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  2. List of Sanrio characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of characters from Sanrio, a Japanese company specialized in creating kawaii (cute) characters. Sanrio sells and licenses products branded with these characters and has created over 450 characters. [1] Their most successful and best known character, Hello Kitty, was created in 1974. [2]

  3. Hello Kitty - Wikipedia

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    Hello Kitty's popularity also grew with the emergence of kawaii (cute) culture. [16] The brand went into decline in Japan after the 1990s, but continued to grow in the international market. [17] By 2010 the character was worth $5 billion a year and The New York Times called her a "global marketing phenomenon". [17] She did about $8 billion at ...

  4. Chibi (style) - Wikipedia

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    The chibi art style is part of the Japanese kawaii culture, [9] [10] [11] and is seen everywhere from advertising and subway signs to anime and manga. The style was popularized by franchises like Dragon Ball and SD Gundam in the 1980s. It is used as comic relief in anime and manga, giving additional emphasis to a character's emotional reaction.

  5. Kawaii - Wikipedia

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    Kawaii has taken on a life of its own, spawning the formation of kawaii websites, kawaii home pages, kawaii browser themes and finally, kawaii social networking pages. While Japan is the origin and Mecca of all things kawaii, artists and businesses around the world are imitating the kawaii theme.

  6. Gudetama - Wikipedia

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    The series follows the exploits of Gudetama and a cast of recurring human characters. One such character is Nisetama-san (ニセたまさん, Nisetamasan, meaning "fake egg"), a young man dressed in a yellow suit similar to a zentai suit but with the face exposed, akin to a humanoid Gudetama. The series' short segments end with a rendition of ...

  7. Catgirl - Wikipedia

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    Wikipe-tan (a moe anthropomorphism of Wikipedia), drawn as a catgirl. A catgirl (猫娘, nekomusume), sometimes called a neko girl or simply neko, is a young female character with feline traits, such as cat ears (猫耳, nekomimi), a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body.

  8. Japanese aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    A modern phenomenon, since the 1970s cuteness or kawaii (可愛い, "cute", "adorable", "loveable") in Japanese has become a prominent aesthetic of Japanese popular culture, entertainment, clothing, food, toys, personal appearance, behavior, and mannerisms.

  9. Chiikawa - Wikipedia

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    Chiikawa (ちいかわ), also known as Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu (なんか小さくてかわいいやつ, 'Something Small and Cute'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nagano. The main contents of the work are the daily lives and interactions of a series of cute animal or animal-inspired characters.