Japanese Xbox 360-tan ... tan?
by Dustin Burg 
{ Jan 11th 2007 at 8:00PM }
If you're familiar with Japanese drawn "-tan" then you're smarter than the average bear. If not, we'll explain. Japanese -tan are colorful female anime characters drawn to depict a certain object, subject, or group. One of the most popular -tan depictions are the OS-tan girls inspired by various operating systems. Got it yet? ... Japanese anime girls that depict a certain subject matter. Anyway, Over at Dark Diamond they run a weekly blog post about non-other than gaming console-tan! This weeks blog was about Xbox 360-tan, decked out in lovely 360 logos, cables, and even a wireless controller arm! Dark Diamond describes her as:
a fun loving character and very social, she spends a lot of time online and has a very competitive nature. She's often picking a fight with PS3-tan. As distant relative to the other OS-tans from Microsoft she tends to suffer from occasional instability.
Not to start a mini-fanboy war here, but everyone knows that Xbox 360-tan could totally kick Nintendo Wii-tan's ... erm ... bum.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
noneyabusiness @ Jan 11th 2007 9:07PM
Yet more proof that the Japanese are retarded. Maybe they diddnt clean up all that radiation as well as they thought they did.
razer @ Jan 11th 2007 9:25PM
Is it me but does that Wii-tan have a bit of a camel toe? She might want to get some better fitting shorts when working out so hard with those Wiimotes.
noneyabusiness @ Jan 11th 2007 9:27PM
but to be honest, im just pleasantly surprised the wii-tan isnt being gang raped or bukakked in the picture.
ZeroCorpse @ Jan 11th 2007 10:54PM
The anthropomorphizing so enjoyed by otaku is a good reason to avoid them.
mietha CAG @ Jan 12th 2007 1:34AM
You know... Sometimes Japan is just plain weird. That drawing is excessively disturbing on SOOOOOO many levels...
Hobbes E. Nader @ Jan 12th 2007 2:20AM
So I suppose I'm the only one that thinks 360-Tan is cute, eh? I think the smaller of the two (the one pictured here on site) incorporates the 360's design really well.
lolersticks @ Jan 12th 2007 2:51AM
I like the design, but I think it should be a tad less...technical. Hell, XP, ME, 2K, 3.1, 95, etc..-tans were fucking OPERATING SYSTEMS, and they weren't that technical. A game console should be even less so.
FR3SH JIV3 @ Jan 12th 2007 9:39AM
I love these. I am working on a nice desktop background to cover my dual monitors at work.
If anyone wants em, here are those two images minus all the text.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/FOURTW3NTY/360tan02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/FOURTW3NTY/360tan01.jpg