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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.
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. In manga, the emphasis is often placed on line over form, and the storytelling and panel placement differ from those in Western comics.
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.
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— Kevin Leathers, UK Anime Network. [7] "Now there's nothing wrong with a guy being drawn as a cute female girl, but then Aoi begins to show more interest in Amagi than Pandora. Suddenly we have a magical-girl-loli-yaoi book." — A. E. Sparrow, IGN. [8] "With plenty of provocative drawings of busty Pandora, this manga seems designed to ...
A dakimakura (抱き枕; from daki 抱き "embrace" and makura 枕 "pillow") is a type of large pillow from Japan which is usually coupled with pillow covers depicting anime characters. [1] The word is often translated to English as body pillow , waifu pillow , or husbando pillow .
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Puniru Is a Cute Slime (Japanese: ぷにるはかわいいスライム, Hepburn: Puniru wa Kawaii Suraimu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Maeda-kun. . Preceded by a one-shot published in Shogakukan's children's manga magazine Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic in February 2019, the manga started its serialization in Weekly CoroCoro Comic online service in March 2