MJ in #AA by painepo
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Shift-JIS ASCII art, ZooMas98, source
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
Demonstrations of Most Complex ASCII Fluid by Yusuke Endoh 2012. The top one is a code calligram, where the code spells out Fluid and then turns itself fluid. Got an honorary mention in the Obfuscated C Code Competition.
The Future Starts Now – a 20×30 meter ASCII by Rikki Kasso, 2010. Placed on the Mejiro Kindergarten in Tokyo. The ASCII art was based on a photograph, infused with numbers and phrases about learning in English and Japanese. Rikki:
As I thought more into it, it became clear that this text in digital form also known as a “font” was also a brand new language that children will grow up with as an automatic second written language. A “Neo-Neanderthal” age where symbols and icons are used to reform communication.
Falling Down by ness_rivera, 2012
This is Japanese style ASCII ART.
I drew this with the text editor of Mac.
I love this movie & him!
I am praying that he regain health.