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In Japanese popular culture, a bishōjo (美少女, lit. "beautiful girl"), also romanized as bishojo or bishoujo, is a cute girl character. Bishōjo characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game genre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés.
Kawaii culture is an off-shoot of Japanese girls’ culture, which flourished with the creation of girl secondary schools after 1899. This postponement of marriage and children allowed for the rise of a girl youth culture in shojo magazines and Shōjo manga directed at girls in the pre-war period [ 5 ] .
Pages in category "Japanese girl groups" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 258 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Burikko (ぶりっ子, sometimes rendered Burriko in English) is a Japanese term for girls or women who act coy, or deliberately cute and/or innocent in a put-on way. The term was coined around 1980, likely by Japanese comedian Kuniko Yamada. [1] [2] Burikko style is often associated with Japanese idols of the 1980s such as Seiko Matsuda.
A bishōjo game (Japanese: 美少女ゲーム, Hepburn: bishōjo gēmu, lit. "pretty girl game") or gal game (ギャルゲーム, gyaru gēmu, often shortened to "galge") is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive girls".
But, as events this week in Paris have once again shown, when it comes to women’s skating, Japan’s teenage girls are on fire. For the second consecutive Olympics, Team Japan dominated the ...
Cute (キュート, Kyūto, stylized as °C-ute), was a Japanese girl group associated with Hello! Project and produced by Tsunku. Cute consisted of Maimi Yajima, Saki Nakajima, Airi Suzuki, Chisato Okai, and Mai Hagiwara, who were all members of Hello! Project Kids prior to the group's formation. The original member line-up also consisted of ...