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Original: Minitokyo Kimono Girl

Artist Comment

There's been discussion over Minitokyo mascots. I found my old Anime Expo 2004 baby-tee staff shirt which had an SD girl in a kimono and thought that might be a good idea: the chibi character would represent the "mini" while the kimono would represent Japan and hence the "Tokyo". I went through my Cafe Kichijouji manga since the Chichai Cafe Kichijouji sections (Mini Cafe Kichijouji) are full of SD characters which I wanted to use to get ideas of poses for SD characters. One shot was of a character (I think it was Minegawa) sitting on a bench eating a watermelon. Well, I switched out the melon for a laptop to represent the fact this was a digital art community and made it a girl wearing a kimono. Since it's fall, I gave her a fall patterned kimono of yellow with orange maple leaves.
Pencil sketch/20 minutes; Illustrator final/ 2 hours

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Comments

  1. ejwcobra Oct 01, 2005

    kawaii, i love it! wonderful job, Tama-Neko, you did a really good job on this. maybe you would want to do more stuff on this theme? it would be really cool. oh, and first to post too, thats rare! well, ja ne!

  2. shyxsakura Retired Moderator Oct 01, 2005


    ahaha, that's too cute...
    u_u now letz try to get the old man sheqiee to fall out of love with that heise boy.. ==;;

  3. OracleAngel Retired Moderator Oct 01, 2005

    Awww aint she a doll.... ^_^
    Now we need to fix everything so that we can have a male mascot too with a monkey! theyed so play and make such great comical fun! XD

  4. Criox Oct 01, 2005

    Hahaha! Really cute! I like it! Looks appealing to me.

    Good work! Keep it up!

  5. breadcrust Banned Member Oct 05, 2005

    Not to say that it is a bad mascot, but I dont think it's the best we could come up with.

    The ideas of "digital community", Tokyo and "mini" influencing this mascot is nice, although there are also other images that these words bring to mind, that a mascot designer could make (eg, when I think "Tokyo", I think a large densely populated city and modern Japanese life).

    Just my 2c.

  6. MyrrhLynn Oct 06, 2005

    Wahh! So cute! :D She looks adorable! Hummm although it would be nice if she was sitting on something more interesting. XD

  7. shinorei Oct 07, 2005

    It looks so cute! Nice vector, even. :D Kawaii desu!! ^_^ Keep up the good work, Tama-chan!

  8. iiwa Oct 13, 2005

    wowie, shes so kawaii! XD
    awesome one, tama-neko! :)
    she is adoraaableeee.... she's having some kewl kimono and the laptop's nice too!! XP

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