Even the paper’s logo on its belly is given “a cute makeover,” he says, slightly thickened and rounded, with an added sparkle that matches Torch-chan’s eyes. “Kawaii,” the closest ...

The standout dress-up option for Palicos is the Felyne Nu Udra set, which turns your fuzzy companion into a l'il octopus buddy. It exists within the perfect twilight zone between cute and creepy ...

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Japan is dominated by kawaii culture, which is why we always find cute things in anime. There are some anime that exaggerate cuteness; in this article, we will make a recommendation list of these ...

A grad student studying cephalopods has argued that the adorable octopus videos racking up millions of likes on TikTok are actually a form of animal abuse. If you’ve seen a stunning video of an ...

Cartoons have changed a lot in the decade since Paste originally published this list. Sure, new episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and SpongeBob Squarepants are churned out each year ...

How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in. More than a millennium ago, the Japanese empress Fujiwara no ...

Kawaii is inescapable in Japan ... As of the time of writing, 676 million posts are tagged #cute on Instagram. The 66 million or so TikTok videos with the same hashtag have over 625 billion ...

The most out-there Little Legend on this list, Squink earns its place for being a cute Octopus creature with some of the funniest variants. Kernel Squink is just corn in the shape of an octopus.

But it was relatively historically obscure, to the degree that in 2014, a German newspaper apologized after using an octopus in a cartoon to portray Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, with the artist ...