "painted white") girl who has turned herself into a human canvas for nature-themed fashion and art.
We met through mutual friends at Tokyo Fashion and have all hung out together a few times over the last year or so. People pause and freak out when they see Minori in Harajuku (where she is a minor celebrity) and she is always obliging for requests and demands for photos from strangers.
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Even doing the most mundane things, like eating pancakes or getting donuts, takes on the hallucinatory quality of a dream or a drug trip when Minori is around. She punches a hole in normalcy simply just by being there.
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