Chibi is also culturally significant The Chibi figure trend fits perfectly into the world of "kawaii", a Japanese word that means cute or adorable. But kawaii isn’t just about looks.

Cute moments and chibi characters can appear in any series, but their natural home is kawaii anime, where the dominant adjectives are "soft" and "huggable" and the most common expression is "awww ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...

Made popular by its seemingly unthreatening nature, cute’s quest for world domination suggests there is more to the phenomenon than its charming exterior might imply.

Ugly-cute icons (at least according to our informal poll) include sleepy-looking sloths, doe-eyed tarsiers, deep-sea blobfish, squishy-looking desert rain frogs, and round-eyed jumping spiders.

Kyary’s bubblegum fashion carefully mirrors the kawaii craze sparked in the colourful boutiques of Tokyo.

The AI will do the rest, turning the photo into a cute, big-eyed Chibi character inside a tiny glass capsule—just like those gashapon toys from Japan. Here is a prompt that can be used: ...