I've always been fascinated by language and etymology. I recently discovered the Japanese history of adopting foreign words, "gairaigo", which means "loanword" in Japanese. It specifically refers to foreign words—mostly from English, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and French—adopted into the language and written in katakana. I thought it would be fun, and whimsical, to develop a series of randomly posed anime-like characters with humorous allusions to gairaigo words. 

hip-hop gal

This is hip-hop gal (Hippuhoppu-kei gyaru), or, ヒップホップ系ギャル, in katakana, though the word "style" is written in kanji. The direct translation is hip-hop style gal. She's got bling, big hoop earrings, baggy clothes, and wild, big hair reminiscent of the late 90s/2000s Japanese subculture that morphed from a "Valley-girl" style to niche hip-hop styled fashion movement that garnered some cross-cultural criticism. Faux musical notes and Unicode braille art surround the figure. The braille art is used to suggest equalizer volume unit meters.

Why would there be a visual representation of braille?

Unicode’s goal is to encode every distinct writing system and character set used across devices. Including braille allows software, screen readers, and command-line tools to process and display tactile patterns consistently.