An rather imaginative Macross F MAD, this combines the classic Ranka Lee Kira musical sequence with the chaos of NicoNico Douga’s commenting system – it is in fact a compilation of the most interesting ascii art comments made over various versions of the video, compiled together to create a complete AA version.
It should become clear once you’ve seen the video:
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Keroro Gunsou has included some rather interesting parody material in the 234th episode; long suffering veteran Giroro is shown in a video player which resembles NicoNico Douga, with its trademark tickered comments, very strongly indeed. Even the comments are a studied Nico parody…
Unfortunately, despite the warnings to not upload the video to Nico, nobody has yet done so, so you’ll have to make do with the caps here.
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A storm has erupted over two girls who filmed themselves in a pantsu exposing dance (below), with Japan’s holy Atomic Dome in Hiroshima, the remnants of a building destroyed in the atomic bombing of the city, as a backdrop.
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NicoNico Douga’s fortunes may be turning once again, for we hear that the Japanese government, specifically the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, is set to put into action a plan which would enshrine in law special “cyber-districts”, where authors using commercially held copyrighted works in their creations would be legally allowed to ignore the usual requirements for permission and royalties.
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Two great Japanese obsessions collide in these videos of a 10-year-old American girl, Maxine, convincingly cosplaying Hatsune Miku whilst recreating some of the more famous MADs to grace MikuMiku Douga.
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NicoNico Douga’s dreams of world conquest may be over before they have begun, as it seems Google has acquired a service, Omnisio, which offers a strikingly similar feature set, including the ability to blanket videos in comments. The service is currently in beta on YouTube.
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Data and insider anecdote both point to a sudden and precipitous collapse in YouTube pretender NicoNico Douga’s popularity; in the face of such a reverse the talk of making Nico into national infrastructure seems mere hubris – it may be lucky to ever turn a profit, let alone expand overseas.
Might this have something to do with the recent supplication of Nico before its new masters? In all probability, yes; the graphs really speak for themselves on this.
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NicoNico Douga bosses 夏野剛 / Takeshi Natsuno (a seasoned seller of mobile phone melodies parachuted in to try to stop the cash haemorrhage at Nico’s managing firm Niwango) and 西村博之 / Hiroyuki Nishimura (no less a man than the founder of 2ch and now Nico honcho) have given a most interesting interview on the future and past of NicoNico.
Much is revealed of their plans for expansion; notably we hear they intend to see NicoNico become a part of the national infrastructure of Japan, that they intend a plan of overseas expansion, just as soon as they have dealt with the trifling matter of losing millions of dollars, and that, yes, the biggest challenge facing them may indeed be kowtowing to the intellectual property cartels without wiping their servers bare.
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Some extreme talent on display; as if the Stronger Idols weren’t example enough of the skill to be found on Nico, now we have this immaculate music video of the Lucky Star girls.
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Non-Japanese speaking Idolmaster fans may be interested to see this English language (or at least Engrish) Idolmaster site “The Idolmaster MAD World Service”, billing itself as “The Gentleman’s Guide to the Idolmaster”. They serve up regular introductions to the latest MADs doing the rounds on NicoNico Douga, and have plenty of supplementary information and guides, which should be decipherable.
Probably most notably, and usefully (not to mention vexingly, for those of us with incompatible hosts), they have embedded Nico videos, so you can enjoy the latest without having to visit Nico itself, or make an account.
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