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# Japanese hashtag reimagines videogame covers using adorable clip-art
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/japanese-hashtag-reimagines-game-covers-using-adorable-clip-art/
- Published: 2016-03-10T14:00:03.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-10T21:58:54.000Z
- Description: #いらすとやさんでゲームパッケージを再現する, or as Google Translate tells me, “#To reproduce the game package in Irasutoya’s,” is a hashtag currently making its way around Japanese Twitter. It’s dedicated to taking videogame covers and recreating them with royalty free clip-art, specifically from the Japanese illustrati
- Author: Michelle Ehrhardt
- Tags: News, Art, call of duty, cover art, dark souls, hello kitty, Just Cause, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Twitter, Uncharted, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

[#**いらすとやさんでゲームパッケージを再現する**](https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E3%81%84%E3%82%89%E3%81%99%E3%81%A8%E3%82%84%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%92%E5%86%8D%E7%8F%BE%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B?src=hash&ref=killscreen.com), or as Google Translate tells me, “#To reproduce the game package in Irasutoya’s,” is a hashtag currently making its way around Japanese Twitter. It’s dedicated to taking videogame covers and recreating them with royalty free clip-art, specifically from the Japanese illustration blog Irasutoya. With its soft pastel colors and cute, cartoonish proportions, Irasutoya’s art challenges the hashtag’s participants to take titles such as *Dark Souls* (2011) and look at them through the candy-colored lens of *Hello Kitty*.

![sillydarksouls](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sillydarksouls.jpg)

While the idea of recreating images from games and movies using clip art isn’t entirely new—there’s already [subreddits](https://www.reddit.com/r/clipcovers?ref=killscreen.com) and [Tumblrs](http://clipartcovers.tumblr.com/?ref=killscreen.com) dedicated to doing so—the more lighthearted and distinctly Japanese art found here puts a new angle on the idea. Take this parody of the seriousness often seen in covers from games like *Call of Duty* that works by making their protagonists look like [small boys playing dress-up](https://twitter.com/kitagaku%5F12/status/707546189349019652?ref=killscreen.com) instead of stone-faced soldiers. Similarly, masculine power fantasies like *Metal Gear Solid*’s Big Boss and *Just Cause*’s Rico Rodriguez instead become a [frowning man wearing a medical eyepatch](https://twitter.com/brandonnn/status/707267886830596096?ref=killscreen.com) and a [small helmeted boy](https://twitter.com/Tamai%5Fsalt96/status/707452405328252930?ref=killscreen.com) riding a parachute, respectively.

parodying the seriousness of covers from games

I think my favorite, however, might be the [Irasutoya version](https://twitter.com/Seo%5Ft/status/707054802723676160?ref=killscreen.com) of the *Uncharted 3* (2011) cover, which changes Nathan Drake from a stoic man in a bandolier and a flowing scarf to a normal dude in a green polo, very understandably confused at why the plane on fire in the distance is smiling at him. Second prize would go to [this version](https://twitter.com/brandonnn/status/707267886830596096?ref=killscreen.com) of *Banjo-Kazooie* starring an aardvark and, of course, an archeopteryx.

![sillycod](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/sillycod.png)

The soft pastels and super-deformed proportions found here have been seen before in titles like *[Slam City Oracles](https://killscreen.com/previously/playlist/slam-city-oracles/?ref=killscreen.com)* and even Nintendo’s *Kirby* series, but seeing them juxtaposed with larger, more dramatic games typically focused around war or armed conflict is a hoot. For how cool Nathan Drake is supposed to be, I think I may actually relate to bewildered green polo man just a bit more.