| “ | What is a shimeji? Shimejis are cute little desktop pets that wander around your screen and play with your windows. They walk, crawl, climb and interact with web pages in Google Chrome when you have installed the Shimeji Browser Extension. Shimejis come with unique behavior and actions created by artists and fans from the shimeji community. You can pick up a shimeji with your mouse pointer, and drag them around with your cursor. The mascots play on many sites including Google, YouTube, Facebook, DeviantArt, and MyAnimeList. |
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| ~ The official Shimeji website's description of Shimejis. |
Summary[]
Shimejis are desktop pets that were first created for use on personal computers by Jarno Le Conté in 2015. Shimeji can be installed as a Google Chrome browser extension on the official Shimeji webpage, linked here.
Shimejis can perform a variety of behaviors, like walking, crawling, climbing, and interacting with webpages. However, Shimeji's main draw is their fact that they are very easy to modify, allowing artists to easily create their own Shimejis, which can be hosted on the official Shimeji webpage. Thanks to their accessibility, Shimejis can take many different forms, usually those of fictional characters from many different types of media. There is even an official Shimeji editor for creating Shimejis, which is hosted on the official webpage.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: {{10-C}
Name: Shimeji (Varies individually)
Origin: The Real World
Gender: Varies
Age: Varies individually, 10 generally (Shimeji was created in 2015, making them this old as of 2025.)
Classification: Desktop pets
Powers and Abilities:
- Inorganic Physiology (Type 2)
- Small Size (Type 9)
- Duplication (Shimejis are capable of splitting into two versions of themselves, which they can seemingly repeat endlessly.)
- Surface Scaling (Shimejis can climb on the borders of a user's computer screen, whether they be vertical of horizontal.)
- Limited Data Manipulation (Shimejis can move around and throw away computer windows if they aren't full screened.)
Attack Potency: Below Average Human level (Shimejis are programs made out of code, and they are incapable of interacting with the real world as we know it. They are, however, capable of interacting with your desktop by throwing computer windows.)
Speed: Unknown travel speed, combat speed, and reactions (Shimejis only move at a walking gait, and usually cannot respond to outside stimuli.)
Lifting Strength: Unknown (Shimejis can lift and throw around computer windows without any effort.)
Striking Strength: Below Average Human level
Durability: Below Average Human level (Shimejis can instantly recover from being thrown around by the user's mouse cursor and falling from the top of the user's computer screen.)
Stamina: Infinite (As computer programs, Shimejis do not suffer from fatigue, and can run for as long as the computer can.)
Range: Unknown
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: Instinctive (Shimejis can only follow rather simple programming, that being walk around, climb walls, sit on the floor, idle, and maybe throw around open tabs. They are mostly incapable of responding to outside stimuli, with the exception of being thrown around by a person's cursor.)
Standard Tactics: Shimejis do not fight, it's not in their programming. Instead, they simply follow pre-programmed behavior patterns, which can make them walk around, climb on the screen, sit down, duplicate, or throw a window.
Weaknesses: Shimejis are incapable of conscious thought due to being simple computer programs, and because of that they are basically unable to fight.