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okay. so. hello again.
i'm not even sure how many people are going to see this ^^;.
i've left livejournal YEARS ago and moved on but as they say, the circle of life doesn't stop turning so now i'm back to LJ and, surprisingly, to butai (goddammit dee and june).

i mostly post on twitter, so i wouldn't be posting a lot of nonsensical posts here. i'll use this blog mostly to post translations and reports that are too long for twitter. since the time i was into tenimyu i'd like to think i improved even a bit with japanese, soooo~ :D

if you're still active here, please say hello! you can also follow me @nikkikomori, just tell me your lj username so i'll know you.

so um...see you around?

Because I keep talking about UTATTEMITA and UTAITE and NICO NICO DOUGA in my LJ/DW, I figured I should write what it's about and give a wide view on what to expect from it. Also, since Noey-san said she wanted samples. So here?

My current fandom is about utaite (singers) or to be more specific, amateur singers who upload covers of their songs in the Youtube-like Japanese site Nico Nico Douga. What makes this fandom interesting is the tons of genre, people, meme and other fandoms that you can encounter in it. This fandom has no bounds, is continuously growing, has lots of stories and projects and will be forever adding new people each day for you to discover. While this fandom is mostly Japanese, there are non-Japanese people who are also considered "utaite". To avoid confusion, I only refer to singers as utaite when they upload covers in Nico Nico Douga.

At present, amateur singers in Nico Nico Douga, which we prefer calling utaite, mostly cover Vocaloid songs. Vocaloid is another story in itself, so for now you may read Wiki's boring explanation of it. Basically, people (producers) make songs (either covers of existing songs or originals) using Vocaloid and upload it in Nico Nico Douga. Then, utaite take those songs and make covers of them, just like what they do with anime, game and mainstream songs.

Anway, here is my personal list of people and songs you should check out as a newbie to the utattemita fandom. I actually made one like this a year ago, but I guess it's time to mix new songs with classic ones so here I go again XD. All the people and songs here are my personal preferences. Some people have their own. Who knows, you might discover someone else along the way and get hooked on him/her XD. Please consider this just as a guide or as a sample list, not as a representative of the whole utattemita fandom.

This is just the list + group dl link for those who just want to download and go off on their own. More explanation + individual links under the cut.

tracklist
Download Folder (4 zip files)

Note: I got a little carried away. There are 50 songs in this post.

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And those are literally my favorite songs in Nico Nico Douga---not really XD. Sorry for the length but I tried covering all possible genre and voice types. I really took it easy on the crack songs because I don't want to break new people's brains so early.

If the file is too big for you to download, I suggest reading the list and listen to the songs that pique your interest. Then you can move on from there :).

Also, on a personal note to Noey-san, since I wrote this with her in mind, here are some of our peers' favorite singers:
Nikki : Clear, Tourai, Choucho, Seriyu
Len: Asamaru, Wotamin
Lyn: Nodoame, Tourai
Luna: Gero (specifically XD)
Yama: Valshe (I didn't know! XD)

Despite the length of this primer, I hope it helps? ;w; If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I would write more, but there are tons I have already written in ofurotaimu. Just look at the first post in the comm and the tags.

This entry was originally posted at fascinates@dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there :).

I took the personality test southerncross posted in Plurk a while ago. It is this one. I took this a while back and remembered the results even if I don't remember what I answered. Surprisingly, the results changed drastically for me :|. Does this mean I've evolved? ^^;

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→ I don't know how accurate it seems to other people, but there are some I agree with. However, I find the education part and the seriousness of love a bit O_O. LOL. I don't really see myself as that but IDK...


Anyway, I clicked the "give me more" link and it led me to another test, which is this. This is the result...

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→ Aren't 2 and 3 a little...clashing? ^^;

The rest of the tests were all about love, love, love and I'm like Y_Y;;;. So it stops here XD;.

This entry was originally posted at fascinates@dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there :).

Just a short notice.

Tinypic has closed its doors on non-North American uploaders and had killed image links of those who aren't registered and aren't in North America. All my pictures are uploaded in tinypic, so that means all the image links in this journal, in my communities and forums are down, unless you're from North America and then you can see them.

Apparently, Tinypic allows you to check your folders for your previous uploads but you cannot link to them anymore (well, for me). I have hundreds of images in Tinypic, and IDK how the hell I'm going to fix all the links for those.

So anyway, expect to see a lot of image errors here and in my communities. Sorry about that. They should've given a notice seriously. I don't even know how to start reorganizing. OTL.


ETA: Okay, now it's back up? I can see my images again? I don't really know what's happening ffff.

This entry was originally posted at fascinates@dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there :).

Note: not to be taken seriously =w=

After Clear released his album, people around him seemed to be extra aggressive in winning his hand in marriage getting close to him/getting his attention :3.

• Dasoku
- After Dasoku's mini photoshoot with Clear's poster (taken by Gero), he seems to not care about Clear's album release and all that.
- But actually, as Clear said in his namahousou, he is actually playing FFXIV with Clear (and Asamaru). Clear said that he cannot play FF without Asamaru as a guide and if Asamaru is online, then most probably Dasoku is and he'll be happy then :3.
- Of course there is also that questionable Dearest CM where Dasoku spouts off suspicious nonsense like, "If I held on to your hand that time, will our future change?"
- Clear's reaction to Dasoku's CM was, "Dasoku-san is really interesting, isn't he? Now on sale LOLOL."
- After that, crimsonfire3 said that Dasoku kind of admitted something during his zombie game marathon with Valshe (namahousou), which didn't have timeshift and was very annoying XD.

Valshe: Who do like more, me or Moka?
Dasoku: (missed answer)
Valshe: Do you like Clear?
Dasoku: Yes.
Valshe: /spazz?!?!?!
Dasoku: ...as a friend.

PS: Of course, Dasoku had to add more to the fire by posting a photo of him wearing shirt with a questionable design :D

• Vivienne
- Apparently, Vivienne's mom is a huge Clear fan even if she is not aware of it. She shared a conversation with her mom with Clear this afternoon. Clear wondered if the image of him stuck in Vivi's mom's head is his voice in Cendrillon.

Vivienne: Clear-kun released his album, you know!
Mom: Clear?
Vivienne: The prince! Prince!
Mom: Oh! Really? I want to listen to the album. Maybe I should buy it later when I go out!

And Vivienne's mom bought the CD, even texting Vivienne asking for the title of Clear's CD XD;. How domestic.


• Jack
- How random, since they never talk at all, but apparently they exchange kisses in twitter XD.


• Wotamin
- Wotamin and Clear rarely talk nowadays aside from Twitter and sometimes in Clear's namahousou where she has a backstage pass, but one fine day, this package arrived at Minmin's doorstep. She tweeted about how happy she is that it came and we would have all gone back to our boring lives if Clear hadn't replied with, "I am so glad it arrived safely!" And Wotamin replied with, "Thank you so much! I'm listening to them right now!" /COUGH. I see someone tried hard to make someone listen to his CDs :3.
- Of course there's also their random Twitter flirtings (which people cut into, I'm looking at you, Nem /shot) and one point where Wotamin forbade people from replying to her with "ggrks" and clear replied with the link to their ggrks cover.


• Nero
- Nero is an enigma to me, seriously. It's probably because his namahousou voice and face look very serious that...IDK. Anyway, he's also in the Dearest CM where he had a very RL-like comment which includes stuff about them being neighbors, reminiscing their past ("the sight, smell, sound of my heart at that time~") and of course the now infamous "Kono album, peropero shitai yo!" (This album, I want to lick it).
- Clear's reaction to Nero's CM were, "Nero's speaking voice here makes me feel weird LOL" and "Why are you speaking this way?" and "You don't lick it, oi". (He even imitated Nero's peropero thingy.) And he ended with, "Too bad he's an ikemen, right?"
- And then this afternoon, Nero uploaded a rather wonderful version of Shinpakusuu 0822 which Clear RT'd with "I've liked you since junior high, please marr(ry...) to which fans replied with tons of things like, "Please recite this in Nicoraji" and "I have fixed the wedding hall!" and "Did you get his second button when you graduated?!"
- After a bit, Nero replied to the tweet with "We shall start by peropero-ing" to which Clear said, "Don't get carried away!" /cough
- A bit of update in Clear's nama at the moment, was his reaction to his own tweet about asking Nero to get married, "Eh, I won't marry...because I can't right? I want to marry a girl." <-- ;_____;

PS: Clear also posted a locked entry in his ameblo, which is just an embed of Nero's Shinpakusuu and the comment, "This singing voice, I want to lick it" ^^;


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On a more serious note, Clear is thinking of new stuff to include with is CD/releases aside from the super cute button stickers which were released with "Colors". He was considering phone straps, "clear" files and eyeglass wipers, calendars, etc. I would not say no to a life-size cardboard statue, to be honest.

Okay, I will end this before I include more people into the list like Asamaru and Marasy and other people LOL.

This entry was originally posted at fascinates@dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there :).

I am extremely busy at the moment and I have a freaking cold, hence I will stop looking at ofurotaimu every hour and actually concentrate on work this week :). Sorry ;_;.

For now...please answer a meme for me?


THE ~TRUE LOVE~ MEME




Thank youuuuuu ♥
/bananas

This entry was originally posted at fascinates@dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there :).

First, this fic was partly posted in plurk, dedicated to mienaihoshi because I like scaring her. Now, it's posted here completely, this time dedicated to kat8cha because she said she likes scaring people. Please read at your own risk (not really).

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ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, KAT? :| ...The first public post people will see in my LJ is this ok ffffff. LMFAO my reputation XD.

Finally, utaite post. I finished my write-up on Weekly Utaran first, which, by the way, is extremely boring :|. I cannot even express my meh. I'm so glad Usa, Kettaro, Piko, Sekihan and Imram were ranked or I'll flip tables.

★ utattemita ranking
Was really bad. I love Renai Circulation (especially meola's and wotamin's versions) and Ura Omote Lovers crack but I really think both are overdone now. The crack makes me cry D:. Anyway, I really really really love Usa's JBF -band edition-, Sekihan's Imitation Black and Kettaro's Rolling Girl (and Soraru's!). Clear's songs are GONE. WTF. This must be remedied /gets ready to loop.

★ asamakku namahousou

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★ Sekihan x Piko live

Just this:
Sekihan: There's quite a few people listening in.
Piko: You're right.
Sekihan: What if no one listens to us anymore?!
Piko: :3 My mom listens to my live all the time.

D'awwww Piko LOOOOOOOOL.



★ Faces

I seriously need a list of utaite I've seen but for now...
• Choucho is so pretty!!!
• Akai Ryuusei is so cool!!
• ShounenT looks like shotabait. My heart ;;;;.
• Anima looks like what I think he looks like LOOOOL.
• Dasoku is tiny /shot and is uke /shot



Okay, that's all for now LOL.

...Seriously ♥.


If possible, please tell me where we've met before (if we did)
or where you found this LJ, just to make things clearer. ^^