Книга: Female Stock Characters in Anime and Manga: Catgirl, Yaoi Fandom, Magical Girl, Woman Warrior, Magical Girlfriend, Girls With Guns, Tsundere

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Catgirl, Yaoi Fandom, Magical Girl, Woman Warrior, Magical Girlfriend, Girls With Guns, Tsundere, Sukeban, Office Lady, Bishojo, Yamato Nadeshiko, Meganekko. Excerpt: Bishjo (? , literally, 'beautiful young girl', also spelled bishoujo ) is a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age. Bishjo is not listed as a word in the prominent Japanese dictionary Kjien . A variant named biyjo (? ) refers to a girl before the age of adolescence .Bishjo in manga and anime Moe-style illustration of a bishjo character combining design elements of Mahoro Andou from Mahoromatic and Haruhi Suzumiya from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Moe (slang) Bishjo characters are seen in almost all genres of anime and manga , especially in dating sims and visual novels , known as bishjo games , and so-called harem anime and manga. It is distinguished from the similar sounding shjo demographic by referring to the gender and traits of the characters rather than that of the audience . Although bishjo is not a genre but a character design, series predominantly featuring such characters such as 'harem ' or visual novels are sometimes informally called 'bishjo series'. Since one of the main draws of these series are typically the art and the attractive female characters, the term is occasionally perceived negatively as a 'genre' solely depending on its marketability of cute characters rather than its content or plot.Bishjo contests A beauty pageant, the Japan Bishojo Contest , has been run since 1985. Singing star Aya Ueto first became famous through this contest televised at the age of twelve. Model and actress Ryoko Yonekura also won a bishjo contest in 1992.See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at A catgirl is a female with cat ears, a cat...