If cute frogs having funny little moments and the most adorable food puns are your weakness, then Viviane Valenta’s Kawaii ...

Cute things are everywhere, not just online. In Japan—where appreciation for all things kawaii is especially keen—roadblocks come in the form of dolphins, ducks or frogs. Hello Kitty ...

toeing the line of aesthetic taste. And yet kawaii has persisted, morphed and evolved. Nowadays, cute things are everywhere, perhaps an artifact of the times we live in and the alleged ...

This year has been anything but cute. It’s been occasionally ... plays a major role in the popularity of kawaii, because so much of the kawaii aesthetic is indeed visual.

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How Japan's "most famous" artist, and others, are subverting the country's cute "kawaii" aesthetic to question the world we live in. More than a millennium ago, the Japanese empress Fujiwara no ...

From pets to children to wide-eyed toys, social media filters, emojis and internet memes, “cuteness” is one of the most prominent aesthetics ... of cute, the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii ...

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 ...