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The '''OS-tans''' (OS??) are an Internet phenomenon that started on [[Futaba Channel]] | The '''OS-tans''' (OS??) are an Internet phenomenon that started on [[Futaba Channel]]. The '''OS-tan''' or simply '''OS Girls''' are the personification of several operating systems by various amateur Japanese artists. Although a pure fan creation, the appearance of each OS Girl is generally consistent across artists. The OS Girls are typically depicted as women and usually depicted as sisters of varying ages. | ||
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The concept is reported to have begun as a personification of the common perception of [[Me-tan|Windows Me]] as unstable and prone to frequent crashes. Discussions on Futaba Channel likened this to the stereotype of a fickle, troublesome girl. This personification expanded, with the creation of Me-tan (dated to August 6 2003) followed by the other characters. | The concept is reported to have begun as a personification of the common perception of [[Me-tan|Windows Me]] as unstable and prone to frequent crashes. Discussions on Futaba Channel likened this to the stereotype of a fickle, troublesome girl. This personification expanded, with the creation of Me-tan (dated to August 6 2003) followed by the other characters. | ||
Some anonymous [[Futaba]] | Some anonymous [[Futaba]] artists introduced a setting for its comic strip where a [[Toshiaki]] owns a PC. Then anonymous artists, all of a sudden included a group of women in which they personify every operating system the ''Toshiaki'' owns, in which also they didn't gave an explanation on how were they formed or did appeared or born in the setting. These group of women are the [[List of OS-tans|OS-Tans]]. The first batch of OS-tans created are all personifying a series of Windows OS, which means they are portrayed as sisters from each other. The series of Windows OS that was personified includes [[Windows_3.1|3.1]], [[NT-tan|NT]], [[95-tan|95]], [[CE-tan|CE]], [[InuT-tan|NT Workstation]], [[98-tan_and_98SE-tan|98 98SE]], [[Me-tan|ME]], [[2k-tan|2000]], [[XP_Family|XP]] and [[2003_Server|Server 2003]]. The OS-tans obviously considers the ''Toshiaki'' their master and lives with him. They almost have the traits of the operating system they respectively represent. Not only do they help their master on maintaining things that are technically related to computers, but they also do his chores and obligations around the house. That setting on those comic strips became temporary at first, until all Futaba artists accepted it and followed popularly. | ||
Other than the Windows sisters, other operating system such as [[MacOS]], [[Linux]], and [[Lindows|Linspire]] were also given a personification and commonly appeared with the Windows sisters at that time. Followed by the personification of [[OS9|MacOS9]] along with the | Other than the Windows sisters, other operating system such as [[MacOS]], [[Linux]], and [[Lindows|Linspire]] were also given a personification and commonly appeared with the Windows sisters at that time. Followed by the personification of [[OS9|MacOS9]] along with the conversion of the personified MacOS to be known now as the personification of the MacOSX (''not to be confused with +Nijiura+ concept of OSX catgirls, [http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/Introduction#.2BNijiura.2B See Below]''). Currently so the personification of [[Vistan|Vista]] as well. | ||
Futaba artist also started to draw male counterparts at that time. They are known as the [[OS-kuns]] (OS君). Although some non-OS male characters exist for programs and hardware. For example, [[Norton Antivirus]] is usually portrayed as a creepy looking, possibly lecherous old doctor. | |||
Futaba also includes their own memes to be shown along with the OS-tans. Most notable memes includes [[Yamada]], [[WE|WE (Taeko)]] and [[Pizza|Pizza-tan]]. | |||
===+Nijiura+=== | ===+Nijiura+=== | ||
Since popular in Futaba, OS-tans were also seen in other japanese imageboards as well. Such as +Nijiura+ (''not to be confused with the nijiura board on Futaba'') | Since popular in Futaba, OS-tans were also seen in other japanese imageboards as well. Such as +Nijiura+ (''not to be confused with the nijiura board on Futaba''). +Nijiura+ mostly makes three-dimensional works such as CG illustrations and wallpapers than two-dimensional works (drawn pictures) and comic strips. | ||
+Nijiura+ produced their own concept of MacOSX. Since Futaba's concept is the conversion from the personification of [[MacOS]], +Nijiura+ 's concept was to expand it into every different big cat given codenames such as '''''[[OSX_Cheetah|Cheetah]], [[OSX_Puma|Puma]], [[OSX_Jaguar|Jaguar]], [[OSX_Panther|Panther]], [[OSX_Tiger|Tiger]]''''' and soon to be '''''[[OSX_Leopard|Leopard]]'''''. Almost same applies to their own concept of [[Vistan| Windows Vista]], in which designs have been expanded into Vista's several editions such as '''''Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, | +Nijiura+ produced their own concept of MacOSX. Since Futaba's concept is the conversion from the personification of [[MacOS]], +Nijiura+ 's concept was to expand it into every different big cat given codenames such as '''''[[OSX_Cheetah|Cheetah]], [[OSX_Puma|Puma]], [[OSX_Jaguar|Jaguar]], [[OSX_Panther|Panther]], [[OSX_Tiger|Tiger]]''''' and soon to be '''''[[OSX_Leopard|Leopard]]'''''. Almost same applies to their own concept of [[Vistan| Windows Vista]], in which designs have been expanded into Vista's several editions such as '''''Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business''''' and '''''Enterprise'''''. | ||
+Nijiura+ currently included the personification of [[BeOS]]. | +Nijiura+ currently included a section for the personification of [[BeOS]]. | ||
===Outside Japan=== | ===Outside Japan=== | ||
There are still illustrations | There are still submissions of 2D and 3D illustrations and multimedia etc. which related to OS-Tans that continues being posted in the internet. In which it gave more exposure to the viewers outside Japan, and because of that, contributions about OS-tans coming from English-speaking imageboards and websites came to grow. Most notable example is [http://www.jkhp.it/OS-tan/ '''''Juzo-kun's renditions of Linux distros wallpapers''''']. While imageboards such as [http://4chan.org 4chan], [http://wakachan.org/os wakachan] and [http://iichan.net idlechan] gave English translations on some comic strips. | ||
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== References and in-jokes == | == References and in-jokes == | ||
When the OS-tans are portrayed in comics, they are often accompanied by Japanese puns or references | When the OS-tans are portrayed in comics, they are often accompanied by Japanese puns or references from the Futaba Channel culture. | ||
===Scallion=== | ===Scallion=== | ||
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===Breast Size, Hunger, and Memory=== | ===Breast Size, Hunger, and Memory=== | ||
It has been suggested from time to time, that the breast sizes of the individual OS-tans represent their RAM requirements. Because [[XP-tan|Windows XP]] is considered a memory hog due to its increased resource consumption, XP-tan is incredibly well endowed (and she has no qualms about getting upgraded from time to time). 2K-tan normally rates as a close second, whereas as someone like [[MSDOS | MSDOS-tan]] lies at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Another theory states that the breast size of an OS-tan represents the overall fanciness of their graphical user interface. Since XP was designed with 'bells and whistles', she has the largest breasts, but DOS, being no more than a command prompt, is at the other extreme. An alternate method of displaying memory or resource requirements in general is through the character's appetite. XP is often seen eating ridiculous amounts of food, sometimes to the point of obesity. | It has been suggested from time to time, that the breast sizes of the individual OS-tans represent their RAM requirements. Because [[XP-tan|Windows XP]] is considered a memory hog due to its increased resource consumption, XP-tan is incredibly well endowed (and she has no qualms about getting upgraded from time to time). 2K-tan normally rates as a close second, whereas as someone like [[MSDOS | MSDOS-tan]] lies at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Another theory states that the breast size of an OS-tan represents the overall fanciness of their graphical user interface. Since XP was designed with 'bells and whistles', she has the largest breasts, but DOS, being no more than a command prompt, is at the other extreme. An alternate method of displaying memory or resource requirements in general is through the character's appetite. XP is often seen eating ridiculous amounts of food, sometimes to the point of obesity. | ||
==Controversy== | ==Controversy== | ||
The OS-Tan phenomenon has had its share of problems. The first of which was with [[Dispute between Futaba Society and Déjà vu|'''''Deja Vu artworks''''']], a doujin group who claimed ownerships of several designs, including [[NT-tan]]. The second was with [[Movement against Netrunner|'''''Netrunner''''']], an magazine who also claimed ownership of the design for [[Me-tan]]. The third comes with the comic [[Troubled Windows USA|'''''Troubled Windows USA''''']], which has come under fire due to its excessive use of American stereotypes. A more recent but less severe problem has come with the design for the personification of [[Vistan|Windows Vista]]. | The OS-Tan phenomenon has had its share of problems. The first of which was with [[Dispute between Futaba Society and Déjà vu|'''''Deja Vu artworks''''']], a doujin group who claimed ownerships of several designs, including [[NT-tan]]. The second was with [[Movement against Netrunner|'''''Netrunner''''']], an magazine who also claimed ownership of the design for [[Me-tan]]. The third comes with the comic [[Troubled Windows USA|'''''Troubled Windows USA''''']], which has come under fire due to its excessive use of American stereotypes. A more recent but less severe problem has come with the design for the personification of [[Vistan|Windows Vista]]. | ||
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The OS-Tans (''OS??'') have became popular as an internet meme in Japan. Ever since the interactive flash animation known as '''[[Troubled Windows]]''' (とらぶる・うぃんどうず ''Toraburu Windouzu'') was released in the internet, it gained more popularity and viewers in Japan. The flash animation was even subbed in English and was distributed as a video (not interactive) that it added its exposure and viewers outside Japan. Since then, a several OS-tan related multimedia (flash animation and video) submissions was released throughout the internet. | |||
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*[[List of OS-tans]] | *[[List of OS-tans]] | ||
*[[OS-tan_Links|Links to OS-Tan websites]] | *[[OS-tan_Links|Links to OS-Tan websites]] | ||
*[http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/Category:Controversy Articles concerning OS-Tan Controversies] | |||
*[http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/Category:Multimedia Articles concerning OS-Tan Multimedia] | |||
===External Links=== | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_System Wikipedia's summary about Operating System (OS)] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_System Wikipedia's summary about Operating System (OS)] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan Wikipedia's article about the OS-Tans] | |||