湯たんぽ、この冬もよろしく 　 (￣￣ ,－◎－, ￣￣ ∧＿＿∧　￣￣) 　 (＿　 (≡≡≡)⊃　（ ︶　ᴗ　︶ ）　 ＿)　ﾎｯ… 　 ,.-‐￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣‐-., 　|　 　・　 　　・　 　 　・　 　 　・　　　　・　　| 　|　 　　　・　 　 　・　 　 　・　 　 　・　 　 　 | 　￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣

Hooked onto the end of a hot water bottle on line 3 is ⊃, the “superset of” sign, its open side facing the bottle: an arm hugging it close. On line 3, (≡≡≡) is the bottle’s body. Each ≡, the “identical to” sign, has three bars, so the row looks like the ridges pressed into an old-style Japanese yutanpo, a metal hot water bottle you fill from the kettle. Above it on line 2, ,－◎－, is the rounded top, with ◎, the bullseye sign, as the screw cap. The arm belongs to a small cat-eared character: ∧＿＿∧ on line 2 are its ears and the top of its head, and its face on line 3 sits inside the full-width parentheses （ ）. The eyes are two ︶, a closing parenthesis meant for vertical Japanese text, laid on its side. It bulges downward and sits high in the line, so the pair reads as eyelids gently lowered, and low between them, ᴗ, the Latin letter “bottom half o,” makes a small, loose smile. Outside the pillow to the right, ﾎｯ… in half-width katakana is a short “ho,” cut off abruptly by the small ｯ: a Japanese sigh of relief, close to “phew.” The pillow is lines 2 and 3, with half-width ( and ) rounding off both ends. From line 4 down is the quilt: ,.-‐ and ‐-., curve its shoulders, and the thirteen ￣ between them ride high in their cells, so the edge sits right under the chin. Between the two | on lines 5 and 6, five ・ and then four, staggered, make polka dots, and seventeen ￣ on line 7 close the bottom. Only the head peeks out. A yutanpo usually goes down by the feet, but this one gets the pillow, right against the cheek, like a sleeping buddy, and the first line, 湯たんぽ、この冬もよろしく, means “Hot water bottle, counting on you again this winter.” This little original AA was made for this site in the style of 2channel, the giant Japanese message board where text art with ∧＿∧ ears and half-width sound effects became a style of its own.