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  (Changes in the Summer Edition) What is it? Nicovideo.jp or nico douga is basically japanese youtube, but better. The videos uploaded can have higher quality, be longer and it is a bit more anonymous, just like the Japanese like it. The main thing you'll notice when watching videos is this:  Scrolling comments! The comments are unlike youtube directly on a layer on the video (which you can disable) and they have time references, which means that you can do all kinds of cool things such as ASCII-like animations and highlights such as:  Note: You can turn off comments with the "Comment" button under the video (next to the volume slider) What can I find on nicovideo? New anime raw is probably the main reason for many here to check this site out. Other highlights include Vocaloid songs and videos, boys and girls dancing/playing instruments in maid outfits, japanese game playthroughs (Crysis, where the suit has Mechazawas voice), japanese tv- and radio-shows and much, much more. Great! How do I register for this?
How do I navigate? Here is some quick charts I made for easier navigation:  Click here for the full 971x887 image.  Click here for the full 976x655 image. Favorites Now, lets imagine that you are in and browsing nicovideo and see something you want to save. This is where favorites come in. Nicovideo can share your favorites by making them public and you can create the lists by going into your user settings (マイページ, my page, on the top right), clicking “マイリスト一覧(新規作成・編集・削除” and then entering a name for the list in the text-box and clicking the button. You can add videos to your favorites by clicking this button:  I see a lot of comments like www and ktkr, what does that mean? “wwwww” means “lolololololol” “神” basically means awesome, godlike “ktkr” basically means “omgomg “wktk” basically means “I’ve been waiting for this” (waku teka) ざわざわ。。。means people mumbling, chatting More info: Browse the video rankings Nicopedia How to download & upload videos and audio Block comments & Users Make your favorites public Comment filters for uploaded videos NicoScripting for uploaded videos Clickable comments with counters Vocaloid Memes and trends Artist highlights Vocaloid Artist highlights Niconico tags explained in english NicoNico RPG Changes in SP1 Hildgrim fucked around with this message at Oct 06, 2008 around 19:04 |
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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1996458 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1996952 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2002933 Tokyo Crystal Mew was posted in the ins anely sexy thread but the niconico comments makes it much better Totalizator fucked around with this message at Feb 04, 2008 around 03:00 |
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Thanks a lot! Finally able to see some these videos my friends were talking about like this version of the Megaman 2 Wily Stage 1 remade in GuitarFreaks's Edit Mode: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2088394
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The most important part of the Nico community is the vocaloid song production, spearheaded by the wonderful Hatsune Miku: Vocaloids are vocal synthesizer software made by Yamaha, where the user is able to generate songs based on pre-recorded syllables by voice actors. While the first versions came out back in 2004, it was with Vocaloid 2 it really took off, where Yamaha gave the edition a character image and name - Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) - in August 2007. Her cute appearance made the Nico community go nuts, and hundreds of original songs have been created and uploaded on the website, with animated music videos appearing for the more popular songs. The unexpected surge in popularity continued with the second edition featuring twins Kagamine Rin and Ren (鏡音リン・レン). At 3.5 million views, the most famous Hatsune Miku song is "Miku-Miku ni shiteageru". Its popularity was multiplied with the amazingly high quality 3D music video that came out a month later. The same animator also released a music video for "Watashi no Jikan" at Fuyukomi. Other impressive 3D videos include "Melody" and "Hajimete no Oto". Music usually first appears as still imagery with lyrics popping up across the screen, and these are my favourite Vocaloid songs: "Towa ni Tsuzuku Gosenfu "Mujouken Koufuku" "Kumo no Iseki" "Everwhite" "Moon" "Konbini" "Stratosphere" To more easily sort through recent Vocaloid productions, some nice fellow keeps posting a weekly Vocaloid Ranking video that plays clips from the 30 most favourited songs the past 7 days, with the most recent being "Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #17". The Vocaloid family most commonly includes five members: Meiko - elder sister ( "Close My Eyes" ) Kaito - elder brother ( "Bankan Ginyuu" ) Hatsune Miku - middle sister ( "Melt" ) Kagamine Rin & Ren - youngest twin sister and brother ( "Rin Rin Signal" ) The entire family can often be seen dancing together to songs completely unrelated to Vocaloids.
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darkgray posted:The most important part of the Nico community is the vocaloid song production What happens when someone creates a song that's made for a fictional robot-anime opening? Well, on nicovideo, it's among the most viewed videos ever: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1639267 I have to add that every Vocaloid character has a thing connected to them. KAITO with his ice-cream, MEIKO has alcohol, Hatsune Miku keeps her leek close and the Kagamine twins Rin and Ren has a bulldozer (...?)
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Mario Paint tag some of these are quite impressive and spot-on, others not so much but if you search for a series name in moon + マリオシーケンサ you should be able to find it rendered in Mario Sequencer with ~30% success, at least from my searches.Hildgrim posted:and the Kagamine twins Rin and Ren has a bulldozer (...?) I'm pretty sure it's a steamroller.
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If you're into Minami-ke, this is probably the greatest edit ever: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2217064Hildgrim posted:and the Kagamine twins Rin and Ren has a bulldozer (...?) Don't miss their Initial D cover of "Miku-Miku ni shiteageru" - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1953421 darkgray fucked around with this message at Feb 03, 2008 around 23:03 |
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Thanks for the instructions on how to set favorites. Anyway, I've spent way too much time watching play throughs of Mario World hacks. There just way too entertaining. Here's one series. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm423963 Each video has a link to the next one up at the top. Like this: ２→ sm428233 They get crazier and crazier as they go along. I can't read Japanese, but I'm pretty sure these are not tool assisted. The best parts are when he gets a string of bad luck and shows like 10 or so quick cuts of him dying. As for something anime related, I just posted this in the Haruhi thread the other day: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2062308
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darkgray posted:If you're into Minami-ke, this is probably the greatest edit ever: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2217064 That's brilliant. Kind of a crosspost from the GBS youtube thread, but it's such brain poison it has to be shown again. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2057168
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| # ? Feb 03, 2008 23:04 |
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Not_Log posted:I'm pretty sure it's a steamroller.  I mentioned radio in the op and well, if you know japanese and liked the Zero no tsukaima and also have 180 minutes over, take a listen to this: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2207323 It's the best of "niya niya"-moments from their radio shows. They are in character even if they aren't trying 
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Quite possibly the most addictive song in the world, "Tsurupettan" (some sort of Touhou remake of a kiddy show song?). Lovely Miku music video animated by hand - "White Letter". Another one is "Electric Angel". And "Yuuyami mo Yoake ni kawaru". The fabulous J sings "Metal of Oxenman", the metal remix of the Megaman background music with fanmade lyrics. There was a bunch of these last year, but they've been removed due to copyright issues and other sad things.  Edit: Doh, forgot about "Music Fighter Hatsune Miku"! darkgray fucked around with this message at Feb 03, 2008 around 23:32 |
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I've long put off signing up for this service thinking that the whole registration process would be a waste of time for a single video. But lately I've seen people use this instead of youtube more and more often and this thread finaly made me go through with it. And boy, was I in for a treat. I have no idea what I've been missing out on every time I've skipped a Nicovideo link. That Haruhi video along with Onani, the Swedish "contribution" to the Eurovision Song Contest has made my day. I know they're the whole point of Nicovideo but it'd still be interesting if you could make a guide on how to remove comments and maybe even on how we could add comments ourselves. Also, I recall there being some sort of mirror for Nicovideo that didn't require registration, but I might be misstaken.
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| # ? Feb 03, 2008 23:37 |
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This seems like the best place to ask: Where is a Hatsune Miku version of the Portal ending song, because it must exist. I started to make it myself but it was a lot of effort to translate and figure out notes and all.
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cooldude2.0 posted:This seems like the best place to ask: Where is a Hatsune Miku version of the Portal ending song, because it must exist. I started to make it myself but it was a lot of effort to translate and figure out notes and all. Hrm, well, Engrish or Japanese?
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Daydream posted:...if you could make a guide on how to remove comments... Push the Comments button. Also, SZS Season 1 OP1/OP2/ED on Piano: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1870001
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darkgray posted:Quite possibly the most addictive song in the world, "Tsurupettan" (some sort of Touhou remake of a kiddy show song?). Why do I know this.
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NicoNico musicians: Tissue-hime (bass) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/3751694 - Pretty decent bassist with covers of a few anime songs and "GO MY WAY!" from The iDOLM@STER. Also happens to be a big fan of Nagato Yuki.  Sariya-jin (vocals) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/1175696 - Really good vocalist. A few mistakes in her recordings (she's an amateur ok), but for the most part she sings better than 98% of the women signed to record labels in Japan. - Recommended video: Cruel Angel's Thesis <- Memory'd from a few months ago to preserve that cool ASCII angel. Shachou (vocals) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/1915257 - The best male vocalist on NicoNico, hands down. Also writes his own humorous lyrics. - Recommended videos: Annin-stall (link). Peppers on the Big Bridge (link) "PiaNEET" (piano) http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1768836 - Classical-style arrangement of "Aoi Tori" from The iDOLM@STER. Nakamura Ine (various instruments) - Arranger and performer of fantastic medleys. His vids were featured on a TV special called "The Net Star!" - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm952154 ; http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1210028 ; http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1841474 "The horse drummer" (drums) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/3810743 - Best cover of the Lucky Star OP on drums. Not to be confused with Nakamura Ine. "?" (bass) - Don't know his name, and he only has one video up: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1042065 . It's definitely the best of the dozens of bass covers of the Lucky Star OP, though. That should keep you occupied for a while. More to come later... darkgray posted:Quite possibly the most addictive song in the world, "Tsurupettan" (some sort of Touhou remake of a kiddy show song?). Daydream posted:I know they're the whole point of Nicovideo but it'd still be interesting if you could make a guide on how to remove comments and maybe even on how we could add comments ourselves. That mirror, Nicopon, doesn't seem to work anymore. A huge shame, since I know it's a hassle getting people to sign up for NicoNico.
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The Japanese one seemed like a pretty loose translation but maybe they just used a bunch of words I don't know :\
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cooldude2.0 posted:The Japanese one seemed like a pretty loose translation but maybe they just used a bunch of words I don't know :\ Well, when you're translating a song it's hard not to do a loose translation. Also, thanks for the thread, I have finally registered. There's some cool poo poo here.
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Thanks to Mr VacBob for linking this in the ins anely sexy thread: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1996458 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1996952 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2002933 I think the comments really do add to the experience that is TOKYO CRYSTAL MEW. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 01:52 |
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Fruitsnacks posted:"The horse drummer" (drums) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/3810743 Easily the best drummer wearing a horse head I've ever seen.
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Xythar posted:Thanks to Mr VacBob for linking this in the ins anely sexy thread: Totalizer posted these already, but then again he didn't label them.
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Tir McDohl posted:Totalizer posted these already, but then again he didn't label them. Yeah ill label them now to avoid more confusion
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 02:59 |
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Whoops, sorry about that. I just kind of skimmed the topic and thought they hadn't been posted yet.
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Moogy posted:It's a Touhou remix of Futari no Mojipittan, the theme song to Namco's Mojipittan line of puzzle games, with some Lunatic Princess (Help Me Erin!) from Imperishable Night thrown in. You may remember another remix of the Mojipittan theme song from that one OS-tan flash - it used Futari no Xenopittan, the remix that played in the Xenopittan minigame in Xenosaga Freaks, a Xenosaga fandisc full of silly things. Don't forget the chorus, straight from http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9 (Edit: This is also apparently the oldest video extant on SmileVideo, the uploader site that Nico draws its video pool from.) Mandoric fucked around with this message at Feb 04, 2008 around 03:53 |
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Fruitsnacks posted:"The horse drummer" (drums) - http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/3810743 This is pretty amazing: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm996699
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"Packaged" is still the best song for Miku  http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1136355And if you been following smash brothers or just niconico these few weeks the biggest thing I say is probably Gourmet Race songs remix. Kirby's Falcon Punch remix with YEAAAAAAAAAA http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2133471 Taniguchi's version http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2062308 Keyboard Crusher's http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2004345
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Tokyo Crystal Mew is the greatest show of this season, and I can't wait for more.
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CannonFodder posted:Tokyo Crystal Mew is the greatest show of this season, and I can't wait for more. Did anyone ever find out about the author? I'm betting on acute autism.
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How to download video & audio from nicovideo Save this code as a bookmark and click it as soon as the video has loaded. Reload the video if it gives you an error: code:or look in the activity monitor for the biggest file, copy the url and paste it in your browsers download window:  or use Craving explorer or Nico Watch Tools. If you only want the audio, use nicomimi.com. How to upload videos to nicovideo [list=1] [*]Make a nicovideo.jp account [*]Go to smilevideo.jp and log in with your nicovideo.jp account information. The top box is your email and the bottom one is your password. You will be taken to a page that looks somewhat like this:  [*]Step 3: Press the link called “動画の新規アップロード” which I have outlined in red above. You will be taken to a page which has an EULA and settings for your video. You can now chose a video (DivX/XviD/MPEG1/MPEG2/WMV max 100Mb and FLV max 40Mb), and if it’s 4:3 or 16:9 video. [*]Step 4: Press the bottom button when you are done doing that and press OK to confirm that you want to upload the video. Wait a bit until the video is uploaded. [*]You will be taken to an encoding queue after you’re done uploading the video. There are 139 people in the queue as I’m waiting when I uploaded during japanese prime-time:  [*]Chose a frame to represent your video, enter a title and a description and a category in the drop down box and then click the button at the bottom. [/list] You’re done! Hildgrim fucked around with this message at Sep 07, 2008 around 11:27 |
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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2184784 This is utterly badass. That guy wrote his own rap about Higurashi.
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I've been using nicovideo for over a year now, personally I like it better than youtube, it's great for finding esoteric Japanese stuff you wouldn't normally find elsewhere. Refrain from making comments in English, apparently the Japanese nico users don't like that. Also, I think most videos that end up on nico, eventually find their way to youtube regardless.
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 07:29 |
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DerDestroyer posted:Refrain from making comments in English, apparently the Japanese nico users don't like that. How would we ever know?
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 07:52 |
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http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1858877 I just love the editing on this one, it's not particularly great, but it's fun to watch. RON RON RU!
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GlenQuagmire posted:http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2184784 That would be らっぷびと (or Rapbito for the non-moonspeaking crew). He has also done stuff for SZS and Haruhi. DerDestroyer posted:I've been using nicovideo for over a year now, personally I like it better than youtube, it's great for finding esoteric Japanese stuff you wouldn't normally find elsewhere. Refrain from making comments in English, apparently the Japanese nico users don't like that. Also, I think most videos that end up on nico, eventually find their way to youtube regardless. I've been on Nico^2 for the same amount of time (I spend more time there than here), and I agree. You can find a helluva lot of niche stuff (not just Japanese) that you wouldn't be able to find like 30 minute deep house DJ mixes and full-length episodes of 24. As for the English stuff, as long as you're not being a ゆとり (troll) and trying to communicate in Japanese, you'll be OK. Most of the time they'll say 日本語でOK (Japanese is fine here) and at worst they'll just add you to their NG (ignore) list. Elemennop posted:How would we ever know? AMERICA IS PIG DISGUSTING Seriously, I don't think Japan gives a crap about non-Japanese speakers on thier moontube. It's as if we don't even exist to them. Lazy Dog fucked around with this message at Feb 04, 2008 around 08:16 |
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Elemennop posted:How would we ever know? And why would we care?
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Obviously the best vocalist on ニコニコ動画 is gomu （ゴム）. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm83 Okkusenman Gomu ver http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm800049 Uninstall Gomu ver I spend more time on nicovideo.jp than on youtube after my discovery of it. I usually reupload nico videos back onto youtube for those who don't have access on http://www.youtube.com/user/moondabor Look for the ones with the nicovideo link in the description and my favorites. Some ニコニコ動画 memes/trends フタエノキワミ、アッー！ = Kenshin from around the world, chopped to various songs. イオシス = There will be a billion IOSYS parodies. The most popular one is Marisa Stole the Precious Thing. アイドルマスター = Japanese game called The iDOLM@STER. You raise idols. スパイダマン = Japanese live-action Spiderman. DAH DAH DAH DAHDAHDAH poniponiponiponi DAH DAH DAH DAAAAAH. 遊戯王 = Yu-gi-oh. Mainly the Kaiba's command card and Yugi's 俺のターン (Ore no taan) scene with Haga. 組曲「ニコニコ動画」 = Nico Nico Medley. Top hits from nico that first came as a simple bad instrumental medley into a full blown composition. Expect many renditions of this. おっくせんまん = A song done to Mega Man 2's Dr. Wily theme. Rodeo Machine = From what I gathered, some song by Halfby where no one gets the lyrics but it sounds like omai gonzo. Ichiro Laser Beam = Exactly what it is. That one video of the meteor hitting the earth = I don't know but lol at the music. 初音みく and other Vocaloid characters = darkgrey pretty much covered this. 東方 = There will be a Touhou version of everything. 「男女」 = a new trend i'm seeing. とかち = tokachi is a mispronunciation of tokashi tsukushite from an idolmaster song by Ami. It was picked up and became a favorite. 呪いシリーズ = curse series. a personal favorite of mine. Tomitake = character from higurashi. TOMITAKE FLASH. and many others. Some Japanese Internet terms （ｒy = etc, and so on, blah blah blah ちょｗｗｗ = very www Also, you only get total of 100 favorites. They're not really favorites but "my lists" that you can set public or private. These lists determine the ranking for the top 100. http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm240566 moondabor fucked around with this message at Feb 04, 2008 around 14:52 |
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When you get a popup for a failed video, what does the number signify?DerDestroyer posted:Refrain from making comments in English, apparently the Japanese nico users don't like that. Anyway, that Kaizo Mario playthrough is fantastic. It's been LPed here, but with savestates every four seconds, and seeing all the aaaaaaaas and ooooooos as this guy powers through it cleanly is shamefully exciting. much better than some lousy football game
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 11:31 |
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Could someone translate what the different fields in the registration form are about? I must have filled one in wrong because it didn't let me register.
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| # ? Feb 04, 2008 13:09 |
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Apocron posted:Could someone translate what the different fields in the registration form are about? I must have filled one in wrong because it didn't let me register.
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