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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.
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. This drawing style has also migrated into anime, as many manga are adapted into television shows and films and some of the well-known animation studios are founded by manga artists.
The chibi art style is part of the Japanese kawaii culture, [9] [10] [11] and is seen everywhere from advertising and subway signs to anime and manga. The style was popularized by franchises like Dragon Ball and SD Gundam in the 1980s. It is used as comic relief in anime and manga, giving additional emphasis to a character's emotional reaction.
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. [5]
Burikko are girls or women who act coy, or deliberately cute and/or innocent in a put on way. [2] It includes the "idea of a helpless, submissive, and cute look of a young girl". [ 4 ] The burikko subculture is an example of adults embracing child-like behavior and speech as a form of cuteness, also seen in South Korean aegyo or Chinese ...
Mona poses for the sketch, hoping to entice Medaka, only to be aroused by Medaka staring at her with such intensity. Later, she keeps noticing Tsubomi nearby. Fearing Tsubomi might be a love rival she assumes Medaka likes smart girls like Tsubomi, so she dons glasses whilst also deliberately brushing her leg against Medaka under the table.
Lum the Invader Girl [1] [2] (/ l ʌ m /), known in Japan simply as Lum (Japanese: ラム, Hepburn: Ramu), [3] is a fictional character and the female protagonist of Rumiko Takahashi's manga series Urusei Yatsura. [4] [5] [6] She is often believed to be the main protagonist of the series due to her iconic status.
So Cute It Hurts!! (Japanese: 小林が可愛すぎてツライっ!!, Hepburn: Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!!, lit. "Kobayashi is So Cute it Hurts!!"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gō Ikeyamada. It was adapted into an original video animation, included in volume 3 limited edition of the series. [7]