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【With 80 fans】Happy birthday, Mafumafu! 2015【International Ver】

Thank you very much to everyone for participating in our video project this year, and it is now out on Youtube thanks to our animators ge & Seraph! Despite the short preparation time this year, thank you so much to everyone that participated as artists, message writers, transcribers, as well as staff!! I hope you enjoy celebrating Mafumafu’s birthday surrounded by fellow fans (*^^*)

Similarly to last year, if you’d also like to tweet him personally with this video in Japanese, here is a sample template:

「まふまふさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！今回は誕生日祝いの動画に参加しましたが、良かったら見てください（or:　見てくだされば嬉しいです）。これからも応援します！」

”Mafumafu-san, happy birthday! I participated in a celebratory birthday video this time, so please watch it if you’d like (or: I’d be happy if you watched it). I will support you from now on as well!”

Once again, we appreciated working with everyone and hope you continue to support Mafumafu ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

STAFF

Hello!! I was thinking that we should do something nice for Soraru this year, and decided to do a video project for him. (If anyone was planning to do this too, I apologise! I hope no one was doing it ><) If you’re interested, please keep on reading. Be it drawing a simple piece of art or even just writing a simple message, I hope you’ll join to make Soraru’s birthday the happiest!!

General things to take note!

Soraru’s birthday is on November 3rd, thus the dateline for all submissions will be on October 18. (We might need more time to animate the video.)

If there is a chance that you might not make it to the dateline, please contact me (Bria) on twitter @idkbria or on my tumblr to schedule an extension, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me there as well!

Please note that all obscene materials/inappropriate materials may be cut off from your submissions or voice messages with or without warning.

Firstly, you must register to join the project, please fill up the Google Docs Form, there will be instructions on what to answer when you’re there.

After registering, you can submit your work anytime before the dateline. When submitting your entry, please submit it to [email protected], with: - Your name: (the one you want to be credited with in the video). - A social media account you use frequently: (can be Tumblr or Twitter. - The country you live in: - The attachment/link/message that you want to send to Soraru.

Google Document Form: https://goo.gl/forms/UsI1tOlTLeUJJvor1 Email for Submission: [email protected]

Submissions information

Digital Fanarts

Fanart must be in 1920x1080. (Please try not to have it less than 720x480 or it might lose it’s resolution/quality.

Try to base your fanart on songs he’s covered/made, happy birthday themed, or anything happy. Refrain from gory, dark, or sad themes since it’s a birthday video!!

Traditional Fanart

If you could, please scan your artwork in A4 size for high quality/resolution purposes.

If you do not have a scanner, please take your traditional fanart with a good camera or phone camera. Make sure there are no shadows in the picture and everything can be seen clearly.

As mentioned above, Try to base your fanart on songs he’s covered/made, happy birthday themed, or anything happy. Refrain from gory, dark, or sad themes since it’s a birthday video~!

In your registration, if you could, please specify the theme that you’re going to do.

Photography/Photo Edits

Photos can be anything as long as it’s related to Soraru’s birthday or Soraru himself. You can go wild with your imagination with this!

Please make sure the photo(s) are also in high quality.

If you’re doing photo edits/collages, please make sure they’re in high quality.

Handwritten messages

If you want to write calligraphy/handwritten messages to Soraru it is possible as well! 

Please make sure that the words that you wrote is big enough and neat enough for Soraru to see.

If you are using English, please make sure the English is written neat and is written with simple English as utaites might not be good at English.

If you want your message to be translated before you write them, please drop me a message on twitter or tumblr. (links are above and below in the credits). And we will try to translate as fast as possible so you can translate.

Please scan your message after you’ve written.

If you can’t scan please take a clear photo without shadows with a good camera/phone camera.

You may write whatever you want but please keep it short, don’t write a whole essay in one go!

Please keep the messages safe for work as well, if we find anything that might appear rude to us, we will not hesitate to delete it.

Messages

These messages will be shown on the video too! Just email us your message on [email protected]!

If you’re good at Japanese, you may write the message yourself and email it to us. We might do a proofread

If you’re not so confident in Japanese, we can translate your messages from English/Chinese to Japanese for you. Some parts might be different to translate it to Japanese more effectively.

Please keep everything to at most 200 words! 

And just a reminder, no not safe for work stuff in your messages!

Voice messages

This may be anything you want, but please keep the maximum message to about 1 minute and 30 seconds. Anything longer than that will be cut.

You may talk in Japanese if you’re able to, but if you decide to speak in English, please use simple phrases as Soraru might not understand some of the English that you might be trying to say.

If you wish to speak in Japanese but need help translating your message to English, please send us a script of what you want to say as well, we will help you to translate and you can record the voice message as well.

Please upload the message somewhere we are able to download from.

Please make sure that your audio is not peaking in volume

Your message must be in mp3/wav format

There must be minimal to no background noise

And finally, if you have good microphones, please use those to record your messages, if not, try to speak as clear as possible in your headphone’s microphones.

If possible, please send over a written script of what you said in the audio message.

Covers/Songs

This is for people who are interested to cover songs made by Soraru/sung by Soraru.

Please note that your songs will have to be mixed and recorded by yourself.

We accept solos and duets or choruses, from all ages and all genders.

Please make sure your cover is related to birthdays. They can be ballads or cute songs. Please try not to sing songs with profanities or sexual references in them (i.e: Ifuudoudou, Koshitantan)

Please try to choose a song from 1-4 minutes.

Please make sure your song is not peaking in volume

Please make sure that it is in mp3/wav format

Please make sure there is no background sounds.

Please upload on a website where we are able to download it from.

Lastly, please refrain from using a computer/headphone microphone to cover the songs with.

Lastly, it is possible to do more than one submission! There is an option in the Google Docs Form where you can choose to do more than one submission, so if you’re doing more than one please do tell!

Thank you for reading so far! I really hope you will be interested in joining this project, the more the merrier, and we really want Soraru to feel really appreciated on this special day!

Staff

Last year’s birthday video project

As the birthday video project received an overwhelming response last year, our group of new & old staff has decided to create another one this year to celebrate Mafumafu’s upcoming birthday on October 18!

We will be open to fanart, photography, instrumental covers, & typed messages for this project. If you are interested, please read the “Rules” & section corresponding to your planned submission (^O^):

RULES

To register, please fill out this form:  https://goo.gl/forms/FLtpx9eQ2V3sVEYl1

We will send you a confirmation email, at latest by every Sunday of the week, to show that we’ve received your registration.

We will be closing registration after 80 entries (max 60 fanarts) for now. This is because we currently only have 2 confirmed video editors on board, and do not want to stress them out. If we confirm more video editors, we will reopen for more registrations!

If you would like to join our staff as a video editor, please message me (@matchakame)!

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2016. For fanart/instrumental covers, if you know you will be late, please specify on your registration form or email us ([email protected]) immediately! We will not accept late submissions without at least a 3 day warning before the deadline. 

Inappropriate material will be rejected, of which includes romantic/sexual gestures. Please remember that you will be addressing Mafumafu as a music artist you respect!

FOR FANART

For digital art, we prefer 1920*1080 but will accept anything above 720*480.

For traditional art, we would like submissions to be scanned & in A4 (8*10 inch) size. If you use a camera instead, but please make sure the image is high quality & devoid of shadows.

Please ensure your art is either colored or inked, and drawn on blank paper (not lined paper).

FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

Please have your submissions in A4 size & high quality.

The photographed content can be anything, such as birthday cakes, homemade crafts, and fan merchandise displays. Feel free to dabble into your imagination!

FOR INSTRUMENTAL COVERS

The instrumental can be any song that Mafumafu has composed or covered in the past.

Please have your cover in a MP3 or similar audio file, and mixed before submission.

Unfortunately, we will not be accepting vocal covers.

FOR TYPED MESSAGES

Please limit messages to being 100 words. We will be rejecting entries that surpass this maximum, because it is difficult to include if we have many entries.

We are accepting messages in Japanese & English.

Although we will try our best to translate non-Japanese submissions, please keep in mind that we may have to alter some wording to fit into Japanese nuances.

For Japanese messages, we usually make corrections to grammatical errors, so please specify if you’d like for us to message you instead for spotted errors.

STAFF

Organizer: Matchakame (@matchakame)

Video editors: ge (Twitter: @madogashi_), Seraph (Twitter: @seraphsama)

Translators: Emma (@destination-of-fate), Matchakame (@matchakame), Shuu-chan (@wotamin)

Contact: [email protected] 

Thank you for reading, and we’re looking forward to everyone’s responses!!

【Black & White Marionette】-Silvana x Risru- album fanart <3

First set is here

NAME :にこあ (Nicoa) : NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Nicoa again because I want to. Female utaite with shota-ish voice. She sometimes sound really similar to Kagamine Len, like in her Aku no Meshitsukai (Servant of Evil) cover.

NAME :赤鳥 (Akatori) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   || Youtube Channel Male utaite born on June 8, 1995. He is half Japanese. He has a high-still-male voice. Can reach high notes like in the beginning of his Sore ga Anata no Shiawase to Shite mo (Even If It’s Your Happiness) cover. He also sings in English like his Ghost Rule His English is better than mine, lol.  

NAME :森粉 (Morico) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Female utaite born on October 23. Has a sweet voice that can also sound mature like in her rain stops, good-bye cover. 

NAME :Kai-Ryu NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Male utaite with low and smoky voice. Can sound really sexy like in his Koshitantan (Waiting for a Chance to Pounce) cover. 

NAME :くりそ (Chryso) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Male utaite with a modulated soft-boyish voice that we all must protect!. He also can go with a more teenage voice, but at the end, his voice is soft~  

NAME :雪雫ルマ (Yukidaruma) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Female trap singer. Can sound really cool, like in her Outer Science cover. Sometimes sounds shota-ish like in her QUARTET★NIGHT collab as she sings Ai’s part.  

NAME :そらお (Sorao) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Low female utaite. Started off really bad, but has improved a lot in these 4 years. She sounds like ‘forcing to be low’ at first, but in her recent covers, like Cinderella Paradox , she sounds a lot more natural.  

NAME :くをりあ (Qualia) NND User Page || NND MyList || Twitter   Male utaite who also writes songs. Has a lot of potential. He has a modulated voice where he sounds emotional in his covers. Like how sad his Kokoronashi (Somehow) sounds, and how lively he sounds in Sugar Song and Bitter sound.  

Hello! Here’s my list of utaites that I love to bits and pieces. I’ll be organizing these voices by basic type, such as soothing, cute, and cool! (I linked you guys so click names for mylist and the song name for their upload!) (I really recommend the cool voices //cough also shino cough))

Soothing voices (or at least I think?)

Shino(詩乃)!! His voice is nice and calming. Most of his songs are ballads, so if you like those type of songs his voice goes very well with those! Bonus: He is basically in love with sumikko guraishi He’s also using a drawing I gave him as his twitter icon!! My favorite song from him that he has covered is sayonara midnight

D:rein : He only has one cover out and its eine kleine ! He’s definitely I believe deserves more views and mylists. He has this twang to his voice? I’m always aaaaaaa yes please why do you only have one cover ///

Ciawon~ I actually don’t know where to put this guy? I think his voice is calming?? mixed with cool? He hasn’t uploaded anything in a year but he’s still active on twitter. My favorite cover from him is From Y to Y

Cute voices:

HiroT! He loves pokemon a lot!!! Super adorable. The first cover he uploaded on niconico was Calc. on Feb. 18, so he’s super new! He does a lot of 30sec twitter video uploads though!

Tachibana Yuu: He has a cute mixed with cool? to me at least… please tell me what you guys think of my son. He’s around 179cm yet he has a pretty cute voice!! My favorite from him so far is Hide and seek! I love all his covers though ~

Kapo! Even his name is just cute. Like out of all the cute voices here he has the cutest voice! My favorite from him that he did extremely well on is sekai wa koi ni ochiteiru ! I wish he did more honeyworks songs because I think it would all suit him so well ^q^

Cool Voices: (my favorite kind yes)

Mic! He doesn’t only have a cool voice though! He likes doing different kinds of voices but all I’ve heard from him lately is his cool one ww I’ve talked to him in English before because I told him I’m still learning Japanese and he was like E!! Your Japanese is good!! Teach me english!!! Then I randomly started giving him tweets in English and he responded back in English?? He said it’s only basic English so he wants to learn more! So I’m sure using English with him is fine. ^^ He’s very funny www Please listen to his sore ga anata no shiawase toshitemo !! I fell for him in this cover!!!

Doraneko!! This guy. is so cute despite his voice being cool. I love him. Listen to his cover of magic city and you’ll understand what I mean. He loves animals!! JUST READ HIS TWITTER DESCRIPTION AND YOU’LL SEE WHAT I MEAN BY CUTE!! HES  SO CUTE IM DEAD DEAD ASDFKF:D

First of all, if there’s any mistakes in my English, I’m sorry, I’m not a native speaker. Second, if anything doesn’t make sense or is out of order, I’m also sorry. Third, I hope I don’t come off as rude.

I’ll write most stuff under a cut because this is long.

Now then:

It’s about comments on YouTube videos, a topic which I think is long overdue in this fandom. I don’t know if anyone has talked about this before, so forgive me if that’s the case and it’s a topic you’re tired of and don’t wish to speak about, if no one has talked about this before, then I think it’s about time someone did.

I frequently see comments (and the worst ones as top comments, most of the time) in different utaite’s YouTube video uploads (worst ones I’ve seen being in Kradness’ videos, for whatever reason) which are extremely disrespectful, and that’s been bothering me for a while, so I decided to finally say something.