>>4186549Who is Bikko?
Back in 2004, an illustrator called [ROMANTIC FOOL since 1995] posted illustrations of his punk-rock amputee smoker girl called "Bikko" on his website,
rf1995.com(404). He was promoting a joint comic with another artist called Rakugaki-san which they were gonna sell that February, Bikko being the main character of said comic. People liked her, so he drew more of her. The users of the Japanese imageboard 2channel were desperate to find out about Bikko and this manga. Fortunately, Yoshida On found out about this and made a character profile on his blog website where he discussed Bikko and the inspiration for her creation.
On the same blog post, he mentioned that he himself didn't own a copy of the manga, apparently selling all copies of it already. Being a self-published one-shot manga, it was a limited print. This made Kesson Shoujo into somewhat of a rare gem in the doujin market. One copy on Suruga-Ya was sold for $539!
In a few months, images of Bikko found themselves in Japanese flash drives up and down the land of the rising sun. Some made their way to the west. The western users who didn't know where she came from would adopt images her as an edgy forum profile pic. Nevertheless, she became a known name among the older online otaku community.
Here's a snapshot of ROMANTIC FOOL's old blog site when Bikko first appeared: (*∀ﾟ). Efficient web design, if I do say so myself.
By 2006, she had accumulated a following with artists who were drawing fanart on 2chan and Pixiv.
It wouldn't be long for the west to catch up to Bikko's popularity.
