ISIS-chan


ISIS-chan is a fictional manga character that originated on the Japanese internet textboard 2channel and was created in 2015 after a series of incidents in which Japanese nationals were kidnapped and beheaded by ISIS. The character is portrayed as a moe-style girl.

Overview

ISIS-chan was originally conceived by users of 2channel as a response to the propaganda of the Islamic terrorism group Islamic [State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIS]. The character is a [moe anthropomorphism|moe anthropomorphism] of ISIS and soon became a meme across some Japanese social media.
Their intentions were to flood the web with ISIS-chan's images to make the character rank highly in Google's [search engine results], the goal being that an internet search for ISIS would come up with the moe character instead of militant propaganda sites. The campaign has become a part of the social media war that the US and the UK have already launched against ISIS.
ISIS-chan received an UTAU voice bank in December 2015.