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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 ...
Revolutionary Girl Utena (Japanese: 少女革命ウテナ, Hepburn: Shōjo Kakumei Utena) [c] is a Japanese anime television series created by Be-Papas, a production group formed by director Kunihiko Ikuhara and composed of himself, Chiho Saito, Shinya Hasegawa, Yōji Enokido and Yūichirō Oguro.
[232] [233] [234] When anime is defined as a "style" rather than as a national product, it leaves open the possibility of anime being produced in other countries, [230] but this has been contentious amongst fans, with John Oppliger stating, "The insistence on referring to original American art as Japanese "anime" or "manga" robs the work of its ...
Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea (Japanese: 海がきこえる, Hepburn: Umi ga Kikoeru), is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaoru Nakamura) based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro.
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 shōjo magazines and shōjo manga directed at girls in the pre-war period. [5]
"Bouquet for an Ugly Girl") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Roku Sakura. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's seinen manga magazine Young Ace from April 2016 to September 2022, with its chapters collected in 12 tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation produced by Silver Link is set to premiere in July 2025.
Pretty Face (Japanese: プリティフェイス, Hepburn: Puriti Feisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Kano. It was serialized in Shueisha 's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 2002 to June 2003, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes.
Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described as a tall woman of about 175-180cm, however, some people believe she is up to 8 feet tall, having long, straight black hair, white ...