The Exit

[SleepyD]

Welp, looking at the Source thread, I think an update and more organized list of links out is in order.
Many links taken from here: http://ostan.blackdiam.net/viewtopic.php?p=2330
Plus a few of the ones I have found.

Feel free to add links or talk about them.  I will edit the first post as necessary.  

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any mishaps when you boss or mom sees when you go on some of these sites. I have labeled some NSFW, however, I have only had a cursory look at these sites and cannot guarantee their NFSW-ness.

....This probably applies to very few active members, tho. haha

Well, now that's over, let's start with the obvious and go from there:

Futaba
http://www.futaba-ostan.net/

Nijiura
http://nijiura-os.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
http://www.nijiura.com/osh/index.html
http://www.nijiura.com/os/

Mac-tan Image Board
http://evo7gt-a.hp.infoseek.co.jp/osmac/

OS-kun Image Board
http://musuko.sweet.ne.jp/

Other Image Boards
http://kazumi386.org/%7Eostan2/pic_uploader/

OS-tan art sites/art galleries
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Queen/5472/hokan.html
http://210.135.90.6/~mansion/os.html

Specific OS-tan sites
Windows Me
http://windows-me-tan.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cg/cg.htm

MSX
http://gigamix.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2005/06/osmsx_0c66.html

Ma~rin-chan (OS/2 WARP 4)
http://www.f-team.org/merlin/html/apps.html
=>Links to images

Art sites/galleries with OS-tans (some with more, some with less...)
http://www.mukiryoku.org/gallery/
http://susu.whitesnow.jp/
http://www.geocities.jp/kyata5/os.htm
http://members.edogawa.home.ne.jp/akihiro0515/page003.html
http://ugar.fc2web.com/gazo/
http://web.mac.com/yonasawa/iWeb/CG/copyright.html
NSFW
http://yomogi.cubicplus.net/
http://www.geocities.jp/rgm79gs5/index.html
http://bangdoll.sakura.ne.jp/cg.htm
http://marie.saiin.net/~haganema/gallery.htm
http://www.serina.org/~achain/index.html.en

Blogs with OS-tans (NSFW)
http://artifact-jp.com/mt/archives/200404/troublewindows.html
http://ect.blog.ocn.ne.jp/crown/
http://haruka.saiin.net/~ryukaku/nicky.cgi?page=10

OS-tan Cosplay
http://iloveyou.maxs.jp/2004senden/2004winter/OS/os.html
http://www.akibablog.net/archives/2006/03/101little_psx.html
http://tarax.flop.jp/alive/log/000885.html
http://www.akibablog.net/archives/2005/12/2kxp.html
http://donkey.web.infoseek.co.jp/cos/archives/2005/03/os.html

OS-tan comics
http://ildrag.at.infoseek.co.jp/

OS-tan Flash
http://www.h6.dion.ne.jp/~mukabell/flash/sakura95.html

OS-tan figurines
http://pinkco.net/neta/osfig.html
http://www113.sakura.ne.jp/~kotatsuga/cgi-bin/anews/a-news.cgi?date=2006.01.06

Other OS-tan things
Me Video: http://www.globetown.net/~keisan/
Online Doujin Shopping Site: http://www.w-canvas.com/shopping/doujins.cgi?sec=show_catalog&search_type=genre_key&key=144&no_item=&listing_style=
Tiger 'dashboard'?: http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/status/tigertan.html

OS-tan derived/related
Fighter planes/mecha musume
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yone88/

Deja Vu Dojins
http://www.dejavuartworks.com/record.html

Japanese laws-tans
http://g-k.sakura.ne.jp/moe-law/

Hayabusa-tan
http://tardyion.hp.infoseek.co.jp/cgroom/cg/muses/ha_page.htm

Trackback-tan
http://artifact-jp.com/mt/archives/200405/trackbacktan.html#001340

Programming Language-tans
http://pggirls.asukaze.net/
Javaco/じã‚Æ'ばこ

Someone help me classify these:
http://futaba-only.net/
http://www.tokyo-nazo.net/tester/
And this one has "-tan" all over it, but I don't get it: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%CB%A8%A4%A8%B5%BC%BF%CD%B2%BD

Edit: 15 Oct 2006, 21:05 PDT
I've been searching through the above link and figuring a few things. Four links added to OS-tan derived/related. Some have appropriate wikipedia links. If I didn't follow space-related things, I'd have never figured out that last one.

Edit: 30 Oct 2006, 8:55PM PST
New sites added from searching for "Sonata sensei"
New sites are in italics.

Edit: 18 Jan 2007, 9:30PM PST
Added a Javaco (probably Java-ko) site.

Edit: 19 Jan 2007, 11:40PM PST
Added OS/2 related sites

[NewYinzer]

Great list! Very helpful! I think we should add a links section to this site!

[brougeXP22]

Good job with the organization. That helps me alot cause i still don't know much about the OS-tans ^_^

[Silentbob]

Nice collection, I never got around to pool some links on my own.   ;010

[SleepyD]

glad to help guys!  Does anybody need assitance in navigating these sites? Usually artists' galleries are labeled 'CG' or 'gallery'

Otherwise just click around...

[C-Chan]

Oh right, forgot this thread.... ^__^

Thank you SleepyD!  ^v^
This will be EXTREMELY useful for the new Picture Gallery Operation! ^.^

[Pitkin]

Whoa, marvellous work indeed, SleepyD-san! Maybe we should have a links sub-forum or if not a whole subforum, at least I'll sticky this thread (or make it an announcement, if that seems to fit it better). ^__^

Thank you for your work. I didn't get to check the links I didn't know yet, as I've only three more minutes before class start, but this is really appreciated. ^^

[MisterCat]

Thanks a bunch, SleepyD, for all these links!  So many links yet so little time, but I shall commence exploring them tonight.

;010

=^..^=

[SleepyD]

you're all very welcome.


And you're all free to suggest more links to add to this list. ^^

[SleepyD]

Sorry for the double postage, but....

Well while looking for language-tans, I seem to have discovered a Japanese OS/2-tan, whose creator has named ま～りんちã‚Æ'ã‚“ (Ma~rin-chan/Merlin-chan)

Certainly a lot cuter that what we have made her out to be. ^^
http://www.f-team.org/merlin/html/apps.html
=>Images from the same site
=>Can't find her? This should make things easier

also discovered a Japanese artist who uses OS/2 named Achain
Home page: WARNING: NSFW!
=>Here's the OS/2 section that's SFW check his softwares page!

This serves a second purpose in getting the newbies aware of this. ^^
And, if you all have links to add, feel free to PM me or post in this thread

[C-Chan]

Thank you SleepyD for scoping this out.  ^__^

*studies pages*

*worried face*

Hmm, this is strange.  '__'
If you notice carefully, the creator seems to be selling some sort of mixed media novel (which includes at least some 3D).  Probably would explain why we've never seen this OS/2 4-tan before (OS/2 v.4 was apparently nicknamed "Merlin"), since this is technically proprietary work.  ^^'

Moreover, the artist also redesigned a completely different Windows NT-tan, so unless the artist is intending to redesign all the other Windows characters, that's like setting up another Deja Vu moment...  ^^'

Granted the characters are extremely cute, and it seems the creator has put an awful lot of work into this.... I'm still not sure if we're gonna be able to use this.  ;__;

Until more research can be done, we'll just safely call her OS/2 Warp 4-tan for now.  ^^'

This might actually be an interesting topic to post up at the OS-tan Wiki.  ^__^

(As well as the artist who uses OS/2, and made those very interesting banners.... -v-)

Speaking of which, did you know I ported your excellent link collection over to the old PMWiki?  ^__^

http://ostan-collections.net/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.OS-TanLinks

I'll be sure to do the same with the new MediaWiki version.  ^v^

[SleepyD]

No I was not aware of that....

Thanks! I'll be sure to clean it up when we get the MediaWiki up

Note than Ma~rin-chan does have blue hair and glasses:
http://www.f-team.org/merlin/img/11061508.jpg

[Aurora Borealis]

That OS/2 Warp that artist drew is very cute but I like C-Chan's vengeful-natured Star Trek-inspired rendition better though.

Cutesy and cheerful-looking for an OS-tan whose OS got screwed over by her companies doesn't really compute, IMO.

[C-Chan]

I was looking for a design for OS/2-tan when she was younger (back in her pre-3.0 days in the 80's), so when I first saw your link I was very excited at the prospect of using the Merlin-chan design somehow.  ^__^

(like you pointed out, they do have similarities)

But again, until more research can be done, it's probably safer that I keep my distance.  Eventually I should consider writing to this creator and asking what his/her position is on free OS-tans versus his/her own work.  '__'
(The links section doesn't even seem to point to Futaba, Niijura or anything like that... '__'; )

The cutesiness, btw, comes from the fact that the creator's novel seems to analogize the OS market as some sort of fantasy high-school setting.  The pairing of Warp 4-tan and this bunny-eared NT-tan reminds me a bit of the Mayuko/NieA duo from 'NieA Under 7'.  ^^

I won't say that our design is better or that Warp 4's design is inappropriate... the cute design, coupled with a the crisp color and vibrant detail, have a definitive mass market appeal.  ^__^
But until we receive confirmation otherwise, our design is the "free-est" one we've got, and that being said also the most flexible.

If anyone want to change her clothing, lower her age, make her more colorful, and crank up the cuteness factor, they're more than free and encouraged to do so.  ^__^

In the end, the only thing I'm really looking for is education, since so few people may realize all these systems exist.  -v-

[SleepyD]

looking into it more, this is a dojin.  And since the first one appeared at C59 (Comiket #59), this translates to the first instance of Marin-chan appearing by at least December of 2000.  

As a dojin group the only way they'd get known is either through the internet or through Comiket.

On another note, this seems to be a mahou shoujo kinda thing, if my inferences from these pics are correct. A normal looking schoolgirl OS/2-tan transforms into a girl with pink hair and a microphone.

(And if those pigtails were let down, she would have rather lengthy hair)


.....maybe I'll play with the idea of a cute OS/2 during programming class.  She'd have to wear those big circular glasses. muaha.