Pokemon & Kemono Days
There are a multitude of user-made “holidays” on Pixiv/Japanese Twitter where users from that fandom will make and post pictures related to that day’s theme. I have compiled a list of those days relative to the Pokemon and kemono (Japanese furry) fandom. There are much fewer general kemono days as they’re a lot harder to search for if you don’t know about them, but I’ll update this as I see them.
If you’re an artist looking to contribute to these days, they’re open for anyone to contribute to. Just find the Japanese for the official tag and add it to your post/tweet. However, please respect the rules -- nsfw is generally not allowed (fetish/risque can be ok, but genitalia/gore/vore are frowned upon)
In Japanese, numbers have multiple readings depending on the context. This usually comes down to the old Japanese reading versus the borrowed Chinese reading used in more recent words. In modern days English words have also made their way into the Japanese vocabulary, and for the purposes of these dates numbers from other languages might be used as well.
For example, these are all readings of the number 1.
ichi, itsu, i (Chinese). hito, hi, tsui (Japanese), kazu, hajime, ninomae (examples of rare Japanese readings mostly used in names). wan (English), uno (Spanish), an (French), etc. etc.
This abundance of readings, combined with the fact that there are only 46 different syllables possible in the Japanese language, means that it’s very easy to make “words” from numbers, which is how the dates for these days are usually determined.
*This is in the American month/day date format, so 1/2 for example is January 2nd!*
General Kemono
Pokemon