Yamatologic

New Perfume Single! One Room Disco!

【ニコニコ動画】アイドルマスター　ワンルーム･ディスコ(RADIO EDIT)

I was starting to think Perfume had disappeared off the face of the earth after their disappointing 紅白 (kouhaku) performance. (Side note: it was a fine performance as Perfume performances go, but I still think the red team did lost partially because they had a lip-syncing group on the SINGING performance show.)

But they are back! If I had been paying attention to sites like Perfume City, I’d have known they were working on something new! Their new single, scheduled for release on March 25th (1 day before my birthday; what a nice present). It’s a cute little song called ワンルーム・ディスコ (wanruumu disuko) about the trials and tribulations of living on your own.

Anyway, it’s cute and technopop and I’m already hooked.

What’s that? Where did I find out about it? Um… nowhere in particular. What? No, of course I wasn’t because of Danny Choo entry a dannychoo.com news entry. He’s my mortal enemy! I would never be caught dead anywhere near his site. Not even if he linked one of my entries. No, sir, that’s definitely not where I found it.

Update: lol, I’m 馬鹿 (baka). It wasn’t the guy himself, it was just a forum user on dannychoo.com posting his own topic. So yes, that is where I got it.

Update2: There’s a new video that is a remix of the song done with none of the original track and the voices are all vocaloid! Nice!

【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク・巡音ルカ・MEIKO】 ワンルーム・ディスコ (yks remix)

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Rin’s Ultimate Yakiniku Restaurant from HELL!

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【ニコニコ動画】究極焼肉レストラン！お燐の地獄亭！(高画質・高音質版)H264

A new IOSYS arrangement CD is coming out on the 8th! And that can only mean one thing! A new promotional video! This one is about the hellishly ultimate 焼肉 (yakiniku) restaurant, based on the song 死体旅行　～ Be of good cheer!. The CD is called 東方超都魔転 (Touhou Choutomatten). The English title is “Toho just a moment!” Until I read that, I didn’t get the pun. ><;

Not much to say about this one... probably will take me a few weeks to process all the jokes. Poor チルノ (Chiruno) gets melted at one point. ;;

Enjoy!

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My Maid: Is there any question?

If you remember my entry about ティッシュ姫, you will remember the whole argument over if it is a guy or a girl. The funny thing about this argument is that people can’t trust anything anymore. I think my favorite incarnation of this is the comments that show up on this series of 踊ってみた (odotte mita) videos from ニコニコ動画. It’s obviously a very attractive young lady who goes by ミンカ (Minka) dancing in a maid outfit for all of our enjoyments. But, the comments still argue over her gender!

Anyway, here are the 3 “My Maid” videos on ニコ動. Be sure to read the comments. They are gold!

【ニコニコ動画】私のメイドが『星間飛行』を踊ってみた

【ニコニコ動画】私のメイドが『みらくるアンコール』を踊ってみた

【ニコニコ動画】私のメイドが『Be MYSELF』を踊ってみた

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Cutest Imperial March Ever

栗コーダーカルテット (“Kuricorder Quartet”) plays their version of the 帝国のマーチ (Teikoku no Maachi, “Imperial March”) on recorders and ukuleles. You can find this song on the Ukulele Force compilation (I can’t believe this compilation even exits).

If this song was playing as Darth Vader came by, you’d just want to give him a big hug.

(No, I don’t get why there is food in this YouTube video, it is just the song. Please see the embedding disabled live performance here. Don’t miss Highway Star either.)

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Soft of Bank

The talking dog from the Softbank commercials has finally been mixed into this awesome video. The song is ナイト・オブ・ナイツ (naito obu naitsu) from 東方 Project, of course. There’s also a little bit of 信仰風化曲　～ Native Faith in there, not to mention other ニコ動 inside jokes.

I can’t stop watching it. So here it is for all of you too. The person who put this together said it took 2 months! Geez!

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, I love the Internet.

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Gmail’s Japan-Themed… er… Themes

If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed the recent ability to add themes! I was all over it as a loyal Gmailian. I first went to the Terminal one for some old skool text mail fun, but then I noticed “Ninja” and “Tea House.” Yes!

Ninja is a theme where there are little ninja guys sticking out everywhere. The stars are of course 手裏剣 (shuriken, aka “Ninja Stars”) and there are little things going on at the bottom between a ninja and a geisha. Sometimes they are courting each other, and other times they are quarreling. The background message is もしもし (moshimoshi), which is what people say for hello over the phone. Not exactly sure how that relates to ninjas or even Gmail, but it is interesting.

The tea house theme features an asian looking house and garden where various cute animals have tea with each other. It looks like the fox is the proprietor of the tea house and it seems to be tied to the season or time of day or something. Not quite sure. It is very Animal Crossing/SnoogleZoo. If you are into either of those, you’ll probably like it.

I’m personally partial to the ninja one since the cartoons at the bottom of messages are just so awesome and slightly less girly than the whole tea house one. Apparently these Japan-related ones were designed in house at Google, so I don’t have the name of the designers/artists. Too bad, I’d love to see more by them!

There is another vaguely Japanese one called Cherry Blossom. It was designed by Vania Sofandi. But it is hard to really call it Japan-themed for sure.

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Fish and Cat!

Yay for web toons. I just found a silly little web toon known as さかな＆ねこ (sakana & neko). If you look at the picture to the right, you have the entire premise of the show. Cat + Cat = 2 Cats. Cat + Fish = Cat. This is a very important theorem to understanding these videos.

Really, it’s short gags about what happens when anthropomorphic cats and fish live together in the world. And one of them even features 初音ミク!

Without further ado, you can see the videos after the jump or on 森井ケンシロウ’s livedoor anime site. His homepage is here.

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Kobayashi Yuka punches Untouchable Yamazaki

This is a funny little video clip where 坂下千里子 (Sakashita Chihiro) and アンタッチャブル山崎 (Antacchaburu Yamazaki) visit 小林由佳 (Kobayashi Yuka)’s house in search of something to bring back. 山崎さん is fixated on her ヌーブラ (nuubura), but then 由佳ちゃん (Yuka-chan) wallops him one.

由佳ちゃん was the 3rd place karate champ at some point, from what they are saying. All I can say is don’t mess with karate girls.

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Nico Nico Medal Games (temporary name) is open!

NicoNicoDouga has announced their point system is now open (one of the things added in the 秋 update). NicoPoints are just like WiiPoints in that you buy them and then use them for stuff. The cost is about 1 point to 1円, before tax.

The points will be used for buying clothing (?) for your character in the anime MMO/Second Life game ai sp@ce, but until that starts, the only place you can use them is the ニコニコメダルゲーム(仮称) (“Nico Nico Medal Games (temporary name)”)! Medal Games are a staple of ゲーセン (geisen, “Game Centers”) where you can basically gamble, without actually gambling. So for the NicoNico version, they are currently giving away free medals (which you normally have to buy with points) for the various game. So, I tried them out. What I found after the jump…

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Usavitch Season 3

OMFG, ウサビッチ (Usabicchi, also known as ), the silly adventures of the Russian Jail Rabbits, is back! I first heard about this show almost a year ago when season 2 was coming out… and now, a year later, it is back. This, episode 27: 1階 (first floor), is the first episode of their adventures in the city!

The STUPID thing is that it was released on ニコニコ動画 (NicoNicoDouga) by MTV Japan, but region locked, so I got this message when I first tried to watch it: 「残念ながら、こちらの動画はアップロードされた地域のみから視聴可能です。」 which translates to “We are sorry, but it is only possible to watch this video from the region it was uploaded in.” This is so not fair for expats like me, or even some people in Japan! Of course, there are ways around this (besides just looking for a bootleg on YouTube). For the Japanese impaired, I have an brief explanation after the jump.

If you have never seen ウサビッチ before, you should catch up. It won’t take you long since each episode is about a minute and a half long and there have only been 26. Add it up, it’s like watching one episode of Lost. And the only thing that is actually in Japanese are the titles of the episodes, but those aren’t really essential.　I’ve included YouTube links to catch you up after the jump.

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