Mainichi
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20050913p2a00m0et014000c.html

Business.com
http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/avex_inc/

Jeremy Douglass (blog)
http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress/2005/09/16/two-character-art-cats/

H.Q. BBS at 2ch (Japanese only)
http://aa5.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/mona/1126779292/l50

Update tips
http://monseurmonar.tripod.com/saveourbelovedmonar/

Comprehend "Noma-Neko" case in 5 minutes
http://jns.ixla.jp/users/j200116605167366/5minutesE.htm

Pictures
http://0bbs.jp/nomaneko/img0_145
http://0bbs.jp/nomaneko/img0_18
http://0bbs.jp/nomaneko/img0_504

If you have anything to ask, please come our home BBS
http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/news/2729/1126769100/l10
English is OK and someone could be available.

> Hiroyuk

"Hiroyuki"

orz

>>33 Agreed, Thx.

>>28 Thank you very much I understood your comment and appreciate your suggestion. This translation form

(5minutes.) can not be done without original author, translator, and you people like lots of help. The reason why I am

not involved is, I do not have a time to do and takes long to.
original
http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/news/2729/1126335171/r1
Modified
http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/news/2729/1126335171/r58
Foe example, I modified a letter, but took 1 hour and a person that asked sent already after all. So please accept

my excuse for the making words. I prefer writing without sample or translation. Also, this replacement is like a job to

do for me. That makes me feel like taking sometime. Sorry for that.

"avex" is a logo for them, so I put all avex and "" to emphasize.
http://www.avex.co.jp/

>>59 Thank you for your comment. I took "forums".
Things are new and fresh. This was a good adventure of the words for me.

If some more line on the page can help to understand to the readers, please contact.

>>29 and others will be taken care later.

So, by this amendment, this page version could be 1.7 now. Let's cerebrate!

Sorry, Line breaking happens by multi software usage between hyper text and nomal text for the purpose of speller. orz

.. and miss spell spills.. orz

WARCRY NETWORK
This is great and most updated!
http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=108&colid=8037

Indymedia UK, this is another nice one.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324172.html

>>61-62 supplemental
FYI
water bouget is...
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=water+bouget
...not Ayumi Hamasaki's "A" desgin.

>>67-68
Getting close! GJ!

Can someone explain >>61 for me a bit?

>>71
It seems like Hiroyuki, webmaster of 2channel, took Avex' logo and turned it into a new 2channel mascot to mock them and also test legal water.

But it would be cool if somebody could point out a source where he posted that e-mail content originally.

>>70 Thx!
>>72
All in Japanese.
http://2ch.net/nomatako/
Posted to
avexonline@avexnet.or.jp

Cution:
It was not to avex group holdings.
Guess becasue avex group holdings announced at avex net HP.(JPN)
http://ecweb1.avexnet.or.jp/sa4web/050908noma.htm
Noamally, open letter sent via post, but this time he e-mailed.

>>73
Ah, thanks for the info. What does the avex group announcement say?

On a related note: I ❤ VIPPERS
http://www.nomatako.com/

>>74
See also >>61
==========
Friday, 23 September 2005
AVEX has annouced an official statement about NomaNeko issue.
We deeply apologize for causing confusion and misunderstanding on registeration of
a trademark of NomaNeko which actual registeration has been made by ZEN.
We did not explain our situation with details enough.

As we are doing it as business, we always are eager to promote certain goods
more and more following reaction of the market. This trademark, however, works only
in NomaNeko which is planned to be promoted as our charcter.
This registeretion is not to ristrict your rights to use Mona or other AAs of course.
Hereby we repeatedly emphasize, this registeration was made only on NomaNeko which namely
means that it does not ristrict any use of other AAs such as Mona, Shii etc.

Let us apologize for those who love AA characters and who have brought them up
that our business on NomaNeko was not considered well enough. We, AVEX group, are
deeply repentant.

Sigh......
Great job, folk. Nothing to say such an excuse (it does not even look like an excuse to
me, thuogh.....) Let me shout, ITTE YOSHI!!

How could a big coorporation like AVEX do such a terrible thing?
I want to ask AVEX on it for about an hour.....
Seeing this statement reminded me of AVEX that they have no ethics on business again.
Too tired to see it.
=======
Picked from -> Update tips
http://monseurmonar.tripod.com/saveourbelovedmonar/

This one tells something nice.

WARCRY NETWORK
http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=108&colid=8037

Oh, ok. Thanks!

I like this thread.

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=News tip=
Mainichi
h ttp://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20050913p2a00m0et014000c.html
Business.com
h ttp://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/avex_inc/
WARCRY NETWORK http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=108&colid=8037
Indymedia UK http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324172.html
TOPIX.NET (O-Zone News) h ttp://www.topix.net/who/o-zone
ascii art http://www.freesearcharticles.com/articles/art/ascii_art.html

=Update tips -blog=
Santos Anna (Vocal of Bon-Bon Blanco; avex artist)
http://santoslove.exblog.jp/3470562/
blogjam " Blog Archive " save mona
h ttp://www.blogjam.com/2005/09/15/save-mona/
WRT: Writer Response Theory " Blog Archive " Two Character-Art Cats (Jeremy Douglass)
http://wrt.ucr.edu/wordpress/2005/09/16/two-character-art-cats/

Save our beloved Monar! =An AA character is facing danger=
http://monseurmonar.tripod.com/saveourbelovedmonar/
Save our beloved MONAR! We do NOT need a copy!
h ttp://blog.livedoor.jp/monarmonarmonar/archives/50047604.html
Direct from the World
http://worlddirect.blogspot.com/

Amendment: Santos Anna seems not an avex artist. She seems to belong Colombia records.

Amendment
Santos Anna (Vocal of Bon-Bon Blanco)
http://santoslove.exblog.jp/3470562/
above is fun's blog, not her's

Nomatako is quite cute ^^
In any case, keep up the good work EJwriter! ^^b Thank you :)

> WRT: Writer Response Theory " Blog Archive " Two Character-Art Cats (Jeremy Douglass)

That's a pretty interesting article. The site itself is very interesting, too. Good coverage!

Japanese
http://ecweb1.avexnet.or.jp/sa4web/050930info.htm
avex announced today, no flash use in selling CDs for further madia sales and withdraw a trademark process. I want to declare a settlement of the war. Please leave a comment to anybody whom like to do it.

They keep selling Noma Neko, anyway. Guess afreaid of dead stock.

Now, this thread is in a "cease-fire" mode.

ある日のエイベックス本社での様子


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Annoyed...

What's the current situation?

* Avex won't use the infamous flashes on the CDs they are selling anymore
* Avex is not going to register Nomaneko as a trademark anymore
* Avex will keep selling Nomaneko dolls & plushies

Correct?

Seems so.
Netizens force company to abandon copycat character
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20051001p2a00m0et010000c.html

So, is this victory or not? Is it enough?

Majority says no.
We (our part, English related) have first quiet weekend since our first move, September.

Someone should write a Wikipedia article on this

It could be done as subcategory of the already existing 2ch article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2ch
I see they mention Masahiro Tashiro on there, I don't see why Nomaneko couldn't be featured.

Of course, I am too lazy to do this myself now. ヽ(●´ε｀●)ノ

> Masahiro Tashiro

Of course that should be "Masashi Tashiro"

orz

look at this:
http://fuckedgaijin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13460&sid=7a51ff093a6eae08d64f7a44853a033c

lol death threats

kopiped from >>95

> The news at noon on Japanese TV has been reporting death threats on the CEO of Avex Records (only reports in Japanese so far) ...

Omea Mona death threats
FNN-news.com, 2005/10/04 11:54
http://www.fnn-news.com/headlines/CONN00078259.html

Excite Translation:
http://tinyurl.com/b6ljl

Nifty Translation:
http://tinyurl.com/exlpz

Realmedia for low bandwidth
http://www.fnn-news.com/realvideo/sp2005100401_G2.ram

Realmedia for high bandwidth
http://www.fnn-news.com/realvideo/sp2005100401_300.ram

Girls blogs...
Mari - diary
http://smt.blogs.com/mari_diary/2005/10/avex_gave_up_no.html
news.3yen.com
http://news.3yen.com/2005-10-04/omae-monas-death-threats/

From site...
Japan Zone
http://www.japan-zone.com/news/archives/2005_10_03.shtml

le français
http://sayaka.canalblog.com/archives/2005/09/29/848162.html

Update
Otaku Defeat Powerful Company
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/otaku/otaku-defeat-powerful-company-129405.php

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20051001p2a00m0et010000c.html

VICTORY!!

sugoi sugoi

>>101
Wait, wasn't this already confirmed?
What about the sales of the Nomaneko plushies? Will Avex continue this?

Right. Not yet settled.
They said withdraw, but not yet confirmed.
Sales not stoped.

Media says so, but President was not apologised.

Seems they did a lot and and Netizens still claimed, but truth is, nothing has done.

The company will make another announcement after the weekend (means nest Tuesday). We should see it.

(´･ω･) I was in Akihabara today and there were like three 2ch-ers protesting against Nomaneko outside the train station.

There was also this -> http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5911/nomanoma5fe.jpg

Trip for the death threats has been clarified.
#antiavex

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　.|　 Picture time! http://www.wakachan.org/os/res/11769.html
　.|　 All pictures © Avex! Let's drink to inspiration!
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Translated kopipe:

This is Nomeneko! ∧＿∧　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　（ *ﾟ∀ﾟ*）

This is Monar! 　 ∧＿∧　　／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣
　　　　　　　　　　（　´∀｀）＜　Was the permission of Omaira and Netts Japan obtained? Probably not!
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COPYRIGHT 2005 NETTS JAPAN CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
COPYRIGHT 2005 OMAEMONA ALMOST RESERVERD.

<丶｀∀´> Coming up next: Original content from Korea, nida nida! kekeke

↑ Question: Who are Omaira and Netts Japan? How are they relevant in this?

Netts Japan
http://www.darkstory.jp/event/050921_evt5.asp

Guess, Netts Japan (game selling company) took monar for it, as a company. avex took noma neko to it, as a company.
"Omaira, netizens usage as omaera" means "you are" or "you guys". In this case, 2ch net users.

>>110
I am not sure I understood correctly.

Netts Japan is a company who sells games and somehow included Monar in their games?
Or did they include Monar as a mascot of sorts?
And they did not change the name of Monar to something else?
And did they claim copyright to Monar?

Lastly, has this been a recent thing or did this happen a long time ago? If it happened some time before the Avex thing, whatever did 2channelers do about it?

Hm, I wanted to ask the same questions on http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/news/2729/1126769100/l10
but I got this error:
ホスト規制中!

Dunno why, I was able to write in there earlier...

Also, I just realized that "Noma" is simply an anagram of "Mona"...

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VIPPERS are pretty awesome.
Currently, they have the 375th thread on the Nomaneko/Avex issue going on:
http://ex11.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news4vip/1128929370/

Remember that each 2ch thread only goes up to 1000 replies. That's 375,000 posts on the VIP board only about this issue. Imagine that!

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>>112
ホスト規制中 means "The host is being restricted"
means someone did something bad through the host and traffic has been restricted. Took someday to revcover.

>>111
Guess, Netts Japan did right thing for 2ch. It was a collaboration with Netts and 2ch. Press released on Sept 20th. Netts is proper, avex didi was conqueror.

>>116-117
Thanks for clearing that up!

Yesterday, avex announced and we are checking, agian.
Now, this thread is in a "cease-fire" mode, again.

It seems we won.

avex;
Stopped license;pict (9/30)
Apologized (10/14)
Announced license charge withdrawal (10/14)
Stopped selling "Noma Neko" goods at their site (10/14)

*Taito sells goods and license charge will be taken as their profit. Someone complains that amount must go to someshere for disaster healing.

Now, avex, there is no reason to be targeted.

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>>120
TOTAL VICTORY!!

I don't see an English story yet on Google News.

We still have to come up with a Wikipedia entry for this...

Okay, okay, me first then.

Info that would be needed (that I can think of from the top of my head):

When was the flash first linked from 2channel?

When did Avex first sell the OZONE CD with the flash on it?

When exactly did Avex come up with "Nomaneko"?

I guess most of these questions can be fetched from the Japanese Wikipedia entry for "Nomaneko"...

I'll just link it for now:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BE%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B3

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Somebody wrote a little bit about this in the MONA article on Wikipedia, maybe it can be incorporated into the 2channel article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_%28ASCII_art%29

Outsider confirmed "Nomaneko" license withdrawal was dated Oct. 3rd and accepted by officails on the same date.
(Japanese)
http://image.blog.livedoor.jp/protectmona/imgs/e/a/ea075f55.jpg

"SOREGA VIP QUALITY"

It was lounge@2ch.net work.