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 ...

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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 ...

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Integral to the global phenomena of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally translates as “cuteness.” According to the exhibition, modern kawaii culture ...

Next, the exhibition moves to the cultural history of cute around the world. Per the Observer, much of our “sparkly, rainbow vocabulary of cuteness” comes from the aesthetic called kawaii ...

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 ...