Shizuka Kojo

Shizuka Kojo is a character featured in Re:DanganVirtual 2 - Absentia.

She is known as the Ultimate ASCII Artist.

Public Backstory


Chances are you’ve run into the ingenious art of hazukashi-gariyasan, which has been copied and pasted all across internet comment sections since as early as 20XX; Chances are you’ve even copied and pasted some of it yourself! But what many people don’t know is that there is a single person behind everyone’s favorite ASCII, from Le Toucan to the infamous Bob himself.

Meet Kojo Shizuka, a self-identified hikikomori and the golden girl of sukeban.xyz, a Japanese anonymous imageboard dedicated to anime and otaku culture. Inside jokes about the nonexistence of men on the site aside, the /ASCII/ board of sukeban is home to a large number of artists, but none of them neither as skilled nor as respected as Kojo herself.

Sukeban.xyz has often been described as the “tombstone of the internet”, and not without reason, either; be it it’s old-fashioned layout and CSS that invokes digital ghosts from the early 2000s, or the memetic catchprase “The Internet is Dead!” popular across all boards. Some would say it’s actually the general nihilistic worldview the userbase so proudly flaunts, but that’s neither here nor there.

Indicative of Kojo’s power level, her signature skull ASCII had been used as the site’s mascot, as well as a tag for every web torrent originating from Sukeban now for 1 year, 5 months, 1 week, 6 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes.