Cute moments and chibi characters can appear in any series, but their natural home is kawaii anime, where the dominant ...

Like Snapchat’s best filters, the Pikachu mask is a cute idea with a slightly creepy execution. In addition to rounding out your face, the filter also bugs out your eyes in faux-anime style.

Ryme City introduced an entirely new part of the world for Pokemon, in which people and Pokemon lived side by side as partners without necessarily battling 24/7. Molyneaux’s concept art not only ...

Reddit User Jexland shared these Pokemon figures that take Pikachu and slap it into the outfits, and power sets, of the Hokage, including Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, Minato, Tsunade, Kakashi ...

In Western culture, we’ve come to think of kawaii as a synonym for cute. In Japan, where the kawaii aesthetic has been its own pop culture phenomenon for decades, the word is a bit more complex.

Movie review: ‘Detective Pikachu’ has dazzling design and cute characters for kids, lots more for the rest of us. Ed Symkus More Content Now ...

Cute characters are often vulnerable, innocent and lovable – and therein lies their power. Pikachu protesters, Studio Ghibli memes and the subversive power of cuteness Home ...

Of course, Pikachu was a baby at some point, meaning we’re going to get to see a bunch of cute Pichu antics. Ash’s relationship with Pikachu started off rocky at first.

This will be familiar to Pokémon fans new and old, particularly those who watched the original anime. In Raichu’s first appearance in the show, back in 1998, it squared off against Pikachu in ...

Providing an in-depth overview of all things kawaii (cute), this book traces the cute aesthetic from its inception in the 1970s as a schoolgirl trend to its position as a leading cultural norm, ...