# Japanese ASCII cats **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-ascii-cats/169784 "2003-04-20T04:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-ascii-cats/169784/1 "2003-04-20T04:19:49Z")
I’ve found these flash files on the web a year ago. Does anyone know where these characters come from or are derived from? Is this something big like Domo-Kun? I’ll give a few cites. [http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Bay/4070/toheart.swf](http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Bay/4070/toheart.swf) [http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~sinomu/1san\_comike\_battle.swf](http://www5c.biglobe.ne.jp/~sinomu/1san_comike_battle.swf) [http://sun.freehost.ne.jp/~planetj/kiyomi.swf](http://sun.freehost.ne.jp/~planetj/kiyomi.swf) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-ascii-cats/169784/2 "2003-04-20T07:13:16Z")
Your links aren’t links. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-ascii-cats/169784/3 "2003-04-20T13:53:49Z")
There’s a Japanese message board called Mona, whose inhabitants seem to make a lot of these (the word “Mona”, either in English or Japanese, pops up a lot in the animations), and the cat seems to be their mascot. Do a google search for “chinko momimomi”, but don’t view it at work!