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JAPANESE ASCII ART WEEK!

This week we post only Japanese ASCII art, mostly from 4-ch and utf8art. These sites are really active sites, reflecting the huge popularity of ASCII in Japan.

Technically, these graphics are not ASCII since they use a different character encoding (Shift-JIS, JIS, EUC or Unicode). For simplicity, we tag everything with #ShiftJIS here. In Japan though, it’s usually known as ASCII art (AA).

The images above are from old posts we’ve made, see more at http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/shiftjis. They are:

– Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (魔理沙は大変なものを盗んでいきました) by IOSYS (2006)
– Anata to wa chigau n desu (“I am different from you”) Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (2008).
– Channeler by Takashi Ohashi (2012).
– Giko (ギコ) and Mona.
– Well-made shift_JIS conversion of the Bad Apple video.
– Owata 人生 オワタ- a shiftjis game.
– Star Wars stuff posted by illiorzilli
– Densha Otoko 電車男. otaku intervening perverts on the train