One Japanese Celebrity's Disgusting Twitter Tradition
By Alex Johnson | January 01, 0001
It’s summer! In Japan, that means muggy heat, fireworks, and cold noodles. But for one Japanese celeb, it also means covering oneself in insect shells. 
Note: Some readers might get grossed out by these images. I know I kinda did. Shoko Nakagawa—singer, TV personality, and 
reigning Pokémon queen—has been covering herself with cicada husks for the past few years, uploading the images to Twitter. In late July and early August, you can hear cicada (セミ or semi) throughout Japan. It’s all yono rummy one way you know it’s summer.
Online in Japan, this is the Twitter equivalent of marking y1 games latest the season. Just as it wouldn’t be betdog summer in Japan without cicada chirping, it wouldn’t be summer in Japan without Shoko Nakagawa covering herself in cicada shells. First, she uploaded this photo, which seemed rather whatever. No biggie! [Photo: shoko55mmts] The image was retweeted over 23,000 times. Nakagawa wrote, “Summer came again this year.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1723061497","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"pokemon","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Then, she went and outdid herself by posting these photos. [Photo: shoko55mmts] [Photo: shoko55mmts] Now you know what one thousand cicada husks look like on a famous celebrity. And this happened 
during one of her concerts. [Photo: shoko55mmts] Of course it did. To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter@Brian_Ashcraft
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