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** Website/NicoNicoDouga's "Utatte mita!" Channel: [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E6%AD%8C%E3%81%84%E6%89%8B Here]].

[[http://www.pixiv.net/ Pixiv]] is a Japanese online community for artists, not unlike the Western world's Website/DeviantArt. Launched in September 2007. Pixiv aims to provide a place for artists to exhibit their illustrations and get feedback via a rating system and user comments. Works are organized in an extensive tag structure which forms the backbone of the website. However, tagging is notoriously haphazard on Pixiv (quite unlike the ImageBooru sites, where standardized tagging tends to be enforced by the moderators), so finding images often relies on trial and error (and knowing [[AlternateCharacterReading every possible way the name in question can be written in kanji, katakana and/or hiragana]], [[SerialEscalation including any possible abbreviations]], [[LongList as well as English spellings that may be in common usage in Japan]], [[MindScrew and even mixes of English and Japanese text]]). One main reason for this problem is that Pixiv only allows ten tags, including the artist's own, so artists usually are either clever (combining multiple tags into one since the search goes for all matches or making very funny, sometimes nonsensical ones) or what could be described as "[[ItsAllAboutMe narcissistic]]" (anyone can edit tags, but ''one'' tag implies the artist wants others/watchers to add them, and this is really bad practice), the latter being ''very'' prominent. Thankfully, not only are there generally agreed-on tags by the community, but the "partial tag" search option makes it easy to find all submitted works related to that tag even if you're only typing part of (for example) a character's name, since you get combined results.

Originally Pixiv was intended [[NoExportForYou exclusively for Japanese use]], requiring non-speakers to make use of various guides to register. It is now configured to allow registrations in the English, Spanish, French, Russian, Thai, and Chinese languages, as well as registering via a Website/{{Facebook}} account. Tags and image descriptions are still almost always in Japanese, but the ability to search a lot of tags in Romaji and get a redirection to their Japanese equivalents has been eventually added.

Compare Website/NicoNicoDouga (Japanese Website/YouTube).

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series: [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=fallout Here]].

* {{Yonkoma}}, or 4-panel comic: [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9E Here]]. (More like media format, but whatever.)

* FurryComic: Either "BEAST" tag ([[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8E Here]]) or "Therianthrope" tag ([[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E7%8D%A3%E4%BA%BA Here]]).
** On that note, the "Animal" tag ([[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E5%8B%95%E7%89%A9 Here]]) excludes Furries. ''Generally''.

* {{Maid}}: [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89 Here]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%81%A8%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E9%AD%94%E8%A1%93%E3%81%AE%E7%A6%81%E6%9B%B8%E7%9B%AE%E9%8C%B2 Here]].

* ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'': [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9!! Here.]]

* ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'': [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E6%A7%98%E3%81%8C%E3%81%BF%E3%81%A6%E3%82%8B Here]].

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E6%B6%BC%E5%AE%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%92%E3%81%AE%E6%86%82%E9%AC%B1 Here]].

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''/''[=HameFura=]'': [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/%E4%B9%99%E5%A5%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%81%AE%E7%A0%B4%E6%BB%85%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%82%AA%E5%BD%B9%E4%BB%A4%E5%AC%A2%E3%81%AB%E8%BB%A2%E7%94%9F%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%97%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F.../artworks?s_mode=s_tag Here]], [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/%E4%B9%99%E5%A5%B3%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%81%AE%E7%A0%B4%E6%BB%85%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B0%E3%81%97%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%82%AA%E5%BD%B9%E4%BB%A4%E5%AC%A2%E3%81%AB%E8%BB%A2%E7%94%9F%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%97%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F/artworks?s_mode=s_tag here]] and [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/%E3%81%AF%E3%82%81%E3%81%B5%E3%82%89/artworks?s_mode=s_tag here]]

** ''VideoGame/MOTHER1'': [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag&word=MOTHER1 Here]] and [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=MOTHER Here]].

* RetroGaming: [[http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?s_mode=s_tag_full&word=%E3%83%AC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0 Here]].