Plasma-chan
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About
Plasma-chan (Japanese: プラズマちゃん or ぷらずまちゃん, Purazuma-chan), also called as "Plasma" (ぷらずま) simply, is a fanmade chibi character inspired by Inazuma[1], a fleet girl from Japanese online card game Kantai Collection (KanColle). In late 2013, she established her own "violent and black-hearted" personality opposite to the original fleet girl by the playful mind of KanColle fans in the Japanese textboard community 2channel.
Origin
A fleet girl in the sixth destroyer corps, Inazuma, is one of the most popular characters among KanColle players because she is one of the 5 selectable fleet girls at start-up and most of the players choose her for the missions which require her. So, her pure-hearted but very timid personality and her characteristic suffix "Nanodesu" (なのです) are familiar to all of the players.
Meanwhile, the concept of this character was ignited by an illustration in which a chibi Inazuma with black circle eyes is slamming both hands against the table powerfully along with the remark that can be read "I Hate Eggplants" (ナスは嫌゛い゛な゛の゛て゛す！！, Nasu wa KIRAI NANODESU!!). This illustration was posted to Twitter by user @suki_suke (すき)[2] on August 21st, 2013[3], and it was drawn simply for a joke reply to his friend @Nasu_e (ナス).[4]
Spread
This illustration was soon imported to the main thread series for KanColle in /gameswf/ (browser/smartphone games) board in the Japanese anonymous textboard community 2channel and got free from the original context. This chibi Inazuma shouting a name of her least favorite vegetable powerfully was loved by 2channel users because it is unexpected from her warm personality. Inspired by this, they made a Shift-JIS art version of her and began making her utter many hurtful and violent remarks. And in the following month, this black-hearted Shift-JIS art character became to be distinguished from Inazuma and recognized as another character called "Plasma-chan" which comes from a pun for Inazuma and the name meaning of "Lightning Bolt".
In the Kancolle thread, the Shift-JIS art was quickly created when the illustration was introduced to the thread on August 25th[5], and the first post calling her as Plasma-chan was on September 7th, 2013 (shown, below).[6]
Translation:
241 ：Anonymous：2013/09/07(Sat) 21:21:29.38 ID:5AHg0Uyr
(Shift-JIS Art) < Anyway, I'm just watching others' all 999 constructions.256 ：Anonymous：2013/09/07(Sat) 21:22:07.25 ID:sd5n5eci
>>241
So, who the f**k are you?275 ：Anonymous：2013/09/07(Sat) 21:23:01.55 ID:8dvoXkc9
>>256
Plasma-chan.
It's something in Inazuma's skin.
By getting her own name and personality, the popularity of Plasma-chan spread furthermore on the web. The amount of fan illustration Plasma-chan had earned on pixiv[7] and Nico Nico Seiga.[8] in its first year is near 1000. Plasma-chan also got her own article on Nico Nico Pedia[9] and pixiv Encyclopedia[10] in the beginning of October, and started threads dedicated to her Shift-JIS arts on 2channel in January 2014.[11]
In addition, Suki_suke gave his approval to the Shift-JIS art version for his illustration in a blog post on September 16th, 2013[12], even yadkari, the sixth destroyer corps's official illustrator, noticed his character's online fame and mentioned to the pixiv Encyclopedia article on his Twitter in October, 2013[13], and Plasma-chan made a cameo appearance in a manga published on an official KanColle anthology comic released on October 25th, 2013.[14]
However, due to the fate of all Shift-JIS arts which can be used by copy-pasting by anyone, Plasma-chan Shift-JIS arts lost its momentum by a huge amount of boring posts by people lacking in the sense of humor. Because of this, Plasma-chan became to be seldom seen on the web around the middle of 2014.
Various Examples
Plasma Shift-JIS Arts
Plasma-chan
![亘亘亘 ,-// ヘ·ノ彡ラi.レー 丶/ / リ 、バ-4 ,>ト一ㄔ 《./, ,e ●1丿バ.1 -+- 、 \..\ ,--./ (.\ \、ー/ソリ, // \..\'\.,ゾ, ,e /バ ././ 3° i.レー、,、 くく>ト一ㄔ \/./ ●>、ゞぐ\:(./. /.) // \/::::ハくー /lms \:\::::\/. / リ7".-ウ t-, ベハノ// \/./\" /.、 丿 ヾ. ぐ/ / § 'y. § //,\ヾ、レ:日::::ーニー] ./--$쇠 //.! \.-_s] VNI ZA-V 从くワ /../.:::: 区ワ从1 1 从くワ从\/ ぐぐ、-z K に/>-<. .Il/-I////-、! :/ー、LVM/ /l/\::::] [:::l . I:::] \](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/867/483/4b5.jpg "Fleet Girl Shift-JIS arts (Plasma-chan ver.)")
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Illustrations
On the illustrators communities, "Plasma-chan" is used for the tag for both illustrations inspired by the Shift-JIS art and dark-side parodies for the original Inazuma. Hence, the search results include a few amount of old posts uploaded before August 2013.
Search Interest
External References
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[2] Twitter – すき (@suki_suke)
[3] Twitter – "@NASU_e @yozakura_koneko さん http://t.co/6CrAwduY7S" / Posted on 08-21-2013
[4] Twitter – ナス【TIAさ29b】 (@NASU_e)
[5] 2channel – 【DMM/角川】艦隊これくしょん～艦これ～764隻 # 422 / Posted on 08-25-2013 (Japanese)
[6] 2channel – 【DMM/角川】艦隊これくしょん～艦これ～998隻 # 275 / Posted on 09-07-2013 (Japanese)
[7] pixiv – Search results for the tag プラズマちゃん
[8] Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag ぷらずま(艦これ)
[9] Nico Nico Pedia – ぷらずま(艦これ) / Submitted on 10-06-2013 (Japanese)
[10] pixiv Encyclopedia – プラズマちゃん / Submitted on 10-11-2013 (Japanese)
[11] 2channel – 【艦隊これくしょん】ぷらずま鎮守府【艦これ】 / Posted on 01-23-2014 (Japanese)
[12] CRIE – ナスは嫌いなのです！ / 09-16-2013 (Japanese)
[13] Twitter – やどかり@東Ａ-30a: "プラズマちゃん とは【ピクシブ百科事典】 #pixpedia http://t.co/fsqwiFTBGd" / Posted on 10-19-2013 (Japanese)
[14] 艦これ速報 – 【艦これ】月末は雑誌爆撃！公式告知まとめ / 10-26-2013 (Japanese)
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Top Comments
Jonny_uppercut
Jan 22, 2015 at 07:10AM EST
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Jan 22, 2015 at 04:06PM EST