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Gackt, a Japanese singer-songwriter, is considered to be one of the living manifestations of the Bishōnen phenomenon. [1] [2]Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.
E-kids, [1] split by binary gender as e-girls and e-boys, are a youth subculture of Gen Z that emerged in the late 2010s, [2] notably popularized by the video-sharing application TikTok. [3] It is an evolution of emo , scene and mall goth fashion combined with Japanese and Korean street fashion .
The trend emerged on social media site Tumblr in 2015, as an aesthetic that captured the imaginations of a maturing "Harry Potter generation", [14] with various fandoms using the site to share dark, Gothic revival interior and architectural photos. Dark academia rose in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased interest in dark ...
Astro Boy, known in Japan as ... and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar ... Sony Pictures ...
Illustrations by Kashō Takabatake in the shōnen manga (boys' comics) magazine Nihon Shōnen formed the foundation of what would become the aesthetic of bishōnen: boys and young men, often in homosocial or homoerotic contexts, who are defined by their "ambivalent passivity, fragility, ephemerality, and softness."
Regional jets are despised by many passengers. They’re uncomfortable and cramped, with little space for both carry-on luggage and people. The good news is their use is on the decline, but the ...
Astro Boy (Japanese: 鉄腕アトム, Hepburn: Tetsuwan Atomu, "Mighty Atom", lit. "Iron Arm Atom") is a Japanese anime television series based on Osamu Tezuka's manga of the same name . [ 3 ] It premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day, 1963 (a Tuesday) and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that ...
Boys' love (BL), a genre of male-male homoerotic media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women, has a robust global fandom. Individuals in the BL fandom may attend conventions, maintain/post to fansites, create fanfiction/fanart, etc. In the mid-1990s, estimates of the size of the Japanese BL fandom were at 100,000 to ...