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A blog that will cure your apathy and inspire your dreams... Warning: All who watch anime, play video games, like J-music and K-music, and the like... ARE OTAKU!
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May 4, 2010
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JPOP Video of the Night!
Ai Uta by Greeeen
Hold on I think there were two music videos made for this song... Idk though. The first one seems more official.
Check the second video for a translation!
Hold on I think there were two music videos made for this song... Idk though. The first one seems more official.
Check the second video for a translation!
An interesting note
When I was a kid in around 2000, my dad took me and my brother to the first Pokemon movie. We watched it and I think he fell asleep during the movie. As a kid and even now I wondered if people like my father even understood what they were watching... Were they just too old, too outdated, and too out of it to understand the greatness of Pokemon?? Well being an ex-Pokemon master (since now there's over 300) I looked at the trailer below of the newest Pokemon movie and thought to myself, "What the hell is goin on in this??", "What are these animals, if not 'Pokemon'", "What is the point (plot)?!". Interesting. Though I'm still an anime officionado, I might be out of it. So nowadays I can't really look down on my pops for fallin asleep...hahaha
Japan is on the verge of something that can change your girlfriend's life!
And reform terrorists...
Is that really more important than how it can change your girl's self esteem? Or yours?
May 1, 2010
Spontaneous Otakulture 3 - Nico Nico Douga (Smiley Videos)
Alright guys, time for a quick review. So we've looked at vocaloids and Touhou right? They're both some pretty radical creations, but despite their awesome, in this world things can't just be popular outta nowhere. People have to you know, see and admire things for them to gain fame!
Thus bringing us to today's topic.
Thus bringing us to today's topic.
Otakulture 3 - Nico Nico Douga
The otaku's YouTube, Nico Nico Douga literally means "Smiley videos," "nico nico" being an onomatopoeia for ... smiling. So yeah, the vids are supposed to be funny then? Well it depends.
If you're truly an otaku, then you've seen nico nico videos. Pretty much all videos involving Touhou, MAD, Vocaloids, MMD, and those weird Super Mario levels where they go in tune of the music... those are all from nico nico douga.
Yes, in fact, those types of videos define the place! Videos where sound effects are pitch-altered to sound like a famous song (see Ronald McDonald Insanity), videos with stunning illustrations or 3dCG effects set to Vocaloid music (see Chain Girl or Just Be Friends), intense mash-ups of hundreds of anime in a single video and videos with 3D girls dancing (See... what I'll post in a second) are all part of the nico nico subculture.
Youtube should learn a thing or two from NND. First of all, NND doesn't go and play the Copyright Infringement card on every little thing. But that is also because the users put up tons and tons of original content a day. Secondly, NND allows people's comments to scroll across the screen. Unlike the horrible "annotations" addition to Youtube, the scrolling comments let you know what people found to be the most funny or influential. And like annotations it can be shut off so don't get scared.
I bet you're just pining to get started on that NND aren't you? Well it's only in Japanese so I guess you better start studying your Kanji. Oooor if you're somewhat bilingual in a certain romance language, Spanish can be an option for you to break into the NND world. But because the YouTube community loves ripping stuff off of NND and throwing it onto YouTube, you really shouldn't worry about your Otakulture fix. Sure it may be hand-me-down videos, but you'll manage.
Now, for some examples!
The All-time most famous video from NND:
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga!
Now the Super Mario Version!
"I can't defeat Airman!" Megaman video!
Touhou's "Bad Apple!!" CG Megamix!
"Just Be Friends" by the Nico Nico Chorus!
MMD [Miku Miku Dance] 3D Dance
"Clover Club"!
And Last But Not Least...
Nanairo Nico Nico Douga (Rainbow Nico Nico Douga)!!!
Hey guys that's all for now. I can't give away all of the greatest videos of all time. You'll just have to sit back and wait for more, or do some exploring of your own! Go to Nico Nico Douga and check some stuff out!
OH AND BTW.
I did not create or upload these videos or anything in them. I don't own ANY OF IT. Don't kill me, copyright people. Too young to die.
Here ends the third edition of Spontaneous Otakulture. Hopefully you learned something new, or were able to relate with a smile. Keep walking the path of the otaku, and the rewards will be plentiful. Probably.
-chansu
If you're truly an otaku, then you've seen nico nico videos. Pretty much all videos involving Touhou, MAD, Vocaloids, MMD, and those weird Super Mario levels where they go in tune of the music... those are all from nico nico douga.
Yes, in fact, those types of videos define the place! Videos where sound effects are pitch-altered to sound like a famous song (see Ronald McDonald Insanity), videos with stunning illustrations or 3dCG effects set to Vocaloid music (see Chain Girl or Just Be Friends), intense mash-ups of hundreds of anime in a single video and videos with 3D girls dancing (See... what I'll post in a second) are all part of the nico nico subculture.
Youtube should learn a thing or two from NND. First of all, NND doesn't go and play the Copyright Infringement card on every little thing. But that is also because the users put up tons and tons of original content a day. Secondly, NND allows people's comments to scroll across the screen. Unlike the horrible "annotations" addition to Youtube, the scrolling comments let you know what people found to be the most funny or influential. And like annotations it can be shut off so don't get scared.
I bet you're just pining to get started on that NND aren't you? Well it's only in Japanese so I guess you better start studying your Kanji. Oooor if you're somewhat bilingual in a certain romance language, Spanish can be an option for you to break into the NND world. But because the YouTube community loves ripping stuff off of NND and throwing it onto YouTube, you really shouldn't worry about your Otakulture fix. Sure it may be hand-me-down videos, but you'll manage.
Now, for some examples!
The All-time most famous video from NND:
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga!
Now the Super Mario Version!
"I can't defeat Airman!" Megaman video!
Touhou's "Bad Apple!!" CG Megamix!
"Just Be Friends" by the Nico Nico Chorus!
MMD [Miku Miku Dance] 3D Dance
"Clover Club"!
And Last But Not Least...
Nanairo Nico Nico Douga (Rainbow Nico Nico Douga)!!!
Hey guys that's all for now. I can't give away all of the greatest videos of all time. You'll just have to sit back and wait for more, or do some exploring of your own! Go to Nico Nico Douga and check some stuff out!
OH AND BTW.
I did not create or upload these videos or anything in them. I don't own ANY OF IT. Don't kill me, copyright people. Too young to die.
Here ends the third edition of Spontaneous Otakulture. Hopefully you learned something new, or were able to relate with a smile. Keep walking the path of the otaku, and the rewards will be plentiful. Probably.
-chansu
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This blog, "The Otaku Reviewers", was started in February of 2010 on this very same platform, Blogger. At first, it was a venture into the informational and informal world of comics, anime, video games, and Japanese culture. In other words, just a random blog.
Over time, the founder of the blog credited with the pseudonym "RPGhero" was joined by two fellow bloggers and friends with the names "Chansu" and "Deretsun". Together the three bloggers looked up interesting Japanese culture facts, recommended new anime, talked about their own "otaku" interests, and traveled across the United States to various anime conventions.
There have been off periods when the blog ceased production of content and there have been times when there would be dozens of blog posts per week. The schedule varies depending on the lives of the people behind the alias'. However the pattern is that we always get back into the game with even newer information about Japanese culture, anime, video games, and other nerdy hobbies.
The motto of our blog is:
"A cure for your apathy and an inspiration for your dreams. ...Applies to Otaku, anime fans, J-pop junkies, and the like"
The purpose is to blog about cool stuff related solely to anime and otaku stuff. There's no other reason we're doing this.
