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Mamotte! Lollipop (まもって！ロリポップ, Mamotte! Roripoppu, lit."Protect! Lollipop") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Michiyo Kikuta (菊田みちよ, Kikuta Michiyo).
Kawaii culture is an off-shoot of Japanese girls’ culture, which flourished with the creation of girl secondary schools after 1899. This postponement of marriage and children allowed for the rise of a girl youth culture in shōjo magazines and shōjo manga directed at girls in the pre-war period. [5]
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.
Tokyo Boys & Girls (Japanese: 東京少年少女, Hepburn: Tōkyō Shōnen Shōjo) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Miki Aihara. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine, starting in 1994. [3] Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into five bound volumes from March 1995 to June 1996.
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.
Nyaruko-san centers around Nyaruko, a formless Lovecraftian deity of chaos (Nyarlathotep) who can take on the shape of a seemingly cute silver-haired girl. Mahiro Yasaka is a normal high school boy who is being chased by a fearsome black alien one night, until Nyaruko saves him.
Lolicon is a Japanese abbreviation of "Lolita complex" (ロリータ・コンプレックス, rorīta konpurekkusu), [5] an English-language phrase derived from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) and introduced to Japan in Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex (1966, translated 1969), [6] a work of pop psychology in which it is used to denote attraction to pubescent and pre-pubescent girls. [7]
Must be a defining trait - Characters must be within the transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from birth to legal adulthood (age of majority).