# Akita Neru Akita Neru is a fan-made Vocaloid character born from 2channel troll culture in late 2007, when users spamming 'I'm tired' (飽きた, akita) and 'going to sleep' (寝る, neru) on Hatsune Miku threads were turned into an anthropomorphized yellow-haired girl by illustrator Smith Hioka. Posted on November 1st, 2007, she went from a jab at suspected paid provocateurs to one of the first licensed fan-made Vocaloid derivatives, carving the official pathway every unofficial Vocaloid character followed afterward. ## Origin The character traces to the October 2007 anti-Miku controversy, when Japanese users noticed negative media coverage of Hatsune Miku coinciding with suspiciously coordinated troll posts on 2channel's /newsplus/ board[2]. Those posts repeated phrases like 'I'm tired' (飽きた, akita) and 'going to sleep' (寝る, neru) at intervals of a few seconds[3]. On October 20th, 2007, a trap link capturing visitor IPs exposed one of the posters as working for an online reputation-management firm, after which the trolling stopped the same day[5]. Illustrator Smith Hioka (スミス・ヒオカ) posted the first Akita Neru drawing, titled 'Kakikoloid: Akita Neru' (translated from Japanese), to the same /newsplus/ board on November 1st, 2007[4]. Her name splices together the trolls' most-repeated lines, and the 'DEN2' tattoo on her arm nodded at Dentsu, the advertising conglomerate under suspicion during the controversy[6]. - **Platform:** 2channel (origin) / Nico Nico Douga and Pixiv (viral spread) - **Creator:** Smith Hioka (スミス・ヒオカ) - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview The character design folds her backstory into her look. Akita Neru wears a 'DEN2' tattoo on her left arm, a jab at Dentsu, the Japanese advertising giant that 2channel users suspected of running the anti-Miku pressure campaign[6]. She also carries a flip phone, since the exposed troll IP traced to a mobile-browser proxy service, and her palette intentionally mirrors Hatsune Miku's because she's defined under license as a Miku derivative[1]. Fans turned the trolls' behavior into her personality. Because the original posters kept returning to the thread while claiming they were leaving, Akita Neru got coded as a textbook tsundere, and she still gets cited as the Vocaloid fandom's tsundere archetype alongside her nickname 'BOUKALOID' (防火ロイド, 'flame-prevention-loid')[5]. She also appears often with Yowane Haku, another Miku-adjacent fan character born in the same era. ## How to Use Akita Neru is typically drawn as a yellow-themed Hatsune Miku counterpart with a side ponytail, a flip phone, and a tsundere attitude. Common fan conventions pair her with Yowane Haku, or place her in duet art with Kagamine Rin and Len, whose yellow color coding matches hers. Under the Piapro Character License, creators can upload Akita Neru songs, art and videos to CFM's Piapro platform the same way they would official Vocaloids[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Akita Neru? Akita Neru is a fan-made Vocaloid character designed as a gijinka of 2channel trolls who vandalized Hatsune Miku threads in October 2007[5]. ### Where did Akita Neru come from? Illustrator Smith Hioka first posted her to 2channel's /newsplus/ board on November 1st, 2007, after a trap link exposed suspected paid trolls targeting Hatsune Miku[4]. ### What does Akita Neru mean? Her name combines 'akita' (飽きた, 'I'm tired') and 'neru' (寝る, 'going to sleep'), the two phrases the trolls spammed repeatedly on the Miku threads[5]. ### How do you use Akita Neru? She appears in fan art, music videos, manga and games as a Hatsune Miku derivative, and CFM allows fans to upload Neru creations to Piapro under the Piapro Character License[1]. ### Is Akita Neru still popular? By mid-2013 she already had around 4,000 Nico Nico Douga videos and 68,500 YouTube results, and she still appears in the Hatsune Miku Project DIVA series and official Good Smile Company merchandise lines[7]. ## References 1. [http://akita-neru.at.webry.info/200804/article_5.html]() 2. [http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0710/15/news008.html]() 3. [http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0710/18/news040.html]() 4. [http://unkar.org/r/newsplus/1193831999/#700]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/akita-neru]() 6. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentsu]() 7. [http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/%E4%BA%9E%E5%8C%97%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB?ref=tagconcerned]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/akita-neru Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library