Do you know Yahoo Japan avatar is so Japanese.

I've just found out that Japanese Yahoo avatars are so different from other countries. This is the U.S. one, Canada has the same one?, the UK, Spain, Italy maybe other Europe has that the U.S. type avatar. Maybe they have more eye colours, hair colours, skin colours.

The Yahoo Japan Avatar is here.  I write many times that the Japanese like characters, figure so much. So even yahoo Japan avatars,  we are so into making it!  Talking about eye and skin colour.  We have just a tanned skin colour, and just a few eye colours,  but there are many backgrounds, like shop, prefecture, town, weather, etc. And of course huge variation in clothes, hat, shoes, costumes, and even though we can't see them they have a wide variety of underwear. (why?) People can tell their hobby, their own interests, event by side items like music tools, sports, cooking, job, pet, etc.

There are interesting items in collaboration with business as well:  This is a real menswear shop. We can use the shop inside as a background, and each item is a real product so that you can buy from Yahoo online. This one has Gundam items - Gundam is almost a religion for Japanese :-p. This is Microsoft, you would know this series of ads from MS.

You could see some avatar items have a price. Yes people will get these items even if they have to pay for them. Why? Hmm we just love our avatar-character and want to make it pretty, funny, real. We are really into characters. So as a presentation event, Yahoo Japan has the avatar contest every month.  The winner can get a red carpet background and the ring (even though you can't see ring on avatar, it's too small).  For example, this is the winner of autumn coordinate,  this is imitating an cherub. (right one is Puffy Ami-chan, left one is Yo Oizumi)

Now my avatar is Japanese garden version.  All my friends say my avatar is just me!  Hmm if they say so. maybe so.   

Comments

[yagamisatsuki]

what's your yahoo japan ID?

what's your yahoo japan ID?

[Jen]

I wish I could read Japanese better so I could figure out how to set up my own avatar!..

[Mari]

Hi Huang
No I don't think so. You will need to get Japanese ID.

[Huang]

Wonder if my US Yahoo ID can get me a Japanese avatar ?

[Mari]

Hi Martin
Yes it would be Zen temple garden.

[Claytonain]

It almost seems like yahoo has a death-grip on Japan. Google is soooo much better, yo! But no avatars.

[Martin]

Wow, nice. Reminds me of my temple! I slept in such room, but actually it was so chilly in the winter. Japanese traditional houses are so cold! How did people manage, they must have been tough...