Kamikaze Girls: Frilly Dresses, Unlikely Friendships and Attachment Theory

Sorry about all the noise and the delay! But today's episode is talking about the 2002 light novel Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto and translated by Akemi Wegmuller. This discussion talks about attachment theory and how it relates to the friendship between the main characters, Momoko and Ichigo. Hope you enjoy!

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Time Stamps
Episode outline: 4:36
Background information: 5:41
Attachment theory discussion: 26:29
Final thoughts: 59:01
Writing Prompt: 1:04:24
Outro: 1:06:10

Author and Translator
https://hardcover.app/authors/akemi-wegmuller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novala_Takemoto
Attachment Theory
https://www.simplypsychology.org/bowlby.htm
The Strange Situation Experiment
https://www.simplypsychology.org/mary-ainsworth.html
Stream of Consiousness
https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-stream-consciousness

Further Reading
Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto
Be Not Afraid of Love by Mimi Zhu
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
So Pretty /Very Rotten by Jane Mai and An Nguyen

Chapters

• 4:36 Episode Outline
• 5:41 Background info on Kamikaze Girls
• 26:29 Attachment Theory Discussion
• 59:01 Final Thoughts
• 1:04:24 Creative Prompt
• 1:06:10 Outro