The artist's “SAZAE bot” was honoured with an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2016, category Digital Communities.
*SAZAE bot* is a Twitter bot, mainly active on Twitter in Japan. It is a parody-bot avatar of the most famous Japanese manga character, ***Sazae-san* **(サザエさん), written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. This avatar is known as an entertainment bot, mainly due to its jokes.
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