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This category should be reserved specifically for characters originating in anime and manga, as opposed to licensed appearances in such media.
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.
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 ] .
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Magical girl (魔法少女, mahō shōjo) is a subgenre of Japanese fantasy media centered around young girls who use magic, often through an alter ego into which they can transform. Since the genre's emergence in the 1960s, media including anime , manga , OVAs , ONAs , films, and live-action series have been produced.
The anime adaptation of Girls Bravo, directed by Ei Aoki and animated by AIC Spirits, aired in Japan from 2004 to 2005. There are 24 episodes total. The anime series was released in English by Geneon, and the manga was released in English by Tokyopop. A visual novel was also released for the PlayStation 2.
Robot Girls Z (Japanese: ロボットガールズZ, Hepburn: Robotto Gāruzu Zetto) is an anime television series produced by Dynamic Planning and animated by Toei Animation. The series is a comedic parody of various mecha series produced by Toei, anthropomorphizing robots from those series into magical girls .
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 ...