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An artistic style in anime that is generally considered both "[[Kawaisa|cutesy]]" and humorous, in which a character is rendered in a shorter, rounder form somewhat resembling a caricature of themselves as a plump toddler.

 

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== Advertising ==

* Around 2009, Kellogg dropped its [[Don Hertzfeldt]]-inspired "Crazy Good" ad campaign for Pop-Tarts toaster pastries in favor of "Made for Fun", which has super-deformed CGI children along with far-less-deformed adults. But then you realize that the kids' heads are ''bigger'' than those of the adults, and the only [[Epileptic Tree|conclusion you can draw]] is that adults in this world don't eat Pop-Tarts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkjWHuX0u0 This video] exposes the [[Fridge Logic]].

 

 

* At least a quarter of ''[[Dragon Half]]'' is spent with various characters—up to and including the story's [[Big Bad]]—Super-Deformed.

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', naturally, plays this to total exhaustion.

 

 

* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Abel tells a sweet story about how he and his brother Cain came to live in the Dreaming. It's far more sugary than what ''really'' happened, and is drawn in this style by vaunted Jill Thompson.

** She went on to produce two actual Endless kids' books in the same style, ''The Little Endless Storybook'' and ''Delirium's Party''.