Hopefully, everyone else had a Merry Christmas, if not- there’s always New Year! /(_ _)\

But to say my Christmas was terrible isn’t right either.. there was Hellsing OVA 7, the promotional ep 1 airing of pantsu-loving loli anime - Chu-Bra, and Utawawamomo OVA 2 was awesome (still waiting for my blu-ray to arrive though).
Aruru-tan was cute as usual, but I particularly liked the monkey-raeps-eruru scene.
Later in the episode, we get aruru raeping the monkey back.  Yeah, serves him right!!
…

…. which reminds me of another nice Christmas Penguin raep scene by Tiru san.

Oh and the project-railgun team gave otaku the world over (ronery or not) a little Christmas gift as well.
A great bikini episode (kawaii yo, saten chan kawaii~) with biribiri in all her glory on the mega screen at the end.

In addition, Q;indivi apparently came out with a new cover of Wham’s hit, Last Christmas (yes…  not another one), which I found to be pretty nice.

Yeah. .I just had to post an idolm@ster video for for the occassion. ^o^ yukiho~  
We also had an epic 3DPV for [Escape] by Anomaro-san uploaded to youtube.
No new vocaloid x’mas song caught my attention in particular.. but I feel this song by M@SATOSHI is a bit underrated.
There’s also a megpoid x miku duet version.. but I prefer miku’s voice alone.
There’s an apparently fishing video though.
【初音ミク】めりー☆せっくすます【オリジナル】 (Merry☆Sexmas)

I mean the song is not bad, but do something about that title please!! ^^;;

(miku santa by utamaru-san (or shimaru..not sure how to read))
Not Christmas related, but this is pretty nice too.. it was a pretty rainy Christmas here in Singapore.

Apparently, the touhou people were too occupied with upcoming Comiket77 (29-31 December) and the complete version of Hong Meiling’s fantasy 3DPV video (youtube link) to be bothered with little things like Christmas (apart from a few x’mas remixes).

(pic by shakeco-san)

They’re also going crazy over a November MAD from the Chinese MAD community’s Spring-Autumn Contest, hitting a million views in just 4 days.
“Utopian Notturno” by Evanlet (Sakuramai M@D studio) – using the yoko kanno theme, yoru from Ragnarok Online 2 OST.

[ nico link uploaded on the 20th of December]

Well, I guess it was quite an eventful Christmas after all. ^^
Anyway, sorry for the late Christmas post! (or X’mas if you prefer it)
Here, take these home.

By nica-san, Azunyan and Ui would have been ideal. .but as far as the product packaging concept goes.. forcing lolicons to get mio (yes bash me) with uber kawaii loli azunyan – and say, pairing ui-tan with the less-wanted sawako sensei would be ideal.

Lastly, a John Lennon classic  ”Merry Christmas (War is Over)”  – praying for the innocents suffering from the greed of a few. That said, with Volvo sold to Geely and GM refusing another bid for Saab is quite a sad turnout for the Swedish automobile industry… and pride for that matter.

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Since kaze is away, I’ll be sneaking in another touhou post♥  kukuku. *_*
Oh, and the cute reimu pic above is from Collection:R (to be sold at comiket77 for 300 yen) by hagiwara san at pixiv♪ 

With the nico fans incessantly refreshing/reloading the bad apple shadow style vid daily, just so they can drop in nonsense messages like “this is my 3rd time today!”, the godly bad apple video has just crossed the 4.5 million views within 1 and a half month (ha! take that miku fans!!), wktkP, known for his 3rd MMD cup miku’s favor PV, has blessed touhou fans with another wonderful PV to add to the nico touhou PV collection. The fascinatingly well-orchestrated MMD touhou battle video is accompanied by touhou doujin-music circle Syrufit’s hit, Arc of Dream. 

Samples of the video up to sample 29 had been uploaded continuously on wktkP’s zoome page for nearly 2 months, until early December when only sample 12 (approximately half of the video) is left to invite serious drooling from hardcore fans.    The final verison of the video was finally uploaded on Sunday.  2-months time was definitely quite a bit of waiting, but after seeing the final product, all I can say is that it was well-worth it!!  

The video features mainly reimu in battle with remilia, with marisa appearing for a short moment towards the end, in what seems to be a slightly abrupt wrap up of the video.. as the comiket76 PV version of the song used is only 2:59 minutes.  Nonetheless, the video is sure to please touhou fans as it has already garnered more views than wktkP’s last works.

See for yourself:

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reddevils’ reprint on youtube

Here’s the full version of the song:
youtube reprint

Arc of dream is a remix on reimu’s theme [Shoujo Kisoukyoku (maiden's capriccio) ~ Dream Battle] from imperishable night, sung by Meme san.

and yes, ít’s a personal favorite. ^^

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For this year, a new vocaloid halloween event video worth highlighting is probably MachigeritaP’s new work, “Dream Meltic Halloween” .

MachigeritaP was also responsible for last year’s vocaloid halloween video hit, ” Halloween Monster Party Night“.

Unfortunately, I’ve not seen any new vocaloid videos utilizing the new nico(9)’s unlimited bitrate feature for their videos.
I hope I can look forward to awesome vocaloid HD PV on nico from now on \^^/

.. *cross fingers*

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On the wee hours of Tuesday, 27 October 2009, niconicodouga user Anira uploaded what may probably be the best “bad apple!! ft nomico” touhou PV EVER. The video views now races towards 200k views with 45k+ favorites at nico, while the highest viewed youtube mirror will probably go over 20k tonight. .. surprisingly I still see comments suggesting that some people who’d go around watching touhou vids have not heard of bad apple!! before………….. hard to believe..   That aside, the video was so impressive, even the circle Alstroemeria Records, responsible for the touhou arrange of reimu’s bgm, “Bad Apple!! feat nomico” in their August 2007 lovelight album, blogged on the video at their website.

The song itself is already a huge hit among touhou fans and various popular promotional videos (PV) have been made with it, but the video features a very stylish shadow art composition, utilizing beautiful shape transitions to illustrate different popular touhou characters throughout the shortened version of the song.  It was completely unique from the other PV and that’s probably got a lot of niconico people going crazy all over it.  I have no idea what software or how it was created, perhaps someone can enlighten me…
All i know is that God probably had some spare time.

Oh, and flan-chan’s definitely happy.. she’s got an awesome part in the video.

It’s best if you can head over to the original niconico (sm8628149) vid and mylist it,
those without nico accounts can use this link.

Or, you can also find the youtube reprint embedded down here:

As awesome as this video was, it actually had very humble beginning.
The original idea was actually conceived by NND user ”MMM” since June 2008 in this video (nm3601701).  Unfortunately, I cannot find any youtube uploads for it at the time of this post – nor for the hysterical comparison version of the 2 videos (sm8630663).

The original video was basically a 3 min 33 s simple hand-sketched storyboard playing along the shortened version of bad apple!! with a message saying “the uploader wants to see this (PV made).”  The author had various ideas, which were, for most parts, followed accurately in the final product above. 

Below are some of the screen caps from the original video, some nico ppl have taken a liking to call it the “legendary original video”, with simple translations in red.

Here we see reimu catching a falling apple..  that’s her hand by the way, what are you think you perv?

That is not a meat patty, no, it’s marisa flying in the evening sky while eating the apple she stole from reimu..

To be honest, I totally rolled on the floor over this… those 3 “ovals” there are the prismriver sisters performing the violin, trumpet, and keyboard.
Seriously, check out the comparison video.

Far from a godly beginning, albeit with some very good PV sense, to the final product we see here… it’s really amazing if you ask me.

Update: the original storyboard version has been uploaded to youtube 1~2 hrs ago ^^/

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Awesome!! So earlier today around 0.25 AM Japan time, Miku most popular and well known song, Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru♪, has break through 7 millions view! =D It was really a great thing to hear ^^ This song is really one of those song that brings me into VOCALOID world, in fact this song is one of the few songs of Miku that I first heard and instant favourite since I first listened to it =D What is your first few VOCALOID songs that you listened to?

It’s been around exactly two year and a month since the video was submitted in NicoNicoDouga 20th September 2007, and it’s been only around 7 months since it break through 6 millions view. Now this song is placed in the second most viewed video over at NicoNicoDouga ^^ Now let’s all enjoy the song! =D

Info from 初音ミクみく blog.

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