A while ago I saw a flash movie of a little white cat in a cardboard box. She sings.
During the song she watches another (boy) cat walk by, who is apparently her boyfriend. He runs off with another cat.
The weird thing is- the boy cat looks like it has a “delta” character for a nose. Or the letter “de” in Russian.
Recently I figured out a couple of things:
- The song is from a video game- Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
- The reason the cats look like they have letters in them is because they are ASCII art characters from the Japanese BBS “2ch”
How’s that for obscure.
Hey, did you notice the Japanese chatroom people make art with Russian characters? And we just have the Latin character set?
Know why?
BECAUSE WE ARE A BUNCH OF HICKS AND WE ARE FALLING BEHIND. EVERYONE ELSE IS SMARTER THAN US!
Quick! Go learn another language! It may not be too late for you!
- Wikipedia entry on Giko cat
- Wikipedia on Mona
- a whole bunch of 2ch flash movies
- “detailed analysis” of some of the characters
- blogjam entry which has nice pictures of the characters so you don’t have to have a Unicode browser
Giko:
＿＿__＿∧∧ ／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ 〜' ＿＿__（ ﾟДﾟ）＜ 逝ってよし！！ ＵU Ｕ U ＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿