Shijima - Shimeji for Android

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About this app

Shijima brings the original shimeji desktop pet experience to your Android device. Throw them around! Pet them! Make them really small or really big, or hold them so they can't run away. It's up to you. Import your favorite anime and video game characters and use them however you want. (Or bring your own characters!*)

Shijima is compatible with most Shimeji-ee desktop pets. With Shijima, you can install one (or many!) of the hundreds of shimeji desktop mascots already available on the internet and use them on your device. Use Shijima to make your home screen and/or apps more fun and personalized with the characters of your choice. Shijima is also highly configurable, allowing you to change your characters' sizes, configure their framerates and enable/disable certain interactions like throwing, hotspots, multiplication and sound effects.

If you're new to shimeji, don't worry! A selection of high-quality shimeji are provided in the Featured tab to get you started**. Of course, you don't have to use these featured shimeji; you can just import your own instead.

You can spawn up to 50 shimeji at once using Shijima. However, spawning too many shimeji at once may cause Shijima to slow down or freeze depending on your device's capabilities. Therefore, the recommended on-screen shimeji limit is 6. This can also be configured within the app settings.

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Regarding the Use of Accessibility Permissions

Shijima has an optional "App Filter" feature that allows shimeji to be automatically shown or hidden depending on the app you're currently using. This feature requires accessibility permissions to function. If you enable this permission, Shijima will use it to retrieve the names of the apps you are using on your device and show/hide shimeji accordingly. No other information will ever be collected. This information will only be processed on your device. It will never be transmitted outside of your device or shared with any party.

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*: Shijima does not contain a shimeji creator. To import your own characters into Shijima, create and test your shimeji with Shimeji-ee first, then import it as a zip file.

**: The shimeji shown in the Featured tab are provided as a suggestion only. Shijima does not claim ownership of these characters. Shijima does not bundle any of the shimeji shown in this tab. Many of these shimeji can be installed directly without leaving the app, while some of them may require downloading the shimeji manually using a web browser.

Screenshot credits: Eevee shimeji by Cachomon, Ena shimeji by A-Thingy, GIR shimeji by BillSquid, Hatsune Miku shimeji by Canary Yellow, Loop Critter shimeji by tawnysoup, MD Shimeji by PolarSummit, Tenna shimeji by erotophh, OMORI shimeji by exjelly, Ruby shimeji by JunnBoi, Sans shimeji by v0idless, Shijima Tsukishima shimeji by exmuh, Sonic shimeji by Myly14, Vaggie shimeji by bambitek.

(The use of Cachomon's shimeji in screenshots and other material related to Shijima was approved by Cachomon.)

Ratings and reviews

Tried a bunch of shimeji apps and they were all horrible. Full of ads, limited characters, and the characters disappeared after an hour or two. None of them had all the characters I wanted. Shijima is great, no ads, simple program, and freedom to upload whichever shimeji you like. Yes, you have to get your own so its a little more work but you can get all the ones on the other apps for free on shimeji shop, and now I have every character I wanted and they've not disappeared all day. Love it, ty!

really good app compared to the other ones. completely free and you can port most characters without issue. my little nitpicks so far would be that characters tend to get cut off of my screen (dont know if thats a wide screen problem or not), and that i can't change character sizes individually. other than that, 👍 Edit: The Shimejis can interact. oh my god. I just saw my Kris and Susie high five each other. omg this app is awesome.

I love it but it's a 4 star because of 2 things. 1. they get stuck in a corner and bug out and have to respawn them and 2. there's no built in shimiji creator like other apps. all in all I love it as it has in a sense no limit on how many can be on screen and how some characters can interact with each other other than the basic interactions of just sitting next to each other. (I'm using the Alan Becker's stick figures)

What’s new

- Added translations for Turkish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.