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Magical girl characters in anime and manga (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Female stock characters in anime and manga" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Animegao kigurumi is a type of masked cosplay that has its origins in the official stage shows of various Japanese anime but has also been adapted by hobbyists. In Japan , most performers refer to this kind of cosplay as 'kigurumi' ( 着ぐるみ ) instead of 'animegao' (アニメ顔, meaning "anime face"), which has been used overseas in order ...
In Japan, female costumers tend to dominate (in numbers) the field of cosplay in general, often portraying a huge assortment of colorful characters regardless of gender. As bishōnen are portrayed in manga and anime as liminal beings , it is considered "easier" for a female to cross-play as a bishōnen than it would be for her to crossplay as a ...
Lina Inverse has become a popular and critically praised character both in Japan and overseas; writing in 1999, Dave Halverson called Slayers' Lina and Naga "two of anime [medium]'s brightest stars in both Japan and the U.S." [53] Lina won Animage magazine's Anime Grand Prix 1998 award for the best female character of 1997, also placing second ...
Konata placed seventh in 2channel's SaiMoe 2007 contest, came in second place in the category of "Best Female Character" in the thirtieth Anime Grand Prix, and ranked third in Newtype's "Top 10 Female Characters of 2007" poll. Additionally, Konata placed first in a poll for flat-chested girls on the Anime One website. [10]
In both 1999 and 2000, Sakura won the Animage Grand Prix for "Best Female Character". [ 29 ] [ 30 ] In 2001 Sakura Kinomoto won the "Cutest Anime Girl of the Year" award from All Anime World. [ 31 ] In a Newtype poll from August 2001, Sakura was voted as the fourth most popular female anime character, [ 32 ] and in a March 2010 poll, she was ...
This is reflective of the phenomenon to use anime-styled characters to promote products in East Asia, such as Hikaru Aizawa for Microsoft Silverlight; [11] Simon, the company which conceptualized the K.R.T. Girls, had worked on such "moe" characters before in the past, such as Xuanying (絢櫻) of Pingtung County, and Air (also spelled Ai'er ...
Peppo is a gay boy who enjoys cross-dressing as a girl, [77] leading some reviewers to mistake him as transgender. [78] He develops feelings for Albert. Japan Renren First Love Monster: July 2, 2016: An androgynous boy, cross-dressing idol, and the object of fanaticism by Arashi, much to Chiaki's chagrin. [79] [80] Japan Bender Bending ...