Nico Nico Douga blog

I am writing another blog -Fumi25 blog- completely dedicated to introducing Nico Nico Douga videos in English.

The reason why I made this blog was because there is no English interface, I thought non-Japanese speakers might find it difficult to find interesting Nico Nico videos.

Here is the summary of the posts:


***Nico Nico Douga***

●What is Nico Nico Douga?
●What are the popular contents in Nico Nico Douga?
●Popular videos within Nico Nico Douga -2008 version
●Nico Nico Channels - Nico Nico Douga is trying to build content channels


***Hatsune Miku (Desktop Music application called Vocaloid)***

●What is Hatsune Miku?


●Miku Miku Dance(MMD) (Consumer generated 3D application)
●Miku Miku Dance Cup a user oriented tournament for videos created using MMD
●The most corny MMD in the world
●Vocalomark, creating 3D Miku using XSI
●Miku meets ARToolKit AR= Augmented Reality
●Miku meets PTAM PTAM=Parallel tracking and mapping
●1 year work on Miku-3DPV - this creator spent a whole year trying to create a Miku 3DPV



●Onsha - company that that the CEO loved Miku so much and started to create products
●Miniature Miku Project (techies competing on the smallest Miku they can make)
●Moesha Moesha or itasha are cars with anime stickers, and one of the itasha of Miku challenged to run in GT race
●DIY object creation with Miku


●MikuMikuVoice -software to import wav data to VOCALOID
●Vocalis and Vocannaindesu more technology to make Miku sing better
●Aquestone
realtime VOCALOID performance using keyborads
●UTAU- handmade VOCALOID-someone created a DTP software like VOCALOID
●re:Package Hatsune Miku album sold commercially




●Roshin Yukai - a popular song of Kagamine Ren



●German Vocaloid voice of "keyboard crasher" boy from Germany is sampled
●NOCALOID IKZO (Ikuzo Yoshi)'s music is sampled




***IdolM@ster***

●What is NicoMas? (IdolM@ster videos on Nico Nico Douga)
●VOC@LOIDM@STER festival Vocaloid/IM@S joint event
●Popular IdolM@ster videos among bloggers


***Nico Nico Tech Group***
- tech geeks in Nico Nico community uploading geeky vidoes

●Phun
●Using Excel in various ways...
●Music created using PC effect sounds

●Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, 3D, 2.5D, 2.8D...
●How to create Doujin Games - series of videos to introduce how they created a doujin game
●Yurikamome Futuristic video created by editing a video riding on a train (Yurikamome)
●Happy New Year! - new year greeting video -NicoTech way
●"Innocence" musical instrument - people are trying to create a new musical instrument


***Music***

●Ine Nakamura- horsehead musician who plays multiple instruments
●Jimuin G who plays multiple instruments at the same time
●Maru, an amazing electone player
●Kumikyoku NicoNicoDouga - collection of Nico Nico users' favorite songs-1
●Nico Nico Douga Ryuuseigun - collection of Nico Nico users' favorite songs-2
●HongKoong Nicochu in HongKong
●Amazing guitar player
●Be MYSELF - a popular anime song singer posts her dance to Nico Nico Douga

***Animal Videos (AVs)***

●Fuchagi Family (video of cats)
●Neko Nabe (cat in a pot)

***8/30-8/31***
- the weekend of 8/30- 8/31 had lots of Nico Nico Douga events, and here are some.

●Hatsune Miku's 1 year anniversary
●Nico Tech Meeting tech lovers withing the Nico Nico community got together to do a demo event
●Tokachi Gold, a live DJ/VJ event
●Makoto's birthday (Makoto is one of the characters in idolM@ster)
●Cine☆MAD/Neta☆MADNicomas MAD video creators and Nicomas novel video creators got together to create a series of videos =Cine☆MAD. People who were not invited to Cine☆MAD decided to create videos and upload them during Cine☆MAD period= Neta☆MAD


***other***

●trace What is a copycat and what is just similar?
●"Hand-drawn (tegaki) MADs" User generated animations
●Automatic Mario
●Political NicoNicoDouga channels
●Donald MacDonald Donald is a favorite character of NicoNicoCreators!
●Usavich Original has become NicoNico official videos!
●Love Cheat! MADs
●Tegaki JOJO
●Video created by comments
●GONG - MAD animes using the song "GONG"
●LEGO - amazing LEGO creator