I just thought I would shoot a few photos of my recently completed 1/6th version of my post apocalyptic heroine and danger addict, Kamiko Takahara. I hope you like them,
20190408_0013 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
Kamiko is often seen carrying a Japanese-made Howa type 89 Assault rifle, which she states in her memoirs, she picked up off the battlefield from a fallen Japanese soldier during the disastrous Chinese invasion of the Japanese islands. According to Kamiko, she and her friends Gogo and Miyori had been hiding under cover but nonetheless saw what was happening and decided to join the fight, so all three ran out and picked up weapons off the ground and started fighting alongside the Japanese soldiers.
20190408_0020 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
Kamiko was an expert marksman even before she came to Japan in her teens. She had learned marksmanship in her native America and her skill at arms with the Type 89, a weapon she had never received any sort of training in, much impressed the Japanese she chose to help in their moment of need. The unit had taken heavy casualties and Kamiko and her friends seemed to know how to handle themselves in a fight, so they were quickly sworn in as provisional members of the JSDF.
20190408_0015 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
Kamiko's insistence on wearing her red bow in her hair at all times, including battle actually inspired some of the JSDF soldiers, a number of whom followed suit by tying good luck belts displaying the rising sun around their helmets.
20190408_0024 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
As casualties mounted and Kamiko continued to demonstrate not only her bravery and tactical skills, she was promoted first to corporal, then to sergeant, before finally receiving a battlefield commission near the end of the fighting. She and her friends, who had also survived unscathed, perhaps protected by the aura of good luck that always seemed to surround Kamiko, were offered the opportunity to remain in the JSDF as regular members, but Kamiko opted instead to take her discharge so that she could return to America in the hopes of finding her family, which had not been heard from for some time as a result of the nuclear exchange that had occurred between the US and Russia. Kamiko claims in her memoirs that she did not steal the rifle she brought home with her, but rather was presented it by her regimental commander, in reward for her service and bravery, and knowing she would need it when she got home.
20190408_0001 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
Kamiko is also quite skilled with handguns, and is here seen with a WWII surplus Canadian-made Browning High Power, which she mentions she picked up from Alex after she and her party joined his group of survivors.
20190408_0007 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
Kamiko and her friends had a few dark secrets, all dating from before the time the brown stuff really hit the wall. All were bi-curious, and all were intrigued by erotic asphyxiation. They especially love watching scenes of gallows hangings in westerns, and noticed these things in one another. While there were many Japanese who found Kamiko too American, Gogo and Miyori and a couple of others were enthralled by tales of the American west, in the same way that Kamiko as a young girl had been enthralled by stories of samurai culture and samurai honor. All of them knew that some of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," had been the basis for "The Magnificent Seven," and that his film "Yojimbo" had been the basis for Sergio Leone's first "spaghetti western," "A Fistful of Dollars." Thus, they imagined themselves as bounty hunters in a post-apocalyptic far west, hunting and hanging outlaws and other ne'er do wells. It wasn't long before they started role playing their fantasies with airsoft guns and play nooses. To make sure the pellets really stung, the only clothing they could wear was their boots, shorts and bikini or halter tops, which they all obtained in camouflage colors, hence the origin of their later combat dress. They played these games in secret, normally out in the countryside, and the losing side of each round had to submit to make-believe hanging. They never took this too far, not wanting to kill or injure themselves, except for Kamiko who on one of the very rare occasions she lost, asked that her friends hold the free end of the rope for a few seconds as she wanted to experience what it actually felt like to hang. They were reluctant at first, but Kamiko convinced them and so they obliged her.
Kamiko only swung for a few seconds before being let down, but she realized then and there that she had an enormously high pain threshold and could have handled a lot more. The experience turned her on, and seeing this, her friends asked one-by-one to try also. None handled it as well as Kamiko did, but they all suffered from the same bizarre turn on at being hanged.
20190408_0010 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
The night after they first tried erotic asphyxiation for real, Kamiko, Gogo and Miyori had a long intimate chat. When Miyori expressed the opinion that their obsession with erotic asphyxiation would be the death of all of them.
"We are all dead girls walking," said Miyori. "We were all born for the noose and the obsession will grow worse and worse until....
"No! replied Kamiko. "You are all safe so long as you stick by me." Kamiko then explained to them that she believed that as long as she wore her red bow, which had been made by her mother from silk blessed by a shinto priest who was the first to proclaim that the infant Kamiko appeared to him as a "little goddess" , the kami watched over her and protected her from harm, and that so long as the other two stuck close to her, they too would live charmed lives.
"Tell no-one of this," Kamiko told them, "and stick close by me always and the kami will protect you through me."
"And the others?" Gogo inquired.
"Not even the kami can protect everyone, Gogo," Kamiko replied. "And their hearts are not so pure as yours. Say nothing to anyone and stay close."
20190408_0012_1 by Gary Menten, on Flickr
That's it for now. I hope you like the pics.
20190408_0013 by Gary Menten, on FlickrKamiko is often seen carrying a Japanese-made Howa type 89 Assault rifle, which she states in her memoirs, she picked up off the battlefield from a fallen Japanese soldier during the disastrous Chinese invasion of the Japanese islands. According to Kamiko, she and her friends Gogo and Miyori had been hiding under cover but nonetheless saw what was happening and decided to join the fight, so all three ran out and picked up weapons off the ground and started fighting alongside the Japanese soldiers.
20190408_0020 by Gary Menten, on FlickrKamiko was an expert marksman even before she came to Japan in her teens. She had learned marksmanship in her native America and her skill at arms with the Type 89, a weapon she had never received any sort of training in, much impressed the Japanese she chose to help in their moment of need. The unit had taken heavy casualties and Kamiko and her friends seemed to know how to handle themselves in a fight, so they were quickly sworn in as provisional members of the JSDF.
20190408_0015 by Gary Menten, on FlickrKamiko's insistence on wearing her red bow in her hair at all times, including battle actually inspired some of the JSDF soldiers, a number of whom followed suit by tying good luck belts displaying the rising sun around their helmets.
20190408_0024 by Gary Menten, on FlickrAs casualties mounted and Kamiko continued to demonstrate not only her bravery and tactical skills, she was promoted first to corporal, then to sergeant, before finally receiving a battlefield commission near the end of the fighting. She and her friends, who had also survived unscathed, perhaps protected by the aura of good luck that always seemed to surround Kamiko, were offered the opportunity to remain in the JSDF as regular members, but Kamiko opted instead to take her discharge so that she could return to America in the hopes of finding her family, which had not been heard from for some time as a result of the nuclear exchange that had occurred between the US and Russia. Kamiko claims in her memoirs that she did not steal the rifle she brought home with her, but rather was presented it by her regimental commander, in reward for her service and bravery, and knowing she would need it when she got home.
20190408_0001 by Gary Menten, on FlickrKamiko is also quite skilled with handguns, and is here seen with a WWII surplus Canadian-made Browning High Power, which she mentions she picked up from Alex after she and her party joined his group of survivors.
20190408_0007 by Gary Menten, on FlickrKamiko and her friends had a few dark secrets, all dating from before the time the brown stuff really hit the wall. All were bi-curious, and all were intrigued by erotic asphyxiation. They especially love watching scenes of gallows hangings in westerns, and noticed these things in one another. While there were many Japanese who found Kamiko too American, Gogo and Miyori and a couple of others were enthralled by tales of the American west, in the same way that Kamiko as a young girl had been enthralled by stories of samurai culture and samurai honor. All of them knew that some of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," had been the basis for "The Magnificent Seven," and that his film "Yojimbo" had been the basis for Sergio Leone's first "spaghetti western," "A Fistful of Dollars." Thus, they imagined themselves as bounty hunters in a post-apocalyptic far west, hunting and hanging outlaws and other ne'er do wells. It wasn't long before they started role playing their fantasies with airsoft guns and play nooses. To make sure the pellets really stung, the only clothing they could wear was their boots, shorts and bikini or halter tops, which they all obtained in camouflage colors, hence the origin of their later combat dress. They played these games in secret, normally out in the countryside, and the losing side of each round had to submit to make-believe hanging. They never took this too far, not wanting to kill or injure themselves, except for Kamiko who on one of the very rare occasions she lost, asked that her friends hold the free end of the rope for a few seconds as she wanted to experience what it actually felt like to hang. They were reluctant at first, but Kamiko convinced them and so they obliged her.
Kamiko only swung for a few seconds before being let down, but she realized then and there that she had an enormously high pain threshold and could have handled a lot more. The experience turned her on, and seeing this, her friends asked one-by-one to try also. None handled it as well as Kamiko did, but they all suffered from the same bizarre turn on at being hanged.
20190408_0010 by Gary Menten, on FlickrThe night after they first tried erotic asphyxiation for real, Kamiko, Gogo and Miyori had a long intimate chat. When Miyori expressed the opinion that their obsession with erotic asphyxiation would be the death of all of them.
"We are all dead girls walking," said Miyori. "We were all born for the noose and the obsession will grow worse and worse until....
"No! replied Kamiko. "You are all safe so long as you stick by me." Kamiko then explained to them that she believed that as long as she wore her red bow, which had been made by her mother from silk blessed by a shinto priest who was the first to proclaim that the infant Kamiko appeared to him as a "little goddess" , the kami watched over her and protected her from harm, and that so long as the other two stuck close to her, they too would live charmed lives.
"Tell no-one of this," Kamiko told them, "and stick close by me always and the kami will protect you through me."
"And the others?" Gogo inquired.
"Not even the kami can protect everyone, Gogo," Kamiko replied. "And their hearts are not so pure as yours. Say nothing to anyone and stay close."
20190408_0012_1 by Gary Menten, on FlickrThat's it for now. I hope you like the pics.
