Kichiku Megane Opening Parodies

About

Kichiku Megane Opening Parodies (Japanese: 鬼畜眼鏡OPパロ) refer to a series of parody video remixes for the opening title movie in a Japanese Yaoi/BL (Boy’s Love)^[1] video game Kichiku Megane (鬼畜眼鏡; lit. “Fiendish Glasses”) relased by a Japanese video game developed Spray.^[2] As well as Kishimen and Little Busters! title movie, This adult game’s opening title movie has earned many parody videos created by Fujoshi^[3] on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) since 2007.

Origin

Kichiku Megane released its limited edition on July 20th, 2007, and the standard edition was released in October of that year. Prior to the release, its opening title movie was published at the official page on May 17th as part of a promoting campaign, and it was quickly reuploaded to YouTube and NND.^[4] This video is made in a typical adult video games credit movie format which introduces each characters by still-illustrations only.

The opening theme song “under the darkness” is composed and sung by C.G mix^[5], one of the main composers in the Japanese music production I’ve sound. This opening song is also popular on NND partly due to its many funny misheard phrases coming from the singer’s poor pronunciation.

Spread

In a similar way to many other media titles released in that year, this BL game also became to a subject for parody video remixes on the Japanese brand-new video hub sites. And because of the game’s popularity among Fujoshi and its simple format which can be easily mimicked by illustrations or screenshots taken from other anime/manga/game titles in the MAD video style, this parody video series has kept its popularity on NND since late 2007.^[6] The earliest instance in this series was posted on July 28th, 2007 which is a MAD video featuring Koizumi Itsuki/Kyon from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Niconico 【腐向け古キ/ョン】u/nde/r th/e da/rk/ne/ss【ずっと弾幕のターン】

Various Examples

Niconico ゲームＯＰ風・第二次世界大戦Niconico 【SIREN】鬼畜サイレン＠手描き
Left: World War II | Right: Forbidden Siren^[7]
Niconico 【東方】鬼畜姉妹【鬼畜眼鏡】Niconico 【MAD】ペルソナ４「under the darkness」
Left: Touhou Project | Right: Persona 4

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