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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 stories are adapted into television shows and films. In manga the emphasis is often placed on line over form, and the storytelling and panel placement differ ...
A poster for the 1953 film Ugetsu. The woman in the foreground has hikimayu. Hikimayu (引眉) was the practice of removing the natural eyebrows and painting smudge-like eyebrows on the forehead in pre-modern Japan, particularly in the Heian period (794–1185). Hiki means "pull" and mayu means "eyebrows". Aristocratic women used to pluck or ...
Kuchisake-onna ( 口裂け女, 'Slit-Mouthed Woman')[ 1] is a malevolent figure in Japanese urban legends and folklore. Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described as having long ...
How to Draw Manga. How to Draw Manga ( Japanese: マンガの描き方) is a series of instructional books on drawing manga published by Graphic-sha, by a variety of authors. Originally in Japanese for the Japanese market, many volumes have been translated into English and published in the United States. The English-language volumes in the ...
Lum the Invader Girl[ 1][ 2] ( / lʌm / ), 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.
Anime ( Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ⓘ) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. [ 1] However, in Japan and Japanese, anime (a term derived from a shortening of the English word animation) describes all animated works ...
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Shōjo manga (少女漫画, lit. "girls' comics ", also romanized as shojo or shoujo) is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with shōnen manga (targeting adolescent boys), seinen manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and josei manga (targeting adult ...