ヘタウマ

ヘタウマ

Japanese

Adjective

ヘタウマ (-na inflection, hiragana へたうま, rōmaji hetauma)

1. 下手上手: bad yet good, simultaneously poorly done and well done

Noun

ヘタウマ (hiragana へたうま, rōmaji hetauma)

1. 下手上手: something that seems simultaneously poorly done and well done
2. a Japanese underground manga movement in the 1970s featuring crude drawing
   • 2017 April 21, “Nihon no 'heta-uma' bunka o hanē shita wadai no Bei anime eiga to wa [American animated film that reflects Japan's 'heta-uma' culture]”, in Cinema Today‎:

     ヘタウマの代表 (だいひょう)は愛称 (あいしょう)キング・テリーこと湯村輝彦 (ゆむらてるひこ)だろう。彼 (かれ)は典型的 (てんけいてき)なイラストレーションのスタイルを覆 (くつがえ)そうとした。

     Hetauma no daihyō wa aishō Kingu Terī koto Yumura Teruhiko darō. Kare wa tenkeitekina irasutorēshon no sutairu o kutsugaesō to shita.

     Representative of heta-uma is Teruhiko Yumura, nicknamed King Terry. He tried to overturn the typical illustration style.

See also

• Heta-uma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ヘタウマ on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja