/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Continuing from >>21113858, the 400+ ML videos from the first half of February 2019. This is mostly uneventful, with one or two viral hits, right up until a truly remarkable video that heralds a new era of Kemono Friends @ Nico. You may have noted that I have not actually summarized the the content of any of the episodes themselves or really even the premise of the show itself. This is because, in some sense, up until now it hasn't actually mattered. Given that it's about to start mattering, I'll just crash everyone in with the bare minimum to understand what's to come.

Season 1: Kaban-chan awakens on a park full of animal girls called Friends, and joins Serval and Lucky Beast on a quest to find the library and discover what kind of animal she is.
Season 2: Kyururu, accompanied by Serval and Caracal, follow clues left in Kyururu's notebook in the search for "home."

So, there we are. The first half of this month is unremarkable except for one video near the end in which the summary is so long I dumped it into a separate post. Our time in limbo is ending; you are entering purgatory.

Part 2 - February (First Half) - A Flame is Lit

2/05* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 4 "Different Kinds of Houses"

2/06* Doubutsu Biscuits x PPP Third Single "Hop in! Japari Beat" PV

2/06 Jaguar has arrived! / Japari ga Yatte Kita zo! (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34589703))
- Really more of a highly overdue S1 work given the choice of characters, but Kemono Friends it is. A hand-animated parody of "Akari-chan ga Yatte Kita zo", a well-known video from GYARI (best known for "Akane-chan who will listen to anything you say.") I thought this might be a Jaguar-driven UTAU but it's the original audio. It's still cute, though.

2/07 Komiya Friends 2 ~Hop in! Japari Beat~ (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34593437))
- A voice MAD cover of Japari Beat by Idolmaster's Komiya Kaho, or more accurately, her UTAU. Although it's really not quite just her UTAU, since that they've replaced not only all the vocal parts with Kaho's voice, but all the instruments as well. Those of you who have heard Japari Beat may remember that it is instrumentally backed by trumpets and near an entire brass band, so the results of replacing the whole thing with Kaho voice clips are... quite something. As always, the effort the Japanese people into random MADs never fails to impressive.

2/12* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 5 "Human's Strength"

2/13* Kemono Friends 2 Opening Theme

2/14 Yukkuri commentary on KF2 #5 (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34631105))
- And here we fucking go. First, what it is: an anaylsis/commentary video of Kemono Friends Episode 5 narrated by the omnipresent yukkuri voice that's everywhere on Nicovideo. At it's core, it's not that unusual: it's essentially vblog commentary with impressions and criticisms of about an anime episode. What IS sort of unusual is the amount of fame it received: it's not every day that a video featuring an animatronic voice merely talking about an anime gets nearly 3K mylist. (Incidentally, one must thank the Japanese tendency to produce videos utilizing text-to-speech and powerpoint-style presentations, rather than creators forcing people to listen to their dumb voice and look at their dumb face for fifteen minutes. Talking head videos should be outlawed.) At nearly 17 minutes, the whole thing is too long to summarize cleanly, so I'll just try to cover the major points... in another post, since it got really, really long.

Continuing from >>21113858, the 400+ ML videos from the first half of February 2019. This is mostly uneventful, with one or two viral hits, right up until a truly remarkable video that heralds a new era of Kemono Friends @ Nico. You may have noted that I have not actually summarized the the content of any of the episodes themselves or really even the premise of the show itself. This is because, in some sense, up until now it hasn't actually mattered. Given that it's about to start mattering, I'll just crash everyone in with the bare minimum to understand what's to come.

Season 1: Kaban-chan awakens on a park full of animal girls called Friends, and joins Serval and Lucky Beast on a quest to find the library and discover what kind of animal she is.
Season 2: Kyururu, accompanied by Serval and Caracal, follow clues left in Kyururu's notebook in the search for "home."

So, there we are. The first half of this month is unremarkable except for one video near the end in which the summary is so long I dumped it into a separate post. Our time in limbo is ending; you are entering purgatory.

Part 2 - February (First Half) - A Flame is Lit

2/05* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 4 "Different Kinds of Houses"

2/06* Doubutsu Biscuits x PPP Third Single "Hop in! Japari Beat" PV

2/06 Jaguar has arrived! / Japari ga Yatte Kita zo! (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34589703))
- Really more of a highly overdue S1 work given the choice of characters, but Kemono Friends it is. A hand-animated parody of "Akari-chan ga Yatte Kita zo", a well-known video from GYARI (best known for "Akane-chan who will listen to anything you say." I thought this might be a Jaguar-driven UTAU but it's the original audio. It's still cute, though.

2/07 Komiya Friends 2 ~Hop in! Japari Beat~ (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34593437))
- A voice MAD cover of Japari Beat by Idolmaster's Komiya Kaho, or more accurately, her UTAU. Although it's really not quite just her UTAU, since that they've replaced not only all the vocal parts with Kaho's voice, but all the instruments as well. Those of you who have heard Japari Beat may remember that it is instrumentally backed by trumpets and near an entire brass band, so the results of replacing the whole thing with Kaho voice clips are... quite something. As always, the effort the Japanese people into random MADs never fails to impressive.

2/12* Kemono Friends 2 Episode 5 "Human's Strength"

2/13* Kemono Friends 2 Opening Theme

2/14 Yukkuri commentary on KF2 #5 (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm34631105))
- And here we fucking go. First, what it is: an anaylsis/commentary video of Kemono Friends Episode 5 narrated by the omnipresent yukkuri voice that's everywhere on Nicovideo. At it's core, it's not that unusual: it's essentially vblog commentary with impressions and criticisms of about an anime episode. What IS sort of unusual is the amount of fame it received: it's not every day that a video featuring an animatronic voice merely talking about an anime gets nearly 3K mylist. (Incidentally, one must thank the Japanese tendency to produce videos utilizing text-to-speech and powerpoint-style presentations, rather than creators forcing people to listen to their dumb voice and look at their dumb face for fifteen minutes. Talking head videos should be outlawed.) At nearly 17 minutes, the whole thing is too long to summarize cleanly, so I'll just try to cover the major points... in another post, since it got really, really long.