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On this episode, we talk about the theater shows and meet and greet events that we did this month, we also talk about THE END OF 9TH GEN, NMB's upcoming summer concerts, theater tickets being moved to FANY, and more! If you have a question or comment for the podcast, you can leave it in the comments section on Youtube, or email us at nmbtakoyaki.party@gmail.com Hang out with all the other international NMB fans on Discord!  http://discord.gg/nmbfans Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts at. You can find English subs for Idol Shikkaku on the Teppen Subs blog as well as other subbed NMB content. https://teppensubteam.tumblr.com/ 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - TETRA Mini Live and Autograph Session Report 13:31 - We went to some NMB theater shows together 22:37 - Handshake Event and Photo Event reports 46:46 - Itagaki Koyori and Yoshimi Ayane were promoted and transferred to Team M, 9th gen show is ending 55:35 - 10th gen is coming soon! 57:26 - Summer Concerts at Zepp Bayside Osaka announced 1:14:42 - 9th Gen Lords Mobile bullsh*t contest 1:19:30 - NMB appearing on a bunch of random shows as musical guests 1:23:20 - TWINKLE performs at Kojirin's 3rd solo concert 1:24:45 - Nico Nico Douga is down, YNN content being uploaded to Youtube for now 1:32:10 - Theater Tickets Being Moved to FANY 1:48:25 - Outro

This week, Yergy and Drewby take a break from true crime to pay tribute to the legend known as Billy Herrington, highlighting his early work in male adult entertainment, and his unexpected rise to internet fame in Asia, and later the rest of the world, through the internet phenomena of Gachimuchi.   Billy Herrington was born in North Babylon, New York, and grew up on Long Island learning karate from his father, who was a sensei. He had interests in boxing, wrestling and martial arts, but did not start bodybuilding until he was 24 years old, after moving to New York City. Herrington began his career when his then girlfriend from Long Island submitted his pictures to Playgirl magazine. The photographs won him a "Real Men of the Month" contest and a $500.00 prize. His appearance in the magazine caught the eye of famed photographer Jim French, but it was two years before Herrington posed for his first Colt calendars for French. Soon after, Herrington was filming adult films for All Worlds Video, and appearing on mainstream TV programs such as Love Connection and the Ricki Lake talk show.    Herrington gained fame in Japan as an Internet meme, after a clip from one of his videos was posted on Nico Nico Douga, a Japanese video sharing website. Thousands of mash-up parody videos of him have been made, many of which utilize deliberate mishearings of lines from his films. He is affectionately called "Aniki," or "older brother," among the Nico Nico Douga community, and most of his videos are deliberately mistagged with "Wrestling Series," "Forest Fairy," "Philosophy," or all three, later these videos would crossover to Youtube as well as Twitch through streamers like Forsen, and Gachimuchi would gain international popularity alongside the Catalina Video meme craze.   On February 14th, 2009, Herrington visited Japan after he was invited to make an appearance in a special Nico Nico Douga livecast for Valentine's Day. According to the YouTube video description, more than 10,000 fans of Billy Herrington showed up at the Nico Nico Douga event in Tokyo's Akihabara district. On the same day as the event, Japanese model kit makers Good Smile Company announced that they would manufacture a limited-edition Billy Herrington action figure. During the evening of March 1, 2018, Herrington was involved in a car accident on California State Route 111 in Rancho Mirage. He was found trapped in the wreckage and was brought to a Palm Springs hospital, where he died the next day. On March 3rd, film director Chi Chi LaRue tweeted a memorial tweet for Herrington, which gained over 4,000 retweets and over 1,500 likes in less than 12 hours. Shortly after, Herrington's mother, confirmed the death in a Facebook post which received over 1,400 reactions over the same time, revealing he died in a car accident. Fans responded with hundreds of tributes across video sharing sites and message boards. One tribute video uploaded on Nico Nico Douga accumulated over 80,000 views in less than one week. Herrington was buried at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. We miss you Billy ❤ ♂ RIP   This week's episode is sponsored by True Crime by Indie Drop-In: https://pdsh.re/p/true-crime Join Our Facebook Group to Request a Topic: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Instagram: miserymachinepodcast Twitter: misery_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM #podcast #documentary #truecrime   Source Material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Herrington https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/billy-herrington-gachimuchi https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/Gachimuchi https://gachimuchi.fandom.com/wiki/Gachimuchi_Wiki

Charlie from A-Town FM and Dani from Station 13 get together for this special crossover episode! They compare shows before diving deep into mastodon: the technical details, the good, the bad, and the ramifications of some of its fundamental decisions.Twitter (Charlie): @chuckyc17Mastodon (Charlie): @charliemchapman@mastodon.socialTwitter (Dani): @danielpwrightMastodon (Dani): @dpwright@mastodon.socialStation 13Reddit: /r/Station13Twitter: @Station13FMMastodon: @station13@botsin.spaceA-Town FMReddit: /r/atownfmTwitter: @atownfmMastodon: @atownfm@mastodon.socialShow Notes A-Town FM A-Town at the movies Station 13 #6: You can’t make sushi without good fish Rolex Cellini Moonphase A. Lange and Söhne Zeitwerk Station 13 #21: Slow News Day Pilot Metropolitan The Pen Addict Station 13 #1: Red means “go carefully” Station 13 #18: The full duplex Douglas Adams cookie story Station 13 #33: Toot! A-Town FM #52: Coffee Cola and New Social Media Hatching Twitter bbq.snoot (Film Mastodon Instance) pawoo.net friends.nico Nico Nico Douga “Freshly washed sheets and a cat” Nico Nico Douga 10 year festival Ready Player One Overcast Daring Fireball PixelFed Plume GNU Social PeerTube The Wil Wheaton Affair: In his own words Background and counterpoint Consequences for instance moderators A-Town FM #53: Making Salads We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

Charlie from A-Town FM and Dani from Station 13 get together for this special crossover episode! They compare shows before diving deep into Mastodon: the technical details, the good, the bad, and the ramifications of some of its fundamental decisions. Twitter (Charlie): @chuckyc17 Mastodon (Charlie): @charliemchapman@mastodon.social Twitter (Dani): @danielpwright Mastodon (Dani): @dpwright@mastodon.social Station 13 Reddit: /r/Station13 Twitter: @Station13FM Mastodon: @station13@botsin.space A-Town FM Reddit: /r/atownfm Twitter: @atownfm Mastodon: @atownfm@mastodon.social Show Notes A-Town FM A-Town at the movies Station 13 #6: You can’t make sushi without good fish Rolex Cellini Moonphase A. Lange and Söhne Zeitwerk Station 13 #21: Slow News Day Pilot Metropolitan The Pen Addict Station 13 #1: Red means “go carefully” Station 13 #18: The full duplex Douglas Adams cookie story Station 13 #33: Toot! A-Town FM #52: Coffee Cola and New Social Media Hatching Twitter bbq.snoot (Film Mastodon Instance) pawoo.net friends.nico Nico Nico Douga “Freshly washed sheets and a cat” Nico Nico Douga 10 year festival Ready Player One Overcast Daring Fireball PixelFed Plume GNU Social PeerTube The Wil Wheaton Affair: In his own words Background and counterpoint Consequences for instance moderators A-Town FM #53: Making Salads We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

Apps mentioned: NicoBox by DWANGO Co., Ltd and Nico Nico Douga.

Our fandom journey this season takes us all the way to Japan to talk about fans of the world's most famous _virtual_ pop idol: Hatsune Miku! How did such a relatively niche thing become a global phenomenon? And who is pulling the strings?? Next week, we're off to Mexico to talk about fans of that exciting sport: Lucha Libre! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Origins:** Hatsune Miku is a VOCALOID. What is a VOCALOID? A VOCALOID is a singing synthesizer application developed by YAMAHA. It was an international effort to create a synthesizer to act as a replacement singer. The original VOCALOID engine was release in 2004. Hatsune Miku was the second VOCALOID released as part of the VOCALOID2 engine and the first member of the Character Vocal Series created by Crypton Future Media Inc. Her name literally means "the first sound from the future." She is also a humanoid persona: a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise twintails and her voice is modelled after Saki Fujita. In September of 2007, Amazon.co.jp reported over 57 million yen (Over a half-million USD) in sales for the Hatsune Miku software, and she has recorded over 100 000 songs. She has since been portrayed in many different media, and is also a Japanese pop idol, among other things. [// A SPREAD IN JAPANESE PLAYBOY??? ]: # **Size of Fandom:** The vocaloid subreddit has over 15000 subscribers, and the Hatsune Miku subreddit has over 2600. The actual number of fans is probably somewhere in the low hundreds of thousands though: > She's beautiful, she's talented, she's immensely popular…and she's not real. Hatsune Miku the virtual popstar creation of Crypton Future Media in Japan, has sold out another concert. Her much anticipated second annual March 9th (39) performance was seen live by over 2000 attendees, watched by thousands more in theaters screening the concert around the country, and streamed in real time to over 160,000 fans via Nico Nico Douga. That is a level of attendance reserved for world class entertainment, and Hatsune Miku didn't fail to deliver. Her nearly three hour show featured multiple encores, special guest appearances, and was met by fervent enthusiasm by her fans attending live in Tokyo. > > — [SingularityHub - 160,000+ Watch Virtual Popstar Hatsune Miku Return to the Stage (video)](https://singularityhub.com/2011/04/12/160000-watch-virtual-popstar-hatsune-miku-return-to-the-stage-video-2/) **Changes in Fandom:** Interest in Hatsune Miku has been steady, with a slight decline in the last few years (according to [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0cp0qm1,%2Fm%2F05p812,vocaloid)). There was a huge spike in interest around the time of her release (Oct 2007), and interest in her (and other VOCALOIDs) has been pretty stable ever since. **Around the world:** While Hatsune Miku enjoy fans from around the world, the most interest in her stems from Japan, and, to a lesser degree, from countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Chile, Hong Kong, and South Korea. ### [Last Episode's](http://fanthropological.com/e/44-starcraft-fans/) Famous Last Words **Z** Hatsune Miku is popular in part due to dating sims. **G** A portion of her fanbase does not know that she is not a real person **T** Are there male counterparts? Is Hatsune Miku peak moe? [// Definitely not peak moe. I think that there's only going to be more and more moe as time goes on, and as men continue to isolate themselves more (and as society continues the way that it does]: # [// That being said... I literally searched for Hatsune Miku peak moe, nothing. ]: # [// As for male vocaloids... I did find some: Yuezheng Longya, Arsloid, and Yohioloid. ]: # [// In terms of classification, it is generally considered that "VOCALOIDs" earn their classification when: They have a VOCALOID™-powered vocal released. This includes characters from games with vocals powered by the VOCALOID™ software

In their debut episode, the boys of The Other Side–Cody Baier and Alex Barry–take a look at Nico Nico Douga’s top 50 anime series of the 21st century, as voted by its users. What they find is a sad and disturbing indictment on the audience anime has garnered, and Japan’s apparent obsession with schoolgirls. Also, Google Image Search unearths some dark, Lovecraftian evils for which Cody shall not stand. Including spectral rape snakes, which is never a good thing. Especially if you’re a girl with big eyes, a Japanese name, and you happen to find yourself dressed in a sailor suit.

Our fandom journey this season takes us all the way to Japan to talk about fans of the world's most famous _virtual_ pop idol: Hatsune Miku! How did such a relatively niche thing become a global phenomenon? And who is pulling the strings?? Next week, we're off to Mexico to talk about fans of that exciting sport: Lucha Libre! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Origins:** Hatsune Miku is a VOCALOID. What is a VOCALOID? A VOCALOID is a singing synthesizer application developed by YAMAHA. It was an international effort to create a synthesizer to act as a replacement singer. The original VOCALOID engine was release in 2004. Hatsune Miku was the second VOCALOID released as part of the VOCALOID2 engine and the first member of the Character Vocal Series created by Crypton Future Media Inc. Her name literally means "the first sound from the future." She is also a humanoid persona: a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise twintails and her voice is modelled after Saki Fujita. In September of 2007, Amazon.co.jp reported over 57 million yen (Over a half-million USD) in sales for the Hatsune Miku software, and she has recorded over 100 000 songs. She has since been portrayed in many different media, and is also a Japanese pop idol, among other things. [// A SPREAD IN JAPANESE PLAYBOY??? ]: # **Size of Fandom:** The vocaloid subreddit has over 15000 subscribers, and the Hatsune Miku subreddit has over 2600. The actual number of fans is probably somewhere in the low hundreds of thousands though: > She's beautiful, she's talented, she's immensely popular…and she's not real. Hatsune Miku the virtual popstar creation of Crypton Future Media in Japan, has sold out another concert. Her much anticipated second annual March 9th (39) performance was seen live by over 2000 attendees, watched by thousands more in theaters screening the concert around the country, and streamed in real time to over 160,000 fans via Nico Nico Douga. That is a level of attendance reserved for world class entertainment, and Hatsune Miku didn't fail to deliver. Her nearly three hour show featured multiple encores, special guest appearances, and was met by fervent enthusiasm by her fans attending live in Tokyo. > > — [SingularityHub - 160,000+ Watch Virtual Popstar Hatsune Miku Return to the Stage (video)](https://singularityhub.com/2011/04/12/160000-watch-virtual-popstar-hatsune-miku-return-to-the-stage-video-2/) **Changes in Fandom:** Interest in Hatsune Miku has been steady, with a slight decline in the last few years (according to [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0cp0qm1,%2Fm%2F05p812,vocaloid)). There was a huge spike in interest around the time of her release (Oct 2007), and interest in her (and other VOCALOIDs) has been pretty stable ever since. **Around the world:** While Hatsune Miku enjoy fans from around the world, the most interest in her stems from Japan, and, to a lesser degree, from countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Chile, Hong Kong, and South Korea. ### [Last Episode's](http://fanthropological.com/e/44-starcraft-fans/) Famous Last Words **Z** Hatsune Miku is popular in part due to dating sims. **G** A portion of her fanbase does not know that she is not a real person **T** Are there male counterparts? Is Hatsune Miku peak moe? [// Definitely not peak moe. I think that there's only going to be more and more moe as time goes on, and as men continue to isolate themselves more (and as society continues the way that it does]: # [// That being said... I literally searched for Hatsune Miku peak moe, nothing. ]: # [// As for male vocaloids... I did find some: Yuezheng Longya, Arsloid, and Yohioloid. ]: # [// In terms of classification, it is generally considered that "VOCALOIDs" earn their classification when: They have a VOCALOID™-powered vocal released. This includes characters from games with vocals powered by the VOCALOID™ software