Weekend Spotlight: Choot to Kill

With all the despair and disgust surrounding our lives, we must turn to the greatest hero of our times to save us and end our week with something positive.  And here she is!

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And so, the day is saved, thanks to a blog cut.

Wide World of Vocaloid: Take a Sweet 8-Bit Vacation

Source/Courtesy of: Sweet Vacation and Amazon JP

Welcome to the second edition of “Wide World of Vocaloid”, a new spotlight column that will be showcasing with diversity and breadth of Vocaloid music. In writing these pieces it is my wish that our readers will be able to learn more a about wide variety of musical [...]

Weekend Spotlight: Old Ways and New Media

"Medeta ya medeta" by toyu

In today’s installment, we look at an old Japanese music tradition: enka.  The pithy explanation is that it’s the Japanese equivalent of an American country-western song, but instead of beer, trucks, dogs, and break-ups, there’s sake, sakura, nostalgia, and break-ups.  Of course, that’s only a small fraction of the story.  [...]

Wide World of Vocaloid: Cowboy(girl?) on the Run

Source: ProjectHaruhi.net

Hello and welcome to the first post of a newly planned feature of mine: Wide World of Vocaloid. These posts will bring you a wide range of songs that highlight the amazing potential of Vocaloid software. These works will range from the very popular to the obscure. I hope they will be a [...]

Weekend Spotlight - Double Coverage

"W Ruko" by Mukki

It’s another edition of Weekend Spotlight.  The current request: more covers.  Look up what we’ve done before before investigating this week’s half-boiled list of hits.

Now, count up your songs!

Weekend Spotlight - Exposition Characters

Meg Meg Combi by tsukun

This weekend is an interesting coincidence.  Anime Expo is going on right now, with quite an array of guests.  One being Megumi “Gumi” Nakajima (her Macross foil, May’n, is there, too) and another is Yuu “Luka” Asakawa.  Such an odd pairing in such an odd place captures the imagination.  Well, [...]

Weekend Spotlight - ALL HAIL... UTATTE MITA?!

red2 is doing something difficult. Highlighting a song he doesn’t like. Hopefully he’ll be able to find something that makes it grow on [...]

Weekend Spotlight - Flowers and Skies

Image Source: 霜村

After being out of commission for a while, I have returned to start bringing you, the loyal readers, UtaRan posts once again. But it’s been a while since the last one… so in this week’s spotlight, I’m taking the helm to bring you back up to speed [...]

Weekend Spotlight - GUMI At the Top

Red2 guest-hosts the Weekend Spotlight, where Deco*27 is giving GUMI the best chance she’s had to make a #1 [...]

Weekend Spotlight - Race to Ten Million

artist: Saya

Nico Nico Douga hit 10 Million uploads last Friday night, nearly approximately 3 years and 1 week after the site went live.  It’s a major milestone and everyone involved at Niwango should be proud.  So who got the magic 10 Million?  Click the jump and find out.