Special Feeling (Japanese: 特別な気分, Tokubetsu na kibun), also referred to as “Special Mood”, is a series of illustrations parodying a Japanese couple who were interviewed on TV during snowstorm in Tokyo in early January 2013. Upon its upload via Twitter in early February 2014, the couple’s interview quickly became a subject of online mockeries on the Japanese web, particularly about the man who was quoted as saying “being in the snow with my lover like this immerses me in a special feeling. I like it.”

As the Japanese populace shrinks and ages, and young people leave the suburbs and rural areas for cities, more and more communities are becoming ghost towns,...