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Toshiaki Takemoto, the 39-year-old author who wrote the novel inspiration for the Kamikaze Girls manga and live-action film under the pen-name Novala Takemoto, was arrested in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward for violating Japan's Cannabis Control Law on Monday. An affidavit stated that Takemoto allegedly "began smoking cannabis overseas out of curiosity. [He] also carried it back to Japan." Dried cannabis (marijuana) and smoking paraphernalia were reported to have been found during a search of his home.

Takemoto is suspected of concealing 0.22 grams of dried cannabis in the right pocket of his trousers while he was on a road in the Kabukicho entertainment district of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Sunday at around 5:15 p.m. A Shinjuku officer on patrol questioned him and discovered the cannabis.

The Kyoto-born Takemoto dropped out of the Osaka University of Arts before he began serializing his "Soleilnuit" essay column in a free Osaka newspaper in 1998. His writings on girls' interests and fashion led to his self-description as a man with "the charisma of otome (young ladies)." He published his first novel, Missin' in 2000, and an essay collection entitled Soleilnuit: For Becoming a Proper Young Lady in 2001. In 2002, he wrote Shimotsuma Monogatari, the novel that inspired the manga and film released under the English title Kamikaze Girls. He eventually started a Pour Lolita lolita-gothic tie-in with the Hello Kitty brand and the Baby, The Stars Shine Bright clothing boutique chain.

Baby, The Stars Shine Bright has since removed all mention of Takemoto and his Pour Lolita line from its website. Takemoto's personal website has been taken offline with only the following two lines:

"Notice:

We deeply apologize, but this homepage is being temporarily placed on hiatus."


Source: Anime News Network

I also heard a few days ago. Goodness...pulling a whole line...well,it goes without saying that they take drugs a bit more seriously than America...

heard it on egl a while ago.

I liked that weird black dress he had in his btssb line D:

Oh My... eek Takemoto sama sad

I heard heard about this a few days ago, and am sort of really sick of hearing about it now. sweatdrop Mostly because people are like 'he's being treated so unfair, I want to sent him presents, etc etc.'
The fact of the matter is, he did drugs, he broke the law. No-one forced him to do it. Yes, I do feel that he's been treated a little harshly for his crime, but this is mostly because in the west our laws are different; and the Japanese take crimes like this much more seriously then we do.

Besides , he took drugs, it's not like he lost his only child or something; so why is everyone crying for him?

-C'est la lune qui conduit la danse...-

At least atm, we know (from a previous egl post) that BABY is letting customers order his stuff on the DL. Isobe, you are so bad. <3

-...quand le soleil sera couché dans ton âme froide.-

Wow... Didn't see that coming. =A=;