Slow Loris Win a Victory with UC

About

Slow Loris Win a Victory with UC, known as “Guts-Pose Inmu-Kun Series” (Japanese: ガッツポーズ淫夢くんシリーズ) on the Japanese web, refers to a series of audio dubbing videos utilizing an innocent slow loris video and/or “UC”, an acronym means both the original anime video title in Gundam series Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn^[1] and its main theme song “UNICORN”. The style of this series is widely spreading on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND), due to its quite convenient editing style like Guile’s Theme Goes Everything and a cult following from some NND users addicted to the biggest Japanese gay porn meme A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream.

Origin

“UNICORN” is a magnificent orchestral song written by a Japanese composer Hiroyuki Sawano^[2] (shown below, left). It’s included in the 1st soundtrack album for Gundam Unicorn released in February 2010. Meanwhile, the actual origin of this fad was not the song itself, but a video of people playing with a slow loris hanging on a door was posted to YouTube by user Alex Gavrilov in 2007 (shown below, right).

This slow loris video was reprinted to NND on November 28th, 2011^[3] by one of the Inmufags, fanatics of the Japanese gay porn meme A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream. Because a slow loris appeared on the title image of their favorite gay porn video, Inmufags consider slow loris as a sort of their mascot. They call slow loris by a nickname “Inmu-kun” (淫夢くん, lit. Lewd Dream Boy) and like to collect slow loris videos to their home ground and fill comments by their favorite silly inside jokes.

Spread

The trigger video of this series, “Inmu-Kun Win a Victory with UC” (完全勝利した淫夢くんUC), was uploaded to NND on February 28th, 2012.^[4] It was an audio-dubbing parody enhancing the climax moment of this slow loris fist raising by “UNICORN”. This video had reached over 1 million page views after 15 months of its upload due to its epic rendition and the cult following from Inmufags.

NND users inspired by this video, mainly Inmufags, soon began mimicking this style and combining various kind of songs with this slow loris to make it more epic. Those videos formed a series of audio-dubbing parody videos named “Guts-Pose Inmu-Kun series” because fist raising like this slow loris is usually called Guts-Pose^[5] in Japanese language.

However, the main theme of this series has changed from the slow loris to the song since around January 2013 because just playing “UNICORN” along with footage is much more convenient way to make things drastically dramatic. One of the earliest hit videos in this style is “Ms Shoko haida Win a Victory over Children with UC”^[6] which featured the devastating drawing skill of Ms Haida, the creator of Devil Spoo. Like this, audio-dubbing videos featuring “UNICORN” are named by the phrasal template“X Win a Victory with UC” (完全勝利した X UC).

As of July 2013, both slow loris parodies and “UNICORN” parodies are tagged under the same “Guts-Pose Inmu-Kun Series” on NND. And, the amount of videos tagged under this is more than one thousand.^[7]
Besides, the popularity of Inmu-Kun also spreads to the Japanese illustrator communities pixiv^[8] and Nico Nico Seiga.^[9] Guts-pose by this slow loris is a popular subject for fanarts and parodies for Inmu-kun on both of them.

Notable Examples

Slow Loris Parodies

Left: Another Gundam Unicorn Song^[10] | Right: METALGEAR SOLID3^[11]

Left: Cooking^[12] | Right: Robot^[13]

“UNICORN” Parodies

Left: TDN from A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream^[14] | Right: Walk-Off Homer by Michihiro “Guts” Ogasawara^[15]^[16]

Left: Sasha Braus a.k.a Poteto Girl from Attack on Titan^[17] | Right: Koyomi Araragi from Bakemonogatari^[18]

Illustrations

Search Interest

It can be confirmed from Google Trends that the word “Inmu-Kun” has spikes on March 2012 and February 2013 by the influence of “X Win a Victory with UC” videos.