Rikitake Lolita Photobook 12
Cherrie Patete
The first work I can find of Yasushi Rikitake is the omnibus photobook Lolita Sisters, which was released in October 1983. Rikitake was one of eight photographers who contributed to Lolita Sisters. In August 1984 Lolita Friends was released, another omnibus photobook by six photographers including Rikitake. Popularity of Photo-Lolicon peaked in about 1984, and then began a slow decline until 1988. In 1988 Tsutomu Miyazaki was arrested for kidnapping and murdering four girls, age four through seven. A large amount of lolicon anime and manga was found in his home, and the crime so shocked Japan that many came to see lolicon as evil. It was still legal, but less popular that it had been. It became more difficult to find models among Japanese girls since lolicon was tainted with a stigma, so many of the photographers who remained in the business sought models in foreign countries, especially Southeast Asia and Russia.
Beginning from 1994 to 1999, she released nude photobooks and videos, among which were two volumes of the famous photobook series FRIENDS by Rikitake Yasushi. The year 2004 saw the reprinting of "Pretty Girl of Legend - Nishimura Rika" in May and, in December, the release of a DVD compilation entitled "Rika, 22 years old - A goddess reincarnated".
In the novel Welcome to the NHK by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, Rika is referred to as Satou's "favourite" at one point in the series. This was after his friend, Yamazaki, loaned him hundreds of discs of Lolicon photobooks as a "reference point" for their Bishoujo game they were to create together.
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