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Written and illustrated by Karin Anzai, It Takes More Than a Pretty Face to Fall in Love began serialization in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume on July 20, 2020. [4] Its chapters have been compiled into thirteen tankōbon volumes as of February 2025. [5] The manga is licensed digitally in English by Comikey. [6]
Man of Many Faces (20面相におねがい!!, Nijū Mensō ni Onegai!!, lit. 20 Faces, Please!! ) is a manga by Clamp about a nine-year-old boy named Akira Ijyuin who steals beautiful and valuable objects to please his two mothers and is known to the public as the dashing, clever thief named the Man of 20 Faces .
Pretty Face (Japanese: プリティフェイス, Hepburn: Puriti Feisu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Kano. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 2002 to June 2003, with its chapters collected in six tankōbon volumes. The story revolves around a high school boy who ...
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 term comes from the Japanese word boke (暈け/ボケ), which means "blur" or "haze", resulting in boke-aji (ボケ味), the "blur quality".This is derived as a noun form of the verb bokeru, which is written in several ways, [7] with additional meanings and nuances: 暈ける refers to being blurry, hazy or out-of-focus, whereas the 惚ける and 呆ける spellings refer to being mentally ...
One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン, Hepburn: Wanpan Man, stylized OnePunch-Man) is a Japanese superhero manga series created by One. It tells the story of Saitama , an independent superhero who, having trained to the point that he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, grows bored from a lack of challenge.
The term iki is commonly used in both conversation and writing, having had a lasting effect on the development and continuation of Japanese aesthetics in the modern day, despite not necessarily being considered exclusive of other categories of Japanese aesthetic concepts and ideals, such as wabi-sabi.
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.