- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Galleries, Manga
- Date: Oct 8, 2008 17:31 JST
- Tags: CG, Guide, Illustration, Ino, Legends, MAD, Music, SAI, Video Gallery

One of the more interesting genres of video on Nico are the various videos of CG artists at work, and there are indeed quite a few of these. Here you can see some of the best, surely of great interest to CG art fans and artists alike.
The subjects for these illustrations are Hatsune Miku, Nagato Yuki and a headphone musume, so likely nobody will be disappointed (although unfortunately no ero-CG videos are possible on Nico).
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An 80 minute long compilation of some of the best and most unique Hatsune Miku Vocaloid tunes which have been published on NicoNico Douga. The variety on offer is quite impressive.
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The girls of Rozen Maiden appear in this interesting MAD, currently doing rather well on Nico. Amusingly incongruous choice of music.
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It has been announced that the new Nintendo DSi is set to get upgrades in line with what was rumoured, with Nintendo’s handheld now looking to be part of a wider plan to create a media distribution platform. The device will go on sale in November for ¥18,900, with an international release to follow in 2009.
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Fans of the Nintendo DS will be excited to learn of the upcoming new model, set to include a camera and music player (able to record music from CDs and the like), and improved memory card and wireless networking capabilities. A larger screen is also promised.
It is to go sale before the year is out, at a price of ¥16,800.
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Some excellent work on the visual side of things is evident in this freshly remade and already highly popular MAD, based on the character song for Lucky Star’s Tsukasa, but starring troubled idol Yukiho.
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This great Hatsune Miku MAD, a visual remix of the excellent, but visually deficient, “Epidemic Girl” tune, combines some superb music with extremely stylish visuals.
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Another legendary Touhou MAD in the making, currently gaining huge popularity. This is the preview “rough” version, but it is better even in this state than all but the greatest MADs, so the full should be one to look for.
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Touhou Rhythm Tengoku, in all its tegaki glory. The game itself, for the GBA and lately the DS, is still yet to receive an English release, strangely enough…
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PS3 owning RPG fans will be interested to hear that popular musically themed RPG トラスティベル 〜ショパンの夢〜 ルプリーズ / Trusty Bell ~Chopin no Yume~ Reprise, or Eternal Sonata – Reprise, to give it its rather better English title, has just been released in Japan for the PS3, with the English language release due in mid October.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Sep 18, 2008 22:07 JST
- Tags: AV, Idol, IdolM@ster, Music, Seiyuu, To Heart, Yukiho, Yurika Ochiai

“Former” porn star and seiyuu Yurika Ochiai (Yurishii) seems to be on the verge of losing her seiyuu status, with dwindling appearances and now the news that her twelve months of monthly consecutive singles, “YURIKA 12”, has just been cancelled with only five released.
The producing company offers the informative explanation: “Due to certain circumstances, we can no longer support the Yurika 12 site.”
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Another blockbuster cat MAD emerges on Nico, which is inevitably compared to the great Neko x Gong, though it seems the creator of this work has tried to accomplish something original; the results seem favourable. Watch it below.
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