Anime Bishoujo Meaning

1. Claim Your Bishoujo/bishounen!: The Sequel!

Hello everyone! De_geso893 here and Its been awhile since I’ve made a post on Kidd’s website, its been very busy but hopefully I’ll have extra time to put out more posts and reviews! Considering its been some time since a talked about figures, I’ve decided to talk about bishoujo figures and its marketing techniques (and a small rant on censorship). Be sure to share your opinions and critics in the comments below! As per normal you can find me on my website at: otakudownunder.wordpress.com

We all know that anime and merchandise go hand in hand, especially figures of all shapes and sizes that can suit different tastes. Eventually you may come across figures of the “bishoujo” variety in online figure stores such as Ami-Ami and the dealers room in conventions across the world. Some figures appeal to its target audience by its quality craftsmanship and adorable character designs, however some tend to follow a more blunt approach to marketing, such as gravity-defying breasts and scantily-clad versions of our favourite characters. Figures are something that you can display and be proud of, not hide in your closet every time a guest comes over (unless they hold the same enthusiasm as you do for ecchi figures). Its not like I have anything against bishoujo figures, but should it be the main attraction of a figure? Lets face it, for most of us its hard to keep a straight face when you buy a “Beach Queens” version of your favourite K-ON character in a convention, especially attempting to maintain eye contact with the cashier (though this problem is averted with online stores).

This is a big factor for me, what is the point of buying a figure if you’re to embarrassed to display it in the first place? Personally it feels like having a dirty magazine on my coffee table when I have a female guest over at my house, I would be ashamed with myself but that is my own personal feelings. Some collectors wouldn’t have a problem with this, but I feel like it would be injustice to the figure (and my wallet) not to display it. I like to treat figures like a work of art, I want my friends to come over and admire its craftsmanship or have a bit of a laugh at the hilarious and cute poses of the nendoroids, not receive a glance of disapproval.

Claim Your Bishoujo/bishounen!: The Sequel!

Now that I think about it, I haven’t seen any bishoujo figures of the “BOME” variety at conventions or stores within Australia or at least Perth anyway (BOME is a sculptor that specialises in ecchi bishoujo figures). Of course I tend to see them in online stores like Play-Asia and Ami-Ami but these are foreign distributors. At most I’ve seen several Beach Queens figures in conventions, but that is pretty much it. For those especially in tune with video games, Australia has the some of the toughest censorship laws. I wonder if figures also get the same treatment as video games, restricting it to “protect” children and morality, I wouldn’t be surprised. The same with the sale of eroge, if they refused to classify Mortal Kombat then its a definite no for eroge like Bible Black, considering Australia has no R18 system in place at the moment. In the meantime if you want to order am ecchi figure, then your best bet is online.In Japanese popular culture, a bishōjo (美少女 , lit. beautiful girl), also romanized as bishojo or bishoujo, is a cute girl character. Bishōjo characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game gre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés. An attraction towards bishōjo characters is a key concept in otaku (manga and anime fan) subculture.

The developmt of the bishōjo aesthetic in manga of the early 1980s marked a departure from previous realistic styles, and the emergce of the aesthetic of cute eroticism (kawaii ero) and moe.

The bishōjo character type emerged in the lolicon boom of the early 1980s, particularly in the works of manga artist Hideo Azuma.

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Azuma's characters combined the round bodies of Osamu Tezuka characters and the round and emotive faces of shōjo manga. At the time, the dominant style in sein and pornographic manga was gekiga, a realistic style characterized by sharp angles, dark hatching, and gritty lines; in contrast, Azuma's work displayed light shading and clean, circular lines.

Lolicon (derived from Lolita complex) was one of several terms referring to this expansion in cute characters in manga and anime, and a corresponding attraction to and affection for such characters. Synonyms include two-dimsional complex (nijig konpurekkusu), two-dimsional fetishism (nijikon fechi), two-dimsional syndrome (nijikon shōkōgun), cute girl syndrome (bishōjo shōkōgun), and simply sickness (byōki).

Several characters created by Hayao Miyazaki are considered icons of the bishōjo boom, particularly Clarisse from the film Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Lana from the TV series Future Boy Conan (1978), and Nausicaä from his manga and film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984).

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Another creator strongly associated with the boom was Rumiko Takahashi, whose character Lum from her manga Urusei Yatsura (1978–1987) gained immse popularity.

I first visited Tokyo's gathering for producers of fanzines, the Comic Market, in 1984 or 1985, and fanzines devoted to characters from manga and anime series such as Urusei Yatsura ... were everywhere. The fans were responding to characters, without a doubt. Actually, to me, Urusei Yatsura is really an ancestor of bishōjo games and moe media—a completely useless male character is surrounded by all these cute girl characters, including Lum, an ali girl who wears a bikini and is in love with this male character. Features [ edit ]

Bishōjo characters are typified by design elemts (such as personality archetypes, clothing, and accessories) that are known and acknowledged by the audice.

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Bishōjo characters appear in almost all gres of anime and manga and in many video games, especially in dating sims and visual novels, sometimes to get more players or simply just to make a game look good. Bishōjo characters td to attract males. Bishōjo characters sometimes are the most popular female characters as most people like anime, manga, dating sims, and visual novels more wh the art stands out, looks pretty, and has beautiful females.

Games that are made with the intt of featuring bishōjo characters are known as bishōjo games. Because visual novels are considered games as well, bishōjo games also capsulate visual novels made with the intt of featuring bishōjo characters. Although bishōjo games are made with a male audice in mind, they can extd to a female audice as well, such as the Touhou project.

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Although bishōjo is not a gre but a character design, series which predominantly feature such characters, such as harem anime and visual novels, are sometimes informally called bishōjo series. The characters and works referred to by the term bishōjo are typically intded to appeal to a male audice.

Since one of the main draws of these series is typically the art and the attractive female characters, the term is occasionally perceived negatively, as a gre which is solely depdt on the marketability of beautiful characters rather than the actual contt or plot.

The word bishōjo is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding shōjo (girl) demographic, but bishōjo refers to the gder and traits of the characters it describes, whereas shōjo refers to the gder and age of an audice demographic – manga publications, and sometimes anime, described as shōjo are aimed at young female audices.

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Bishōjo is not to be confused with bishōn – beautiful boy. It is also not to be confused with moe – which is a definition for a gre of tertainmt which features cute/adorable girls rather than sexy girls.