Docomo emoji no mo

This week, it was announced that Docomo’s emoji designs will no longer appear on any of the Japanese mobile network’s devices. This marks the end of an emoji era that first began in 1999, even though the set hasn't been updated since 2013.

Docomo Emoji Set To Be Officially Discontinued

fwiw, I still find these delightful and they were probably the best canvas for our current Unicode emojis to start from.

For anyone interested in emojis, I also highly recommend why ✨ emoji has taken over all AI products from David Imel.