/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Following up on >>21108337, here's the summary of 500+ mylist videos from January 2019. This is actually remarkably uninteresting because Kemono Friends 2 has only reached it's third episode at the end of the month, and at this point in time merely aggressively mediocre instead of the garbage fire of the century, and so the videos created this month are almost a "typical" Nico reaction to an airing anime - but I'm adding it anyway just so we can marvel at how much things can change in the space of a few short months.

Part 1 - January - Hoping for the Best

As a sequel to one of the most loved and acclaimed anime in recent history (no, really, it won awards and stuff) the first few episodes of Kemono Friends 2 were somewhat of a disappointment for most fans, although having seen some of the previewed visuals there was hardly shock and horror. The studio was new to 3D and Director Kimura was still, at this point in time, just "that Aikatsu guy." His name will go down in history for another reason later on, but we're not there yet. Without further ado:

1/06 Carnival Friends [Fossa Complete Edition] (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34431413))
- A brilliant animated version of the Carnival Phantasm OP with Kemono Friends characters. Actually an updated version of an earlier video, adding Fossa, who had been left out in an oversight. One of the stanzas of the KF1 OP "Welcome to Youkoso Japari Park" is, after all, "nobody gets left out." The description of the video itself leads with: "Let's all look forwards to Season 2!!!", a peace offering and auspicious event to mark the coming of the new era of Kemono Friends.

1/07* Kemono Friends 2 Preview
- I think there was a preview stream here. I didn't watch this.

1/10 Moose-sama's Adorable Gourmet Race! (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34451804))
- A rather unremarkable video, as it's one of many hundreds if not thousands of anime MADs set to Kirby's Gourmet Race. It's primary fame to claim, though, is that at this point in time it is the second most viewed video in all of Nicovideo history (!), gracing the top of the Nicovideo daily ranking for months and months on end, continuing into the present day, and probably well into the future. At nearly 22 million views, it's hot on the heels of #1, the original Bad Apple!! video at 26M+ views, having taken only months to surpass ancient classics like 2007's Let's Go! Onmyouji (~18M) and Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru (~13M). This is, of course, because it's being botted to shit. Also everybody knows it's being botted to shit. I think they think it's funny.

1/15* Kemono Friends 2 OP - Hop in! Japari Beat (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34476537))
- The OP. It's okay, I guess. Executed by Doubutsu Biscuits (the seiyuu unit for 3/4 main KF1 characters) and PPP (the seiyuu unit for the in-universe idol-group also named PPP.) Not really a match for Welcome to Youkoso Japari Park but not much is.

1/15* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 1

1/18 KF2 OP set to Kaban's Journey (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34492664))
- The first blow for nostalgia: a video overlaying the S2 OP Japari Beat with the events of Kemono Friends Season 1. Very well-executed, covers all the highlights you'd want it to. Excellently choreographed, really. Hardly a declaration of war but it does go to show you that everyone left their heart in S1.

1/19 KF2 ED overload (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34498238))
- ED Connecting the Stars by new seiyuu unit Gothic x Luck for characters Western Parotia and Greater Lophorina (both birds), 中毒 version. It's no Boku no Friend, but still decent.

1/21 KF2 OP on Strings (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34505481))
- Exactly what it says on the tin.

1/22* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 2

1/27 American Version of the KF2 OP (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34537947))
- A sequal to the American version of the KF1 OP, where they've managed to replace all the characters with (sadly, CGI and not real) hulking WWE wrestlers cosplaying as Kemono Friends characters, which is about as ridiculous as it sounds. Get your laughs in while you can.

1/29* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 3

So there you have it, a month of NND videos so unremarkable that one might wonder why I even bothered summarizing them, to which I can only say that I guess I'm a completionist. Things don't quite start burning to the ground in February, but they do start to get interesting, which I'll do tomorrow or the day after if the thread's still around.