Gmail’s Japan-Themed… er… Themes
Written by Jeshii on 2008.11.25 – 16:57 -
If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed the recent ability to add themes! I was all over it as a loyal Gmailian. I first went to the Terminal one for some old skool text mail fun, but then I noticed “Ninja” and “Tea House.” Yes!
Ninja is a theme where there are little ninja guys sticking out everywhere. The stars are of course 手裏剣 (shuriken, aka “Ninja Stars”) and there are little things going on at the bottom between a ninja and a geisha. Sometimes they are courting each other, and other times they are quarreling. The background message is もしもし (moshimoshi), which is what people say for hello over the phone. Not exactly sure how that relates to ninjas or even Gmail, but it is interesting.
The tea house theme features an asian looking house and garden where various cute animals have tea with each other. It looks like the fox is the proprietor of the tea house and it seems to be tied to the season or time of day or something. Not quite sure. It is very Animal Crossing/SnoogleZoo. If you are into either of those, you’ll probably like it.
I’m personally partial to the ninja one since the cartoons at the bottom of messages are just so awesome and slightly less girly than the whole tea house one. Apparently these Japan-related ones were designed in house at Google, so I don’t have the name of the designers/artists. Too bad, I’d love to see more by them!
There is another vaguely Japanese one called Cherry Blossom. It was designed by Vania Sofandi. But it is hard to really call it Japan-themed for sure.
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By Veronica on Nov 25, 2008 | Reply
Oh, you know I’ve got the teahouse theme with the little fox as my gmail theme ^_^
By Jeshii on Nov 25, 2008 | Reply
lol, Yayoi has that one too. XD