Like clockwork, every summer in Japan, you can hear cicada, or "semi" (セミ), throughout the country. That buzzing cry is something that people instantly associate with the season. And like clockwork, idol Shoko Nakagawa is back this August with more stomach-churning cicada photos. Yay?


See Nakagawa, who is Japan's queen of Pokémon, collects cicada skins—and puts them in her hair. And then, she takes photos of the ensuing chaos and posts them on the internet to horrify us all.

残暑お見舞い申しあげマミタス　[しょこたん　ぶろぐ]

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