1-san

The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. The correct title is >>1-san.

>>1-san (>>1さん) is a common Shift_JIS art character on the popular Japanese BBS 2ch, usually standing in for the user who started a given thread. He is commonly characterized as a clueless newbie who rarely thinks through his posts and can't deal with the consequences of his actions.

On 2ch and related BBSes, two greater than signs followed by a number is automatically linked to another post in the same thread: >>1 links to the first post, >>2 to the second, and so on. As many 2ch users post anonymously (as "Toshiaki"), these links are also used as shorthand to refer to the persons behind the linked posts. Hence the name ">>1-san", -san being the most common honorific for personal names.

>>1-san is distinguished by a spiky hairdo, formed by a row of less than and greater than signs. When unhappy, his face is rendered with the Cyrillic character De for an open, frowning mouth and, like Mona, an apostrophe and grave accent for eyes. When happy, his face is identical to Morara, with dots for eyes and a universal quantifier symbol (an upside-down capital A) for a mouth.

He is frequently threatened and beaten by other 2ch Shift_JIS art characters such as Kukkuru in retaliation for posting threads that other users find ridiculous or objectionable. Hattoushin Mona was originally created to threaten >>1-san with murder, but since has been reinvented as a homosexual lusting after him—attention that >>1-san does not appreciate.