An Intro to Bikko:

Bikko/ビっ子 made her debut appearance as the main character in a doujinshi called "Kesson Shoujo" by Yoshida On, or better known as [ROMANTIC FOOL since 1995], back in 2004. She had potent lasting power in the waifu threads of pre-Reddit imageboards, especially 4chan and 420chan.

Her manga was, like all doujins, a limited print, and was lost to time. For 15 years, anons have been searching high and low for scans of the original manga so we could finally find the answer to the one question that haunts Bikko's existence: "Source??"

This is Bikko.

Back in 2004, an illustrator called ROMANTIC FOOL posted illustrations of his punk-rock-amputee-smoker-girl called "Bikko" on his website. He was promoting his doujin that he was gonna sell in Winter Comiket later that year, her being the main character. People liked her, so he drew more Bikko. In a few months time, images of Bikko were saved in ssd flash drives everywhere. Here's a snapshot of his website when Bikko first appeared: (☞*∀ﾟ)☞

The earliest thread about Bikko I could find was on Gurochan. It's a 343-post thread starting from September 15, 2005, all the way to July 28, 2007. Scroll through the wastes of Yu-Gi-Oh Shota Fanart and Sailor Moon Scat for long enough and you'll find her. The uncanny thing about this thread is that whenever someone posts a lewd image of Bikko...

I hate bikko porn :( I hate the idea that someone out there is jerking off to it. [...] Perhaps a more modest picture for us "prudes" .

Truly wholesome. I'm not gonna link that thread for obvious reasons.

Fun Fact: 420chan loved Bikko-san enough that they made her one of the main faces of their /nc/ board, along with Two Yuri Stoners and a Mentally Challenged Jigglypuff. Most boards there had an anime girl mascot. /weed/ had TCC-tan, /wooo/ had /wooo/-tan, and /smoke/ had Bikko.

In these years, everyone knew who Bikko was. There was fanart everywhere If you didn't know her, you should. Edgy 17 year olds on 4chan revered her. She was the Internet's prime disabled waifu before Katawa Shoujo saturated the genre with GARBAGE (play ks it's gud). The only thing missing was that pesky original doujin. For 15 years, only 1 person can be confirmed to own a copy of Bikko's doujin, a pro osu! player with the named Bikko who's probably more popular than her in the first place...

In 2006, ROMANTIC FOOL saw Bikko's rise in popularity and wrote up a background on Bikko and her conception as a character. Here's a shitty translation by a Japanese guy on Gurochan:

About Bikko.
I hope you'll read this If you have a time,

[Who Is Bikko?]

She is a character in here, "ROMANTIC FOOL since 1995".
To make them hard to search. her name contains Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji.
At first time, I cannot imagine she becomes how popular among you.
Some people loves her, so I think now is the time to write about something about her.
I don't wanna do, because some people blame on me with this character
Here are the docment that I wrote in "Kesson Shoujo (Defected Girl?)"

[Process]

A girl, friend of mine, who had lost her arm and some fingers on accident.
People in around her, they feel poor her, look at her as a freak or very treat her.
But, She did not mind them. She has gallant attitude. Whatta beautiful I thought, when I saw her.
I respect for and/or hanker for her. That's the why I draw Bikko.

However, this situation is only for her?
We have something loss or we're defective human, aren't we?
Of course, I and you have not exreption of this fate.
We receive recognition about it; accept it; and so how do you live with it; I think that is important.
I think this is the underhand and cruel, and discriimination: treat them like a special and label them "untouchable"
because of the challengers or they lost parts of their body or just act as they're not here,

So, I draw how Bikko who receive recognition and accept her loss is unsightly girl but living strong
Ithink some challengers(handychapped poeple) cannnot restrain theyer anger with drawing physical defected
person by me (I have no physical defect).
No, they are majority, I guess.
But I hope you think this is the chance of thinking about your loss or someone's loss.
She is just a underground character. I want you to ignore her.

[Development]
Doujinshi "Kesson Shoujo" Spring, 2004
Bikko Garage Kit by Bah from Amin Gareki*

I wish I wanna draw sunny and strong Bikko for ever.

[Profile(as far as I know)]

Name: Bikko (looks 16-year-old-girl)
She lost her left leg and right eye at car accident when she was primary school girl.
every her scar bcame keloid.
Blue eyes; seems to me, no cloured contact lens in her eyes.
Every stress make her hair turn white.
Now, she black meshed on her hair.(Bikko says "Soooo cooool, isn't it?")
She has back of her hair trims so chort.
Favorite smoke: Cherry. a few backs per a day.
Prostitute
Vocalist at a band
ex-junky
ex-wild-thing
She doesn't do "wrist cut"
a big eater
really drinks
laugh like sun

*There was a Bikko Garage Kit!

Yoshida On released a handful of doujins of Bikko after her spike in popularity in the early 2010s, but scans are almost impossible to come by. The scans I found can be seen in the Doujin Thread

If you want to see more of Yoshida On's art, you can go to his Twitter at @ononon. Or take a trip on the Wayback Machine and take a peek of his older works which were posted on his now-dead website.

There's a lot of fanart of Bikko, and if you want to see them, type one of her three monickers in your favorite image site.

• bikko

• bicco

• ビっ子