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On 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, a character known by the emoticon (´･ω･`) — nicknamed “Hungry Tiger” — kicked off a thread. Despite boasting “I’ll devour everything!”, other posters pointed out he’s actually “the biggest light-eater in VIP” — and someone noticed that if you shorten the nickname, it becomes “Hentai” (pervert).
From there, the thread veered off freely into pork dishes, Heinz’s hashed-beef sauce, and horse-racing predictions.
What people said
(´･ω･`)I'll devour everything!
つ🐘と
(´･ω･`)Lying isn't nice, you know.
(´･ω･`)Oh, nice! Ginger pork? Stir-fried pork and veggies? Tonteki (pork steak)?
(´･ω･`)I'd say I'm more like Goemon (the swordsman from Lupin III).
(´･ω･`)It's already a nickname, don't shorten it any further!
Wait, 'Hentai'? (pervert)
(´･ω･`)Simmer it in ready-made hashed-beef sauce.
Heinz brand works fine.
(´･ω･`)(Wait, I thought Heinz only made ketchup…)
So good, so good!
(´･ω･`)Whoa, it's true!
(´･ω･`)Right after a bath there just aren't many options.
It's okay to eat gyudon (beef bowl) once in a while, you know.
*sigh*~~~ (´・ω・)
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა
つ🎫と
Λ_:;.:…
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀:;.:…
つ🎫:;.:…
Λ:;….::;.:. :::;.. …..
૮₍:;….::;.:. :::;.. …..
つ:;….::;.:. :::;.. …..
(´･ω･`)And poof, he's gone.
Λ_Λ
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა I don't think he's bad, but the moment he went freelance his rides dropped off a cliff…
Guess he's stuck with some rookie trainer's stable.
_φ(´・∀・｀)Noted: more mushrooms and onions.
(´･ω･`)I'm gonna buy Heinz's simmered hamburger-steak sauce.
(´・∀・｀)Is this the one?
That one's so good!!!
(´･ω･`)That's the one! (never actually used it though)
(´･ω･`)Saying a line straight out of Brocken Jr. (Kinnikuman).
Take this! My all-or-nothing Bremen Sunset!
(´･ω･`)Was that even a real move?
Their faces are so close I'm a little worried they might kiss
(´･ω･`)He uses it on Prisman too! (Kinnikuman)
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა For the JRA race, I'm going all-in on the Keeneland Cup alone!
つ🎫と Pa-pa-pa Panja! Tower!
(´･ω･`)I was gonna go with Road Fore Ace, but he drew the far outside gate… also curious about that Indian jockey, Naredu.
Let's bet on the All-Star Jockeys race too — it could turn into total chaos, who knows.
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა I've never seen Indian horse racing, but he'll probably be thrown off by Japanese racing at first…
Re: #139
Λ_Λ
૮₍ ･᷇ ∀ ･᷆ ₎ა I picked up more work hours, but it won't show up until my next paycheck…
Gotta be patient for a while 😣
(´･ω･`)I'm hoping for something like Haguworl from Taiyou no Makibao (a horse-racing manga).
When you're broke, that's basically gambling, right?
(´・∀・｀)Got it!
Shimeji mushrooms were cheap, so I gave up on regular mushrooms.
(´･ω･`)o Hamburger steak! Hamburger steak!
o彡
That shimeji, always selling itself short.
Background and Key Points
This 5ch board is Newsspeed VIP (better known simply as VIP), the platform’s oldest and most freewheeling anonymous board — descended from 2channel, the pseudonymous forum culture that birthed Japan’s kaomoji (text-face) tradition long before emoji existed. (´･ω･`), a simple droopy-mouthed face, has been floating around Japanese net culture for two decades as shorthand for a slightly pathetic, deadpan character; posters here have adopted and nicknamed it “Hungry Tiger” as a running bit, giving it a personality that the thread then contradicts for laughs.
The thread’s actual split is narrow but real: is the character a big eater or not? The opening boast (“I’ll devour everything!”) is immediately punctured by other posters insisting he’s “the biggest light-eater in VIP,” and the food talk that follows — pork dishes, hashed-beef sauce, a hamburger-steak sauce he admits he’s never actually used — keeps undercutting the “hungry” branding rather than confirming it. That’s the entire disagreement; everything after (horse racing, Kinnikuman references, a shimeji-mushroom pun) is unrelated drift, not a continuation of any debate.
What’s easy to misread as significance is really just VIP’s house style: threads built around a kaomoji “character” are a long-running genre where the appeal is the gap between the persona’s name and its actual behavior, plus in-joke wordplay (like “Hungry Tiger” collapsing into “Hentai”). There’s no news event, product, or real person behind this — it’s improvised collective roleplay with a mascot, and the horse-racing and manga tangents are just VIP’s normal channel-surfing, not evidence of a coherent theme.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “(´･ω･`) They Call Me ‘Hungry Tiger’.”
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