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Like the English phenomenon of SMS language, it is most often used for sending cell phone text messages, but while text is used as a form of informal shorthand, a message typed in gyaru-moji usually requires more characters and effort than the same message typed in plain Japanese.
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (Japanese: 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん, Hepburn: Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san) [a] is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series by Keigo Maki. It was serialized on Kodansha 's Magazine Pocket website and app from February 2019 to February 2023, with its chapters collected in 20 tankōbon volumes as of ...
My Girlfriend's a Geek (腐女子彼女, Fujoshi Kanojo) is a Japanese light novel series in two volumes by Pentabu based on a popular blog [1] of the same name with 11 million [2] page views. A manga adaptation by Rize Shinba started serialization in 2007 and was published by Enterbrain under their B's LOG Comic imprint.
My Girlfriend's Not Here Today (Japanese: 今日はカノジョがいないから, Hepburn: Kyou wa Kanojo ga Inai kara) is a Japanese yuri manga series written and illustrated by Kiyoko Iwami. It has been serialized in Ichijinsha 's Comic Yuri Hime since June 2021, and is licensed for an English-language release by Seven Seas Entertainment .
Gyaru (ギャル) pronounced [ɡʲa̠ꜜɾɯ̟ᵝ], is a Japanese fashion subculture for young women, often associated with gaudy fashion styles and dyed hair. [1] The term gyaru is a Japanese transliteration of the English slang word gal.
In modern Japanese, the word is usually translated as "elegance," "refinement," or "courtliness" and sometimes to a "sweet loved one". The ideal posed by the word demanded the elimination of anything that was absurd or vulgar and the "polishing of manners, diction, and feelings to eliminate all roughness and crudity so as to achieve the highest ...
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In practice the term "bijin" means "beautiful woman" because the first kanji character, bi (), has a feminine connotation. The character expressed the concept of beauty by first using the element for "sheep", which must have been viewed as beautiful, and was combined with the element for "big", ultimately forming a new kanji. [2]