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Dejiko
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| Dejiko | |
|---|---|
| Di Gi Charat character | |
 Dejiko from the Di Gi Charat Nyo! anime | |
| Created by | Koge-Donbo |
| Voiced by | Japanese: Asami Sanada (1999-2008, 2013-present) Satomi Akesaka (2008-2012) English: Jessica Gee (2005) Luci Christian (2004) Chris Simms (2006) |
Di Gi Charat (Japanese: デ・ジ・キャラット, Hepburn: De Ji Kyaratto), also known as Dejiko or Digiko, is the main protagonist of the manga and anime of the same name created by Koge-Donbo. She is a green-haired catgirl who wears a white cat-themed hat and blue maid dress. She ends her sentences with the cat sound "nyo". Despite her appearance, she has a sarcastic personality and can be violent at times, having the ability to shoot lasers from her eyes.
Concept and design
[edit]Dejiko was created first, solely to act as the company mascot of Gamers,[1] a store primarily serving the otaku customer base, and then Di Gi Charat was created later due to her popularity.[2] Her design features several popular character archetypes and traits with otaku – a maid uniform, jingle bells, and cat ears,[3] all elements that reflect the moe design trends of the late '90s and 2000s.[2][4] Her name comes from a portmanteau of "digital", "character", and "cat".[5]
In an interview with Koge-Donbo, she says that of all her characters, Dejiko is most like her.[6]
Appearances
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Dejiko has appeared in each of the Di Gi Charat anime series. In Di Gi Charat, she comes to Earth with hopes of becoming an idol singer. In Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat, she appears with a younger, chibi-fied design.
She has appeared in two Game Boy Advance games, the Di Gi Charat: Di Gi Communication series, and three computer games: Glove on Fight, Moe Moe (as selectable character) and Kakuge Yaro (as cameo in one stage). She was the featured character in the Game Boy Color game, Dejiko no Mahjong Party.
Dejiko has also appeared in anime outside of the Di Gi Charat series in cameo roles, including Galaxy Angel, Cromartie High School, Power Stone, and Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge.
From 2006 to 2015, Dejiko appeared on a billboard above the Gamers store in Akihabara, welcoming tourists.[7] In 2022, she debuted as a VTuber using a 3D model.[8]
Reception
[edit]Carl Kimlinger from Anime News Network gave Di Gi Charat Nyo!'s first DVD a review in which he describes Dejiko having a "mercenary personality and butt-scratching manners" with a "frilly-cute exterior".[9] In the prequel Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat, Carlo Santos describes Dejiko having a temper that "adds some spice to her goody-goody nature".[10]
In Networks of Desire, Frenchy Lunning says that Dejiko "exemplifies the major trend in otaku characters today", and then goes on to add that Dejiko's design is "a mocking parody that betrays a malicious response to it".[3] Patrick Galbraith describes Dejiko as the "unofficial mascot of otaku culture" in the late '90s and early 2000s in his book, Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Yadao, Jason (2009). Rough Guide to Manga. Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-4053-8423-0.
- ^ a b LaMarre, Thomas (2009). The anime machine: a media theory of animation. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5154-2.
- ^ a b Lunning, Frenchy, ed. (2007). Networks of desire. Mechademia. Minneapolis, Minn.: Univ. of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5266-2.
- ^ a b Galbraith, Patrick W. (2019). Otaku and the struggle for imagination in Japan. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-0701-2.
- ^ Algoso, Teresa A.; Condry, Ian; Frühstück, Sabine; Frühstück, Sabine; Gerteis, Christopher; Gill, Tom; Hiroko, Nagano; Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Napier, Susan, eds. (2011). Recreating Japanese Men. Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95032-0.
- ^ Chris Macdonald (April 10, 2005). "Koge Donbo". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
- ^ Ferreira, Samantha (2015-05-16). "The End of an Era: Iconic Dejiko Billboard Exits Akihabara". Anime Herald. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
- ^ Kiya, Andrew (2022-01-23). "New Dejiko 3D Model Makes YouTuber Debut". Siliconera. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
- ^ "Di Gi Charat Nyo". Anime News Network. June 12, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
- ^ "Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat". Anime News Network. June 23, 2005. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
External links
[edit]- Dejiko's Bio at Broccoli (company).
- Dejiko's Bio from the prequel Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat at Broccoli.