Tag: Video

Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In

Japanese Twittersphere, one of the most active languages on Twitter, was confused by a simple but very effective viral trick since last week. Since October 15, tweets with sensational titles of videos with a link to liveplaylist.net began to appear on people’s Twitter timelines among Japanese. The tweets has the same format: plays “(title, usually… Continue reading Twitter Virus “Plays Now” Exposes What Tasteless Videos Japanese Interested In

Mixi Closes “Mixi Video” And “Mixi Coworker’s Network”

mixi, Inc. [J] has announced the termination of service for “mixi coworker’s network” and mixi video [J] on the SNS “mixi.” Service for “Mixi coworker’s network” began in June of 2010, and it allows you to find coworkers who register their place of work at the same company as yourself.  Also, “Mixi video” is Mixi’s… Continue reading Mixi Closes “Mixi Video” And “Mixi Coworker’s Network”

Otagei – Too Much Trained Audience’ Dance In Japan

They are not artists, just regular Japanese mostly girls idol fans who buy tickets, chant and dance from auditorium to try to let their icons recognize them. Their performance is called “Otagei” (オタ芸 = Otaku + Gei, act/art). You may easily imagine that many other regular audience do not welcome their space-taking, sometimes annoying moves… Continue reading Otagei – Too Much Trained Audience’ Dance In Japan

Sony Features Dancing Headphone Girls From All Japan’s 47-Prefecture

Sony Headphone’s official new promotion in Japan is movies on its YouTube channel. Not sounds new? But 47 girls from each prefecture dancing with the headphone at tourist places and/or with local products. The Headphone Joshi(girls) 47 meets Extra Bass. Recap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekWGvjx9JEo Tokyo girl / Tokyo Sky Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjR2JL_XgYc Wakayama girls / Wakayama Catsle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akg1BWW4VuU… Continue reading Sony Features Dancing Headphone Girls From All Japan’s 47-Prefecture

How to count combination, taught in Anime

Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo waterfront releases an educational video “How to count combinations”. The story at the beginning seems relaxed, however, as @iwiwi introduced as “crazy”, it goes too much and may frighten kids if you do not use better math. The video comes with English subtexts. Enjoy.

Mixi Page’s New Campaign Song With Gals And 7yo DJ

Japanese social network giant Mixi collaborates with the large summer festival of gals under the name of “Campus Summit 2012 meets mixi”. According to the event page, Campus Summit is a summer festivals for and by college students, which began in 1995 in Tokyo. At largest, the festivals were held at 57 locations in all… Continue reading Mixi Page’s New Campaign Song With Gals And 7yo DJ

Hip-hop Anti-Phishing Enlightenment Song By Japan Credit-card Association

Japan Credit-card Association released a hip-hop song teaches you what kind of the Internet phishing are aiming you. The song title is “Itsumo Kimi wo mamoritai kara”(’cause we always want to protect you.). Three mermaids tell you 5 points you need to be careful on the net. via Modern Syntax

Perfume’s Open Dance Data Inspiring CG Creators

In April, we reported that Japanese girls techno unit Perfume opened the motion data of their dance on Github. Fans’ creatives seem to be arriving to the official site. Daihei Shibata lets the doll Perfume dance on his desktop. Pretty inpressive CG work. The official site shows other 4 great videos using the same motion… Continue reading Perfume’s Open Dance Data Inspiring CG Creators