User:ShyAndroid/sandbox/iCharaCall

note to self: get someone who understands japanese to proofread after

iCharaCall (iキャラコール) was a collaboration between Takara and KLab released in early 2004 for Japanese feature phones, its release coinciding with the release of the FOMA 900i series of phones by Docomo. It was a site which offered chara-den, characters that would stand in for the user in a way that emulated a voice call, with different expressions that could be toggled using the numpad. Optimus Prime and Megatron were both available.

The service had a monthly fee of 315 yen. https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/18439.html

Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sswinoaZMcg https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/16936.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060204050751/http://www.klab.org/press/2004/040206.html (note: link pdf versions for klab articles maybe, since they don't suffer from broken images) https://web.archive.org/web/20050308223445/http://www.klab.org/press/2003/031218.html