1-SAN

It has been suggested that this article or section be into ''. (Shift JIS art character on the popular Japanese BBS 2channel (''2ch'' for short), standing in for the user who started a given thread. He is commonly characterized as a clueless newbie who rarely thinks through his posts and can't deal with the consequences of his actions.
On 2ch and related BBSes, two greater than signs followed by a number is automatically linked to another post in the same thread: >>1 links to the first post, >>2 to the second, and so on. As many 2ch users post anonymously, these links are also used as shorthand to refer to the persons behind the linked posts. Hence the name ">>1-san", ''-san'' being the most common honorific for personal names.
>>1-san is distinguished by a spiky hairdo, formed by a row of left and right parenthesis or less than and greater than signs. When unhappy, his face is rendered with the Cyrillic character De ( Д ) for an open, frowning mouth and, like Monā, an apostrophe and grave accent for eyes. When happy, his face is identical to Monā, with dots for eyes and a universal quantifier symbol (an upside-down capital ''A'') for a mouth.
He is frequently threatened and beaten by other 2ch Shift_JIS art characters such as Kukkuru in retaliation for posting threads that other users find ridiculous or objectionable. "''Hattoushin''" Monā was originally created to threaten >>1-san with murder, but since has been reinvented as a homosexual lusting after him—attention that >>1-san does not appreciate.

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　　　 　　（　´Д｀）

　　　　　 ⊂　　　つ

　　　　　　人　ヽﾉ

　　 　　　 し'（＿）

Contents

Flash Videos

See also

References

External links

Flash Videos

>>1-san and many other "ASCII Characters" (a pun based on the fact they are made up of actual ASCII characters) are often the subjects of amateur flash videos and games that are placed on the web for free access. The subjects of these productions are most often relating to Manga, Anime or other topics commonly associated with Otaku culture. The voices of the characters portrayed are usually created using Speech synthesis. See External Links.

See also

★ Related art: ASCII art, ANSI art, Mona (ASCII art), Shift JIS art

★ Related (context): TMDC, Bulletin board system (BBS), Computer art scene,

References

★ Japanese Wikipedia page. (Japanese)

★ Tarou, Maruheso, ed. ''2ちゃんねる AA大辞典'' (''"Ni-channeru AA Dai-Jiten"'' (romanized), meaning ''"2channel AA BIG Dictionary"''.)
:ISBN 4-7973-2275-6.
:Tokyo, Japan: Softbank Publishing, 2003.

★ 2-ten Project, ed. ''2典 ～2ちゃんねる辞典～'' (''"Ni-channeru AA Jiten"'' (romanized), meaning ''"2channel AA Dictionary"''.)
:ISBN 4-8354-4033-1.
:Virtual Cluster / Book-ing, 2002.

External links

★ http://timidmac.free.fr/html/swf03.html , A flash movie featuring >>1-san. It is in Japanese, but has English subtitles for the opening. (Japanese)

★ http://www.ankohouse.com/j/Game1/u_8monar.html , A small Java game featuring >>1-san as the main character. (Japanese)

★ http://www.geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic/8742/1san_comike_battle.html , A strange flash video of a menu-driven RPG-style game featuring >>1-san as the main character. (Japanese)

★ http://www.monaka2.com/winter.swf , A music video featuring Monā singing a love song to >>1-san. (Japanese)

★ Open Directory Project: ASCII Art

★ Texfiles.com Archive - The largest repository of underground scene text art on the planet