I don’t even know what to say about the last one…

By Miel on 18 May 2003 at 3:46 am

Brilliant. Have you heard Fakevox by Plus-tech Squeeze Box? Also from the Land of the Rising Sun, they’re doing the musical equivalent of these animations. Try “Early Riser”. You’ll see what I mean.

By Perky Pat on 18 May 2003 at 11:07 am

Yes, I’m familiar with the work of the mighty Squeeze Box. In J-Pop terms I’d put them somewhere between Cornelius and Pizzicato 5, although that’s probably a lazy comparison. Excellent stuff all the same.

By fraser on 18 May 2003 at 11:16 am

A geat collection of the wonderful combination that is flash+japanese+insanity, but you missed sazae my own personal favourite.

By graeme on 18 May 2003 at 12:31 pm

I’d already linked to that one on b3ta’s weblog, so I didn’t bother with it here - it’s a nice one, though - a parady of Sazae-san, the longest running animated television series in history.

By fraser on 18 May 2003 at 12:36 pm

The odds are that wherever I found picked it up from b3ta so apologies and thanks for such a great link. I did wonder what it refered to so that’s one mystery solved.

By graeme on 18 May 2003 at 1:06 pm

I’ve noticed that when the cat appears, the lettering sometimes says ‘piko’ or something. Are we sure he’s not Pikachu?

By David on 19 May 2003 at 2:10 pm

I don’t think so. I’ve been busy compiling evidence and will tell all very shortly.

By fraser on 19 May 2003 at 2:12 pm

the two main ascii cats appeared in many Japanese flash movies are named ‘Monar Cat’ and ‘Giko Cat’.
these cats and other characters are created and grown by Japanese bloggers, or anonymous cowords in rather underground forums like amezo, ayashii world, and 2channel(http://2ch.net) .

By iii on 19 May 2003 at 5:11 pm

The lettering says ‘Giko’.
Its name is Giko(Giko neko(Giko Cat)).

http://monafont.sourceforge.net/index-e.html

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nc20030213mr.htm

By yuh on 19 May 2003 at 5:29 pm

Hallo! My HN is xiang.
I’m Japanese.

I enjoyed your home page very much!
I think Japanese flash animations are strange and interesting,too.
So,I introduce my favorite one!

http://www9.plala.or.jp/t-ranet/kako/flash/tetorisu.swf

“うわぁぁぁぁぁ!!” probably means “Oh,noooooo!!!!” .

And,I heard you woud like to know about Omaemona.
I think Omaemona means “You,too!” .
Mona of Omaemona is a character’s name on 2ch,so Omaemona is a kind of Mona’s pattern.
When a writer write critical opinion to somebody on BBS, 2channeler use Omaemona to make a fool of him.

By the way,”Oremona” is similar pattern to Omaemona, it means “Me,too!”.
When you write critical opinion to somebody on BBS, be sure to use Oremona in self-criticism!
For example,” You must think about environmental problem! …..Oremona-!”

Then,Domo Arigato!
I’m really sorry for my poor English… ;;

By xiang on 20 May 2003 at 4:03 pm

Thanks Xiang - I’ve got lots of information now, and will be writing some more about these characters.

By fraser on 20 May 2003 at 4:13 pm

Very interesting post - loved it in fact
Cheers
TTR2

By TTR2 on 21 May 2003 at 5:43 pm

present a new flash.

http://jotohe.tripod.co.jp/mikomiko.swf

By mikomikonasu on 01 Jun 2003 at 2:08 pm

do you know this?
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar-Keyboard/2348/fumei/uwan.swf

By nori on 02 Jun 2003 at 11:38 am

uwan.swf is really nifty… and so is mikomiko.swf… whoever did that one must really like eggplant.

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