About
Kokoro Odoru (Japanese: ココロオドル, lit. Heart is Dancing) is the third single of a Japanese hip-hop music group nobodyknows+.[1]
This song is one of the popular resources for MAD videos on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND).
Origin
The single was released on May 26th, 2004 by Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and on June 2004, it is included to nobodyknows+’s first album “Do You Know?”.
The song was used as the second ending theme of the TV anime series Superior Defender Gundam Force[2] in 2004 and was also implied to the Nintendo DS game Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan in 2005.[3]
Spread
MAD editors on NND began introducing this song into their works around early 2008. And several videos in this series became getting attentions around the beginning of 2009, which featured popular visual resources such as Shuzo Matsuoka and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
In those early instances, the actual trigger that led to a substantial increase in popularity of the series was a nostalgic TV commercial movie for an energy drink in early 90s, which featured an American professional wrestler Reggie Bennett.[4] It was posted by a user めがー on January 16th, 2009.[5]
However, almost all early instances were deleted from NND in the first half of 2009 because SME is very strict to copyright infringements against their publications and since before, they have removed videos reusing original songs they own.
NND users have tried solving this problem by using the transcribed version of this song which was made by a user LIGT9 on September 3rd, 2009.[6] That’s because they are allowed to post music transcriber/playing cover videos by the umbrella agreement between Niwango, the running company of NND, and music publishers including SME.
Fortunately, subsequent videos using that version have succeeded to avoid SME’s deletion. And in September 2012, The amount of videos in this series on NND had increased to near 400.[7]
Notable Examples
For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.
Saki_[8] (+1 million views on NND)
Company Sound Logos[9]
_Steins;Gate[10]
It's Salmon!!![11]
Shuzo Matsuoka[12]
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya[13]
Search Interest
External References
Editor’s Note: Registration is needed to browse the original videos listed in this section.
[1] Wikipedia – Nobodyknows (band)
[2] Wikipedia – Superior Defender Gundam Force
[3] Wikipedia – Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
[4] Wikipedia – Reggie Bennett
[5] Nico Nico Douga – ダダンボヨル / Posted on 01-16-2009
[6] Nico Nico Douga – ココロオドル(耳コピ) / Posted on 09-03-2009
[7] Nico Nico Douga – Seach results for ココロオドル
[8] Nico Nico Douga – 【音MAD】サキガツモル【咲-Saki-×ココロオドル】 / Posted on 02-04-2010
[9] Nico Nico Douga – サウンドロゴル 【ココロオドル】 / Posted on 11-01-2011
[10] Nico Nico Douga – ココロオカリン【Steins;Gate】 / Posted on 08-18-2011
[11] Nico Nico Douga – シャケガアタル / Posted on 04-20-2011
[12] Nico Nico Douga – シジミトゥルル / Posted on 12-23-2008 (deleted)
[13] Nico Nico Douga – ハルヒオドル / Posted on 01-12-2009 (deleted)