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Summer Series #4: Comic Market 76
Okaayyy, I just HAD to go on the highest attended Comiket day in history. more >>
Cosplay Square
The colours of cosplay is easily seen from the rooftop.
Phew, finally…
…reached. And shopping begins!
Comic Market 76 (Gulp)
Whoa, look at the number of visitors! And it’s only Friday!
ps. Do you have any idea how many times i had to send this MMS? Heavy traffic, gah!
A New Nico Nico Medley!
Well well, get ready for another installment of Nico Nico madness, by the name of Nanairo no (The 7 colours of) Nico Nico Douga. Made by the same guy who made the first two. Wonder if it’ll be more popular than its predecessors.
It has the usual NicoNico recent favourites: K-0N, Miku vids, Macross, Evangelion, Touhou and even Ponyo! Let’s test your otaku skillz. See how many anime, memes and MTVs (Genki Rockets w00t) you can identify! If you know more than half of it, you’re a certified otaku.
…wait, more than three quarters, THEN you’re an otaku :P
To help you out is a popular NicoNico VIP named HongKong (is she really from Hong Kong?!) who has lent her singing voice to many NicoNico vids in the past. Amidst all the chaos she tries her best to sing according to the original source. Then she digitally edits the tone, pitch, etc. The whole video is sung by her, and even some sequences have her trademark character. Cool!
Here’s the original song without HongKong’s voice: Click here.
I like the last part where the songs from the previous medleys are played in chaotic manner. Brings back memories of the countless wasted hours of surfing Nico Nico Douga ^^;;
What surprised me was the appearence of Tentai Senshi Sunred, a superb anime about a sentai superhero leading a normal married life, drinking tea with weird villains and all that xD
Chibi Miku-san
It’s hard enough to resist Miku’s charm, but it triples when she’s in chibi form! Nom nom nom
I have been following the web comics of doujin creator Minami for almost a year now. Got hooked to them coz Minami simply knows how to make 4-panel comics, and it all started with Hidamari Sketch and Lucky Star doujinshis. All it takes is a Wacom and a great sense of humour.
Minami’s latest venture, Chibi Miku-san, has close to no dialogue at all! It has an all-star cast of Vocaloids, even the fan-made ones. Strange thing is that Chibi Miku and Miku herself are sisters. Hard to tell the difference sometimes!
Here are some of my favourites among the almost 300 that I’ve read so far:
Sankaku Complex just posted this earlier today: One hardcore fan decided to do an animation trailer of Chibi Miku-san. Here’s the wonderful MAD:
Miku fans unite! Sign the Chibi Miku anime petition today! *signs*
Miku… in Shibuya?
Hearing Hatsune Miku’s voice in the streets of Akihabara is normal. Waaaaaaayyy normal. But how about along the street of Center Gai in Shibuya, the home of the young and trendy?
My cousins and I were having dinner there, and I thought I heard something familiar. It was Miku’s voice coming out from the speaker above, singing my fave Miku song “Melt” :3 Her voice resonated throughout the entire street!
To promote the latest album by the synthesizer-voiced wonder, advertisements were placed on the lamp-posts of this busy street. Supercell, a group of composer geniuses in NicoNicoDouga, remastered their Miku songs and came out with a major debut album.
Needless to say, it became a BIG hit. It became 2nd place in the ORICON album chart. It was sold out in Amazon and Sony Music Japan in an instant. Heck, even the TV commercial looks awesome. (Yes there’s a TV commercial!)
Looks like it’s Akiba time this week! ^_^ I’m just glad that Miku and Supercell are gaining the wider recognition they deserve.
MikuMikuDance, Free Software by a Fan for Fans
Have you ever wondered how can there be so many 3D miku videos on the Net? No? Then you’re in the wrong blog.
Seriously folks, does every freaking Japanese know how to animate 3D models? Apparently not, until a kind guy came along. He programmed a 3D software that has Miku’s model data by default, and even a fool (that’s me) could make her dance.
It’s called MikuMikuDance, or MMD for short. You can download the software here. It’s truly amazing, so easy to manipulate the body (oh yeah), even the facial expression! To top it off, he has refused any sort of donation/payment. Not for the money, he says! Damn, where do these Japanese find the time to do such noble things?!
Thanks to him, many have created, to date, 3,118 niconico videos with the tag “mikumikudance”. Ranging from just replicating the Virtual Instanity music video to creating original dances for songs like the one from Macross Frontier. The power of creativity are now in hands of the fans!
For that reason, there’s a new event in NicoNico called the MikuMikuDance Cup. Participants would enter their videos of Miku using MMD into the contest. The 2nd MMD Cup is due this 30th, so you can expect a lot of crazy innovative videos.
I especially like this entry, pure biasness because it’s my favourite song of Polysics.
Love it, so random and has a bunch of cool Japanese Internet Memes inside. I kinda know most of them, wonder if that’s good or bad. Can you spot them? There’s even the angry german kid in there! And watch out for Miku’s hair of doom!
MMD, giving power to the fans.
Windows Live Messenger + Nico Nico Douga
Just read the great news from Danny Choo. Apparently Microsoft is going to release a version of Windows Live Messenger that connects directly to Nico Nico videos! Yay~ :)
It’s the first time that a corporate company (apart from Crypton Future Media, duh) used Hatsune Miku in advertising. Microsoft picked out regular contributors of Nico Nico to create the online advert. Microsoft has announced that they’ll release it on TV this month.
Here’s the CM, showing Miku walking around in Microsoft’s Akasaka office:
Look at all those MSN icons flying about! The title is “The Song of Nico Nico Messe”, Messe being the abbreviation of Messenger. What better way to teach the software features than to have Miku singing it out. Glad to see a giant company recognize Miku’s kyootness :3
Sing along everyone! Messe, messe, messe, messe…
