The Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman (醤油戦士キッコーマン Shō-yu Senshi Kikkōman) — or just "Kikkoman" (キッコーマン Kikkōman) as most people know him — is a superhero featured in a famous parody flash movie based on the Kikkoman Japanese soy sauce brand.

The Kikkoman character was originally created in Shift-JIS by members of the large Japanese 2-Channel message board, but it was the flash movie created by Yogatori that made him famous worldwide. The movie has several references to Japanese food, anime and tokusatsu. Since most westerners usually don't know much about those subjects and Japanese culture as a whole, the movie is perceived by them as having a weird and funny tone. It is also a good example of Engrish, as seen on its translation to English (the movie became famous well before an English translation was made available by the author).

External links

• Official website for the Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman (in Japanese)
• 2-Channel – The posting website where Kikkoman was born (in Japanese)
• Fight! Kikkoman – The Kikkoman flash movie
• Banana and Shrimp Showtime – A spinoff of the original movie by the same creator
• Soysauce Case #8 in 2-channel Mona BBS (in Japanese)
• "(　・∀・)さん"'s Kikkoman parody from the 2ch.net Thread Log (in Japanese)