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Gackt, a Japanese singer-songwriter, is considered to be one of the living manifestations of the Bishōnen phenomenon. [1] [2]Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.
Reviews for the anime have been generally positive. Amy McNulty from Anime News Network gave the first three episodes of the series an "A" rating writing that: "Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! should make any anime fan laugh, although long-time fans of magical girl shows will get the jokes better by default. As a parody of a genre that can ...
Boys Love: Kaim Tachibana: Live-action film Manga 2014 Dramatical Murder: Nitro+chiral: Video game Manga, anime television series [86] 2002 Enzai: Falsely Accused: Langmaor Video game Original video animation [87] 1994 Fujimi Orchestra: Kō Akizuki: Novel Manga, original video animation 2002 Gakuen Heaven: Spray Video game Novel, manga, anime ...
GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
The Cardueae are a tribe of flowering plants in the daisy family and the subfamily Carduoideae. [5] Most of them are commonly known as thistles; [6] four of the best known genera are Carduus, [7] Cynara (containing the widely eaten artichoke), Cirsium, [7] and Onopordum.
Onopordum acanthium (cotton thistle, Scotch (or Scottish) thistle) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Europe and Western Asia from the Iberian Peninsula east to Kazakhstan , and north to central Scandinavia , and widely naturalised elsewhere, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with especially large populations present in the United ...
The genus Carthamus, the distaff thistles, includes plants in the family Asteraceae. [4] The group is native to Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia. [3] [5] The flower has been used since ancient times in the Philippines, which it has been called kasubha by the Tagalog people. [6] The best known species is the safflower (Carthamus ...
The artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus), [1] also known by the names French artichoke, globe artichoke, and green artichoke in the United States, [2] is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as food. The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom.