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Warning: All who watch anime, play video games, like J-music and K-music, and the like... ARE OTAKU!
Remember that game that came out somewhere after the mid-1990's that sold out at Funcoland and was always missing at Blockbuster when you went to rent it?
That game was most likely Super Mario RPG or SMRPG for short! Whether or not you were about 9 or 10 back than is different though. What most people agree on is that SMRPG was a hit and one of the best Mario games that has ever came out, at least until the Nintendo Gamecube was released...
One of the cult-fan bases that started was for Geno fans. Geno's character was actually more important than one may think, at least contrary to the first time you played as a kid (if the first time that you played SMRPG was as a child). Geno was special because he knew who Smithy was before the story even began and was the only good guy that came from the same Super-Universe as Smithy... to help Mario and his friends!
Another new character to SMRPG was Mallow who believed that he was a frog. Though he looked like a cloud and was plagued with self-doubt over the whole appearance-doesn't-match-my-soul thing, until Mario with Mallow's help, discovered his home was in the clouds... Even after Mallow found out he was from a land in the sky, he never gave up on his identity as a frog...
No matter how many times I've played SMRPG, the SMRPG world always seems to take more or a lot less time. Sometimes I think it's going to take forever and it goes by really fast or I'm going to breeze through it and it takes longer than I thought haha :D
Even if they release five more FF or KH games, I'll still probably be always loyal to the SMRPG title. Without SMRPG, Square and Enix wouldn't have learned enough to continue making good games in their other long runners like FF or KH.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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