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2. Manga iconography - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Bishōnen - Wikipedia

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   Gackt, a Japanese singer-songwriter, is considered to be one of the living manifestations of the Bishōnen phenomenon. [1] [2]Bishōnen (美少年, IPA: [bʲiɕo̞ꜜːnẽ̞ɴ] ⓘ; also transliterated bishounen) is a Japanese term literally meaning "beautiful youth (boy)" and describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man of androgynous beauty.

4. Bishōjo - Wikipedia

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   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. An attraction towards bishōjo characters is a key concept in otaku (manga and anime fan) subculture.

5. Doodle - Wikipedia

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   Doodle by Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia, c. 1795. A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be composed of random and abstract lines or shapes, generally without ever lifting the drawing device from the paper, in which case it is usually called a scribble.

6. Boys' love - Wikipedia

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   Illustrations by Kashō Takabatake in the shōnen manga (boys' comics) magazine Nihon Shōnen formed the foundation of what would become the aesthetic of bishōnen: boys and young men, often in homosocial or homoerotic contexts, who are defined by their "ambivalent passivity, fragility, ephemerality, and softness."

7. Anime-influenced animation - Wikipedia

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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 ...

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9. Chibi (style) - Wikipedia

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   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.