Resources

Websites

These are websites that contain content about OS-tans or similar concepts:

• Pixiv Encyclopedia section on OS-tans - A section dedicated to OS-tans on Pixiv Encyclopedia.
• Internet Archive's section on OS-tans - Internet Archive's collection of content related to OS-tans.
• Magical Toko-Chan homepage - Homepage for Magical Toko-Chan in Japanese, known as BSD-tan.
• Solaris-Chan homepage - Homepage for Solaris-Chan, an OS-tan representing Solaris.
• Archived version of Wintel Miku’s homepage (Project Direct Girl) - An archived version of Wintel Miku’s homepage, an OS-tan from 1999 representing Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, and Windows 98.
• Homepage for Merlin-chan - Homepage for Merlin-chan, an OS/2 OS-tan from the 2000s.
• Wikipedia page on OS-tan - Wikipedia page that provides a comprehensive overview of the OS-tan meme, its history, and its impact. It also includes information about commercial products based on OS-tan characters.
• TV Tropes page on OS-tan - Page on TV Tropes discusses the OS-tan meme and tropes it has.

Wikis

Before using these wikis it should be important to note that no matter what wiki you use, none will ever be 100 right about info on OS-tans. Why? While they may use sources even those sources address that the articles are not the official settings, nor are they valid just because they were written. This applies to all the wikis that are known.

We will most likely never see the original thread where ME-tan was shown for the first time, therefore we will never really know what was intended of her and whenever the info about her on other wikis is 100 correct. This same can be applied to most of the other characters, if not all of them. The wikis are still valuable, but people shouldn't assume they're 100% accurate as sources and the Futaba characters can be compared to characters from other series where a lot is left to interpretation such as Touhuu or Vocaloid.

• Futaba★Secondary Backstage (2jiwiki) - A wiki dedicated to summarising the characters and knowledge of Futaba Channel. Not directly linked due to the wiki not wanting to be linked back to.
• OS-tans.moe - A wiki recommended only for more up-to-date information on the Futaba and Madobe OS-tans.
• OS-Tan Collections - Another wiki recommended only for reading up on fan characters and the gallery.

Other Stuff

Other miscellaneous content:

• The Mega folder - A Mega folder containing various OS-tan related items such as models and MUGEN files.
• How to Access the Hidden Futaba Japanese Image Sites - A quick guide put together about accessing some of the hidden image sites that can only be accessed via a Japanese IP.

Yo! This is now the official mbin magazine thread for OS gijinkas and similar tech gijinkas on the fediverse. This is actually a rework of the older kbin which was called “OS-tans”, but I noticed kbin essentially died and decided to look for an alternative, leading to mbin.

Since I’m the same person who owns the r/OStan subreddit and the old kbin magazine I’ll most likely just cross post older posts from there for now until I think of something original. I want to have this as the official fediverse alternative to the OS-tan subreddit at least ^^;;.

I need to fix some stuff and add some things later so oops