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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: teku-a-fool's collection

Last post by tekuafool - Yesterday at 08:43:27 PM

two sketches for two distros that apparently have mascots: AlmaLinux and MiracleLinux. Might want to draw them fully some day.

https://www.miraclelinux.com/miracle110/miracle-chan
https://www.miraclelinux.com/tech-blog/alma-chan

also random CSIRAC because I was listening to ninajirachi

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#2

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by oobabasama - August 17, 2026, 09:56:49 PM

Doujinshi? Some of them are even a series?

Oh if that ain't great!!!! Can you share some with me?

OS-tan doujins are the only common and cheap piece of merch there are of them because a lot were made for Futaba Gakuensai and other conventions, there's plenty on Suruga-ya and Mandarake if you know how to use a proxy service, I got a couple of Obabasama back in March for some ~700 or so yen each using Zenmarket

Doujin Republic is the main place I look at for OS-tan doujins physically. Warning though there are many NSFW doujins there as well. https://doujinrepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=26930&adult=-1

IIRC those people just dropship off Japanese websites at a huge markup

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#3

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by Goujer - August 17, 2026, 02:44:46 PM

Doujinshi? Some of them are even a series?

Oh if that ain't great!!!! Can you share some with me?

Doujin Republic is the main place I look at for OS-tan doujins physically. Warning though there are many NSFW doujins there as well. https://doujinrepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=26930&adult=-1

As-Special has a SFW OS-tan battle series that is my favorite to look at. They are titled after different Windows versions and "Prototype".

If you want to just read them there is sometimes scans available on hentai manga sites, but you may have to dig around to find non-pornographic series.

#4

Forum Feedback and Administration / Re: Report Site Problems

Last post by Goujer - August 17, 2026, 02:32:23 PM

Any consequences of having the auto-tagger off? Will we need to be more careful with manually tagging?

OMG I  never replied, I'm so sorry. There isn't really any issue with it. But we do lose the AI tag tool that offers likely tags.

#5

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by johnTCD - August 16, 2026, 11:12:05 PM

Doujinshi? Some of them are even a series?

Oh if that ain't great!!!! Can you share some with me?

#6

OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: teku-a-fool's collection

Last post by Goujer - August 16, 2026, 04:45:29 PM

I would love to know more about that XP-tan honestly. In my head I've been calling her Protomeko.

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OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by Goujer - August 16, 2026, 04:14:48 PM

It would be nice if someone made a piece of media that could set a timeline at least or something like that, but yet again it'll just be another interpretation.

There's a lot of Doujinshi to read if you want, some of them are even a series.

But like Bella said it's a loose canon inherently and that's kind of the beauty of it.

#8

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by Bella - August 16, 2026, 02:05:31 PM

I think it's a risk of any internet meme (using this in the viral idea sense of the term, not the joke sense of the term). Without a central creator and canon it's impossible to determine what is correct except by the consensus of what gets replicated by artists (how we got the original established traits for the Futaba OS-tans).

Unless something big comes along that establishes a canon for the Futaba -tans in the same way that KanePixel's backroom shorts & movie established a canon (at least in the popular imagination) for the original 4chan "backrooms" meme, we'll probably be stuck in this cycle forever.

I don't think it's impossible, especially as aughts web nostalgia grows in popularity, but I don't think it's terribly likely either. Nanami Madobe (et. al.) *may* be such a canonization of the OS-tan concept, which is unfortunate because it may crowd out development for the Futaba designs.

#9

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by johnTCD - August 16, 2026, 10:31:20 AM

Saseko Madobe or Nisen Madobe

No, i mean that he made a video about Nanami Madobe, right?

And people just started calling every MS OS-tan Madobe since that, at least from my experience

Though most people who call them that are posers(so-called larpers, pardon my french), again from my experience

#10

OS-tan Talk / Re: Why do people keep calling...

Last post by Lily1027 - August 16, 2026, 10:25:31 AM

Yeah, that's mostly the case, also including that many people got introduced to OS-tans thanks to Michael MJD and his Nanami video.

And as Bella said, loose canon does not help in the slightest. It's up to users to decide what is canon and what is not.

It would be nice if someone made a piece of media that could set a timeline at least or something like that, but yet again it'll just be another interpretation.

I see, however, I don't remember that Michael MJD would use those unofficial names like Saseko Madobe or Nisen Madobe in the video? And yeah, I think too it's up on people what they will consider canon and what not.