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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.
Female stock characters in anime and manga (1 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Female characters in anime and manga" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total.
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].
Girls und Panzer is a 2012 Japanese anime television series created by Actas, directed by Tsutomu Mizushima, and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama. It depicts a competition between girls' high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport called "sensha-dō" (戦車道, lit. "the way of the tank"), the art of operating tanks. The English dub refers to ...
A Girls und Panzer-themed railroad car in Ōarai (2016) Oarai Station before renovation (2016) The popularity of Girls und Panzer turned its real-world setting of Ōarai, Ibaraki, into an attraction for fans; fans have paid visits to specific spots mentioned in the anime series, like a canonically-destroyed hotel. [150]
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."
The first part is what the anime takes from, but the manga continued on after the anime had finished. This makes the anime an unfinished adaptation of the series it is based upon. The Miracle Girls manga was licensed for English release by Tokyopop, who released the series from 2000-10-17 until 2003-05-13. [3]
A high school girl who has poor social skills. She lives alone due to a desire to own cats, which could not be done in her parents' residence. She also works part-time as a convenience store clerk. Utako "Hime" Nakamura (中村 詩子, Nakamura Utako) A high school girl who is the daughter of a ramen shop owner. She is known in school for ...