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Yeah, I just don't know what half the entries this week are on. To make up for it, there sure are a lot of them, though. Oh yeah, since it's come up - these aren't necessarily completely new songs, they're just whatever Nicovideo's had it's eye on recently. So there y'go. Again, if a video's tagged MMD, then it features a silly singing robots video using MikuMikuDance, the animation package. If it's marked Typographic, then it's got floating text crap by that one guy I'm getting just a little bit tired of.

In other news we are pretty much doomed; some horrible people who will go unnamed may have started something terrifying. It is left as an exercise to the reader to figure out who might be who.

... I wonder if I should add them as maintainers?

You lucky people get two songs above the cut because there's so damn many this week. We stride the line solidly between a collection of complete what-the-hell, and a massive amount of solid, awesome tracks. In short, Japan loves us. As ever, corrections to my translations (especially fandubber names, I am terrible at learning them) are welcomed.


【ニコニコ動画】【ミクリンレンルカハク】飛べない烏と迷い犬 SPEdition【オリジナル･MMDPV
(The Crow Who Could Not Fly And The Stray Dog -Special Edition-, Miku + Haku + Len + Rin + Luka, THRASH METAAAAAAAAAL, MMD)
This is the first of two - yes, two - videos featuring practically the entire group of vocaloids (Gumi and Gakupo clearly don't count, and Kaito's busy doing his own emo videos) rocking out with instruments via MMD Band Edition to a pair of surprisingly good tracks. If nothing else, watch it for the amazing video.


【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】トカレフと少女【オリジナル】
(Dischotheque, Miku, Pop/Jazz)
An astounding video, made up of SHAFT-style papercraft animations and strange cuts of material, encompasses this smooth track with fantastic singing robotting. Discotheque clearly isn't it's real name, but without understanding wtf that katakana is on, it stays.

( The best of the rest. )

Also, since we never explicitly mentioned: yes, posting is absolutely public. Go for it.

Since I keep forgetting to crosspost.

It's that time again - a smattering of new tracks from the Nicovideo top 100 this past week. If you're new the comm and not sure how to play these, you can find links both for signing up for Nicovideo and for ripping files from it in our profile. The IRC channel, as mentioned, is #stupidsingingrobots on irc.lunarnet.org 6667. If you're wondering what you're missing by not being in there, well, here's a smattering of recent examples, names withheld to protect the not-so-innocent.

"so I found a video last night where someone decided it would be a good idea to have Miku sing One-Winged Angel"
"awww it's an actual len song where he doesn't die, though the picture does imply him freezing to death in a cave"
"dammit why is no one here when I found a Gumi song called Sexcalibur"
"kaito and len brofisting"
"yaranaika magnet is best magnet"
"I'd like to note that I found a Project Diva video of Meiko singing about how she could get Kaito off her mind if she just, you know, had a chance to step on him in stiletto heels"

So there you go.


【ニコニコ動画】初音ミク・巡音ルカ・寒音ジミ・その他オリジナル曲 「BEAT!」
(BEAT!, Miku + Luka, Highly Adorable Pop/Rock)
From the same album as Toy Box, this is easily my favorite of the update - a completely adorable rock tune with a habit of falling away into soft trance-esque beats, BEAT! is a wonderfully listenable track which features half the other Vocaloids on backing.

( Rest under here. )

Huke’s popular character Black Rock Shooter, a reimagined Hatsune Miku with guns, has been announced as receiving a music video anime by Haruhi director Yamakan’s Ordet production studio; however, it now transpires that this is actually a pilot for a full anime adaptation.

what

My next post was going to be all about the wonders of MikuMikuDance - the animation program primarily involving Stupid Singing Robots that Japanese people use to make a collection of batshitinsane videos. However, right as I was planning to do this some kind of MMD competition dropped and there's suddenly a ton of both awesome MMD song videos and awesome MMD ... moron singing robots videos. So I'm going to split them - if a song is tagged MMD in this post then you should watch it for the video at least, as some of the work that people put into their animations is absolutely astonishing. More information on the whole thing (together with non-song, older or plain hilarious videos) next update.

Floor's slacking on her linking of awesome fandubs.

【ニコニコ動画】【 巡音ルカ 】 Out of lies 【オリジナル曲】
(Out of Lies, Luka, Pop/Two-Step/Not Sure)
This has lovely pianos, especially in the second half of the song.

【ニコニコ動画】【巡音ルカ】Ignition【オリジナル】
(Ignition, Luka, Jazz/Two-Step)
From the same guys who did Just Be Friends.

【ニコニコ動画】【第3回MMD杯本選】 SET FREE 【PV】
(Set Free, Miku/EVERYONE, Pop, MMD)
Watch it for the amazing MMD video involving the entire damn cast, gratuitous twins angst, and piping.

【ニコニコ動画】【第3回MMD杯本選】初音ミクの消失を演じて頂きました
(The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, Miku, Bluuuuh what the hell do you categorise this song as? ANGST TECHNO?, MMD)
Yes, you've heard this before. But have you seen Miku doing it in sign language at the same speed?

【ニコニコ動画】【鏡音リン・レン】 Never 【オリジナル曲】
(Never, Rin/Len, Funk)
What's with all the random smooth funk synth stuff recently? Boggling.

【ニコニコ動画】【ゼブラ】Just Be Friends【らっぷびと】
(Just Be Friends SUPER J-RAP VERSION, Fandub (Rapbit), Pop with hilarious J-Rap)
Included mostly because it makes me giggle, but they are good singers.

【ニコニコ動画】【第3回MMD杯本選】ストロボナイツ～Ｍステ出演～【初音ミク】
(Strabo Nights (M-Set Performance), Miku, Dance, MMD)
Catchy Perfume-esque dance track from Project DIVA re-choreographed in ridiculous detail.

【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】new sound【オリジナル曲】
(New Sound, Miku, Dance/Very Nearly A Chiptune; think Capsule)
Basically just delightful. Quite old, but enjoying a resurgence.

【ニコニコ動画】『ミク×ルカ×カイト』ACUTE『オリジナル曲PV』
(ACUTE, Kaito/Luka/Miku, Gothy Pop...?)
Kaito's a scheming bastard, Miku's an infatuated gothloli, Luka is a blushy maiden. They fight crime An amazing video and YANDELOIDS ensue.

【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】wktk Hello【オリジナル】
(wktk Hello!, Miku, Candy Pop)
Who am I kidding, this one's just in here to make Floor's teeth hurt. Okay, it's also in there for brilliant piano-work, which gets anything a pass.

【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】delete...,enter_【オリジナル曲】
(Delete... Enter, Miku, Thrash Emo Metal)
This is Disappearance's angrier, misunderstood twin whose room is painted black with skulls as opposed to Disappearance's unhappy grey.

Since we somehow hit 100 tags already we're going to stop tagging individual songs unless they come up more than once or are particular favorites because otherwise we'll reach like a billion tags and Livejournal will bomb us off the site. Also, this way we can have more stupid tags. Instead the 'general linkdump of songs' will be represented by the amazingly erudite and well-thought out 'linkdump' tag.

Also copying over my posts. Laazy.