With a staff of only 3 people (1 character designer, 1 animator and 1 music composer), the doujin circle Kinema Kan is planning to bring the world of Touhou to life, with no less than an animated film on DVD. Feel the power of an independent circle. Here’s the magnificient trailer:
Everything looks absolutely polished, in a very mainstream anime way rather than the usual indepedent artsy type. The song is great and very Touhou-like, and even the background art is vivid and lively. Epic!
The DVD will be out on the March 14th Reitaisai, a super big event dedicated solely to the Touhou universe. One guy creates a game world of his own, and people follow through with animation and exclusive events. Powerful is a game creator today.
We all should know the power of Zun by now. He created a game universe called Touhou (wiki here) all by himself: programmed, composed music, drew the art, wrote the script, everything.
The power of fans fueled his work to a tremendous amount of doujin fan videos and illustrations that are aplenty on the Internet. Some fans created a PV called Bad Apple, which became a big hit in NicoNicoDouga and YouTube. I even made a post about it.
It was the number one most viewed video in YouTube for weeks upon its release. Then someone got nuts and printed the whole thing to make a stop-motion video. That video became popular too.
And very recently CNN picked up on it.
I know I told you many times, but I’m gonna say it again: Never underestimate the power of fans!
The stop motion video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240Vq6tIxio. The camera angles follow the video to the tee, amazing! Someone sure had a lot of time in his hands.
What do you get when you cross motion graphics and otaku culture? That’s right, another MAD!
Just using manga material, promotional images and *extremely few* anime scenes, a few NicoNico users were brought together to create this third installment of the Hidamari Sketch motion graphic extravaganza. Needless to say, apart from the official Hidamari Sketch materials, everything is self-made, from the sprite movements all the way to the 3D modeling and effects.
5 days since its upload on NicoNicoDouga, it has gathered almost 115k hits and 12k+ mylist bookmarks (or favourites, in YouTube-speak). I’m one of them of course, considering how much I love the show.
The third one came out just in time for Christmas and for the new 3rd season of Hidamari Sketch which is coming out next month. Can’t wait! We need to welcome the two new cute Hidamari Sou tenants with open arms.
Remember to read from right to left (top to bottom first, of course).
Man, that was pretty satisfying. Wear cat ears somemore la.
Japanator had a call for contribution for inserting your own caption/editing a manga page. The results were pretty awesome. Including this strange but amusing panel:
I knew it. It matches the narration, the music and even the sound effects of the original! The pirates look very rich though. I like how Battler is struggling with the boat, so uncool lol.
Even if you have no idea what Touhou is, watch it for the visuals. This has gotta be the most stylized and tastefully designed Touhou-related video I have ever seen. Features most of the popular characters in the Touhou universe.
Again, the power of doujin culture shines with bewildering creativity. Thanks, Zun.
I’m sure this video is gonna be removed soon :P People paid for those 90 seconds on DVD!
Whatever, it’s puh-reeeeetttyyyyy.
After a long wait, fans finally get to see the PV of Black Rock Shooter Pilot Edition. It’s a darker counterpart of Miku created by Haku for the BRS music video, finished a year ago. It’s no surprise that it’s popular in Nico Nico Douga due to its catchy tune and beautiful art direction.
Thankfully, Yamakan and Studio Ordet translated the beauty well into anime. He’s known for his Haruhi ED dance choreography (back to when it was legendary and DIDN’T have the Endless Eight) and director of Kannagi (best brand of humour found in modern anime), so you can trust the guy. Looking forward to the series, out next year.
From the vid, the show would be more about two best friends, who eventually became enemies. I’m sure it would be a visual representation of the song’s lyrics, with what we have seen so far.
It’s all thanks to Huke’s creative direction.
From a software box cover to fan-made music and video, then to a whole anime series. Doujin influence just amazes me to no end.
(In before Sankaku Complex and Japanator! Heh heh my Youtube browsing rox)
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We all should know the power of Zun by now. He created a game universe called Touhou (
Even if you have no idea what 
It’s all thanks to Huke’s creative direction.
