<p>That guy is apparently from the Wii game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoona" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Opoona</a> where you play a character called "Opoona" that's short and has a number of facial expressions (and one of them has a ball over their head), though they don't always have such a sour look on their faces.</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/JaUzV.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/d6amy.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>Some ascii art of Opoona with the Yaruo face that Krazer mentioned:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/NE1mi.gif" alt="enter image description here"></p>

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2013-08-21T07:52:03.053Z
2013-08-21T07:52:03.053Z
Jon Lin
<p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WataMote_~No_Matter_How_I_Look_at_It,_It%E2%80%99s_You_Guys&#39;_Fault_I%E2%80%99m_Not_Popular!~" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>WataMote</em></a>, Tomoko's phone appears to have a little figure on the top of it. It looks like a doll, with a kitty-face smile and an orange coat and antenna. In the ED sequence, it appears again, in both orange and blue.</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/AOV1B.png" alt="Tomoko&#39;s phone">
<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/VC09b.png" alt="The phone in the ED sequence"></p>

<p>Is this doll a reference to another series or Japanese pop culture? What does it mean?</p>

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2013-07-20T19:45:18.993Z
It looks like a parody of Yaruo (やる夫), a popular ASCII Art meme character from the Japanese 2ch forum.
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What is the little doll on top of Tomoko's phone?
# What is the little doll on top of Tomoko's phone?
Posted by: username_0 on 2013-07-20
In [*WataMote*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WataMote_~No_Matter_How_I_Look_at_It,_It%E2%80%99s_You_Guys'_Fault_I%E2%80%99m_Not_Popular!~), Tomoko's phone appears to have a little figure on the top of it. It looks like a doll, with a kitty-face smile and an orange coat and antenna. In the ED sequence, it appears again, in both orange and blue.

![Tomoko's phone](https://i.sstatic.net/AOV1B.png)
![The phone in the ED sequence](https://i.sstatic.net/VC09b.png)

Is this doll a reference to another series or Japanese pop culture? What does it mean?
**Tags:** watamote
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It looks like a parody of Yaruo (やる夫), a popular ASCII Art meme character from the Japanese 2ch forum.  
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## 1 answers
### Answer by username_2 on 2013-08-21. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
That guy is apparently from the Wii game [Opoona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opoona) where you play a character called "Opoona" that's short and has a number of facial expressions (and one of them has a ball over their head), though they don't always have such a sour look on their faces.

![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/JaUzV.jpg)

![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/d6amy.png)

Some ascii art of Opoona with the Yaruo face that Krazer mentioned:

![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/NE1mi.gif)
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