MetaFilter posts tagged with kawaii

OH! DANGO! JAM

knowles — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:36:25 -0800

OH! DANGO! JAM Incredible little Japanese game, Tamagotchi + Pokemon + awesome music = great happy fun time. Z is attack, X is magic, C is defend, and spacebar is special move. Don't forget to save often using end -> data regist. [via]

PARO

gottabefunky — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:30:39 -0800

PARO: Seal Type Mental Commit Robot for Psychological Enrichment.

"cute gone bad"

me3dia — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:45:56 -0800

kawaii not?

Cupcake fetishists, unite

BoringPostcards — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:12:55 -0800

Cupcakes are so damn cute. Almost weirdly so.
(Previously on MeFi (and now with its own Flickr group))

Hello Kitty I love you!!!

gen — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 03:18:10 -0800

The billion-dollar juggernaut that is Hello Kitty. Tokyo-based journalists Ken Belson and Brian Bremner have published a history of Japanese character-licensing company Sanrio and their most famous character, Hello Kitty. As Japanese "kawaii" (cute) culture continues to invade the world, this looks to be a great guide to the history and impact of Kitty-chan and her minions.

A small brown open-mouthed monster

adrianhon — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:25:29 -0800

Domo-kun! Domokun is "a small brown open-mouthed monster hatched from an egg who lives with a wise old rabbit underground." In Japan, he's the mascot of the NHK BS2 channel and is the star of a series of stop-motion shorts (100MB .mov), the fun and warmth of which aren't lost in translation. In the western world, Domokun is better known as the monster chasing that cute little kitty.

moz — Fri, 17 May 2002 08:41:06 -0800

Momo's parts. All about the different parts of one Japanese man's pet hamster plus illustrations. "I have read that hamster's whiskers shows the width that they can pass through. But Momo forgets. One day Momo tried to go into the cleaner hose. As he has the big hip, he could't go into it. And in his effect to go, he could't get his head out. When I ran to him in a hurry, his head gone out of the hose, and he rolled backward."