Since Tsuyoshi Kusanagi stepped down from the role promoting digital terrestrial TV service (see this for more details), NAB, the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan, were forced to introduce a new promoter, which is Chide-jika[J], punning the words of digital TV and deer.
In opposition to the deer’s activity, users of Japan’s largest Internet forum 2 channel[J] together created an anthropomorphic bear character in parody, named Analoguma[J], and a number of geeks following the boom launched sites introducing his profile and fight song all around Japanese blogosphere.
NAB announced it would accuse fan-art reproduction without permission to the prosecutor as violating the original’s copyright, which caused an ironic burst in popularity of the deer promoting a new broadcast system and his tough opponent who wants to conserve the current system.
Some people composed a fight song for the bear, containing vocal made by the singing synthesizer Hatsune Miku(pdf), and those were uploaded and introduced on Japan’s CGM-based video sharing site “Nico Nico Douga[J]“.
The embeded video shown below is quoted from YouTube, since its original stored on Nico Nico Douga is prohibited to be quoted.
The other people launched a parody site having the domain name of “chidejika.jp”, which takes you to a set of many fan-art drawings on the illustration SNS pixiv[J].
| Chidejika’s Profile | |
| Date of Birth | Dec. 1st, 2003 |
| Due Date to be completed by | July, 2011 |
| Habitat | Private Broadcasters in Japan |
| Height | 1 meter (3.3 feets) |
| Weight | 15 to 20 kilograms (33 to 44 lbs) |
| Specialty | Good at making a straight look at camera |
| Strong Point | Never feel rushed |
| Weak Point | Meddlesome |
| Favorite Food | Salad |
| Infavorite Food | Deer Courtesy Cracker |
| Analoguma’s Profile | |
| Date of Birth | Apr. 27th, 2009 |
| Due Date to be postponed from | July, 2011 |
| Habitat | TV Viewers in Japan |
| Height | 1 meter (3.3 feets) |
| Weight | 15 to 20 kilograms (33 to 44 lbs) |
| Specialty | Sitting hight |
| Strong Point | Peekaboo-like laughing at the opponent |
| Weak Point | Never swallow the bait |
| Favorite Food | Deer |
| Infavorite Food | Salad |
via IT Media News [J]
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