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, [...]

“Just Be Friends” with Rockleetist

(Image Source: yunomi)

Heya peeps! Remember that little quip I said at the end of the WVR #111 review article? Something about Utatte Mita and “Just Be Friends?” Well… okay, maybe it’s not much of an Utatte Mita as it is an English-translated Vocaloid song done by a western singer, but trust me [...]