This popular Nico MAD combines Haruhi’s ED “Tomare!” with Toradora!’s cast of love-pentagon characters inserted for a surprisingly well executed (partly) hand-drawn video, despite the MAD still being unfinished.
One particular frame that pops up throughout parts of the MAD deserves an explanation:
“I might get around to drawing (this part) if I feel up to it.”
This screen might unfortunately lower the certainty of a completed version, although it is definitely an amusing way of getting the message across.
This near professional-quality MAD of an original song by electronic songstress Hatsune Miku paired with some especially lovely visuals from a doujinshi circle has risen to #4 on the Nico Anime Rankings, and is well worth a look for fans of Miku:
Hatsune Miku – “palette world breakdown”
The MAD came into being as a joint Comiket 76 production from Cytokine (Music) and circle Tsukimodo (Artwork), who released this video as part of this Miku DVD for the event.
The ultimate in racing madness has taken NicoNico Douga by storm, accumulating no less than 200,000 views in 2 days, and makes essential viewing:
“Deep in the forest lived Billy and his charming companions. They peacefully honed their bodies and listened to music there. But a wave of development came upon the forests. One who would turn all to road. ‘Kagamine Rin’ had come. Billy must stop the construction before all is turned to road…”
This beautifully edited remake MAD of K-ON!’s Don’t say “lazy” ED theme is currently sitting high on the Nico Anime Rankings at a well deserved #6 place.
The video’s style, somewhat reminiscent of the sort of kinetic typography seen before on this Haruhi PV MAD, might be hard to put into words, so it is worth a look.
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2ch creator and NicoNico Douga boss Hiroyuki has harshly criticised Crypton Future Media, the company responsible for Hatsune Miku and the MAD boom surrounding her, implying the company is acting hypocritically and is in danger of becoming like JASRAC, the Japanese answer to the RIAA.
“I get the impression Crypton have started doing something strange.
I believe Crypton’s CEO Mr Sato used to criticise JASRAC for destroying Japan’s MIDI scene with its use of copyright, but it seems at some point Crypton has started to become the mirror image of this in its behaviour.
There’s a nice song, “Shiroi Usagi,” [below] but Crypton had it deleted [from Nico, where it had nearly 200,000 views] for copyright infringement.
Where JASRAC were concerned, their reasoning in deleting MIDI was clear – “What are you doing uploading a composer’s works onto the Internet for free and with no permission?” However, just how Crypton’s copyright is infringed by “Shiroi Usagi” is a little hard to fathom, isn’t it?
What I don’t like about Crypton’s actions here is that by deleting anything for whatever reason using the pretext of copyright infringement, they are behaving even worse than JASRAC…”
The MAD in question, unmolested on YouTube as they seemingly take no notice of Japanese rights holders:
This pair of MADs featuring Korea’s favorite anime Hetalia are both sitting high on Nico’s Anime Rankings – the first being a fully hand-drawn piece set to Baccano!’s OP theme, and the other a parody of Juuden-chan’s catchy ED.
HETTALIA！【手書き完成版】 (Hand-Drawn Complete Version)
Hettalia! currently is placing #1 on Nico’s Anime Rankings and, as mentioned previously, is set to the Baccano! OP, Guns & Roses.
Here is the original Baccano! OP sequence, in case a reminder is needed:
The second Hetalia MAD:
ベラルーシがトレーニング＋α / Belarus Training ＋α
This video has Belarus-chan (Russia’s temperamental little sister) doing “training” ala Plug from the Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!! ED, in what seems to have become Nico’s latest MAD meme.
This too also is very popular on Nico at the moment, coming in at #8.
‘Don’t say Indy’, the MAD remixed version of K-ON! ending tune ‘Don’t Say Lazy’, has proven to be exceedingly popular. Soon enough a version using 3D computer graphics was spawned, though with Daler Mehndi the results are somewhat different…
Comparison version:
Moeblob fans may be a fickle mass easily led into the next fad, but it seems the popularity of K-ON! is unlikely to wane anytime soon…
