OS-Tans

[Liete]

For those who don't know what OS-Tan is, its an anime personification of various operating systems as people (mostly girls) that has been quite popular in Japan on the Futaba Channel as sort of a funny mini series the past couple of years.

Operating systems are personified by how they preform, for instance ME is a clumsy idiot girl always causing problems, doing stupid stuff like putting a can of soda in the microwave, or losing her temper with a ! on her chest, 95 always wears a komono, XP has a large chest and so on.


Background, left (clockwise): Windows 98SE (in box), Windows 95, Symantec Antivirus (male), Windows 2000 (in front), Windows Server 2003 (fish outfit, with cat), Windows 98 (unusual form), Windows XP (holding skirt). Background, right: Windows 3.1, DOS (not their "official" os-tans). Foreground: Windows CE (fairy), Windows ME (levitated by CE).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OS-tans List of ALL OS Tans with detailed descriptions of each.

A few videos I found:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlBuAvSz...ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gBfPiDiu...ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKE4x9zbg...ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FoDLKIw7HU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVun66ylv...ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZtc3WgeVrs

Info on the phenomenon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-Tans

Which OS-Tan are you?

http://home.uchicago.edu/~alexis/ostan.htm

More pix:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-2/11...ngirls.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-2/110498/ostan2.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-2/110498/ostan.jpg

Full site I found on it: http://www.mtfn.net/gallery/index.asp (With galleries)

[Elcoholic]

Cool find. I'll have to check some vids later.

So this is actually a tv show over there?

[Psygnius]

No, it was only a fan-made intro. I think there would be some legal issues involved with Microsoft if this was actually made into a TV show without the approval of the company.