Editing Shift JIS art (section)

== In Japanese media ==

The [[Shift JIS]] character set is a [[Japanese Industrial Standards]] (JIS) superset of [[JIS X 0201]] (in turn almost a superset of [[ASCII]]) intended for Japanese usage. Unlike Western [[ASCII art]], which is generally designed to be viewed with a [[monospaced font]], Shift_JIS art is designed around the proportional-width [[Japanese gothic typeface|MS PGothic]] font supplied with [[Microsoft Windows]], which is the default font for web sites in Japanese versions of Windows.  This dependency has led to the development of the free [[Mona Font]], in which each character is the same width as its counterpart in MS PGothic. This is useful on operating systems lacking the PGothic font, such as [[Linux]].

Within the Japanese community, Shift_JIS art is sometimes abbreviated as ''SJIS art'', but is most commonly referred to as "'''AA'''" meaning ASCII art, although it rarely restricts itself to the 95 printable characters within the ASCII standard. As with [[ANSI art]], SJIS art is sometimes used for animation. However, due to technical advances, SJIS art also appears in the form of [[Adobe Flash]] files and animated [[GIF]]s.

The Japanese movie and television show, {{nihongo|''[[Densha Otoko]]''|電車男}}, frequently included Shift_JIS art, both during screen transitions and within the story itself.  One of the recurring characters in the TV series was a Shift_JIS artist who would often draw full-screen Shift_JIS works of art as a way of expressing his support and encouraging the lead character. When they got engaged, posts began flowing in congratulating the new couple, and extravagant Shift JIS art pictures were posted.

The ''[[Touhou Project]]'' meme "Yukkuri shiteitte ne!!!" traces back to Shift JIS art of Reimu Hakurei's outfit in Curiosities of Lotus Asia that was posted to 2channel's "Touhou Series General Thread" on December 5, 2003. The artwork was later edited and rendered to a head, which someone increased the size of on April 18, 2004, but it wasn't really noticed until someone started posting the artwork in the Japanese BBS rental board Shitaraba's Immaterial and Missing Power threads on May 28, 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=東方萃夢想 攻略・雑談スレ45 |url=http://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read_archive.cgi/computer/6306/1180340546/#690}}</ref> Of course, the head was made fun of, but a few weeks later, users started making edits or variations of the text-based head.<ref>{{Cite web |title=東方萃夢想 攻略・雑談スレ48 |url=http://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read_archive.cgi/computer/6306/1181816058/}}</ref> It's known what the Marisa head is based on, but it's unclear when the two Shift JIS art was combined or where the "Yukkuri shiteitte ne!!!" phrase was appended to the heads.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Yukkuri shiteitte ne! - Touhou Wiki |date=2 December 2008 |publisher=ITmedia |url=https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yukkuri_shiteitte_ne!}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|sure=y|reason=Self-published source|date=April 2024}}