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!

【ニコニコ動画】【B★RS】ブラック★ロックチューター【3DPV】

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

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.  [...]

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 - It's a Five O' Clock World

【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】コンビニPV(Full.ver)【オリジナル曲】

Unfortunately, my seemingly endless job search has prevented this week’s column to be all that productive.  My loss is your gain, however, which will be explained after the jump, but until then, enjoy what has to be one of the strangest on-the-job incidents anyone has ever seen.

Weekend Spotlight - They say it's your birthday

♪♪♪ by こみね

We’re gonna have a good time this week.  Well I will, at least, because by the time you read this, I’ll be well-entrenched in Ohio otaku craziness.  So in honor of Megurine Luka’s retcon, we’ll look back on her first year of Age 20 by counting down her top hits like you [...]

Weekend Spotlight - Good Morning Coffee

(Image Source: 吉岡)

Since JM will be a little bit busy with some errands to run just week, I guess I’ll be the first “guest-spotlighter” to take over for him… I always thought that there was a central theme to these articles, until recently I found out that it’s just “post Vocaloid-made or Vocaloid-related songs [...]

Weekend Spotlight – magnet ton

2 Tsubasa characters adopt the famous pose (artist: kaoru-chan)

It goes without saying, but the fandom likes “magnet.”  Not enough to make it Song of the Year, but it at least was an uncontested 2nd.  With popular songs like this, covers, parodies, and all sorts of things come out of the woodwork as a show [...]

Weekend Spotlight – The Hangover

Artist: Takitate (via e-shuushuu)

Quick show of hands: how many of you spent most of January 1 sleeping?  Yeah, thought so.  You aren’t alone.  While a lot of you probably can remember what you did the last day of last “decade”, some of you may not.  While you try to remember what you did overnight, [...]