The Mysterious Box: December 2010

30.12.10

コトバトラボラト

MORE HAPPY MUSIC!!

FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hi, I'm back from Las Vegas. Most unfortunately I found this song more enjoyable than the entire vacation. The music is so happy and poppy! The video is sooooo much fun, even though its just lyrics! This is fun stuff, in all sorts of senses!

And the title... "kotobatoraborato" kotoba can mean "words", but as for the others... my japanese fails!

25.12.10

ステキナコト

A quick Miku post before I leave for the night.

This one has... a unique (probably annoying to some people) rather consistent tone which is pretty obvious from the beginning of the song. But overall, I think it turns out to be quite a fun song to listen to. Also, this title seems to sound something more japaneselike (sutekinakoto) than some type of english phrase, so I'll just assume that's what it is (which I think in japanese means something like "wonderful things"). :V

うたうたいのうた

Christmas is having cute Miku sing for us!

I don't think this song is anything extraordinary, but the video is quite cute so I like this song. Although it makes me wonder, technically if it weren't for Miku's hairstyle the character could be androgenous enough to pass as a boy as well as a girl... :V

I think... the title has to do a lot with songs. Maybe. V:

24.12.10

Christmas Eve

Mine was full of losing at card games and playing Project Diva 2nd in anticipation for the 2nd Dreamy Theater coming this summer (*waku waku :3*).

Hope everyone has a (more) enjoyable holiday! :V

Trees In Our Homeland

The title is in English again! Hurray for no translation!

Tranquil, peaceful song by Miku. Appropriate for Christmas. Then again you can make any tranquil, peaceful song pretty appropriate for Christmas. :V

6th

I think one of the interesting things about Luka is that sometimes she can sound like Miku, and other times she can sound like GUMI. Consequently it becomes kind of hard to figure when I believe is her own actual voice style, but at least her character design looks nice. :V

This song isn't something extraordinary, but the video is SO SEIZURE INDUCING THAT IT'S FUN!! :V Also, hurray for titles I don't need to translate!

21.12.10

niconico Medley "Fall to or from Spring"

Nico's medley for the season. For those who don't know its like some tradition where they put a bunch of recognized songs (recent and past) together and make it sound pretty good. :V Consequently since this one is the most recent there's a lot of new-season stuff that I'm not familiar with. Seems like I recognize all the GUMI songs, although I really couldn't recognize "Yowamushi mont blanc" at first, it sounded really different. :/

20.12.10

SPiCa PV

IT'S SPiCA!

IT'S TOKU-P!

IT'S REFEIA!

IT'S HEADPHONE TOKYO!

...IT'S A PV!!!!!

Man I want to get the DVD they are probably selling at winter comike this year. :( Miku's SPiCa outfit is really like the best outfit for Miku I've seen. :(

インヴィジヴルコクピット

A Kaai Yuki song with VERY DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTALS.

VERY, DRAMATIC. It's certainly nice to listen to.

WITH SOME HELP OF GOOGLE TRANSLATE (didn't really translate it though, just couldn't figure out what the "u" katakana was) WE CAN CONCLUDE THIS TITLE IS "Individual Cockpit".

19.12.10

モノトーンコレクター

Fresh GUMI only 14 hours in! Looks like it will be another good one!

THIS TIME WITH THE HELP OF THE SPATULA, WE HAVE DETERMINED THE NAME OF THIS SONG IS "Monotone Collector" ISN'T THAT RIGHT?

17.12.10

BCIs

Brain-Computer Interfaces, seems like it can be fun stuff.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/NECO_a_00089

Criticism

Apparently someone posted in the comments that this one isn't "pay to read" and since I thought it was quite an interesting article I'll post it here.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7326/full/468867a.html

Don't know if I'll get to the point where my credentials will allow me to criticize something on here and have people take notice, though.

Also don't know if I'd ever get around to writing criticism in the first place! :V

7.12.10

リトルエミーと星の手紙

This song... has a strong beat.

Yea. Strong beat. :V

Title: ritoruemi... with stars and paper hands. OBSERVE MY EXCELLENT JAPANESE LEARNING SKILLS.

チャイナ★やっちゃいな

Oh man... this looks so funny, but I don't want to make any judgements because I don't know what exactly the lyrics are saying. For the first time, I want to see exactly what these lyrics in a vocaloid song is actually saying... I think its trying to be pro-china (countering the moe japan slang thing? Her presence is there obviously) but still I find this pretty amusing. :V

ヒステリ

Generally I'm not too much of a fan of rock type but this one doesn't seem to bad. Also #3 on vocaloid charts, so I guess that's why. :V I guess it could be making "History" on VOCALOID Rock music ha ha ha ha ha :| ok that was bad.

But yes History seems to be the title. :V

聖ボーダーニーハイ学園へようこそ☆

Vocaloid galge imitations are always fun to watch.

I would say it would be more fun if they made a game about it but I probably wouldn't be able to play it. D:

THE TITLE IS some amazingly long thing that I probably wouldn't be able to translate but judging from the video itself it probably has to do with kneesocks and school and welcoming. With a star. :V

6.12.10

Deco27's Twitter

So I don't understand like 70% of what my twitter feed says (about 90% is in japanese), but maybe because of some unknown vibes or something, I found this tweet to be sweet and cute. :V

I'm sure people who know Deco27 and understand japanese can figure out why. V:

DECO27

「お父さんがカラオケでおにいの曲歌っとーよ！」と妹からメールが来た。嬉しいな。

4.12.10

テレパシー

This one admittedly I found on the Megpoid GUMI fanpage, although I should have technically seen it earlier. It says it was highest as 12th place, so shame on me, I should have been searching specifically for GUMI songs or looking further into the rankings. :(

Its another happy yet mellow type song, which certainly suits my tastes. I think it should have at least beat out the older songs that have been popular for quite a while now... well that's why they're popular I guess. :/

TITLE TIME! Today we have... terepashi... which means... TELEPATHY OF COURSE

2.12.10

Arsenic

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101202/full/news.2010.645.html

So ironically, I first saw these kinds of news in the japanese artist twitters I follow but since I run those tweets through a translator since I'm too stupid to understand japanese myself I at first thought NASA found life on other planets. Anyway I can see now I'm probably wrong. :V

The interesting thing is why people are so excited about this kind of news when... well I don't think its that exciting considering many kinds of scientific breakthroughs that change the way science is thought and taught happen every day. Frankly although it's nice to speculate a new type of DNA molecule, it doesn't seem all that surprising especially since Arsenic is right below Phosphorus in the first place... The researcher had the theory in her mind for a while now. I wouldn't say this is any more BREAKING NEWS as say the 1023rd chemotherapy treatment we have for cancer #34.

Well according to a japanese tweet I guess its the romanticism of "there is a new form of life" somewhere that appeals to some people. Apparently, to japanese anime artists on pixiv. :V

EDIT: The xkcd response, and I am amused, especially at the caption of the picture. http://www.xkcd.com/829/

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