In today’s fast-paced world, Anime stickers or emojis have etched their mark by allowing messages to be sent quickly and with much more fun. With a wide variety of these electronic stickers, it has come to a point where there is no need to text. Using anime stickers while posting stories on Instagram and Facebook is all the rage these days. Anime stickers are like social media superstars. We can’t even think of texting without an emoji. Well, for some, emoji are very important, something very essential to ‘what’s-her-name’. We can also say that we are living an “EMOJICAN ERA”.
We use emoji to express emotion to our text. For example, if someone texts us “Are you okay?” we prefer to use a “thumbs up or heart emoji” instead of sending a text message. Emoji are of various types. The faces are the most popular. After that comes the heart emoji. There are even food emojis! Manga drawings also inspired the designers of anime stickers. Today, emoji-themed games and puzzles are very popular among children and teenagers.
The word emoji means “image character”. It was Shigetaka Kurita who came up with the idea for the emoji. He worked for the DoCoMo company. He was inspired by weather forecast symbols, manga drawings, and Chinese characters. DoCoMo already had a heart tab designed for their pagers. Then the next step was to create emoji. Kurita designed about 180 emojis at first based on his observations of people’s expressions. When they saw that, they eventually decided to outsource the creation of emojis to larger companies like Panasonic, but later decided that they would design them themselves.
What are the stickers?
Large-scale printing of stickers is mainly seen and the ones that are in fashion are those of anime characters. Icons are commonly used during chats or instant messaging services. People prefer to send anime stickers because they feel that it conveys a lot of emotions and the right message when they are not sitting face to face. Most of the stickers are available in groups or sets where they can be downloaded and used for free. There are some premium packages where they charge a few dollars. These are called premium as they pertain to specific brands, items, or even limited editions.
There are also vinyl anime stickers that can be purchased to decorate your daily possessions and surroundings, including walls, bumpers, cars, doors, motorcycles, toys, desks, and more. Each of us has our emotions or messages to convey and this can be conveyed to the outside world through these anime stickers.
