Kawaii, the Japanese aesthetic of all things cute, has transformed even the most ordinary beverages into charming, smiling characters. What makes a drink drawing kawaii? Think laughing bubbly boba ...

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

"Kawaii as a gendered aesthetic has been used over the centuries ... If I were asked to draw cute pictures, I would be able to do it, but it would be completely different from what I'm currently ...

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.

Cats, naturally, feature prominently in “Cute,” from the famed and colorful 19th-century drawings of artist Louis ... the exhibition asserts, is “kawaii,” a Japanese word which literally ...

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 ...