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The advent of Japanese anime stylizations appearing in Western animation questioned the established meaning of "anime". [182] Defining anime as style has been contentious amongst critics and fans, with John Oppliger stating, "The insistence on referring to original American art as "anime" or "manga" robs the work of its cultural identity." [2 ...
Anime enthusiasts have produced fan fiction and fan art, including computer wallpapers, and anime music videos (AMVs). [209] Many fans visit sites depicted in anime, games, manga and other forms of otaku culture. This behavior is known as "Anime pilgrimage". [210]
The kawaii aesthetic is characterized by soft or pastel colors, rounded shapes, and features which evoke vulnerability, such as big eyes and small mouths, and has become a prominent aspect of Japanese popular culture, influencing entertainment (including toys and idols), fashion (such as Lolita fashion), advertising, and product design.
Life Magazine's cover and lead article for the September 1, 1967 issue at the height of the Summer of Love focused on the explosion of psychedelic art on posters and the artists as leaders in the hippie counterculture community. Psychedelic light-shows were a new art-form developed for rock concerts.
The visual aesthetic (often stylized as "AESTHETICS", with fullwidth characters) [20] incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, and cyberpunk tropes, [12] as well as anime, Greco-Roman statues, and 3D-rendered objects. [44] VHS degradation is another common effect seen in vaporwave art.
Film critic Nathan Rabin coined the term in 2007 in his review of the 2005 film Elizabethtown for The A.V. Club.In discussing Kirsten Dunst's character, he said "Dunst embodies a character type I like to call The Manic Pixie Dream Girl", a character who "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its ...
Nyan Cat. Nyan Cat is a YouTube video uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme.The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail behind.
Anime television series, specials, films, OVAs, and ONAs first released from January 1, 1960 through December 31, 1969. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.