About
Paras Chiyo referrers to a specific crossover between the Pokemon Paras and Chiyo Sakura from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun due to the visual similarities between the two.
Origin
On August 17th, 2014, Twitter user @oshirukouji uploaded an image with both Paras and Chiyo Sakura. The acoompany text roughly translates to “I cannot forgive otaku who calls Sakura Chiyo-chan a paras”
佐倉千代ちゃんの事をパラスって言ったヲタク絶対に許せねぇ pic.twitter.com/1PwssyQlsr
— おしるこうじ (@oshirukouji) August 17, 2014
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On September 8th 2014 Pixiv user 車 uploaded an image with Chiyo Sakura’s disembodied head, with her ribbons replaced with mushrooms like that of a Paras[2]. Her hair was drawn in a way to form the legs of a Paras, in a similar way Megurine Luka’s hair was drawn to,look like tentacles with Tako Luka. was drawn with this image marks the oldest example of the meme on Pixiv.
Beginning on August 23rd 2014, the tag ちよパラ (translated as “Paras Chiyo”) began to be used on images referring to this specific crossover[3]. In addition, the tag パラス (the Japanese name for Paras) began to be used for some examples of fanart with Chiyo Sakura even on works that did not have an obvious connection to paras within the work itself.
| Examples of works tagged as パラス (Paras) on Pixiv that do not actually contain Paras.
On August 20th, 2014 the site Seventh Style published an article stating “Otaku have discovered… Sakura Chiyo from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, holds many resemblances to the Pokemon known as Paras.” [4]
Various Examples
External References
[1]Twitter – 佐倉千代ちゃんの事をパラスって言ったヲタク絶対に許せねぇ
[3]Pixiv – Images tagged as ちよパラ
[4]Seventh Style- Chiyo Sakura Resembles a Pokemon
[5]Archive Moe – Would you a Paras?