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How to register at Nico Nico Douga

Ichiro — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:03:33 +0000

Nico Nico Douga is one of the most popular websites in Japan, it has most of the weirdest and wackiest videos that you could never find from other video sharing sites like Google. As for the fans of Japan, it is no wonder that they’d want to see what’s going on at Nico Nico Douga, by going there to see their hopes; they are confronted with a big obstacle, REGISTRATION…

The site being Japanese is obviously a hassle for those who don’t speak Moon, so this article is dedicated for those fans that always wanted to see what’s going on at Nico Nico Douga. But of course, we have another service that gives you access to videos from Nico Nico Douga without registration, but in any way as a fan, we have to register….

So for first time encounters with Nico Nico Douga, they might want to read this also so they could understand what’s up with Japan…

I made a video so that you could follow the steps in making your account, please watch carefully.

Click here to view the embedded video.

To summarize what we did, I will give a list on the important steps.

1. Registration form, we have to find the registration form so that we could supply our information to be able to register.
2. Registering, the process where we place our data on the form.
3. Confirmation, we have to confirm our details to finish the process.
4. Check E-Mail, we need to check our e-mail for NicoNico Douga’s confirmation e-mail.
5. Enjoy watching.

Ultimately Cute Beach Queen Azusa Nakano Figure by Wave

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:49 +0000

Lonely otakus who normally spend their summers alone must reconsider booking hotels and reservation at the beach, as Azu-nyan will come in ultimately-moe-beach-attire this coming may 2010.

The PVC Figure is a 1/10 scale of the loli Azusa Nakano of the moe blob anime, K-On! The figure would be approximately 160mm tall and would cost at around 3,800 yen to be released by Wave this May 2010.

See any cleavages? Flat chest goodness indeed…

The Figure also comes with another set of facial expression and nekomimi.

International pre-orders are now available.

Saint Young Men Russ-K Commercial – MAD

Ichiro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:49 +0000

Vacationing holy men manga “Saint Young Men” features Jesus, Buddha and friends in their own divinely intervened MAD based from a typical boy-band-fashioned commercial of Russ-K. The popular male-group “NEWS” (North East West South) is the original performer of the said CM. Exhibiting their killer moves in the short video, MAD artists could not resist not making their own versions and enlighten us with our favorite characters.

Click here to view the embedded video.

With Jesus having those kind of moves and eccentric charisma, it seems no wonder why school girls find an uncanny resemblance of him to Johnny Depp…

The original version:

Click here to view the embedded video.

More K-Russ MADs

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And of course, the Touhou girls would now want to get left out…

Learn Japanese with Rikaikun – Chrome Extension

Ichiro — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:09:10 +0000

Anime-goers and Japanese enthusiasts that are learning Japanese should not miss this great extension for Google Chrome. Rikaikun, a dictionary extension for Google Chrome which is a conversion/counterpart from the popular FireFox extension Rikaichan. Similar to Rikaichan’s functions, when enabled hovering the mouse on Japanese text would pop out a tooltip which has the translation and hiragana pronunciation of the text. By hitting the shift/enter button, more information of the Kanji will be presented.

More details about Rikaikun on the developer’s website, and you can read more about Rikaichan here.

Miku Miku Dance – 3D Dance Software

Ichiro — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:17:50 +0000

Have you ever wanted to make those videos you see on Youtube and NicoNicoDouga about dancing 3D Vocaloids, Touhou, Utau, Idolm@sters and many more? I introduce to you MikuMikuDance, it is a software that enables you to import 3D model files in PMD format and lets you control movements and and camera sequences easy and simple. You can also lip-sync the characters to any song that you use for your video manually or by using the VSQ file from the Vocaloid software.

For those who would like to test out this great software, you need to download the software first. Links are provided on the end of the article.

Using the software is easy, but of course at first everything looks very confusing, but after an hour or more of fiddling with the program, you would be able to familiarize all the tools in the program.

A comprehensive video tutorial on the usage is embedded below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Get the Main Software here (English, Japanese).

You can find most Motion Files, Models and Accessories here.

MikuMikuDance Hakurei Reimu [GO MY WAY] – First Test

Ichiro — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:42:21 +0000

My first test of MikuMikuDance with Hakurei Reimu model and static JPEG Background. No dynamic camera angles, no lighting effects, just plain model and motion test for future productions. The background of the video is only a picture I took from my desk, I just estimated the angle for the 3d video.

It seems that it’s not that hard to use MikuMikuDance, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time to do a single pose for every second. But thanks to tweening, most of the frames have calculated measurements of the position of the pose. So for example you raise the arm up from frame 1, and you raise down the arm in frame 10, what would happen is that the program would calculate a movement between frame 1 to 10 so that you would not manually set every pose on every frame.

One of my first few issues with this is that there are no other codecs and compressors installed for saving the Video, when I first saved the AVI file, the two minutes of the video is worth 768 megabytes! So I had to compress it first before uploading to Youtube since my upload speed is slow. Before that, I had to mux the mp3 file with Virtual Dub so that it would have music.

But anyway, just watch the test video below and enjoy…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Vocaloid – Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai – MAD

Ichiro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:10 +0000

Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai’s OP is here edited skillfully to make a wonderful Vocaloid MAD. The music video features all the vocaloid characters, including new comer Megurine Luka.

The video shows skillfull editing and animation skills, though most are traced it still is a difficult task to do.

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It could have been better if the vocaloid software were also used, since it’s the essence of it…

Here is a comparison video of the original version and the MAD.

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Tsumugi Hair Makeovers

Ichiro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:16:37 +0000

K-On’s pickle eyebrowed princess, Tsumugi, is here displaying sorts of amusing hair styles for us to view.

But it seems that the eyebrows are spared from the works…

via SanCon

K-on! Bebop MAD

Ichiro — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:24:37 +0000

This amusing K-On! MAD is hitting the charts from Nico Nico Douga. The video is a cross over of K-On characters to the opening music video of classic space anime Cowboy Bebop title “Tank”.

The MAD is very well done and carefully arranged that describing it seems difficult, you just have to watch the video…

Below is the original opening music video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Yoko’s Single, S.t.a.r.S – Kirameki Yoko – Pieces of Sweet Stars

Ichiro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:40 +0000

Oppai moe idol Yoko of Gurren Lagann plus seiyuu Marina Inoue causes a stir in the anime market after the recent release of their first single “S.t.a.r.S” with the debut song “Kirameki Yoko – Peices of Sweet Stars“.

The music video contains many alluring scenes such as oppai shots and pantsu, and a variety of interesting costumes that you must not miss.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The boxset not only contains the CD, but also plenty of new art works as a form of both packaging and illustrated fanbook.

The boxset is available now!