X Shakes Cola

About

X Shakes Cola (Japanese: コーラを振るだけ) refers to a series of hand-drawn animations featuring various characters dancing while shaking and spraying a bottle of soda at their partner, while being set to a remix of the 1998 Japanese rock song “HOTLIMIT” by T.M. Revolutions.^[1]

Origin

The original soda-shaking animation was created by Nico Nico Douga user 竹林の民, and was uploaded to the site on October 14th, 2012. It was initially shown as bonus footage for a “”http:" />smooooch ・∀・" parody video (shown below, left) featuring the 2channel characters known as Yaranaio.^[2] An extended version of the animation, which also included a pie fight between the characters, would be uploaded to NND by its creator a week later, on October 22nd, 2012. (shown below, right)

【ニコニコ動画】【手書き】やらない夫でsmooooch・∀・【やっつけ】【ニコニコ動画】【手描き】やらない夫がコーラを振るだけじゃなくなった【やっつけ】

Spread

The video was positively received with users in the site, helping it amass over 500 thousand views as of August 2013. It would eventually prompt other amateur animators on the site to try their hand in recreating the video with characters from anime, manga, and video game series. Additionally, the original video would also be remade with a more fluid animation, and being uploaded to NND on January 28th, 2013.^[3] The video is the most viewed in the series, with it gaining over 600 thousand views in just seven months.

In all, over 480 videos relating to the series has since been posted to NND^[4] as of August 2013, where many of them has been reprinted to YouTube.^[5] And though it’s limited, illustrators on pixiv^[5] and Nico Nico Segia^[6] also began creating and uploaded stillshots based on the videos on the art-sharing sites.

Notable Examples

Touhou Project^[8]
Ib.^[9]
Dangan Ronpa^[10]
No More Movie Thief^[11]

Search Interest

External References

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