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This category should be reserved specifically for characters originating in anime and manga, as opposed to licensed appearances in such media. This category is for fictional characters in anime and manga who are female.
A second web anime titled Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top premiered in April 2023 and ran for four episodes. An anime film titled Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era premiered in Japan in May 2024. An anime television series adaptation of Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray is set to premiere in April 2025.
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 ] .
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The oldest pageant still in operation today is the Miss America pageant, which was organized in 1921 by a local businessman to entice tourists to Atlantic City, New Jersey. [22] The pageant hosted the winners of local newspaper beauty contests in the "Inter-City Beauty" Contest, attended by over one hundred thousand people.
From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [1] [2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women and was first attested to in English in 1941. [3] Images of pin-up girls were published in magazines and newspapers. They were also displayed on postcards, lithographs, and ...
The pageant continued from 1962 to 1968 in which they made debut as annual live stage event. [9] [10] [11]The 1962 Miss Teen USA was named at the Teen-Age Fair, a ten-day event, over the Easter holiday, [12] in April, held at the Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California, which had 32 teenaged girls from across the United States participating and Linda Henning, a 15-year-old from Sioux ...