These digital creations show a detailed 3D Chibi figure inside a transparent capsule ... perfectly into the world of "kawaii", a Japanese word that means cute or adorable. But kawaii isn ...

“Cute” is not a perfect translation of kawaii but it gives some idea of ... In May, Masuda placed a 9ft, transparent Hello Kitty “time capsule” outside the Japan Society in Manhattan.

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 ...

The Boring Phone is cute, transparent, and retrolicious. But it is not a phone you can buy. At Mobile World Congress in February 2024, the Finnish company announced it was leaning in on the Human ...

Cute—"Kawaii" in local parlance—wears many guises in Japan. There's old-school kawaii, embodied by the helpless, mouthless gaze of Hello Kitty. There's the newer guy-cute, manifest by masses ...

Next, the exhibition moves to the cultural history of cute around the world. Per the Observer, much of our “sparkly, rainbow vocabulary of cuteness” comes from the aesthetic called kawaii ...

Additionally, a new line of merchandise items inspired by the cute kawaii aesthetic of the album will also be released in Japan and North America. The lineup includes acrylic panels, keychains ...

Kawaii is inescapable in Japan ... As of the time of writing, 676 million posts are tagged #cute on Instagram. The 66 million or so TikTok videos with the same hashtag have over 625 billion ...