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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.
[18] [dubious – discuss] Before Otome-kei emerged, there was already a rise of cuteness culture in the earlier seventies; during this period there was a strong emphasis on cute and childish handwriting in Japanese schools. [23] [24] [25] As a result, the company Sanrio began experimenting with cute designs. [26]
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The phrase "cute girls doing cute things", a subgenre of the slice of life genre, was used by fans to describe the series as early as 2004. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Erica Friedman of Yuricon has called the series "too-cute-to-hate", [ 5 ] but criticized the now out-of-print English language publication of the manga for not providing any translations for ...
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In the original Japanese title, dosanko is a word for a breed of pony native to Hokkaido, which was later extended to mean also "Hokkaido-raised" when referring to people, gyaru refers to a member of the gal subculture, namara is a Hokkaido dialect word meaning "very" or "super", [15] and menkoi is Hokkaido dialect for "cute" or "adorable."