ヘタウマ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ヘタウマ – see the following entry.

【へたうま】 [adjective] bad yet good; simultaneously poorly done and well done; so bad it's good [noun] good badness, something that seems simultaneously poorly done and well done [noun] relative skill level, high and low skill [noun] ヘタウマ: a Japanese underground manga movement in the 1970s featuring crude drawing Alternative spellings 下手上手, ヘタうま

(This term, ヘタウマ (hetauma), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)