A downloadable desktop toy for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Shijima brings shimeji desktop pets to macOS, Linux and Windows. Throw them around! Give them cookies! Or hold them so they can't do anything. It's up to you. Be careful however, as they may multiply while you aren't looking. Use Shijima to personalize your desktop with characters of your choice, with hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of them already available on the internet.

  • Install shimeji directly from zip, rar and 7z archives.
  • No need to install Java or any other dependencies. Everything you need is included! No shortcut tricks either.
  • Spawn, despawn, install and remove shimeji without restarting Shijima or having to move around files.
  • Observe and debug shimeji with the inspector. Useful while making your own shimeji.

Shijima aims to be fully compatible with Shimeji-ee. There may be cases where Shijima behaves differently than Shimeji-ee but these will be fixed as they are discovered.

Note: The shimeji shown in the screenshots do not come bundled with the program. You should install the shimeji you want yourself. The characters displayed here do not belong to Shijima or pixelomer and are only shown to demonstrate the functionality of the program.

Some good places to find shimeji are DeviantArt, Pixiv and Twitter. A default shimeji created by Group Finity is also included with Shijima to get you started.

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(This itch.io page is for Shijima-Qt, the desktop version of Shijima. It is open source under GPLv3, and the source code is available on GitHub. If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, an iOS version is also available.)

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Shijima-Qt (Windows) 36 MB
Version v0.1.0 28 days ago
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Shijima-Qt (Linux arm64) 101 MB
Version v0.1.0 28 days ago
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Shijima-Qt (Linux x86_64) 56 MB
Version v0.1.0 28 days ago
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Shijima-Qt (macOS) 69 MB
Version v0.1.0 28 days ago

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so how does this work?

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You download it, run shijima-qt.exe, import your shimeji and spawn as many of them as you want.

You can easily find many shimeji on the internet on websites like X, DeviantArt and Pixiv. You can also look them up on Google with a query like "<character name> shimeji". They're usually distributed as archives (i.e zip/rar/7z files). You can import them directly into Shijima without extracting them yourself.

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alr thanks