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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.
The manga was originally produced for TV as Astro Boy, the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. [9] After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003.
A musha-e print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (c. 1834). Representations of homosexuality in Japanese visual art have a history and context dating to the Muromachi period, as seen in Chigo no sōshi (稚児之草子, a collection of illustrations and stories on relationships between Buddhist monks and their adolescent male acolytes) and shunga (erotic woodblock prints originating in the Edo period).
The kawaii aesthetic is characterized by soft or pastel colors, rounded shapes, and features which evoke vulnerability, such as big eyes and small mouths, and has become a prominent aspect of Japanese popular culture, influencing entertainment (including toys and idols), fashion (such as Lolita fashion), advertising, and product design.
Male stock characters in anime and manga (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Male characters in anime and manga" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 212 total.
) [a] is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the twenty-first installment in the Pretty Cure franchise and its first entry with a title written in hiragana . [ 4 ] It is directed by Masanori Sato and written by Yoshimi Narita , with character designs by Yoko Uchida and costume designs by NaSka.
The Sanrio Boys (サンリオ男子, Sanrio Danshi) is a group of high school-aged boys who met due to their love of Sanrio's mascots. [306] The fictional story depicts the group as beginning with the unassuming Kōta Hasegawa ( 長谷川康太 ) , who loves the character Pompompurin, coincidentally running into the My Melody-loving Yū Mizuno ...
My Dress-Up Darling (Japanese: その 着せ替え人形 （ ビスク・ドール ） は恋をする, Hepburn: Sono Bisuku Dōru wa Koi o Suru, transl. "That Bisque Doll Falls in Love") [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Fukuda.