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Do do do do dooo, do waaaah!
It doesn’t matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, with Mentos fresh and full of life. Nothing gets to you, staying fresh staying cool, with Mentos fresh and full of life. Fresh goes better, Mentos freshness! Fresh goes better with Mentos, fresh and full of life!
Mentos: The Freshmaker.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion has a very epic opening sequence, really one of the the best there is. From the song to the almost subliminal high-velocity visuals towards the end this OP (and the series itself) is truly revolutionary. To my disappointment though, GAINAX didn’t create a remake of the OP even though they managed to copy the first 6 episodes of the original anime almost religiously in the recent first Rebuild of Evangelion movie. Thankfully, the great otakus of Japan and the world have come up and are coming up with unique homages of this great OP. Even when the original is already around 13 years old, the parodies still keep coming. It stands the test of time, and I think this is the oldest animeme in my book, way before the video internet is even born. I recall I even had small asf/rm videos of Evangelion OP parodies. There also is, of course, the classic Budweiser ad spoof. Good times baby, good times.
True, true.
P.S. And there’s the Mentos one too.
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Yet another Touhou doujin music, but this one’s interesting. It not only derives from Touhou, but from other meme references like a certain Idolmaster song, the Mojipittan song, Haruhi, the Onmyouji song, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, and a reference to all the flat-chested anime girls in the world. All mixed together in a catchy-cute package made by doujin music maker Silver Forest. The song is effective enough to make me listen to it time and time again. The viral flash video seems equally hectic too, although I don’t see many unique versions.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlNV_QMTKo&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
Remember this little cute scene in Lucky Star where Yutaka-chan silently listens to music, slowly bobs her head to the tune, and then sings some lines of Mojipittan? Absolute moe~! In the original scene though, it’s completely silent before she sang, so many wondered what she was listening to. Now that we know, shall we make her listen to other songs instead?
It gets old fairly quickly but please do look at some of these, some are equally cute, and some weird ones as well. There are also those long long medleys of multiple songs, but those sometimes lose the point entirely. I think there are better ways to go about this meme, so I’m looking forward to seeing more out of this Yutaka-chan listening scene.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkIl1HD3BS4&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
Another one of those viral flash videos from IOSYS. This is a bit lesser known, but they certainly brought the cuteness factor higher here. This song is still rehashed from Touhou music, but not only that, it was actually made from three themes! Unbelievable! And to think that the lyrics make more sense than the Marisa thing…
Total sugary moe~! Touhou seems to be an overflowing source of doujin and meme ideas. I haven’t even played any of those games yet.
Moar
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THIS IS LEGEND.
Originally it was just some cute OP for a supposedly cute game, but for some reason it became one of the most parodied opening sequences ever! The good thing about it is the quality of some of those parodies. This is quite a hard piece to spoof, and yet many a MAD-maker proved to me yet again how much time and dedication they have in their hands. There’s just so many of them out there, it’s so hard to cherry-pick the good ones, so the ones featured here are some of my favorites. Searching for “kishimen” (or much better “ãã—ã‚ã‚“”) along with the name of the anime of choice, and chances are there will be one.
Three years… what else can I say?
I would like to thank everyone, be it fellow anime bloggers, avid and new readers, or crawling bots (yep gotta thank them too) for visiting my site. You have been my inspiration and motivation to continue this expression of fandom. I don’t need to make mentions because in one way or another all of you are awesome!
I’m pretty consistent too… the blog has garnered 1.5 million hits. That’s almost 500,000 [per->year-1] [year->year-2].
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I look forward to more anime, more moe~, more dorama, more lolis, more… eh screw it… I simply want MOAR!
Cheers for more years to come!
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The virus that spread like wildfire. IOSYS is famous for making flash animation shots to go along with their doujin music for Touhou, but this remains one of their most memorable work. Before the legend though, the theme was originally in Perfect Cherry Blossom, the seventh Touhou shooter game. Actually, the animation didn’t make a lot of sense, neither does the song itself which is full of Engrish lyric mockery. Despite that, the song is a tremendous hit, and it may have kickstarted the once-limited doujin music industry into one that can take on the big guys. This song is still on my music playlist after more than a year. It’s catchy, it’s cute, and it’s mindless fun.
Moar:
Doll Judgment ~ The girl who played with people’s shapes – This is the original theme. It’s the boss theme for Alice Margatroid. You can hear it has a dark and ominous tone, very unlike the hectic remix.
The Shinigami Stole The Precious Thing – JUST AS PLANNED.
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Is GAR the right term for this movie? Even before it was shown in theaters, the trailer itself spawned quite a load of bada$$ lines and memes, like the infamous “THIS IS SPARTAAAA!” So… maybe otaku in Japan got thinking of great things on their own eh? Sure enough, they will never hide in the shade. Indeed, it is madness, but is also huge success. I’m making a note here.
Before I drown myself with unrelated memes, just watch these small but awesome collection of 300 spoofs and parodies. The last one is very, very nice.
Moar:
Naruto 300 – Lots of Naruto+300 ideas around but this is the best I’ve seen. Even if you don’t like Naruto, you can appreciate this one.
I shouldn’t spoil this one, just watch and discover it for yourself!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpFOJbIhAY&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
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Pocky + Orange Range + Aragaki Yui = TOTAL DOMINATION. This is a rare but absolutely catchy commercial that only a few people caught and cared to spoof. But still, it’s pure WIN for pocky fans. Look especially at the Hatsune Miku version. Super-moe~!
What else can I say? This should be the dance of the century!