Netrun-mon

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Netrun-mon
Logo for the OVA
ねとらん者
Genre	Comedy
OVA
Director	Akio Watanabe
Studio	Studio Hibari
Episodes	1
Released	November 24, 2004

Netrun-mon (ねとらん者, Netrun-mon^?) is a single-episode Japanese original video animation which was created to celebrate the fifth anniversary of NetRunner magazine. NetRunner is a controversial publication since some articles promote hacking. Characters that are used to promote the magazine and are sold as merchandise have been taken directly from Hiroyuki's 2channel community. Hiroyuki himself is a character of Netrun-mon, one of the many references to Internet fandom in Japan that the anime is based upon.

[edit] Characters

The heroes of the story are two ducks, BB Runner and his younger sister Ranna. They are original characters created by NetRunner. They appear on the night before a deadline in the offices of NetRunner magazine, while the employees sleep, to complete their work for them.

Main characters
	Chiyu (also written as Tiyu, 12 years old), whose design originated from Futaba Channel, is a magical girl who wears mahjong tiles in her hair (both are dragon tiles). She is an angel and has the ability to float and teleport. She appears when the duck siblings are working in the office and she draws BB Runner into her world.

	Biscuit-tan is another character whose design originated from Futaba Channel. She is an unofficial mascot of the KFC franchise; hence her love of syrup-covered buscuits resembling those served at those restruants.

	Nin`itan is a character from a desktop accessory program (Ukagaka) called Materia, where she is called Sakura. She has a pet called Unyu.

Other characters: Shigatake's Habanero-tan appears on the toilet numerous times throughout the anime as a running gag.; Mona who is a catlike ASCII art character born on Futaba Channel.; Samurai Damashii Ken who originated from a blog site.; Junkies who are high school girls that are actually androids controlled by the antagonist, The Master.