#Touko Madobe

[2channel]

standees of Madobe Touko and Madobe Nanami for the end of official support of Windows 7

[trinketprince]

Let's talk Microsoft Mascots!

You might actually know a few of them! Microsoft first started having mascots for their products starting with Internet Explorer mascot,

Aizawa Inori (相沢いのり)!

Aizawa Inori is a "fan-design"-turned official design made as a response to other OStan designs around 2013! Her name is actually a pun (a trend you'll find a lot) to the software she reperesents! If you take the first syllables of family and given name, it forms the acronym for Internet Explorer! (Ai + I = IE)! She has a full wikipedia article where you can read up on her conception as well as her basic profile! She's also the mascot for Microsoft Edge after Internet Explorer's service ended.

Aizawa Hikaru (藍澤光)!

Microsoft Taiwan's mascot for Microsoft Silverlight, a programming software, created around 2010! Her family name Ai "藍" meaning blue, which is the signature color of Microsoft! The second character Zawa "澤" means "shine" or "luster" which is the "Silver" part while Hikaru's given name means "Light" from Silverlight! Together her name is a direct callback to "Microsoft Silverlight". While she initially was the mascot for the software, she became the defacto mascot for Microsoft Taiwan's branch. She has her own wikipedia article!

Hikaru and Inori aren't related, despite both of them being "Aizawa"s (albeit different characters), but Hikaru has some family herself! Aizawa Lei, Yuu and Aoi

Who join Hikaru as mascots for Microsoft Taiwan!

The Aizawa's aren't the only Microsoft mascots to have a family! Introducting the Madobes!

Madobe Nanami (窓辺ななみ)

She is the mascot for Windows 7 who first appeared around 2009! She is voiced by Mizuki Nana. Her name is a pun! Mado (窓) meaning window and her given name containing the word for 7, Nana (なな).

She actually wasn't created by Microsoft themselves but designed by Wakaba and Windows 7 Mania. She was used to promote Windows 7 and has been Window's main mascot (as seen on their twitter) until Ai and Yu's reveal and her retirement after support for Windows 7 ended in 2020 and she passed the torch of main mascot to Touko!

Before I continue with Windows 8 let me introduce a few mascots revealed after Nanami.

Claudia Madobe (クラウディア・窓辺)

Claudia is the mascot for Windows Azure, Microsoft's Cloud service. She's actually one of the more utilized mascots, created by Microsoft themselves to promote the service! She is voiced by Kitamura Eri. She actually has a duet with Nanami!

Madobe Mutsumi (窓辺むつみ)

Mutsumi is Nanami's bigger sister who takes over the Nanami twitter account sometimes! She often jokes about not being forgotten and being left behind. If it isn't immediately apparent, Mutsumi is the "mascot" for Windows Vista, aka the 6th Major Windows OS. (Mascot in parenthesis since she didn't debut with the OS and in fact, debuted AFTER 7's release)

She was designed by Shimoogawa and takes inspiration from Nanami as seen by her appearance which takes notes from Nanami's own clothes like the skirt and waistcoat. Her name is also a pun, Mutsu (むつ) meaning 6. As such ends her tweets with #6me (mutsumi), she stopped tweeting when support for Windows Vista ended in 2017. Nanami also used to end her tweets with #7me but since she tweets more than Mutsumi she tweets without it.

Madobe Yu and Madobe Ai (窓辺ゆう&窓辺あい)

Ai and Yu are Mascots for Windows 8! (Ai on the left, Yu on the right), Not much to say about them! They're Microsoft's first Windows mascot they created themselves. Yu is voiced by Nishi Asuka while Ai is voiced by Tamura Nao. Ever since they're release Microsoft releases a few albums where the mascots sing together, they have a few songs out. The origin of their names aren't known but it is assumed that their taken from one of the Windows 8 slogans "You and I"

They didn't take over the Madobe Nanami twitter and were promoted alongside her and Claudia instead. Presumably, until their graduation when support for Windows 8 and 8.1 ends, they will continue promoting Windows with Touko.

Madobe Touko (窓辺 とうこ)

Microsoft's latest mascot for Windows 10! Touko's name comes from the an alternate reading of the word 10! She currently takes the mantle for promoting Windows. She is voiced by Nonaka Ai!

[thetooncrew]

since when was there a fourth madobe. was touko always a thing or did she just show up one day

[toonabby]

4 days until Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution is released

Today marks the 20th anniversary of OS-tan, a Japanese meme that originated on 2chan, depicting several operating systems (namely Windows) as anime girls. ME-tan, their first creation, is based on Windows ME, a bug-ridden mess of an OS that was discontinued by Microsoft not long after it was released. Futaba Channel's portrayal of her is of a ditzy but kind-hearted Cute Clumsy Girl with a leak as an item. Later OS-tans would be followed, from the mature business woman 2k-tan to the lovable big eater XP-tan aka Saseko.

In 2009, Microsoft Japan released their own official OS-tan to promote the release of Windows 7 in Japan. Her name is Nanami Madobe, a friendly and peppy girl who represents Windows 7 and is voiced by popular idol/voice actor Nana Mizuki. Later on, other members of the Madobe family would be introduced - Yuu and Ai Madobe, the twins who represent Windows 8, Claudia Madobe, the business woman who represents Microsoft Azure, along with a spin-off comic called Cloud Girl, and Touko Madobe , the time traveler from 100 years in the future who represents Windows 10. Microsoft Singapore and Microsoft Taiwan would follow suit with their own respective versions of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Silverlight - Inori and Hikaru Aizawa. Personally I prefer this version over the above version, though both are equally as good.

[m0y0u]

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Touko Madobe Portrait

[youkaiofdusk]

Rough translation of the Madobe Family tree (no relation to the OS-tan canon). It’s a bit cut-off and I’m not too pleased about that.

[animoe]

After the jump, a moe gallery of Madobe Touko, the official OSTan mascot for Windows 10.  

https://www.animoe.net/2020/01/windows-10-ostan.html

[he-tea-lia]

I ship Estonia with Nanami Madobe. OS-tan/Hetalia crossover when??? Belarus and Touko have the same energy and I think they would be good friends.

belarus and touko? from checking the wikipedia page i don’t see it but otherwise hdjdjdjsj valid. estonia and windows 7...

[recentanimenews]

Xbox Twitter Account Lays Out the Love For Kyoto Animation's Sound! Euphonium

  The person behind the official (read: verified) Xbox Twitter account must be a huge fan of wholesome anime, because today the account laid some love down to sweet TV anime such as Laid-Back Camp, A Place Further Than the Universe, and even explained who their favorite character and ship is in Kyoto Animation's "magnum opus" Sound! Euphonium.

    Living up to your profile pic with those wholesome Nadeshiko vibes. We salute your positivity! pic.twitter.com/f9TMjYNEkH

— Xbox (@Xbox) September 30, 2020

      We're also fans of Sorayori. pic.twitter.com/SSffeqzrO3

— Xbox (@Xbox) September 30, 2020

      Possibly hot take, but it's KyoAni's magnum opus and we love it almost as much as Reina loves Kumiko.

— Xbox (@Xbox) September 30, 2020

      Look, you can't put that kinda question on us that's impossible to answer. Okay, so we can *try* to answer this with some clarifications. For character development from "wow what a jerk" to "is baby", Natsuki. For "deserves happiness", Hazuki. Otherwise, our choice is KumiRei.

— Xbox (@Xbox) September 30, 2020

    With such great taste, it's no wonder the gaming company is trying to make some inroads in Japan with the Xbox Series X – especially considering how poorly the Xbox One did in the country. Maybe we'll see Microsoft a new cute anime girl for the console like Touko Madobe for Windows 10? In any case, PlayStation better let us know what their favorite characters are from Sound! Euphonium or we're getting Xbox Series X's this generation!

  Coincidentally, you can watch Laid-Back Camp, A Place Further Than the Universe, and Sound! Euphonium right here on Crunchyroll, with an app available for Xbox platforms (though there's no word yet on a Series S | X app yet!).

  Source: Xbox on Twitter

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram. 

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[astraldirectrix]

WINDOWS 10 FUCKING RULES

[ridher94-blog]

[he-tea-lia]

touko madobe is win10. she wants to kill nanami. also i fucking love virus anon. thank you for your hard work i fucking love that list.

whomst is nanami, but like, mood. and yeah me too! virus anon is a pillar of the he-tea-lia community, i have just decided