maru is one of the most famous electone performer in Nico Nico douga. Many of the Japanese children nowadays study electone (yes, I used to play it too long time ago...) but her performances are quite amazing.
Pirates of the Caribbean
The word "Onsha" is used to refer politely to the company you are talking to.
When the word "Onsha" is used in Nico Nico Video, it usually refers to a company that the CEO always uploads various products of Miku as an afterwork hobby.
The first video was car marking
Wall paper
PC case and mouse
Inspired by the horsehead musician, Jimuin-G started to upload his music performances- he is performing alone too, but he is doing it LIVE.
I went to Nico Nico Live which many of the musicians performing and uploading videos to Nico Nico Douga gathered- and Jimuin-G came with his xylophone to the live house and performed those music live... it was amazing!!
Jimuin means office clerk... he's not a professional musician. He is an office clerk.
In my last post, I have written how MikuMikuDance(MMD) - a user generated free 3D modelling tool has enabled people to start creating 3D animes.
Then, proposed by Hanya-san, operated by Kanna-san, a video contest called "MikuMikuDance Cup" took place in NicoNicoDouga, where people uploades their videos created with MMD.
Announcement of MMD Cup as follows:
I have written a post on how creators started to make Miku 3D anime videos on this post.
Those videos were created by users who had 3D modelling tools.
After a while, this creator made a tool to create 3D animes and distributed on the website for free, which enabled LOTS of users to try creating 3D animes for the first time. Whilst most of the 3D modelling tools are expensive, this tool was completely free, easy to use (this creator says he has used 3D tool for the first time and made this video within 90 minutes) , and had Miku modelling data by default. As of 2008/8/18, there are 1,822 videos tagged "mikumikudance " in NicoNicoDouga.
Many offered to pay the creator for this tool, which the creator did not accept saying it was not made for the money. This reaction made a new buzz word called "furikomenai-sagi". This comes from a social problem called "Furikome -sagi". "Furikome" means "pay the money to my bank account" and "sagi" means "fraud". Old people got phone calls saying their grandchildren are sick or in trouble and they must pay the money to a certain bank account to help them out. Innocent old people just obeyed what they were told and paid lots of money by this fraud. On the contrast, the creator of MikuMikuDance did not accept any offer to pay- so this was called "Furikomenai-sagi" meaning " I can't pay fraud" as a joke. But seriously, I think this creator deserves donations for this amazing tool.
You can download the tool here free, the website is in English.
You can see the operation tutorial video here:
This is one of the favorite series by the Nicochus.
This guy with horse head mask is Mr. Ine Nakamura, he's still a highschool student.
He plays many musical instruments by himself, and they're damn good! :)
Phun is an amazing software, created by professor Emil Ernerfeldt and his students at VRlab(Virtual Reality Laboratory) of Umea University in Sweden.
You can draw squares and circles instinctly, and because you can set parameters such as gravity, weight, balance, strength, material (liquid or solid) etc extremely easily, it enables you to think, play, simulate various things.
A while ago, every time a visitor comes to my office, I used to let them try out Phun for 5 minutes and they LOVED it.
Manuals are not needed a it is sooooo instinctive. Very cool. And it's FREE.
You can download the software from here
This is a demo movie;
Nico Nico creators found and picked it up very quickly and started to make amazing Phun videos. There are 607 Nico Nico videos tagged "phun"
There is a Japanese TV show called Pitagora- switch, this is a Phun version of that- called Nico Nico Switch.
Moe- according to wikipedia is : 萌え, Moe? /mo'e/, pronounced "mo-eh" literally "budding", as with a plant) is a Japanese slang word originally referring to fetish for or love for characters in video games or anime and manga. Sha means cars.
On 7/20 2008, people who has moe-sha gathered in Gifu to show off their cars... you won't believe this video!
"nico" comes from nico nico douga.
"mas" comes from a xbox360 game (was originally arcade game) called " IDOLM@STER"
IDOLM@STER enables you to become a in-game producer and produce an idol singer.
There are a lot of Nico Nico douga users that loves idol m@ster, and they create lots of idol master MADs. These are called Nico-mas. There are 40,379 nico nico douga videos with idol master tags. There are MANY Nico mas communities within nico nico douga community, and I could find a list of more than 150 nico mas communities here... and there must be more I think.
I think many boys- not just Japanese- loved to watch girls' idol singers when they were young. If you play with IM@S, you can be the producer of various virtual idol girls and lead them to become a star!
They have made verious type of girls- cute ones, older but beautiful ones, a girl with glasses, twins, etc. They have also made various songs that became popular among the nico chus.
Some of the idol master songs look like this:
In this video, you can see lots of comment arts that users created on top of the video:
This is one of the cool iM@S MAD animes, THE iM@TRIX RELOADED OP
Another MAD here, THE iDOL M@STER - ACM Will Rock You！
In general, Nico Nico users do not reveal their real names nor their faces. Nico mas producers name themselves as producer names in the game anyways, so often those names becomes their Nico video handle names. (For example, if my in-game producer name was "Fumi", people would call me "Fumi-P", P stands for Producer)
Last month, 108 Nico mas producers gathered to make a 24 hour Nico Nico TV program, each creating 5-20 min MAD anime clips. It's not really a "TV" program, but they made 24 hours worth of videos and played them in Nico Nico Douga- which is amazing!
Here you can see the opening video;
This is the list of all the 24hour videos
This is the time table (goes on for 24 hours)
wiki for the 24 hour event
live BBS during the 24 hour event
They had a voting contest during the 24 hour event :
The whole site is dedicated to introducing good nico-mas videos.
BTW, this Master Artists series has the total of 6,000,000,000 yen(60,000,000USD)
including all the games and related products, which is like... gosh!!!
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Neko means cats, and Nabe means pots.
Neko Nabe is a very popular video in Nic Nico Douga, with 1 million view.
