# Anime Microsoft Inori Protects Us All !

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**Created:** [March 18, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-microsoft-inori-protects-us-all/715263 "2015-03-18T04:35:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anime-microsoft-inori-protects-us-all/715263/1 "2015-03-18T04:35:40Z")

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And… appositely enough, renders the world to rubble.  
I’ve noticed the portrayal of Microsoft in Japanese Anime — and it’s different iterations of Windows as cute ‘Tans’ as fairly fawning, and put it down to Japan, like India ( but unlike China ) as not being particularly linuxified, perhaps something to do with conformism.

Now, straight from the AV Club’s celebration of Internet Explorer being flushed away \*, from the comments an hour ago:  
**[Anime Festival Asia Special Video - feat. Inori Aizawa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o)**

An official Microsoft video on YouTube.

[No doubt it would have been released on MSN Soapbox, except that no-one ever heard of it.]

I like the little heroine scurrying through the dark places of the internet at the start like a bunny pursued by battle-bots. Still, disgustingly Microsoft loves to portray itself as a plucky little underdog.

This personification, Inori Aizawa, is on **[FaceBook](https://www.facebook.com/internetexplorertan)**, demonstrating more Microsoft Manga Art…

\*\* Those were the glory days of IE, long before anyone realized it was possible to go on the internet with a browser that wasn’t garbage.\*