Abandoned Depot

Apologies for not informing at the right timing.
Last Weekend, HobbyLink Japan has released Opera-tan figure at The Tokyo Wonder Festival!
You can see the appearance and would admire the incredible craftsmanship.

http://hlj.co.jp/operatan-news
http://hlj.co.jp/product/HLJ00029
http://www.geocities.jp/yozakura9933/operatan.html
http://gigazine.net/news/20110207_opera_wf2011_w/

English:
http://www.hlj.com/product/hlj00029

What do you think about her? Too adult and sexy?
I am very glad to see the three-dimensional figure based on my illustrations.
I really appreciate it.
Thank for HLJ, Modeller T, Aki-seisakusyo and yozakura

Merry Christmas! It's been a long long time.

A half year before, I got a message from Lawrence Eng who is currently an employee of Opera Software. He is also known as a contributor of the creation of Opera-tan. He personally requested me to draw a new image of Opera-tan for promotion of Opera 10. Yes, here it is.

I am very sorry that I couldn't make it in time. I was so busy -- I had to finish some jobs in a foreign country at that time, I came back Japan, I suffered from HDD crash and lost some image data that I was drawing, I had to set up all of my softwares to my empty computer, I decided to get married with one of my girl friend (un)fortunately, I had to find new job, and so on

I asked Lawrence to give me some ideas. "I guess the new things about Opera 10 are Unite (a web server build into the browser; maybe a 'server' like a maid?), Opera Turbo (for really fast browsing, even with poor connections), a brand new skin, customizable speed dial, auto-update, etc. Unite, Turbo, and the new skin are probably the biggest new things so far." he said. I gave Opera-tan a new costume which is similar to maid costume in some aspects. I guess Lawrence is more familiar with Japanese Otaku culture than me.

Anyway, here is a new image of Opera-tan. I also prepared a big jpeg (1.2MB) and a GIMP format (9.1MB) images as materials for your needs. You can download and use them freely. Enjoy them and your happy holidays!!

Added :I made a download banner. Here are 150x60 PNG image , 300x120 PNGimage and original GIMP image (750x300 1.2MB)

Last Saturday, I joined in a off-line meeting for Opera users. The meeting was held in Nagoya, Japan. I am familiar with the place (I spent my school days there) but I was a little nervous. This was the first time for me to attend this kind of meeting and nobody whom I had met before was there. In the result, there was nothing to worry about.

I could see a lot of opera users whom I know well on the web and I always wanted to see. Although I stopped my web activities three years ago except for this space (my opera), old users remembered me and even new people, who didn't know my old site, knew me as an author of Opera-tan.

I really enjoyed the program such as self-introductions, presentations, discussion for about customizing Opera and video letter from Jon von Tetzchner.

After the first session which was held in a conference room, we shifted more casual venue. We ate a lot of tebasaki (wings of chicken cooked in a local method) and took a bath in a spa together. During that, we enjoyed talking about Opera; for instance, why did Opera 9.5 become immature product? :ｰP

The meeting was finished on the Sunday. I said good-by to my new friends in the morning at the front of the spa. Then I went another tour and came back home yesterday.

I would like to say thank you to all the participants of the meeting and I am looking forward to join next meeting.