Gununu is yet another meme, probably from futaba channel like many others.

It all started with this image, from Ichigo Mashimaro (Strawberry Marshmallow) anime, with this almost crying Ana Coppola face.
For some reason, someone thought it was a good idea to make slight changes to the face to match other characters… and a new meme was born.
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If you’re a Lucky Star fan, you probably already heard of the meme surrounding Tsukasa Hiiragi about the episode she get’s obsessed with Balsamic Vinegar!

Has something to do with how it’s pronounced… “o-su” is vinegar in Japanese, so: “Barusamic o-su”
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Kirin Nuda is a japanese sports drink that has a very peculiar ad:

This one with Takashi Okamura, a famous comedian, with the classic Don’t Stop Me Now from Queen playing on the background.
But something this iconic can’t escape the NicoNico/Futaba channel creative minds, so it became a meme.
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Ok, this one is pretty old already, from the time Sony Playstation Portable was announced… but I had to post because it’s hilarious!

Oh, but wait, this isn’t all…
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Another crazy creation of the new japanese cinema school, featuring british actor Vinnie Jones in the role he plays best: A thug contracted killer.

Different from most movies I presented so far though, Survive Style 5+ is less on the gory, disturbing or overall “adults with strong stomach” side, and more on the “weird” sense.
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I never watched the, from what I understand, ecchi/fanservice filled anime Fight Ippatsu! Juuden chan!!, but I found this very interesting (non ecchi) meme about the episode ending.
The original one goes like this:

Catchy tune, cute animation, obvious memefying target! Even more considering the fanservice…
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Years ago, when I used to spend my day on image boards, I remember seeing this extremely weird image quite oftenly in motivational pictures used when some weird news came from Japan.

Nowadays, I learned that most of that weirdness spread by western media (including mainstream) is a distorted image from Japan.
Like in yes, Japan has weird stuff, but if we make a selection of weird stuff in western countries chances are we’ll find WAY MORE stuff like this one…
UPDATE: Including the recently released english trailer.
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A long time ago I made a post about NicoNico Douga Kumikyoku, a video that compiled tons of musics, images and animations that were all related to the japanese otaku society… now I bring you NicoNico Douga Ryuuseigun Chaos, which follows the same spirit!

Most of us won’t be able to recognize much, since there are tons of 2ch references we probably won’t know, but there are some memes and animes I already made posts about here on this very blog.
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The first time I saw OS-tan was through this very interesting animation/music clip:

It has since become a much bigger thing, and I’ll try to explain a bit about it in this post.
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Dunno if I can call this a meme, since it’s previous to the concept and all, but it’s a very famous video previous to the YouTube era.
The Muppets Show – Mahnamahna

So catchy….
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