What is a gijinka?
- gijinka (擬人化) is a Japanese word meaning "personification". In other words, taking an inanimate object and giving it life! Therefor, an electronics gijinka is basically a character that has been made to represent an electronic device. Gijinkas can be humans (elejin) or animals (hanmon), or even have qualities of both! It's all up to the user!

What is a user?
- the term "user" refers to the owner of any individual gijinka. Also commonly referred to as parent, creator, or even master, the user is responsible for taking care of their electronics. However, only a select few users are able to see their devices in human/animal form. A user who is unable to see his or her gijinka may find it hard to believe that such a complex exists.

How do I know what they look like?
- really, it's all up to you! Hair style, eye color, body type; everything is decided by the user. In summary, your electronic gijinkas are blank entities until you start looking at them with a certain figure. Once the figure stabilizes, your elejin is born!

- typically, electronics gijinkas do not age like humans do, so they will stay in their current state of being for the entirety of their existence. Gijinkas that are associated with a certain data -- such as a telephone number on a cell phone elejin -- tend to retain their general appearance indefinitely (even if the user gets a new phone, but uses the same number. A new phone with a new number means a new elejin!).

- certain features may become altered when switching between models, such as the elejin becoming taller, shorter, etc.. Computer elejins that have switched from one operating system to another (such as Linux to Windows, or even from Windows XP to Windows Vista) might experience a slight change in personality. In addition, customizing your electronic gijinka console with decorations like stickers or skins may also contribute to significant alterations of its human form, most often around clothing or accessories.

What if a user doesn't see his or her device in human form? How do I know what it should look like?
- in the unfortunate event that user is unable to see their elejin, it generally serves no logical purpose, and does not actively exist. However, if the device in question has regular contact with a user who is able to see gijinkas in human form, the appearance of said device will be determined by that user. If the device has no regular contact with an able-minded user, or is meeting a user (other than its own) for the first time, its human form will become visible in the standard manner: an electrical shock or current passed between the two. This can be difficult to accomplish if the device's charging mechanism is not present, so meeting new elejin in public places is relatively uncommon. Also, an elejin can only appear in human form when within a 500ft of its console. Attempting to leave this area will result in a temporary data corruption (such as rearranged pixels) around the part of the elejin's body that passed through the boundary wall.