Di Gi Charat (デ・ジ・キャラット, De Ji Kyaratto) is a Japanese manga and anime series created by Koge-Donbo.

The series follows a catgirl named Di Gi Charat "Dejiko" who was adopted as the mascot of Broccoli's retail chain store, Gamers.

Several specials, OVAs, and movies have been adapted as prequels, sequels and alternate stories; trading cards and video games are among the many forms of merchandise released for the series.

An animated Dejiko and her sidekick Gema first appeared on in a television advertisement for Gamers, set to the store's theme song, Welcome!

The manager of a Gamers store takes pity on them, and the series follows their exploits as they work in the shop.

All other citizens of Akihabara, including the manager, are drawn as anthropomorphic thumbs, the reason being that Akihabara is one of the largest shopping areas of Earth for video games, among other things, and thumbs are most commonly used by people to press buttons while playing video games.

The creative team was given free rein over the content of Di Gi Charat,[13] and it is outrageous at times.

The new actress for Dejiko, Puchiko, and Usada were Satomi Akesaka, Nao Minakami, and Rieka Yazawa respectively.

Hiroaki Sakurai is directing the new series at Liden Films, with Atsuko Watanabe providing the character designs.

Princess Dejiko and Puchiko wish to escape castle life to help people of Planet Di Gi Charat achieve happiness.

At Anime Boston 2003, Synch-Point announced they have acquired North American distribution rights to the OVA.

She meets a young man named Senba Takuro while going home on Christmas night.

Dejiko accidentally drops her cake, but Takuro exchanges his for hers, and love starts after several unplanned meetings with each other.

A promotional video premiered at Anime Expo 2006 during the Di Gi Charat panel sponsored by TBS, PONYCANYON and Broccoli.

Across all of the Di Gi Charat series, each catgirl ends their sentence with a cat sounding suffix, such as Dejiko's Nyo.

Di Gi Charat (デ・ジ・キャラット, De Ji Kyaratto) / Dejiko (でじこ, Dejiko) Petit Charat (プチ・キャラット, Puchi Kyaratto) / Puchiko (ぷちこ, Puchiko) Hikaru Usada (うさだ ヒカル, Usada Hikaru) / Rabi~en~Rose (ラ・ビ・アン・ローズ, Rabi~an~Rōzu) Pyocola Analogue III (ピョコラ＝アナローグIII世, Pyokora Anarōgu San-sei) / Piyoko (ぴよこ, Piyoko) Takeshi - Voiced by: Ryo Naito (Japanese); Taliesin Jaffe (English) and Yoshimi - Voiced by: Morihisa Mori (Japanese); Liam O'Brien (English) A boy who comes into the store to buy trading cards and falls in love with Rabi-en-Rose, in the Reiwa anime, is confirmed that he and Rabi-in-Rose study in the same school.

A rich and long-haired man infatuated with Puchiko's cuteness and have a problem with the suffix that some characters use at the end.

Bushimo-no-Mikoto She is the goddess of Bushiroad's company, she had as aspect of a devil samurai, is kouhai of Broccodes and is a fan of the original anime.

She appears for first time in Reiwa no Di Gi Charat A great number of Di Gi Charat albums have been released, including soundtracks to the anime as well as collections of original songs sung by the main characters.

These albums include drama CDs which expand the Di Gi Charat story.

This game later was ported to PlayStation 2 and was renamed Di Gi Charat Fantasy Excellent.

Since the PS2 version uses DVD-ROM media, it features improved FMV cutscenes and additional VA.

Zac Bertschy of Anime News Network gave a review of the limited edition Di Gi Charat volume 1 release with saying “Even if you're turned off by the cute little characters, give Di Gi Charat: The Original Series a spin.

[25] Later Carl Kimlinger from Anime News Network gave Di Gi Charat Nyo's first DVD a review in which he describes Dejiko having a "mercenary personality and butt-scratching manners" with a "frilly-cute exterior".

[27] In contrast, in the alternate story Winter Garden where she is now twenty, Chris Beveridge from the Fandom Post describes Dejiko as a "normal young woman".