TOKYOPOP'S GOTHIC SPORTS: A GOTH LOLI SOCCER TEAM.
Gothic Sports? What exactly would that be… a group of Victorian-obsessed girls who gather in a playing field to write bad poetry and self-mutilate?
Not quite. Gothic Sports is Anike Hage’s manga about a Gothic Lolita soccer team. (You read that right: Goth Loli and sports in the same sentence.) To date, TokyoPop has released three volumes of the series.
The story centers on Anya, a tenth grade transfer student who is rejected from all of the school’s sports teams. Like many high school misfits, she falls in with the Goth crowd. Anya convinces the principal to let them form their own soccer team… but as you can imagine, the listless lolis aren’t exactly Beckham material.
But boy, do they know how to dress. The team unveils fabulous Gothic Lolita uniforms and suddenly becomes the center of attention. But do the girls have what it takes to compete with the official school team – and win?
Push it to the limit! / Walk along the razor’s edge / but don’t look down, just keep your head and you’ll be finished (finisssssshed)! 
Gothic Sports retails for $10 a volume; I read a few chapters for free on TokyoPop’s site and was tickled pink. (Hey, I loved The Karate Kid and Shaolin Soccer). And who knew that Gothic Lolita soccer jerseys could be so becoming?
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Rozen Maiden is also a pretty gothic lolita manga….
its focus is on DOLLS in gothic lolita/aristocrat outfits. Awesome artwork too.
Rozen Maiden is also a pretty gothic lolita manga….
its focus is on DOLLS in gothic lolita/aristocrat outfits. Awesome artwork too.
Rozen Maiden is also a pretty gothic lolita manga….
its focus is on DOLLS in gothic lolita/aristocrat outfits. Awesome artwork too.