Humanity Has Declined Opening Parodies / Declination Dance

About

Humanity has Declined Opening Parodies refers to a series of parody videos for the opening credit movie of a Japanese TV anime for a light novel series Humanity Has Declined written by Romeo Tanaka.^[10] In the late of 2012, the opening credit movie was a popular subject for parodies and tributes on the Japanese web because of its adorable dancing.

Origin

The TV anime, Humanity Has Declined, was aired from July to September in 2012. The song used in the opening movie, “Real World”, was sung by a Japanese pop rock band nano.RIPE.^[1] The highlight in the movie is an adorable dancing by fairies and the heroine.

This kind of simple dancing loop is known as a favorite rendition style of a director of this anime Seiji Kishi.^[2] He has featured characters’ dancing in opening credit movies for his previous works My Bride is a Mermaid^[3] and Galaxy Angel Rune.^[4] In particular, the latter became to a fad on both Futaba Channel (2chan) and Nico Nico Douga (NND), which is called as Pappara Dance.

Niconico 人類は衰退しました OP リアルワールド

Spread

This cute dancing soon became to be dubbed as “Declination Dance” (Japanese: 衰退ダンス, Suitai Dance) by viewers, and was given a Shift-JIS art “(」・ワ・)」(⊃・ワ・)⊃” in the same manner as (」・ω・)」Uhh!(／・ω・)／Nya! and （σ回ω・）σ←↖↑↗→↘↓↙←↖↑↗ (Rikka's Finger Spin). Over a hundred of parody videos/illustrations uploaded to NND^[5], Nico Nico Seiga^[6] and pixiv^[7] are tagged under this name, and that Shift-JIS art can be often found on comments in the videos.

In addition, an audio-dubbing video featuring Indian actors groovy dancing taken from a 2004 movie Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.^[8] is the most popular parody in this series and had been watched over 1 million times within its first month. The dance in this video “Indians Has Prospered” is also given a nickname “Prosperity Dance” (繁栄ダンス, Hanei Dance), and has dozens amount of its own parodies/tributes.^[9]

Niconico インド人類は繁栄しました

Notable Examples

Niconico フタエノキワミは衰退しましたNiconico 【MAD】百合は衰退しません【ゆるゆり×人類は衰退しました】
Left: Futae no Kiwami | Right: Yuru Yuri
Niconico 【アイマス手書き】事務員は妄想しましたNiconico 【東方×人類は衰退しましたop】幻想郷は衰退しました
Left: THE iDOLM@STER | Right: Touhou Project

Illustrations

Prosperity Dance Parodies

Niconico【第10回MMD杯本選】MMDは繁栄しましたNiconico【一人で】インド人類は繁栄しました【踊ってみた】
Left: Miku Miku Dance Edition | Right: IRL Dance Cover

Search Interest

External References

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