
The latest incarnation of the Night of Nights MAD-meme takes the form of a classical rendition incorporating a violin faux duet and piano backing.
The results are rather interesting:
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The “Nyan-Nyan Special Service Medley” compilation song from the recently released Macross F Vocal Collection – Nyan-Tama♀ has reached a healthy 90,000 views on Nico in little over a week.
For those who may not have had the pleasure of hearing it, it has been hosted here for your convenience…
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Hatsune Miku performs classic Vocaloid song “Innocence”, in absolutely stunning 3D. This is surely the current pinnacle of 3D CG MADs, and easily the best 3D CG music video featuring Miku to date. Definitely not one to miss.
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The by now famous Night of Nights musical meme now gets a unique twist by way of a talented guitarist, identified only as Machiya, reworking it to fit the instrument. The result is rather impressive, and undeniably skilful:
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Singer-seiyuu 中島愛 / Megumi Nakajima, famed as Ranka Lee and little else, has caused a NicoNico sensation in more ways than one, by uploading a charmingly amateurish, but extremely skilful and kira-laden, rendition of her single “Be Myself” in a spot of cunning marketing. A mere 32 hours after release and she has accumulated 180,000 views, probably a record success.
However, the storm of censorship she invoked from Nico’s management to quell insufficiently worshipful comments also caused something of a sensation…
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In this compilation of various tracks from a multitude of visual novels and eroge, running to 80 minutes, you can familiarise yourself with some of the best music the genre has to offer. There is some really rather nice music featured.
Everything from the lyrics to the source album and game are displayed for each track, albeit in Japanese; feel free to ask after anything you have trouble identifying.
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Touhou gets a rather interesting gothic themed MAD in this video, replete with sinisterly reworked character designs and music.
All very original, and well worth a look:
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This series of videos offers a variety of stylish anime OPs, but unlike the previous series, the proportion of easily recognisable classics is much lower – you’re sure to see some interesting new material I’d wager, and in fact you may have an experence similar to mine and barely have even heard of some of the titles, let alone have seen the OPs in question.
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Record of Lodoss War fans will doubtless already be familiar with the legendary opening song 奇跡の海 / Kiseki no Umi / Sea of Miracles; anyone who isn’t familiar can of course listen to it below. But all will likely be interested to hear that the song has been given a variety of interesting alternative Vocaloid versions, the best of which you can compare below:
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As with the first, he we see a compilation of more stylish and interesting anime openings:
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The Code Geass Nippon-pon-pon MADs we saw so much of previously have actually spawned an entire sub-genre of anime remix MADs, and this video, featuring Toradora’s moe icon Minorin, is the result.
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Here we see a select compilation of some of the most stylish and well executed anime opening sequences; as you might expect, the proportion of popular classics featured is high…
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