My Life as Anime, but with Less Porn

So I'm walking home from school today, and in front of me this wee Asian girl totally decked out in the "gothic and lolita" look.

For those of you who are not famliar with this phenomenon, it is a trend in Japan (and seemingly nowhere else...until today) in which girls dress like human characters from Ann of Green Gables, as illustrated by Edward Gorey. Here's a look:

Newsbreak! It looks like that girl has a peg leg.

Moving on, this girl in front of me was in full on "LoliGoth" mode. She was also wearing red gladiator mary janes. If you are thinking "that's impossible!" you are wrong, but I can totally see how you would think that. She had the ruffles and the petticoats and the white stockings and even a big-ass black hairbow.

I know I have mentioned here that I despise Gwen Stefani, but I'm not some kind of Harajuku Hater. I get that Japanese teens are going to dress all JapanaTrendy and I'm not going to get it because I live in America and I'm xenophobic. But let's just remember for un segundo that I go to school in Middle America. In a town with a population of 40,000. I have also never really seen anyone here dress in a trend other than whatever you call people who listen to My Chemical Romance dress like. A Gothic Lolita on the streets of my hometown is going to stir the pot, no matter what.

I kind of love this girl. She's pretty ballsy. I doubt many people she encountered today knew 'bout her LoliGoth tendencies, yet she wove the flag with pride. I kind of just get obsessed with anyone that does crazy shit, though, so who knows.