A bit about Kawaii

I wasn't really in the mood to draw today (it's really warm and it's making me sleepy), so I just made a small RatCat thingy. He's supposed to be kawaii. Kawaii generally means cute or cuteness (although it used to mean something more along the lines of pathetic and weak). Cuteness and cute characters (such as Hello Kitty) can be find all over Japan today. In the 1970s the cute culture began when high school girls developed a new way of writing with round characters, decorated with cute little flowers and stuff (it was pretty hard to read and a lot of schools banned this style of writing). It's also around this time Hello Kitty emerged and became popular. As the children and teens (who all the cute stuff was marketed to) grew up, cute merchandise for adults became wide spread. Anyway, here's RatCat:

Until tomorrow!