Kanna ASCII art bleeder script

Reddit user /u/2hu4u was inspired by the ascii art bleeding of Kanna as found in the opening of the anime "Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon", that they recreated one based on that. Later someone in that Reddit thread mentioned how this needs to be done in Python... and so here it is.

Requirements

A standard Python installation with the curses library available, with a big enough terminal with small fonts for best effects. Tested to work under Linux. Should also work under OS X and Windows 10 with the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) installed. For Windows 10, it was reported to be working under bash inside cmd.

Will not work anywhere where the curses library is unavailable, i.e. standard Windows installations, will result in an import error like so:

C:\Users\Demo\kanna>python asciibleed.py kanna1.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "asciibleed.py", line 8, in <module>
    from curses import setupterm
  File "C:\Python27\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

Usage

Clone (or download an archive of) this repository, then run it by calling the file (original mode)

$ git clone https://github.com/metatoaster/kanna
$ cd kanna
$ clear  # clear the screen for best effect (Ctrl-L works too)
$ python asciibleed.py kanna.txt

For the scripted mode, the -s flag can be provided for the file that defines the frames (basically a file with its first line being a list of : separated filenames to text files, then a list of , separated numbers denoting which frames to use per slide). A animated.txt is provided to make use of all four frames of Kanna provided.

$ python asciibleed.py -s animated.txt

Finally, run it with a background - the maiddragon.txt "monitor" is also provided, run it like so:

$ python asciibleed.py -s animated.txt -b maiddragon.txt

If you don't want to see Kanna slide off the screen you can run it in place by specifying the offset be 0

$ python asciibleed.py -s animated.txt -b maiddragon.txt -o 0

There are a couple other flags that can be toggled (try using -h).

Credits

Naturally, the original art was done by /u/2hu4u so thank that user otherwise this wouldn't have been possible.