Sawao mentioned in the comment video that part of the reason for adding the dance portion of the contest was based on AKB's success doing the same thing with their Koi suru Fortune Cookie song. Well now here he is in the latest AKB dance cover video dancing to that exact song. Fucking awesome:

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpw8gv4kM4E[/url]

He shows up at about 38 seconds in.

Wow did I just see Ryohmei Shirai the producer of MOON GOLD dancing? Also so glad to see THE COLLECTORS and dohatsuten participating in the dance as well.

[quote="Rael"][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpw8gv4kM4E[/url][/quote]

Wtf is this? "WE HAVE NEVER DANCED, EVER. CAN'T YOU TELL?"

Also, watching them dance, I couldn't help but feel like most of them had the bodies of prepubescent girls. Japanese men are so small

American men are so fat and have bodies like Santa, so everyone looks small by comparison.

Hahaha

I got winded just typing that... ;-;

lawl

God hamster, if I were you, I'd be TERRA-fied just about now.

That's a pretty TERRA-ble pun, man.

lol

It looks like most of the action for pillows covers has been going on over at NicoDouga, only seen a scant few covers pop up on YouTube so far. We finally picked our song, going to do Century Creepers.

I dunno... The only actual contest entry that was posted on NicoDouga was that Babylon tenshi no uta one, which he promptly deleted and uploaded to Youtube instead. Most of the other covers on Nico seem to be vocaloid covers. [size=50](Death to vocaloid.)[/size]
I like this [url=http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22974873]Kanojo wa kyou, cover[/url] though.

Only 4 entries in the first 10 days of the contest. Pretty slow start, innit? I know that the best stuff has yet to come though.
And the question reminds... who is gonna be brave enough to be the first to enter the dance contest?

[quote="Marekenshin"]We finally picked our song, going to do Century Creepers. [/quote]Wow pretty strong song.... good luck!
I'm gonna do 'Trip Dancer' (voice + rhythm)....with my yet to be formed band... I'm so pumped!!

Music's done for me. Video is gonna take another month. So it'll be all done in May, probably.

[quote="Mafu"]
Only 4 entries in the first 10 days of the contest. Pretty slow start, innit? I know that the best stuff has yet to come though.
And the question reminds... who is gonna be brave enough to be the first to enter the dance contest?[/quote]

I assume that once Summer starts, uploads will start at a steady rate.

[quote="CARNVAL372"]Wow did I just see Ryohmei Shirai the producer of MOON GOLD dancing? [/quote]

wat

[quote="CARNVAL372"]Wow did I just see Ryohmei Shirai the producer of MOON GOLD dancing? Also so glad to see THE COLLECTORS and dohatsuten participating in the dance as well. [/quote]
Yes (1:17). He is from Moonriders. They are a famous band.
Hisashi Kato (THE COLLECTORS) is the main person behind this project. He has been going on about the AKB48 song for months and talking about making a "rock" version. I guess this is what he meant. He is awesomely (and sometimes hilariously) eccentric.

Some of my favorites in the video: Magokoro Brothers (YO-KING & Hidetoshi Sakurai) @ 0:22, Sho Wada (TRICERATOPS) @ 0:53, Kohei Dojima @ 1:09, Sou Matsumoto & Hiroki Nakazawa (GOING UNDER GROUND) @ 1:54.

If nobody enters the dance contest, I'm going to post an entry at the last second and they'll have to choose me as the winner by default. Mafu hatches a brilliant plan!

[quote="Mafu"]If nobody enters the dance contest, I'm going to post an entry at the last second and they'll have to choose me as the winner by default.[/quote]

Might do the same thing. Except mine will be a video of me masturbating in my room, while Doggie Howl plays in the background.