Dreamcasko (ドリームキャス子, a portmanteau of Dreamcast and the Japanese word for Girl) is fairly well known in Japan among Dreamcast otaku, but for whatever reason is entirely undocumented anywhere on the English-speaking web. I’ve found myself researching her a bit over the years so I decided to put the info somewhere and thought it might as well be SB :- )
Dreamcasko was created by Takahiro Yoshimatsu for his weekly セガのゲームは世界いちぃぃぃ! (Sega Games Are The Best In The World!) comic strip which started in late 1998 in Sega Saturn Magazine then ended around 2007 in Dreamcast Magazine (Dorimaga by then). All the strips were collected in 3 manga volumes. Dreamcasko shows up at the launch of the Dreamcast and hangs out with the other Sega consoles (as well as Sister Naomi, based on the Naomi arcade hardware) in their crappy apartment somewhere around the poverty line. The comics usually touch on whatever gaming news is happening that week/month and have a very self-deprecating tone reflecting Sega’s fortunes at the time. Whenever the author appears in one of the strips, he is usually teased or tortured by the Sega consoles, which I guess is how a lot of Japanese Sega fans felt at the time. The PS1 and N64 show up occasionally as the antagonists and the Xbox, Gamecube and PS2 show up in later strips as well. Dreamcasko became somewhat of an unofficial mascot for the console, though apparently Sega higher-ups weren’t happy that this rowdy, violent delinquent was being associated with their console. Nevertheless, they were popular enough to have served cameos in a number of video games over the years.
Heck yeah. I used to have some but I got rid of them a while back because they were taking up too much room. I wanna collect them again though because Dorimaga also had a bunch of OG Xbox stuff like interviews and advertisements that still haven’t been posted anywhere online.
For Dreamcast’s 20th anniversary I thought I’d just update this thread to inform you all that the COWARDS at Sega replaced the Dreamcasko and friends capsule toys with generic console replacements for the HD re-release.
