OS-TAN Wikipublic encyclopediaSit down at OS TAN

OS-TAN Wiki / history

Toshiaki

FAN

Toshiaki is not an artist bio. It is Futaba Nijiura's default name, reused as the guy who owns the PC in OS-tan comics. Know Your Meme records the further joke: an imaginary manga called Trouble Windows 'written by' Toshiaki Futaba (双葉利秋).

In that house setting the Windows girls are sisters who maintain the machine and also do chores. Nobody explained how they appeared. OSC notes the setting was temporary until it wasn't — enough people drew it that English wikis treat it as default continuity.

Later OS-tans do not have to live there. Distro-tans, +Nijiura+ Macs, Madobe mascots, and OS TAN do not report to Toshiaki. If a comic puts them in his kitchen anyway, that is pastiche.

See also

OS-tan complete dialogTrouble WindowsTrouble Windows is a 2004 Flash fake anime opening that carried OS-tan out of Futaba and later named a 2005 fanbook.Me-tanFutaba ChannelFutaba Channel's Nijiura board is where Me-tan and the first OS-tans were posted in 2003.XP-tan and Me-tanOS-tanOS-tans are moe personifications of operating systems that started on Futaba Channel in 2003. Fan canon is not the later Microsoft mascot campaigns.

Sources

  1. OS-tan — Know Your Meme, 2010. Community encyclopedia. Dates Me-tan to 2003-08-06. Official-gijinka section is incomplete.
  2. Introduction — OS-Tan Collections Wiki, 2010. English community wiki. Pages often carry outdated-information banners. Character art stays with creators.