Taromati — Kikka and Towa Taromati（橘花＆斗和）

Original Taromati screenshot showing Kikka beside the black cat Towa — Distribution-page screenshots: original Taromati at left and the 2007 Taromati2 redesign at right; ghost and default artwork credited to 8 · source

Taromati2 screenshot showing the redesigned Kikka beside Towa — Distribution-page screenshots: original Taromati at left and the 2007 Taromati2 redesign at right; ghost and default artwork credited to 8 · source

A long-lived classic ghost pairing the silver-haired Kikka with Towa, a black cat who can also appear in human form. Taromati began in 2003 and received a major second-generation rewrite in 2007, accompanied by revised default artwork and an extensive collection of additional shells.

Record

Aliases: Taromati, Taromati2, Kikka, KiKKa, 橘花, Towa, 斗和
Author: 8
Character artwork: 8
Companion: Towa (斗和, とわ)
First release: 2003-11-10
Last known release: 2007-07-21
Language: ja
Status: available
Download status: Taromati2 is available from its long-running proxy distribution page; the original final ZIP was blocked by Windows security during this research and is not linked directly

Technical context

Taromati is the formal ghost title; Kikka and Towa are its characters. The original Taromati was formally released on 2003-11-10. Taromati2, released on 2007-07-21, is a substantial rewrite rather than merely a replacement shell, but retains the same character pair. The distribution page explicitly states that its administrator is not the ghost creator and credits production to 8.

Known locations

Original site: Unknown
Current page: http://unvollendet.web.fc2.com/ukagaka/ukagaka.htm
Archived site: https://web.archive.org/web/20121017024942/http://unvollendet.web.fc2.com/ukagaka/ukagaka.htm

Surviving Taromati2 package

Package: Taromati2.zip
Size: 2,453,409 bytes
SHA-256: 22782ABAE621AD1C705CF8A87D513CE3F9100B5B36A9DCB8B5CB4B85D86015B8
Safety note: Downloaded from the proxy distribution page and inspected as a ZIP without execution. Internal metadata names creator 8, Kikka, Towa, and the default shell. It contains executable ghost components including aya5.dll; historical provenance does not establish modern safety or compatibility.

English availability

No English translation has been verified for this ghost yet. This does not mean that none exists.

Sources

Taromati distribution page proxy distribution
Long-running distribution page names the ghost Taromati Ver2, verifies the readings Kikka and Towa, credits production to 8, states that the page administrator is not the creator, and provides screenshots and downloads for both generations.
Taromati distribution page — 2012 archive archived distribution
Archived copy establishes that the same proxy distribution and creator credit were already present by October 2012.
Taromati2 surviving package distributed package
Archive inspection without execution confirms ghost title taromati2, characters 橘花 and 斗和, creator and shell credit 8, AYA implementation, and files dated through 2007-07-21.
Taromati（橘花＆斗和） community thread retrospective community record
The thread's preserved reference material gives formal release dates of 2003-11-10 for the first generation and 2007-07-21 for the second. These dates are retrospective and are labeled accordingly.