We love these fun illustrations and a few readers have reached out asking us to share some fun new coloring pages featuring ...

Then there's highbrow cute, best known via Takashi Murakami's splashy cartoon ... cute or high-cute, girl-cute or guy-cute, the myriad modes of cute have a common function. Kawaii is an appealing ...

Banks and commercial airlines began to explore cute as ... ultimate kawaii brand, Hello Kitty, expanded to include products aimed at teens and adults rather than pre-adolescent girls.

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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 ...

But what does “kawaii” actually mean? In Japanese, the word literally means “acceptable for affection” or “possible to love” and has been translated as meaning “cute,” “adorable, ...

Kawaii aesthetics have long been a staple in differing iterations within Japanese culture, where the notoriously cutesy style first emerged as a handwriting style (particularly in girls), and then ...

A timeline cleanse is meant to interrupt that cycle with a reprieve from the chaos. “I think kawaii, or cute feelings, reminds us of human connection that we sometimes forget,” says Hiroshi ...

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 ...

Alongside "photobomb", one of the new words added to the Collins English dictionary this week was "kawaii ... said it's not just for girls. "Guys in Japan love cute stuff too.