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''For IE-tan, see: [[IE-tan]]''

Inori Aizawa is Microsoft Singapore's official mascot character for Internet Explorer. She has dark blonde hair, and fits into the magical girl archetype. Initially created by Collateral Damage Studios in response to -tan designs for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, she was picked up by Microsoft, where, in partnership with Collateral Damage Studios and Nanyang Technological University’s CACANi Animation, they created a 2 minute anime short introducing Inori, which was shown at Anime Festival Asia 2013, as well as posted on YouTube at the same time. She is also the most recent fan made -tan to be picked up by Microsoft, with [[Nanami Madobe | Nanami]] being the last one before her.

==About==

[[File:Inori_Character_Sheet.jpg|left|thumb|100x142px]] Inori Aizawa's appearance consist of her magical girl uniform. The top starts blue at the bottom, having a gradient transition to white at the top. The tail of the her top, the belt buckle, and the right collar have the Microsoft logo (current 2013 version). The glove on her left arm is fingerless and covers most her arm, and is designed after modern IE's address bar. She has the Internet Explorer logo both on her hair clip and her belt, near the buckle. She also has what could be described as a neckerchief around the underneath side of the collar of her top. The frilled skirt she adorns is dual layered, with the bottom layer being white, and the top, visible layer being dark blue. Her boots are black, with the Trident logo on the bottom, representing her rendering engine of the same name, and have 2 blue ribbons around them.

''Taken from [http://internetexplorertan.com Inori's Facebook page].''

"My name is Inori and I'm an anime personification for Internet Explorer! Shall we explore the web together?

When I was younger, I used to be a clumsy, slow and awkward girl.

However, just like the story of ugly duckling, people told me that I have really matured and changed over the years. I feel confident in my abilities now, and I'm eager to show you what I can do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Hates malware, viruses, online bullies, and trolls

Like [[Nanami Madobe]] and the fan-made -tans before her, Inori Aizawa was not created by Microsoft, being the creation of Collateral Damage Studios in response to -tans for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari created by ''"めまして！"''[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=35872825] and reposted by Danny Choo[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151279376591680], or rather, the lack of Internet Explorer in the drawings, to be specific. After posting an early design[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=568766473141173] on facebook and getting massive positive feedback, CDS fleshed out her design and Inori was born[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=595517983799355]. She saw a swift rise to popularity, drawing more than 20,000 likes and comments and close to 2,000 shares across all of Facebook.

 

 

 

 

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o Internet Explorer: The Anime]

*[http://magical-girl-ie.tumblr.com/post/67627054285/heyyyy-everyone-do-you-like-the-music-in "Divided Singularity" Extended] (the theme to the anime short. Available on [http://sdrv.ms/internetexplorertan Inori's Skydrive])

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECanPk8JYgY Internet Explorer: The Anime, Behind-The-Scenes Compositing video]

*[http://www.internetexplorertan.com/home/ Inori's Homepage (English)]

 

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