Shimejis are little characters (desktop buddies or mascots) who play around in your windows of Google Chrome (web browser) or Chrome OS, while you are browsing the internet. Pick up a shimeji with the mouse pointer, drag them around, and drop them where you want. They walk, crawl, and climb all over your screen and interact with elements on web. Shimeji Browser Extension.

With the new Shimeji Browser Extension (version 1.4) the little shimejis will play in your Google Chrome browser windows. You can choose a character from your favorite anime, game, or movie. The shimejis will crawl, climb, and walk over your screen and grab website elements. Visit shimejis.xyz for more information. Source: shimejis.xyz.
GerIta Shimeji w/ Download. Here’s a FAQ in deviantART by Melon-Vodka on the group #Charm-Box for those who don’t know much about this. Short Description from the FAQ: “Shimeji is a program for windows 2000 and vista, that is basically like your average desktop sitter, or that old purple monkey from the older version’s if windows, minus the whole “Rogue.

Synonyms:	desktop buddy, desktop sitter, desktop mascot, screen crawler
See also:	fanart
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A shimeji is a small, animated chibi version of a character that appears on the user's computer desktop, moves around, and is adorable.

Many fanartists create fandom-specific shimeji, which can then be downloaded and installed by other fans. A search on DeviantART for 'shimeji' in October 2011 produced nearly eight thousand results. ^[1] They are extremely popular in anime fandoms such as Hetalia or Pokémon, but are also found in other types of fandoms like Homestuck or X-Men. It is easier to make shimejis if the characters already exist in a graphic format, like in video game, comics or webcomic fandoms, but shimeji for live-action series like Sherlock (BBC) or Supernatural also exist.

Origin

The original shimeji-making Java program was created by Yuki Yamada of Group Finity. It is an open source program, so many individual fans have modified the code to create character-specific shimejis for their fandoms.

There are currently two versions of the program, Calm and Mischievous. The calm shimejis simply walk around the screen, and may perform character-specific actions. ^[2] The mischievous version multiplies itself, and pushes browser windows around on the desktop. ^[3]^[4]

The program has been translated into English. The English version is called called Shimeji-ee, for Shimeji English Enhanced. It is currently hosted here on Google Code.

Examples

BBC Sherlock shimeji by y0do stands on a browser window.

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Sherlock (BBC): Sherlock Holmes shimeji by y0do

Resources

#shimejis group on DeviantART
shimeji tutorial - how to get the file + open them by m4reep
A small Shimeji Master List on Tumblr blog Fuck Yeah Screen Crawlers

References

^DeviantART search results page for 'shimeji'.
^For instance, this shimeji of Dean Winchester by Saisoto digs holes with a shovel, rocks out, and plays with knives.
^The word 'shimeji' is Japanese for 'mushroom,' because of the way that mushrooms and shimeji characters both pop up and multiply.
^Coburn's Domain, Shimeji English Enhanced: Desktop Characters with unique behaviours. Posted Nov 14, 2010. Last accessed Oct 26, 2011/

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my shimejis and faq

more too be added in the future

~frequently asked questions~

How do I run two different shimejis at once?

you need to run the shimeji.jar file instead which looks like this

the shimeji.jar file isn’t working!

this means you haven’t extracted the files from the .zip or .rar

to extract just select all the files and click the extract to to extract to your desktop. This should help to make the shimeji run ~~you also need java~~

Ooh and you make _____________?

I kind of just do whatever character I feel like so I’m sorry, but they don’t take very long so who knows

How do you make them do a certain action

their actions are completely random, but if you are trying to make the titan trio turn titan I could right clicking on their icons and clicking the second option to make them follow your mouse around and have them stand around makes them do it.

Boyfriend To Death Shimeji

I’ll add more questions later if you all have any more

Boyfriend To Death Shimejis