Three-Year Anniversary!
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].
Please also cast your votes at the Anime Blog Awards. Readers can now vote on the People’s Choice. They represent some of the best anime blogging has to offer. Because I believe the anime blog community is the best blogging community on the internets… ever!
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!
Da Capo II: Yume Asakura
Animeme: Marisa Stole The Precious Thing
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kVVKT-2v0&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
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.
Animeme: 300
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfZnWVoqZ8&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
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!
Animeme: Pocky DANCE2
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpFOJbIhAY&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUvNcXdalk&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
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!
Animeme: Balalaika->Yaranaika
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLb_orhVb0&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
Wow this song is total bait! We have a very cute Morning Musume girl innocently releasing her single which is the second OP theme of the popular shoujo idol anime Kirarin Revolution, which she stars in. Unfortunately, the internets has some mystical way to put two and two together. What results is a very effective mashup, replacing ‘balalaika’ with ‘yaranaika’ and modifying the lyrics to sound even more ghey-ish. Add 3D animation and it becomes a recipe for awesomeness… even if you hate yaoi. Don’t worry, it won’t bite. It’s a total LOL-fest! Check out the videos below.
The Animeme Project
I figured that because lately I’ve been fascinated by the power of [doujin works->modern-doujin], mostly by watching random videos in idle time, I’d share to you some of them.
Continue reading The Animeme Project
Animeme: Kimikiss OP
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnKHsZFkdC8&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
I love the [Kimikiss->kimikiss] opening sequence with a guilty passion. Its simplistic style and catchy music just really made it for me… it’s absolutely adorable! I’m quite sad that it didn’t catch on as much as the other crossover meme spoofs, considering this is one easy-to-spoof video sequence for the video editing peeps out there who have much time on their hands. At least it has a handful of awesomely made videos to its credit. I hope you spoof video makers hear my cry for more Kimikiss OP spoofs. Come on, sing it with me: “Kiss kiss koishiteruyo~~”!
Animeme: Caramelldansen
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LpNql5RPtk&hl=en&w=425&h=355]
It all innocently started with the eroge opening in [Popotan->] but then some random otaku genius thought that Swedish dance pop and loli dancing can mix well. The rest is history, with thousands of variations of the iconic dance meme, including not only characters from various anime, manga, games, and doujin, but even real people dancing this rather weird dance. I would agree that the Caramelldansen phenomenon has some sort of charm into it, in which when you see some of your favorite charas you chuckle a bit at its undeniable cuteness. It may get old pretty quickly, but as new ideas revolving around the dance surface on the tubes and the dougas, this one won’t die that easily.