Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Domokun, the unique-looking and widely recognized NHK mascot, was introduced in 1998 and quickly took on a life of its own, appearing in Internet memes and fan art around the world. Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty and other similarly cute characters, runs the Sanrio Puroland theme park in Tokyo, and painted on some EVA Air Airbus A330 ...
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.
BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico, [a] stylized as BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! ☆ PICO and also known as Garupa ☆ Pico, is a Japanese chibi short anime series by Bushiroad. Animated by Sanzigen in collaboration with DMM.futureworks, it is a spin-off of the main BanG Dream! series with characters from the mobile game BanG Dream! Girls Band ...
Chibi Maruko-chan (Japanese: ちびまる子ちゃん, lit. " Little Maruko -chan ") is a manga series written and illustrated by Momoko Sakura . The series depicts the simple, everyday life of Momoko Sakura, a young girl everyone calls Maruko , and her family in suburban Japan in the year 1974.
Wikipe-tan, a combination of the Japanese word for Wikipedia and the friendly suffix for children, -tan, [1] is a moe anthropomorph of Wikipedia. Moe anthropomorphism (Japanese: 萌え擬人化, Hepburn: moe gijinka) is a form of anthropomorphism in anime, manga, and games where moe qualities are given to non-human beings (such as animals, plants, supernatural entities and fantastical ...
Kuchisake-onna has appeared in live-action films, as well as in manga, anime, and video games. The character appears in the 1994 animated film Pom Poko , produced by Studio Ghibli , [ 14 ] and later appears in the 1996 live-action short film Kuchisake-onna , directed by Teruyoshi Ishii . [ 14 ]
The first of the K.R.T. Girls, Sora, debuted in early November 2014 at two-day event for independent comic and video game creators hosted in Kaohsiung. [6] They were created through a joint effort between the transport company and a team of animated artists to promote the subway and increase revenue. [3]