I went to Anime Expo on last Friday and made a little video where I asked people (mostly people dressed as けいおん！ ! (K-ON!) or VOCALOID characters…) what their favorite 邦楽 (hougaku) is. The answers may surprise you.

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【ニコニコ動画】七色のニコニコ動画
It’s here. After a slew of imitators, the true successor to the ニコニコ流星群 is here. Yes, my friends, right now, NicoDou is celebrating the release of the next megamix. 七色のニコニコ動画 (Nanairo no NicoNicoDouga) is here.

This is my first real megamix since getting into NicoDou hardcore. I love the 流星群, since that gave me the jump start I needed to get into in the first place, but this one… It is like a summary of my last year of NicoLife. I’ve featured a number of these songs on the blog over the last year, although not all of them! Can you believe that this blog will be one whole year old in just over 2 months?! WTF.

I have a list of the songs after the jump, minus the HEROES section (the section of chaos from 9:40 to 11:10) since really you could just go to the 流星群 for those songs. If you are a experienced ニコ厨 (NicoChuu), listen to it before you check the list below. See how many you recognize! If you are new to NicoDou, this is a great way to catch up! XD

(BTW, as for the English name, I would call it Rainbow Colored NicoNicoDouga if I were in charge, but a few places seem to already be translating it as “7 Colors of Nico Nico Douga.” I hate translation. 日本語バンザイ！ Oh, and as always, if you don’t have a NicoDou account, why not?!)

#1: ブラック★ロックシューター

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyB4gLFF-Xw

Never featured Black Rock Shooter, but after going to Burning Man, I have to admit I liked this song better.

#2: Heavenly Star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2od1AF_Cs

I was hooked on this song for a while. The MADs for this one are AMAZING.

#3: Do-dai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92KotmP4Ks

I’m not a huge Idolm@ster fan, but I’ve been known to like a song here and there. This is not one of them…

#4: みwなwぎwっwてwきwたwww（篠笛禁断症状L5）

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHcI5xXx9Vs

This one is just silly. I featured a video with this song previously in my whimsical 4/20 post.

#5: Under My Skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsq6QgE5YHg

This is from a Lucky Star remix of Paffendorf feat. Leyla de Vaar’s Under My Skin (the Jens O. Remix). This is one of those videos you can’t avoid if you ever look for Lucky Star videos on NicoDou.

#6: ナイト・オブ・ナイツ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqSkzBT4QM

Night of Nights? Night of Knights? I dunno. But what I can tell you is that this song shows up everywhere. The first time I heard it was on the Softbank remix. Definitely one of the biggest songs since the last しも mix.

#7: ダンシング☆サムライ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONjNT4H2tI

lol, this song makes me happy every time I hear it. This is one of the most famous of the がくっぽいど (Gakuppoido) songs. がくっぽいど (or がくぽ for short) is a Vocaloid pack that sounds like Gackt.

#8: サンドキャニオン

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW6vVRF-MmA

If it surprises you that their is a Kirby song in here… well… I’m sorry. This song has been remixed to death. I mean, if you look up サンドキャニオン on YouTube, all you get are remixes. I literally cannot find the original. I chose my favorite for the YouTube above.

#9: スカイハイ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOYKsUEBp0

Everything I said about the Sand Canyon Kirby song above goes double for this one…

#10: ポップスター

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e097gE60RMo

…and this one…

#11: Got The Groove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zbiLjwYSPY

This one I actually missed until fairly recently. I’m super happy it got into the remix. If you can’t read it, it says “I want to die.” Put that with flashing lights and techno music, you have a classic NicoDou hit.

#12: 亡き王女の為のセプテット

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcsWt_WRbcc

This is a 東方 (Touhou) song that doesn’t get remixed as much as say, ナイト・オブ・ナイツ, which is exactly why I really don’t know it all that well.

#13: Bad Apple!! feat.nomico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GIMgD_gShU

I love this song. It’s basically a 東方 song with lyrics. But it’s addictive! No remix necessary.

#14: 俺ら東京さ行ぐだ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–dl-mtFObE

This song has a very special place in my heart, so I was thrilled to hear it in the mix.

#15: RAINBOW GIRL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBnAZ9oFtwY

I missed this song all together. Oh well, even I can’t see everything! Good song though!

#16: Starry Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9MCbsdCLhI

This remix of Starry Sky, and subsequently the IKZO remix, are the very reason this blog is called Yamatologic. So I am thrilled to hear it made the cut. But how could it not!

#17: Hello Windows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_eZPDEEms

Hello Windows is a song made with Windows default sound files. Brilliant. I never really realized this was a NicoDou original… or maybe it isn’t. But as a Mac guy, I never even thought to feature this one. Okay, I’m only half-serious there. Although, I would be willing to bet that it spawned the meme of remixing songs with Windows sounds.

#18: 最強パレパレード

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6vaE2MJ-Aw

A song from the ハルヒ radio show? I don’t know really. Apparently, this song out otakus me.

#19: 空

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd3qzoBFURs

A very solid Idolmaster song, but again, not one that I was big on.

#20: celluloid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StIc3YmP3xQ

A 初音ミク (Hatsune Miku) song that I missed. I admit it. A little lower tempo than I generally like.

#21: 初音ミクの消失

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4t91rScdSc

This song is so sad. I remember the first time I heard it, I nearly cried! This was featured in my 2008 Year in Review as my second favorite Vocaloid song.

#22: ライオン

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIuJFMMuwhk

I didn’t even have to watch マクロスF to have this song in my face wherever I went on the ‘nets. Pretty typical anime song if you ask me.

#23: 星間飛行

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6rxMjclVMw

I thought this was from Idolmaster for the longest time. It’s actually another song from マクロスF. The chick jumps out of a mech and puts on a concert in a battle zone to this song. I think this shows the whole 萌え (moe) in mecha anime issue fairly well. Silliness and everything that is wrong with anime.

That being said, I like the song. The whole キラッ☆ thing was spoofed in various places and all the attractive girls dancing to this song can’t be overlooked. The fans ate it up. This song is a phenomenon.

#24: ニホンノミカタ～ネバダカラキマシタ～

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tYi4cNhQZw

Oh man. This was one of the more amazing songs in recent history. Well, it isn’t much without the I was obsessed with this one for a while, but I can’t remember if I posted about it (maybe I avoided it cause it was all over Japan Probe or something). Needless to say, brilliant. DJ OZMA needs a freaking award for this shiz.

#25: Promise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrTqNYf58i4

I mean, yes, technically this means Promise by 広瀬香美 (Hirose Koumi) is in the mix, but the reason for it is the brilliant GET DOWN video.

#26: 魂のルフラン

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2shoPNQ_xMI

An Evangelion song. It has been popular since the late 90′s. I can’t really explain how it is possible that it can still be possible. Nope.

#27: ワールドイズマイン

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDWf-pPYNCw

My favorite Vocaloid song of 2008.

#28: おてんば恋娘

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wFDWP5JwSM

Again, technically this is おてんば恋娘 (Otemba Koimusume), but the REAL reason this song is included is チルノのパーフェクトさんすう教室, which I have featured too many times by now.

As you can probably see, there are also a few other arrangements of this song…

#29: TOWN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ViVSFIvNE

Also known as てってってー (Tettettei), this is just background music from parts of Idolmaster. But from such humble beginning, it became a remix sensation.

#30: ぽっぴっぽー

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhHn0SV2ZQ

You know you want to drink 初音ミク’s juice. Wow, that sounds really dirty when said outloud.

#31: 溝ノ口太陽族

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7SvKNHFUrw

lol, this show looks pretty awesome, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard of it until now.

#32: 崖の上のポニョ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K287ArocBaY

The big ジブリ (“Ghibli”) movie of last year was about the fish child.

#33: 伯方の塩

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GSgeyVIP24

This is the perfect example of what happens on NicoDou. Take one random commercial and remix ad infinitum.

#34: smooooch・∀・

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6s0HK-pKj0

Unfortunately, no one can be told what smooooch・∀・ is. You have to see it for yourself.

#35: ダブルラリアット

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2SvTRimous

The 巡音ルカ song that beat out all the others. Brilliant video too.

#36: ってゐ！～えいえんてゐVer～

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHV_btBupms

ってゐ is hard to put into ローマ字 (rouma ji) but I would do ‘Tei personally. Anyway, awesome song and video. 東方 kicked a lot of ass this time around.

#37: 炉心融解

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iDI8LUKEw

This song was at the top of the charts longer than just about anything. #26 in terms of all time views at this point. Amazing.

#38: おジャ魔女カーニバル!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr9iMZI3YBU

Mix silly kids dancing to that frog song with an anime opening and you get another one of the most popular videos of the last year. I love how they call that one kid “Young Gates.” This internet is for silly.

I could see my brother and I doing something like this 15 years ago… probably a good thing you couldn’t easily put video on the internet at that time… (-.-;)

#39: 青く燃える炎

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51kCLi0jyE

Prince of Tennis. One of the first NicoDou videos ever. Yeah. I’m done with this one.

#40: ザ・レギュラー

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2awyJNa4iBk

More Prince of Tennis musical. ;__;

#41: ハンマー状態

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tIC9Oftva4

YES. You know I’m happy about this one.

#42: RED ZONE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEWXJl0T5w

This is definitely the part of the mix that I liked best.

#43: Don’t say “lazy”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1o2xxyKdP4

Even though けいおん！ is pretty recent, I’m glad しも took the time to add this one to it.

#44: Reach Out To The Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFl6sWHmXI

I missed P4, but this goes out to ピーちゃん. ^^;

Thanks to Pikayan for a lot of help in getting the links to these videos. The NicoNicoPedia helped a lot with the names and 元ネタ (moto neta).

There are lots of versions out there of this out there now a week later:

【ニコニコ動画】七色のニコニコ動画の元曲と動画を合わせてみた（修正版）

【ニコニコ動画】「七色のニコニコ動画」に頑張って動画をつけてみた 【修正版】
Yes, these are two different versions where they take the original videos/MADs and make a mix.

【ニコニコ動画】『七色のニコニコ動画』 with VOCALOID年少組
With Vocaloid! I think they rushed this one a bit… the 流星群 Vocaloid one was so solid… oh well.

【ニコニコ動画】「七色のニコニコ動画」歌ってみた【samfree】
I’m not a samfree fan, but the speed at which this came out is pretty impressive.

【ニコニコ動画】【合】マリオシーケンサで「七色のニコニコ動画」【作】
Yes. Mario Paint.

【ニコニコ動画】【ほんこーん】七色のニコニコ動画を歌ってみた【ホコッ☆】
A girl from Hong Kong, calling herself ほんこーん (Honkoun) is protecting peace around the world by wooing all the NicoChu.

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【ニコニコ動画】七色のニコニコ動画.カラオケ字幕ver　【　修　正　版　】
And a カラオケ (karaoke) version so you can sing it too!

Last but not least, here is a YouTube playlist of all the above songs:

And that’s all folks! Have a nice colorful ニコニコ!

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【ニコニコ動画】韃靼海峡でグルメレース

【ニコニコ動画】韃靼海峡でRED ZONE

【ニコニコ動画】鳥羽一郎のパーフェクト韃靼海峡室

【ニコニコ動画】☆ダッタン☆

He’s no IKZO, but I ワロタｗｗｗ.

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“Captain, the enemy ships are moving toward each other!”

“This is it, if they attack each other, we will be able to escape without harm. Looks like we did the right thing to…”

“Captain! The ships are… merging!!!”

“?!”

“They’re performing a meme merger!!!”

“On screen, Ensign.”

“Yessir!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kAs4JfmK_Y

“Impossible!”

“Captain! They are beginning to multiply…”

【ニコニコ動画】妹様にナイツ・オブ・ゲッダンを踊ってもらった（修正版）

【ニコニコ動画】【マッシュアップ】ナイト・オブ・ゲッダン×promise【☆ゲッダン☆】

【ニコニコ動画】MikuMikuDanceでナイト・オブ・ゲッダン

【ニコニコ動画】ナイト・オブ・ゲッダン 4窓Ver.

【ニコニコ動画】【踊り】 ナイト・オブ・ナイツ（ｒｙを合わせてみた・番外編 【追加】

“We are getting a /talk.”

“Open the private channel.”

“We are the ナイト・オブ・ゲッダン. All Your Base Are Belong To Us. Your memealogical distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.”

“Dear God…”

“Captain! Orders?”

“Get us out of here, Ensign! MAX BANDWIDTH!”

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13.
【ニコニコ動画】【手書き】初音ミクの消失-DEAD END-【PV】

This 初音ミク song was one of my personal favorites. It’s so sad, but just so well done.

12.
【ニコニコ動画】「手書き」　ゆっくりでいいさ

The ゆっくり (Yukkuri) boom seems to have peaked and passed, but 2008 was fairly dominated by ゆっくり videos. Check out how many there are.

11.
【ニコニコ動画】☆ゲッダン☆

ゲッダン came up late in the game, but I have to say, I still can’t believe it. And I love it.

10.
【ニコニコ動画】初音ミク　が　オリジナル曲を歌ってくれたよ「ワールドイズマイン」

ワールドイズマイン was almost the best 初音ミク song of the year, if not for メルト kicking ass and taking names all over the world. Some of the ワールドイズマイン original drawing versions are pretty amazing, but that’s probably just cause the song is so good.

9.
【ニコニコ動画】さんぽ

This version of さんぽ (Sampo) from となりのトトロ (Tonari no Totoro) has so many Ghibli characters and crazy instruments, you can’t help but just feel warm and fuzzy while watching it.

8.
【ニコニコ動画】メルト-Band Edition-女性キーVer-歌ってみました。by歌和サクラ

メルト and ティッシュ姫 really rocked the charts this year. It is only fitting to have the fusion of the two. メルト technically came along in Dec. of 2007… Actually, so did ティッシュ姫. But, since they both had their heyday in 2008, I’ll forgive ‘em.

7.
【ニコニコ動画】[修造]ホットリックス　リローデッド[MAD]

When I saw this scene in the theaters, I remember hyperventilating over how amazing it was. So when they added the 松岡修造 voice overs, I almost died. Good show!

6.
【ニコニコ動画】チルノのパーフェクトさんすう教室(高画質・高音質版)H264

チルノのパーフェクトさんすう教室 (Chiruno no Paafekuto Sansuu Kyoushitsu) was the star of IOSYS for 2008. The remixes are fantastic and so is the original. Good job guys!

5.
【ニコニコ動画】ソフト・オブ・バンク

Various ナイト・オブ・ナイツ remixes ruled the end of this year. This is my favorite by far.

4.
【ニコニコ動画】特訓するぬこ（滑り込むぬこⅡ）

This cat. Brilliant to teach their cat to do that. When it gets stuck in the box, I died. I am but a ghost now. Heard the previous one of the series was pretty big on YouTube as well. (Series?!)

3.
【ニコニコ動画】M.C.ドナルドはダンスに夢中なのか？最終鬼畜道化師ドナルド・Ｍ
This video is fantastic for a lot of reasons. Now that I’m more into the 東方 Project, this makes way more sense than the first time I saw it on BoingBoing. This is definitely the world’s favorite nicovideo.

2.
【ニコニコ動画】VOCALOIDでニコニコ動画流星群【完成版】

This video introduced me to the ニコニコ動画流星群, and kept me coming back to ニコ動 for a long time. I listened to it so much, when I hear the original songs, I expect the next song to come up. I had to even stop listening to it, I was so obsessed. So this wins #2 hands down. Too bad it isn’t…

1.　
【ニコニコ動画】吉幾三×Capsule×DaftPunk×BeastieBoys　StarrySky – IKZOLOGIC Remix -

This song singlehandedly changed my life. It made me go to ニコ動 to listen to it. I got the “logic” for the end of Yamatologic from it. I still believe this is the pinnacle of human evolution. So, there is no question that it is the top of my 2008 list.

Happy New Year everyone! I can’t wait to see what 2009 has to bring!

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I love the internet. I mean, one little thing will get uploaded and then it seems to just spawn off into something completely different.

This is an excellent case study. So, if you didn’t put your GoldenEye N64 cartridge in all the way and played, the characters (and any model really) would just go crazy. Think human static, limbs flailing in all directions.

Then, someone did a MAD video of it to the song “Promise” by 広瀬香美 (Hirose Koumi).

THEN, someone just did a 2ちゃん cat instead of the models.

THEN, someone made 初音ミク do it.

THEN, someone drew it with a 東方プロジェクト character.

THEN, someone danced it for REAL.

…and then someone mixed it with 吉幾三…

And this blog post fulfills the life cycle. It can now die.

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