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Rate Your Japaneseness… ZERO ONE!

【ニコニコ動画】ZERO-ONE(simon respect mix + H + more)に元ネタ画像を付けてみた「ｾﾞﾛﾜｰﾝ」

This is awesome. Watch this video (if you don’t like the song, just jump to 3:55 for the main event), and every time you get the reference they are making, give yourself a point. There are 104 ZERO-ONEs! So take your score, and then divide by 104. This is the probability you are Japanese. Not seriously, but there are a lot of random references, and you would have to be very knowledgeable about Japan (Japanese television mostly) to get a good score. I personally got 37.5%! w00t! How did you do?

Technorati Tags: anime, music, nicovideo, quiz, random, survey, television, test

Utada Mini-Tour in LA, Miami, and New York

OMG, I hate my life sometimes. I just heard that 宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru) is doing a little mini-tour/listening session thing for “This Is The One” in 3 US cities. If it was in San Fransisco, I would sadly just justify not being able to go, but that fact that the 3 cities are Miami, New York, and LA (at the Sephora store in Hollywood, which is in LA for those who don’t know), I really want to go. BUT I am working until 8 pm this whole week, and the LA event is March 24th from 6pm-8pm.

Of all the stupid timing…

Go RSVP for the event on the facebook page.

Technorati Tags: ヒッキ, concert, crap, hikki, Hollywood, live, Los Angeles, music, Sephora, timing, Utada, 宇多田ヒカル

Telepathy, Telepathy

【ニコニコ動画】【初音さん】テレパステレパス【オリジナル】

This is the cutest song and music video I’ve seen in a long while. I guess it could also be seen as scary, depending on if you can be scared by cute little black and white cartoons. The story of the girls who suddenly get telepathic and find out that they are all dating the same guy is flipping awesome. If you understand Japanese, please watch the NicoNicoDouga version. Embedded here is the YouTube version with awesomely awkward subtitles. I wouldn’t have translated it this way, but at the same time, there is art in this translation.

Technorati Tags: ニコニコ動画, 音楽, Hatsune Miku, miku, music, NicoNicoDouga, nicovideo, telepath, telepathy, 初音ミク

Cirno isn’t stupid, she’s just special!

【ニコニコ動画】チルミルチルノPV 恋のミクル伝説/おてんば恋娘　H.264高画質 (Short animated version)

【ニコニコ動画】C.M.C F (Full version of the song, minus animation)

Man, I dunno what is in the air recently, but there is a lot of チルノ (Chiruno) videos going around recently. Figured I’d update ya’ll on some of them, after the jump! The one above seems to be from a non-IOSYS version of the チルノ song, おてんば恋娘 (otemba koimusume). The thing that is the clincher on this one is that チルミル is a baby formula with DHA, to make them smarter… pimped by Cirno, known to be the バカ⑨ of the 東方 universe. Then there is something about her eating frogs… Don’t make me explain everything! XD (Okay, that’s based on the whole things where she freezes frogs when she’s bored… there, I’m done.)

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Technorati Tags: anime, チルノ, チルノのパーフェクトさんすう教室, チルミル, フィギュア系, baby formula, Chiba Shiga Saga, chiruno, Cirno, figure-kei, figurine, hammer, HAMMER ZONE, iosys, Japanese girls, meme, music, nicovideo, video games, videogames, 千葉滋賀佐賀, 東方

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)

Technorati Tags: ワンルーム・ディスコ, cute, Danny Choo, idol, Idol Master, Japanese girls, music, music video, nicovideo, One Room Disco, perfume, techno, technopop, ystk

Jinsei Owata!

【ニコニコ動画】【東方アレンジ】オワタ＼(＾o＾)／エイジア【人生ｵﾜﾀ】[猫]

In celebration of the dying world economy, the new Team Neko Can song (of エアーマン fame, this song based on a 東方 song) is plays off the whole ＼(＾o＾)／人生ｵﾜﾀ (jinsei owata) thing. Nothing else to do than throw your arms up int he air and proclaim “I’m finished!” Fun little song. Hahaha! ＼(＾o＾)／

Technorati Tags: airman, オワタ, 終わった, ＼(＾o＾)／, j-rock, jinsei owata, music, nicovideo, Ottawa, owata, rock, Team Neko Can, Teamねこかん, 人生オワタ

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!

Technorati Tags: anime, チルノ, chiruno, Cirno, cute, 焼肉, hell, iosys, japanese bbq, korean bbq, music, nicovideo, shrine maiden, touhou, yakiniku, 東方

RED ZONE

RED ZONE seems to be the meme of the hour. I can’t get the song out of my head now. Will you now suffer the same fate?! They say misery loves company.

【ニコニコ動画】RED ZONE FULL
This is the full song from Beatmania… I think.

【ニコニコ動画】【beatmaniaIIDX】RED ZONE弾いてみたんだ。【ギター】
A guy playing it on guitar (!?).

【ニコニコ動画】KONATA ZONE
And a らき☆すた remix.

【ニコニコ動画】RED　ZONE-KARA！
And a remix from that おめぇの席ねぇから video.

【ニコニコ動画】【吉幾三】IKU ZONE【RED ZONE】
Yes, there’s an IKZO one.

【ニコニコ動画】SHINSUKE ZONE
The guy from the Miura Commercials!

【ニコニコ動画】【音ゲーMAD】PASSION ZONE【パッション屋良】
Passion too!

【ニコニコ動画】RED SHU-ZONE【音ゲー×松岡修造】
And of course, 松岡修造.

Now, do you EVER want to hear that song again?!

Technorati Tags: おめの席じゃねぇから, guitar, IKZO, konata, Lucky Star, Matsuoka Shuzo, megaman, megaman x, music, nicovideo, Passion, RED ZONE, Shinsuke, 松岡修造

Morning Musume in LA

What the hell… Morning Musume have been announced as the guests of honor at Anime Expo. It is like all my adolescent dreams are coming true, just 10 years later.

This video is apparently their newest single. I seriously don’t recognize any of them… Okay, maybe one or two, but they were n00bs when I last paid attention.

Also, isn’t this a little bit non-anime related? I mean, Shokotan made a bit more sense, she is the queen of all otaku. Morning Musume, while probably loved by otaku world round, aren’t exactly directly related to anime nor manga.

BUT this is a good thing. The more Anime Expo becomes more about Japan, the happier I will be!

In any case, look forward to this coming in early July!

Technorati Tags: anime, anime expo, concerts, conventions, idol, Japanese girls, morning musume, music, music video, video

Warning, Smash Bros. fans only

Yes! A remix of the hammer song. I need to download this right now. I hope you do as well.

This is from the RED ZONE meme going around. The Ronald McDonald one is good, but c’mon, it’s the hammer! (The Mario one is pretty excellent too, but I have to stay true to Smash Bros!)

Technorati Tags: games, hammer, music, nicovideo, RED ZONE, smash bros