Chibi

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Chibi, also known as super deformation (SD), is an art style originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized eyes, oversized heads, tiny noses, tiny bodies, and minimal detail.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Chibi (style)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Danny Choo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.