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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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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＾)／

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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!

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?!

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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!)

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NicoSound

I have already suggested this to people in the comments, but the NicoSound service is amazing. It is a website where you enter an address of a ニコニコ動画, and it makes a downloadable mp3 of it. Super handy for us NicoMusic lovers.

Here’s some links to music featured on this blog. Go to the page and click the “パソコンへ転送” tab to download (see above screen shot).

1. I’m Bubble Man
2. ヒケナイ・モノ・ナイツ
3. Ukulele 帝国のマーチ
4. ニコどー！！
5. ソフト・オブ・バンク

Anyway, check out NicoSound so you can listen to NicoMusic wherever you may be.

Technorati Tags: download, mp3, music, NicoNicoDouga, NicoSound

Japan Nite 2009

Japan Nite is coming to LA on March 29th! It is a Sunday, but I don’t care if I have work at 5am the next morning. It’s my birthday weekend and I’m gonna party. Venue is the Knitting Factory, which I am excited about since every other Japan band that I’ve seen in LA seems to play the Whiskey, and there’s only so many times you can go there.

This is interesting since Tokyo Night is traditionally sometime in March/April. This could be a good spring!

The bands scheduled so far seem pretty interesting. My favorite so far was detroit 7, but they just added omodaka (above video) to the billing. Electropop with traditional Japanese sensibilities do it to me every time.

Be sure to check the official site for some more linkage to the various bands and a complete list of cities.

Oh heck, here’s some detroit7 anywho:


【ニコニコ動画】detroit7 – GRACIAS

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Megurine Ruka, our new Vocaloid girl!

【ニコニコ動画】VOCALOID CV03　巡音ルカ

A new voice for VOCALOID2 is coming out on January 30th! CV03′s name is going to be 巡音ルカ (Megurine Ruka). Seems like the official jury is out on whether or not he name should be spelled “Ruka” or “Luka.” I’m leaning towards Ruka since I have a very different image in my head of who Luka is.

The news coming out about her says that she will have both English and Japanese voice databases so she can sing in either language. He style is husky and jazzy. The character design, by KEI, has pinkish hair, blue eyes, and… well… large breasts. Yes, this is an official trait. (-.-;) Her special item doesn’t seem to be decided just yet, but it seems like it may be an actual tuna fish, a shovel, and or peaches.

Her other official traits are as follows:

* Age: 20
* Height: 162cm
* Weight: 45kg
* Style: Latin, Jazz, Ethnic Pop, House, Electronic Dance
* Tempo: 65 to 145 BPM
* Range: D3 to D5 (apparently she can do a wider range, this is just her specialty)

Anyway, I’m excited to see what Feburary brings us in the way of new NicoMusic. Not to mention all the random videos that will determine how we see her personality. Oh man, what a world.

Technorati Tags: anime, characters, Hatsune Miku, Megurine Ruka, music, nicovideo, vocaloid, 巡音ルカ

Absolute Silliness: Haruhi + Card Captor Sakura

【ニコニコ動画】ハルヒ「！？」

Okay, as an ex-animeholic, I try to stay away from Anime in general. For example, a new anime came out featuring 東方Project characters, I didn’t even blink and passed it up. That’s just how hard I am.

And I have never seen ハルヒ (Haruhi). Like I said, I generally don’t watch anime.

Regardless of these facts, the above video found on ニコニコ動画 made me couple over in laughter more times than I am willing to admit. The song is the opening theme to Card Captor Sakura.

I humbly submit this mote of silliness for your perusal.

Technorati Tags: anime, ハルヒ, Card Captor Sakura, Haruhi, lol, MAD, music, nicovideo, remix, singing, song