I'm sure MMD Cup is making a concerted effort to devalue Kaito's birthday celebrations - this isn't the first time it's dumped itself right on the mid-February weekend, and as expected it's basically taken over the rankings for most of the week, making it pretty hard to get much in the way of new releases in. The roundup will be in a couple days, ( Read more... )

About time. Luka's birthday was a bit of a flop, unfortunately, as she was overshadowed both by the new vocaloids still stretching their legs and the inevitable resurgence of Miku and Gumi back to the top of the rankings. Nicovideo as a whole has bounced back, in fact, and there are at least ten more songs just from this week alone that have hit ( Read more... )

I assume at this point that it's my connection screwing around and not actually nicovideo's, though I appreciate the irony in LJ only being stable when the rest of the internet isn't. In any case, let's keep the instrumentals rolling along with marasy, a tremendously skilled piano player and vocaloid producer on the side with a mylist full of hits ( Read more... )

Nicovideo's acting up a little, putting a deadlock on what's left of post-prep until tomorrow afternoon. Until then, to tide you over, here's osamuraisan doing a triple acoustic guitar cover of Tell My World. If you haven't heard the name before, be absolutely certain to click the play button and experience some of the best acoustic covers the ( Read more... )

With all this attention toward IA, I wanted to make sure Yukari got represented as well. One of the things I like most about Yukari is how producers can mix singing and speaking into a song. It gives Yukari a style all her own and one that can't easily be reproduced by other Vocaloids. (At least, not without the choppy speech that doesn't sound ( Read more... )

Nicovideo, why you gotta keep changing your ranking layouts ( Read more... )

For no other reason than Iroha. Anyway, I've tried to track down the original NND links where I can find them, but failing that it looks like there's going to be some Youtube involved (and some of the covers are YT only anyway). My apologies to the allergic.

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It's felt a little like Nicovideo's holding its collective breath this last week, and who can blame it? Between the deluge of Tell Your World reuploads, the release of Yukari and IA, and the massive bomb of the MMD 8th Cup Previews, the daily top ranking has been a little buy overly busy, and it hasn't given many other videos the chance to muscle ( Read more... )

And here I thought I was forgetting something. The MMD Cup 8th Previews are going up right now, and you can check them out at this tag. The full Cup is on from Feb 10th, and obviously an MMD Cup linkdump will wait 'til the full versions are out.

Gosh, when did I last get a weekly update in on time? Anyways, it's a bit of a scary internet out there right now - between SOPA protests, DDOSes flying every which way, and Megaupload exploding in a cloud of international warrants and the remains of rather poorly thought-out incentive programs, it's probably best to keep your head down and your ( Read more... )