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Microsoft Creates Magical Girl Mascot for IE
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/08 ... _campaign/]No, really. She even looks like she got her outfit at Sailor Mercury's yard sale.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
I'm laughing... but I'm not going to say why I'm laughing. It's not the mature kind of laughter....
________________________________ --m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig? 
Inori is an anime character, created by animation studio CACANi on behalf of Microsoft Singapore for a special video that will screen at this year's Anime Festival Asia in Singapore this weekend.
What? Seriously? This is my what face. Imagine it. It's not quite of animetastic proportions, but I can get my eyebrows pretty waggly and my jaw fairly askew. I'm from Singapore, in case you missed that context. You have to understand, while anime's popular around here, I wouldn't say it's that much more popular than...say, in America. It's still basically a subculture thing. What I'm trying to say is - this isn't Japan. I've been to Japan. And I can tell you, Singaporeans don't have any particular biological imperative to slap cute anime mascots on things. It's not a widespread ingrained phenomenon, and most attempts to create mascots for stuff don't really work out. Like, say, the last Singapore general elections. I'm looking at you, Democracy Bear. Okay, actually, I take that back. Democracy Bear is sort of awesome. Because he's Democracy Bear. I give Democracy Bear a free pass, but I'm not nearly as charitable to a pirated copy of the old Windows-tan meme. Anyway, so...you really have to view this through the filter of a Microsoft regional office trying very hard to be hip and cool and down with what the kids like, but...just...kind of not. Not really. This post is already getting rather ramble-tastic, so I should cut it off. One last thing, though. It's kind of hilarious that I'm learning about a major anime con in my town from people a bazillion miles away. Viva Internet. I'm not ashamed to admit that I went and looked at how much it costs to get a ticket to walk into the place - and promptly noped the hell out. Jeez, when I was a teenager, this stuff was still niche enough to be mostly free... -- Acyl
I wonder how long it will be before an Inori skin is released for Firefox...
(Due to it being the internet, I'm assuming that there's already Inori porn.) -Morgan.
And I don't think it will be long before that kind of stuff starts showing up in certain parts of sites like Pixiv and deviantART, if they haven't already...
I think I've already seen, before this was announced, a collection of characters that are a pixiv artist's anthropomorphisms of various operating systems. Not sure where, though; probably on RPG.net's never-ending image threads.
Ebony the Black Dragon http://ebony14.livejournal.com "Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Well, OS-tans were around long before Pixiv was, so it wouldn't be surprising. '.'
-Morgan. 
From the RPG.net forum.
Ikselam:No matter how hard she works to improve herself, IE-tan will always be bullied at school by the other browsers. Me: And Firefox-tan would be playing at being the cool loner rebel, but would really be the most conventional and mainstream of the girls. And Chrome-tan would be a snotty girl with a really rich father (Google-san). And Netscape-tan would be a girl who'd been IE-tan's sempai at elemementary school, but who's been sick in hospital for years. Ikselam IE-tan is the aristo, Chrome-tan is nouveau riche. Pip: Chrome-tan is probably captain of the track team, though. Wolfwood:Safari-tan hangs out only with her family; never with anyone else.
Have they said anything about Opera-tan? If not, then that omission needs to be corrected ASAP.
Oh sure, she looks cute now; but wait until she crashes, uses up all your memory and slumps slow and slurring on your desktop.
The problem I have is, when exposed to what I ask of a browser, -all- of them show Usagi's eating habits combined with Akane's cooking skills.
-- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.  Tennie Wrote:Have they said anything about Opera-tan? If not, then that omission needs to be corrected ASAP.I assume Opera-tan would be the otaku meganekko ... or, at least, that's what everyone else thinks she is. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 Quote:ECSNorway wrote:How do cooking skills relate? I mean, they eat up all your memory- that I get. They end up barfing- I get that, too. Is there a 'frying your PC' step I missed in the middle? Opera-tan is the unpopular loner fashion designer that all the cool kids rip off when they want to start a new trend. She's rather run out of ideas as of late, though... My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours. I've been writing a bit. 
Did y'all actually watch the video? It has a pretty decent henshin sequence and some Nanoha-esque attacks. I'd recommend it.
It did make me ROFL for like 5 minutes afterwards, though -- which is the main reason I'm recommending it. It almost makes me want to switch to IE. Almost. -- ∇×V |
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