#japanese
A cross-section of the catalog tagged japanese — not a category. Tags pull from multiple categories at once.
Distribution across categories
- Anime & Manga 10
- Painting 2
- Photography 1
- 3D / CGI 1
Styles tagged #japanese
14 styles
90s Anime Cel Look
Between roughly 1989 and 2001, almost all Japanese anime was animated on physical celluloid sheets and shot on 35mm film before being bro…
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Retro Cyberpunk Anime Mecha
This aesthetic established a specific late-1980s Japanese cyberpunk-anime look that almost every subsequent grounded-future anime borrows…
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Chibi / Super-Deformed
Chibi (literally "short" in Japanese) and its near-synonym SD ("super-deformed") describe a stylistic mode where characters from a host a…
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Gritty High-Contrast B&W
Postwar Tokyo produced some of the most influential street photography to come out of Japan, built on a visual signature that is extreme:…
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Soft Slice-of-Life Anime
A specific contemporary anime aesthetic defines a body of mature slice-of-life TV animation distinct from both painterly studio-fantasy a…
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Luminous Sky Anime
This anime aesthetic is visually distinct from hand-painted watercolor-style studio anime in three ways: it grew out of digital animation…
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Dark Fantasy Seinen Manga
Seinen ("young man") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at adult male readers, published across a range of adult-oriented manga…
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Shōjo Manga
Shōjo ("young woman") manga is the Japanese comics category aimed at teenage girls. The category formed around a handful of long-running…
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Hand-Painted Anime CG Hybrid
Traditional hand-painted anime is famously a hand-drawn 2D animation form, but many landmark feature films from the late 1990s onward hav…
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Hand-Painted Anime
This influential lineage of Japanese animated feature films shares a visual identity that has held remarkably steady across four decades…
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Sumi-e Ink Wash
Sumi-e ("ink picture") is the Japanese name for ink-wash painting introduced from China by Zen Buddhist monks in the 14th century. The pr…
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Raw Modern Manga
This influential contemporary mangaka's work is among the most discussed in the world. A string of dark action series and standalone one-…
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High-Energy Cel Anime
A wave of high-energy, line-driven action animation carried forward an earlier studio's tradition into a new generation of TV and streami…
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Ukiyo-e Woodblock
Ukiyo-e — "pictures of the floating world" — is the dominant Japanese print tradition from roughly 1660 to 1900. The images were carved i…
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