Toro (cartoon character)

Toro
PlayStation character
Toro (left) and Kuro (right) holding PocketStation units
First appearance	Doko Demo Issyo (1999)
Created by	Sony Interactive Entertainment

Toro (トロ^?), full name Toro Inoue (井上トロ, Inoue Toro^?), also known as the Sony Cat, is a fictional character created by Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is an anthropomorphized cat who participates in numerous events and tries to act like a human.

Toro first appeared in the PlayStation game Doko Demo Issyo, and has since appeared in every PlayStation platform. While not as popular in the west, he serves as Sony's mascot in Japan - in particular, of the PlayStation Network.

The character is an anthropomorphized white cat of a super deformed design style. Toro is characterized by its big, trapezoid-shaped face, a rectangular-shaped body, and its vast variety of face expressions. Toro's family name originated from a debugger called Toro 'Inoue' (井上 Inoue).

Character profile:

Toro first appeared in July 1999 as the main character (chatterbot) in the video game Doko Demo Issyo (also transliterated as Doko Demo Issho and meaning "Together Anywhere") on the Sony PlayStation, and included support for the PocketStation.

In 2004, Dokodemo Issho was released on the PlayStation Portable, a free demo being available in the Japanese PlayStation Store.