Mainly, I wanted to talk about We-tan, but decided to broaden the topic to "OS-tan Variations"
I saw on Wakachan's OS Image Board (http://www.wakachan.org/os/wakaba.html) a thread about We-tan, started the 23rd of this month. It was the first I'd heard of him (or her?). I really love the concept; an inverted version of Me-tan, ha ha ^^ Pink braids, black dress... and apparently he's supposed to be male, ha ha, which just makes it all the more entertaining. Reminds you of the Mario Wario thing... Did you guys know of We-tan, Me-tan's evil twin? Or is Me-tan the evil one? xP
I would draw the line at only having 1 inverted character though (that is, stick with We-tan). It'd be horror to see every OS-tan having an evil counterpart... it'd make We-tan less cool ;____;
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On other varitations, there seems to be two about equally popular versions XPHome-kun (though I've been seeing "Homeo" alot more lately). There's "Homeo", the little boy version with the key ((*points to my avatar*)) and the shirtless, greenhaired "uke" boy version.
Wonder if theres a Evil XP Tan or a Undebendable Woman 2k Tan *Thinks about that * If there is then that be interesting to see some evil os counter parts . B)
New for me, but...
I didn't think the there could be anything more evil then ME-tan...
I really don't want to know what makes WE-tan so evil... :lol:
But it is a very interesting concept, and one that I myself wouldn't mind seeing more of...
I always thought Me-tan was a little clutzy and got herself into trouble, but that doesn't make her evil. Ha ha, XPtan is more evil for hogging and stealing all the food! We-tan has this devious smirk look on in several pictures... that's why he seems evil xD
Ha ha, today I took some Me-tan lineart and coloured it We-tan style xD It was rather entertaining. A non-colour difference between the two is that We-tan's "Warning" triangle on her chest is upside down, and there's sometimes a question mark instead of an exclaimation.
Speaking of evils and variations, though... Longhorntan is still a very flimsy design, but I personally like the ones where she's sort of an "Evil Overlord" type, ha ha. Evil is good, I have quite an affiliation for it. The cute Longhorns don't always work for me.
Evil = Really cute :D
I do agree there... Evil can be quite cute.
And call it what you want... clumsy, evil... in the end, the user is cursing at it :lol: :lol:
The evil in the OS-tan "universe" is non-consistant though... well, except for the fact that usually Mac is called evil by all the Windows OS and Fans xP
well...
they are often dipicted evil...
I mean, they're like my little evil minions that I release to get the dirty work done... :lol:
But they can also be quite cute.
I've heard of this We-Tan, in fact, saw a picture of.... it..... scared the crap out of me quite frankly. Reminded me of a guy who came into the video store I worked at in college.
Very tall guy, around 6'8", probably 250lbs, mostly muscle... and he had on badly done lipstick and makeup, and a dress and a blonde wig.
And five o'clock shadow.
We-Tan is what I'll think of him as from now on. It gives a name to that nightmarish image that came to life so many years ago.
I'm not sure on this-correct me if I'm wrong-that We-tan is supposed to represent Windows Explorer. Hence, WE-tan.
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I'm not sure on this-correct me if I'm wrong-that We-tan is supposed to represent Windows Explorer. Hence, WE-tan.
Correct! :)
Their name sounded the same thats why they put the implication for both of them to look similarly :)
And the plot thickens....
At first, I thought ME-tan and WE-tan were parallel universe counterparts! Okay, so they aren't but that sure could have been interesting!
I have only just gotten into OS-tan and understand all these little offshoots for WE and others ect ect. But ive not had time to follow them up.
Essentially, We-tan is Me's evil twin. Windows Explorer is also a piece of software that wasn't very good. Hence, we have another OS-Tan to fill the void.
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Dont we still have Windows Explorer, running as explorer.exe? Because that is the main program of windows for nearly everything...
Check your task manager and see for yourself.
I wanted to research about this WE tan girl. I've found several WE Tan pictures all those I have point out as a girl. Also it seems it does represent Windows Explorer. But I hardly call it ME Tan's enemy since windows explorer runs on every windows OS to date. Making her the internal Microsoft evil program of all the OSes . Only exclusions are windows 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, NT 3, NT 3.5, NT 3.51 & Server 1990 (WFW 3.11) who used the Program Manager. The program manager evolved into the explorer.exe called Windows Explorer that can be installed as a shell upgrade to NT 3.51 and that comes as the default shell explorer for all versions and service packs of; NT 4.0, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2K, Neptune, XP, FLPC, Vista, 7, Server 1996 (NT 4.0) Server 2000 (2K) Server 2003 (XP like Server) Server 2008 (Vista Like Server) Server 2008 R2 (Vista/7 like Server). I'm not sure what's the shell skin of Windows CE is.
I like WE a lot; apart from her, in the way of "other" OS-tan, there's Komepo, the "weeaboo American" counterpart of XP, Yamada, the original, but rejected, design for 98, and DVA's NT, who I, to be honest, prefer to the "real" NT.
WHAT
INU-T ACTUALLY HAS RIVALRY?!
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And for some reason: Yeah, I always liked Komepo, as well, maybe simply because the amount of shit you needed to filter out from all available images wasn't as large as for Saseko...then again, nobody seems to make any Komepo imagery anymore ;_;
I might be biased though, simply because of the fact that long, blonde hair such as my own is too damn extravagantly beautiful. <3
If we're speaking of OS-Variations,my personal favorite has always been this version of MS Dos-Tan
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Goemon2057/a97eee705709387c1ff19bac4c7f7d6e.jpg)
I love this image so much i hate the other one for being the preferred version.just because i think it fits so well.
She has a very plain look like DOS,a floppy disk bag referencing the usage of Disks (originally the only storage for DOS)...another interesting thing is with the cat ears she's like felix the cat,since all her tools come from her floppy disk bag :D
Plus the fact that unlike other variations of Dos-Tan,this one meshes with 3.1,which in fact relied on DOS to function in many ways,not yet being able to boot into itself.
While many versions of Dos have it as a cat,including the most popular 3.1 designs...this picture draws a stand-alone DOS from that cat DOS while actually referencing DOS itself fairly well.In actuality there really should be a standalone version comparable to the cat because the cat is in fact more self-sustained then 3.1 Tan is >.>
I just love all the relations this version has to DOS and to 3.1,making it possibly one of my favorite versions of any OS :D
...i actually have had this on my mind so i had a lot to say.
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Nice idea/pic, though. Still, I must say I prefer the kitten, if only to keep the canon clean of the myriads of alt. designs that keep popping up - but to each his own. ^^
uhm, if this is the topic of os-tan variants, perhaps you can clear up a few confusions for me....
does 3.1-kun's dos have a name? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/31_kun/src/1193499947175.jpg)
who is the girl in this picture? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/xp_kun/src/1242876732240.jpg)
who are the other people in this picture? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/xp_kun/src/1247275485415.jpg)
who--or what--is that little girl that 95 hangs out with? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/95_kun/src/1236991176344.jpg)
what is this vista-tan called? and her male counterpart? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/long/src/1254684842829.jpg)
and this one? (http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pid=7634&fullsize=1)
and THIS one? (http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pid=7528&fullsize=1)
who's the girl in the middle? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/pizza/src/1221414141068.png)
who is pizza DONing? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/pizza/src/1246146553790.png)
who's the other girl in the picture? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/pizza/src/1136810134838.jpg)
whos' trying to kidnap yamada? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/yamada/src/1251229992492.png)
who's the girl in the back, with the horns? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/yamada/src/1245883185907.gif)
here's a better pic of horns girl, and who are the other people? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/yamada/src/1214270808543.jpg)
and who's the other girl besides inu-t in this pic? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/nt/src/1252260232510.jpg)
.....sorry for the perfect storm of questions.
THAT'S A LOAD OF-
I'll see what I can do here.
AFAIK, 3.1-kun's DOS has no specific name/classification. I dunno.
#2 and #3, I'm clueless.
#4 is called Aka-cho-tin, or however it's spelled. 2ch character, dunno what she is, but anyhow.
#5 is called Vistake, or "screw vista" (lol). No name found on her -kun.
#6 is called Visbou. (I actually cosplayed the male version of her once, pretty much the only serious cosplay I've ever done. Quite lol.)
Those two are the ones mostly embraced, afaik, by 2ch and artists, since they were the earliest to become solid.
#7 is a ChiVistan interim design, I dunno.
#8, gotta ask 2ch. She's in Nijikaku, and I've seen her before...but hells know her name. >_>
#9 - may be one of the Maids (Yakui, Mayoi, Mazui etc) but I dunno.
#10, No clue. I sense oneshot design. OR one of the board girls. I dunno.
#11 - No clue. Agh, too long since I played Nijikaku, I'm pretty sure all these are in there somewhere... >_>
#12 is Astarot(h). I don't remember what/who she is except that she often interacts with the spiderman guy. Look it up.
#13, let's see - dog in wig (low left) is Detective Kun-kun, above beside 2k-kun is Shinku (both from Rozen Maiden). Right of them is Jizou-seki (some sort of pun on Jizou, holy statue and Souseiseki from RM). The three girls after that (Blonde, blue and gray) I have no idea whatsoever, but this guy uses them often, it might be something inbred. And then there's yamada, WE-tan and Secchan, plus Astarot again.
PAAFEKKUTO SUTOOMU-DAZE~
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btw that movie did not liek. -.-
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Nice idea/pic, though. Still, I must say I prefer the kitten, if only to keep the canon clean of the myriads of alt. designs that keep popping up - but to each his own. ^^
Well,the thing is that what made that particular DOS-tan more interesting is she doesn't seem to be meant to replace the DOS-kitten...she's more the standalone version when she's not with 3.1 :D
hence the fact that DOS-tan has relating features to DOS-kitten.
as for preferring the kitten...the interesting thing is...
the wiki uses the shy DOS as MS-DOS rather than the kitten
In picture #4, the character Aka-cho-tin is partly a combination of Shinku and Suigintou from "Rozen Maiden", and her name loosely translates to "red lanterns" as a reference to the lanterns on her head.
In picture #12, the woman with curly hair near the bottom left is a human adult version of Hina Ichigo (also from "Rozen Maiden"), the tall blonde woman is Daiginjou, another Rozen Maiden-based character. Her name is a pun on Suigintou, and Daiginjou is a high-quality sake. Astaroth is a character from the card game "Shinrabansho"
I forgot about that MS-DOS-tan catgirl design but I like it. I think more specifically she represents MS-DOS 6.22, the version Windows 3.1 uses. Despite her reliance on MS-DOS, Windows 3.x is more 'independent' than its predecessors and there is some debate as to whether Windows 3.x is the first full-fledged version of Windows that is more than just a DOS shell.
The other MS-DOS-tan, represented as the shy schoolgirl might represent the earlier versions of MS-DOS, so it's possible to have both MS-DOS-tans existing at the same time in OS-tan canon, or at least fanon.
*applause* bravo! way to go! i am impressed; thanks for your help. ^^ if i find anything else confusing, i'll ask ^^ (expect moar soon)
btw, who is 2ban-tan? i saw her in a nijikaku vid once ^^
I'm glad I could help!
Hmm... Never heard of 2ban-tan before. :(
I have no clue who/what she is, but she's in Nijikaku, so yeah @_@
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I forgot about that MS-DOS-tan catgirl design but I like it. I think more specifically she represents MS-DOS 6.22, the version Windows 3.1 uses. Despite her reliance on MS-DOS, Windows 3.x is more 'independent' than its predecessors and there is some debate as to whether Windows 3.x is the first full-fledged version of Windows that is more than just a DOS shell.
The other MS-DOS-tan, represented as the shy schoolgirl might represent the earlier versions of MS-DOS, so it's possible to have both MS-DOS-tans existing at the same time in OS-tan canon, or at least fanon.
hum...different versions of DOS-tan...
i suppose that makes sense too,since every windows-tan is technically a different version.I doubt it's canon since most people probably don't even talk about the 'official' DOS-tan much nowadays,but i'll certainly take to that theory :)
it's always good to get multiple opinions -w-
excuse my lack of wise words per usual, i is quite tired -______- and hungry :[
2ban had a bit of a lottery motif....blonde hair w/ a green dress, with a bunch of lottery balls and a cage, most of the balls being rotated around, the rest for attack
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hum...different versions of DOS-tan...
i suppose that makes sense too,since every windows-tan is technically a different version.I doubt it's canon since most people probably don't even talk about the 'official' DOS-tan much nowadays,but i'll certainly take to that theory :)
MS-DOS-tan the schoolgirl is seldom talked about in canon, and there have been very few pictures of her drawn in the past four years- most of the pictures in the DOS gallery here have been around since 2004 or 2005, and I know this because I've been and OS-tan fan and lurker since the summer of 2005. She's still canon but 'obscure', and interpretations of her personality and backstory largely originate from fanon.
The 'canon' is universally accepted among the OS-tan community, but the fanon created here and in other OS-tan communities is still strong and essentially is an 'expansion pack' to the canon OS-tan universe.
Another variation is Linux. Is it a Penguin?
(http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10654/normal_lin007.jpg)
Or is it a girl?
(http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/11364/normal_Linux-tan_Wall.jpg)
I think it's possible to go for days on the number of linux-tans there are...theres one for every distro,theres various ones for each distro,theres some that represent all,theres some that represent one.
Theres some that represent them here and there,they can represent them anywhere!
...okay that came out bad,but i think you see my point :D
out of them however,i'd say my favorite is this one
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Goemon2057/Linux_009.jpg)
it's just so adorable+it's a penguin girl.I think on the wiki this is referred to as the Generic Linux Tan...with the kun being the giant penguin i guess?
whats not to like?
Meh. I like my girl better. She's sexy.
Quote from: "Sora"Meh. I like my girl better. She's sexy.
tbh i don't like most of the sexy ones,save XP.I think they just don't hit the mark as well.
When i think of the OS-tans,i like to see one that seems as if...it could actually stand in public.
I can think of quite a couple obscene things in the bad way that would be said to that linux if she walked out in public.
Plus i'd rather see the tans dressing at least semi-formally or casually...rather then...in bikini-esque looks
i guess i'm having a hard time wording it,i just don't like the 'straight out sexy' look of some of the tans,like it feels like they're going more for looking nice then looking relatable. Like even XP and 2000 have that certain charm and windows-esque look,and look nice without crossing the borders
-shakes head groggily-
You're right; I'm sorry. Besides, that Linux does have poor dress sense...
Quote from: "Sora"Another variation is Linux. Is it a Penguin?
(http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10654/normal_lin007.jpg)
Or is it a girl?
(http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/11364/normal_Linux-tan_Wall.jpg)
you are refering to GNU-linux, otherwise known as "penguin". the penguin (1st pic) is the male version of this OS, while the girl is the -tan. the male version is, well, rather creepy (it has 3 dicks..... O___o ) and is currently the only male linux lurking the site, and the only male linux i've seen.
The creepy Linux penguin is the first OS-tan character to represent Linux and was the only representation for some time, but thankfully another artist drew a cute girl version as well. Both designs are valid by the OS-tan canon and fanon alike.
There are many Linux-tans representing different Linux distros, but not all of them have OS-tans since trying to personify ALL of them would be insanely difficult, with there being over 300 of them! ^^;
There is one other Linux-kun, personifying Damn Small Linux:
(http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10570/normal_DSLWinCEfinal.jpg)
or for a much better view: here (http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/albums/userpics/10570/DSLWinCEfinal.jpg).
*raises hand* NOTHER QUESTION!!!
do we have more info as to what shitsuji-kun is? (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/nt/src/1228631400996.jpg)
HEAR'S ANOTHER PICTURE (http://kazumi386.org/~ostan2/pic_os_uploader01_seven/nt/src/1197478497583.jpg)
He's a sheep, is friends with Homeo, sometimes gets dragged into Homeko's yaoi-loving antics, and he is in love with Inu-T.
His name is also some sort of a pun, as "hitsuji" means sheep.
And shitsuji means butler.
:3 thankies
BOTTT~~~