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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.
A fan's room decorated with dakimakura and merchandise of the anime character Mirai Suenaga, 2012. Nijikon (二次コン) or nijigen konpurekkusu (二次元コンプレックス), from the English phrase "2D complex", is a sexual or affective attraction towards two-dimensional anime, manga, and light novel characters, as opposed to an attraction towards real human beings.
My Dress-Up Darling (Japanese: その 着せ替え人形 （ ビスク・ドール ） は恋をする, Hepburn: Sono Bisuku Dōru wa Koi o Suru, transl. "That Bisque Doll Falls in Love") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Fukuda.
Cuticle Detective Inaba (Japanese: キューティクル探偵因幡, Hepburn: Kyūtikuru Tantei Inaba) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mochi. It was serialized in Square Enix's Monthly GFantasy from August 2007 to January 2017, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes.
Animegao kigurumi is a type of masked cosplay that has its origins in the official stage shows of various Japanese anime but has also been adapted by hobbyists. In Japan , most performers refer to this kind of cosplay as 'kigurumi' ( 着ぐるみ ) instead of 'animegao' (アニメ顔, meaning "anime face"), which has been used overseas in order ...
Gugure! Kokkuri-san (繰繰れ! コックリさん, "Repeat! Kokkuri-san") is a Japanese manga series by Midori Endō, serialized in Square Enix's Gangan Joker since 2011. It has been collected in 12 (plus 1) tankōbon volumes until 2016 when it ended.
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.
The first anime aired in 1973 and is considered a magical girl series in retrospect. In addition, the theme song of the series has become one of the most famous theme songs in the history of anime, and is widely known in Japan, even to those unfamiliar with the series. [ 5 ]