That's likely the magic of kawaii drawings at work! This Japanese art style, translating to "cute" or "lovable," has taken ...

This exhibition, entitled 'Jakuchu's Adorability and Shoen's Beauty: "Kawaii" in Japanese Art', attempts to illustrate that history through art that reaches back hundreds of years. Works depicting ...

(in Japanese art and culture) the quality of being lovable or cute “If you translate kawaii into English, it’s ‘cute,’ but kawaii is much more emotional than cute,” Tokyo fashion mogul ...

These feline friends, infused with Japanese cuteness charm ... are hours of coloring fun to have with lots of fun designs!

So [Nara] took the kawaii that was floating around everywhere in Japan and added other [emotions] into it." Art shaped by the postwar experience has also been associated with the Superflat ...

“I feel [the meaning of kawaii] is very strong. Not just (Japanese) reaction, but the world’s reaction– they can’t get enough of it,” said Erick Scarecrow, owner of art toy company ESC ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii ... which sell for millions at art auctions. But whether low-cute or high-cute, girl-cute or guy-cute ...