Giko Cat

Giko (ギコ), also known as Giko Neko (ギコ猫, meaning Giko cat) is an internet character-based fictionnal cat drawn with Shift-JIS art[1] a Japanese equivalent of our ASCII art. He is frequently posted saying "Itteyoshi", which is a pun: when written "Itte Yoshi (行ってよし, itte yoshi?)" it means "you may go" or "please go away", and this is the meaning most Japanese speakers would think of when they hear it, but when written with different kanji Itte Yoshi (逝ってよし, itte yoshi?) it means "you may die" or "please die". Giko's face is "drawn" with "handakuten"[] for eyes, and the Cyrillic letter De for a mouth. A semicolon on one side is frequently added as a sweat drop. […] Giko is characterized as being somewhat cynical and misanthropic.