He is co-editor of “The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness”, and the editor of “Cute Studies,” a special ... This café isn’t alone. Adorable “kawaii” food is uniquely ascendant ...

These fruity cakes are as fun to look at as they are to make! 🍰 🍉 A kawaii-style watermelon cake with piped “seeds,” happy face, and whipped fruit swirls 🍍 A pineapple cake with piped yellow stars, ...

Tom and Jerry have gotten a pretty major rework in Japan, where animators have created a new kawaii (cute) version of the iconic cat and mouse. Cartoon Network Japan, owned by Tom and Jerry IP ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. I have a theory I bore people with at dinner parties called the "Googly Eye Effect". It ...

"Gross" characters are proliferating in a country known for kawaii, and now even local governments' mascots are trying to out-weird one another. Long considered the global capital of cute ...

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 ...

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