Hare Hare Yukai Dance (2006)

added Sep 12, 2009 at 01:10AM UTC

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About

The Hare Hare Yukai Dance (a.k.a Haruhi dance) is a MAD video meme based on the ending theme from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, a popular anime series about an eccentric high school girl and her mystery investigation club, SOS brigade. Due to its immense popularity, the cutesy dance outro became somewhat of an internet meme in both Japan and overseas.

Origins

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is based on the popular manga (of the same title), which itself is inspired by a series of light novels written by Nagaru Tanigawa. Since its breakout in 2003, the original “high school/adventure” fiction has been adapted into four separate manga series, five video games, a TV anime adaptation and two web exclusive animations.

Spread

Pilot episode of the TV anime series first aired in April 2006. Soon, fans began sharing MAD videos and parody versions of the outro dance, some even arranged tribute performances via 2Chan. Eventually, both the anime series and the ending theme gained “mementum” among anime/cosplay fans overseas. The number of derivatives multiplied, featuring other anime/manga/videogame characters as well as the contributors themselves.

Derivatives

3D Version



Hare Hare Yukai Rockamn!



Pika Pika Yukai



Live Show Dance



Japanese Flash Mob



Lucky Star (a completely different anime)



Smash Brothers Hare Hare Yukai



Chibi Version



Hare Hare Yukai Shien (that 2chan cat thing)



Cosplayers



Death Note Hare Yukai



Mermaid Hare Yukai



Hare Hare Stop Motion



MikuMikuDance Hare Hare Yukai



Tutorial



Y.T.M.N.D.

http://lazyharuhidp.ytmnd.com/
http://haruhi.ytmnd.com/
http://haruhiagain.ytmnd.com/

Flash Animations

Hare Hare Yukai by Chris by ~napalmzonde on deviantART
Newgrounds- Hare Hare Yukai EM ver

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21 Comments

Jostin Asuncion
Sep 12, 2009 at 01:12AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Sorry, I don’t think this constitutes as a meme. Are there any parodies of it like using characters not from the anime for example?

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 01:14AM UTC , Jest wrote:

There are many many many parodies and flash mobs. Organizing them now.

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 01:35AM UTC , Jest wrote:

Uploaded tons of examples, will upload more later. Cause there’s more…A lot more. o.O

Fierce Pika
Sep 12, 2009 at 03:55AM UTC , Fierce Pika wrote:

Links no work!

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 04:05AM UTC , Jest wrote:

@Fierce Pika

Which links? They all seem to be working for me. o.O

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 04:06AM UTC , Jest wrote:

oh I think I see what you mean. The videos are doing strange things.

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 04:10AM UTC , Jest wrote:

Appears to be fixed, I think all the code was just piled to closely together and getting messed up.

Chris Menning
Sep 12, 2009 at 09:56PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Both The Melancholy of Haruhi Suziyama and Lucky Star are produced by Kyoto Animation. So the fact that Lucky Star also featured the dance is not really a phenomenon, just a cross-promotion.

I don’t know. To me this just seems like people on the internet emulating what they see on TV. Or was the dance originally a fan creation and I somehow didn’t catch that?

Jostin Asuncion
Sep 12, 2009 at 10:03PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Nope. The dance appears in the intro of the anime show. Fans of the show just copy it. Though, like the Caramelldansen, this appears to show some derivatives as well. I think we should just keep it in submissions until we can find something groundbreaking about its memetic value.

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 11:02PM UTC , Jest wrote:

I think of the dance as a meme, it spread through the internet like crazy. Every convention I would go to tons of people were doing it, there were even panels simply for teaching it. if you search Hare Hare Yukai on youtube you’ll find hundreds upon hundreds of people doing their version in different settings.

How I see it, there was a huge spread through the internet across japan, it created multiple parodies. People across the world are emulating it. If you watch the Japanese video of the live performance you’ll see that the entire crowd is doing the actions. XD

Tomberry
Sep 12, 2009 at 11:36PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

So, the Macarena dance is also a meme ?

There’s a big difference with Caramelldansen. Caramelldansen was a swiss music that has been remixed and adapted. It became viral and led to derivatives because people saw the remix online and made their own clip from the curious “dance”.

No anime took it as an intro.

Here, it appears to be just fandom.

Chris Menning
Sep 13, 2009 at 12:04AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

You wanna see a big crowd of people dancing in unison?

Please don’t make me start referring to Oprah’s fanbase as a memetic hub.

Jest
Sep 13, 2009 at 12:13AM UTC , Jest wrote:

But this was quite viral, it became about the dance not about the Anime. The difference between this and Macerena is this wasn’t meant to be emulated, it was just an ending theme to a Japanese anime that for some reason caught on. Then spread viraly across the internet through sites like 2chan and across the sea to the states.

I dunno though, I’ll leave it up to you guys to decide. It’s just something I saw around everywhere both online and in real life.

Blah-tan
Sep 13, 2009 at 12:52AM UTC , Blah-tan wrote:

But this did not start from the internet. The status of Hare Hare Yukai is a pop-culture reference. The reason some phrases from mainstream were confirmed is because the context of the phrase was changed by the internet. Right now Hare Hare Yukai still refers to Haruhi Suzumiya and nothing else. This is also the reason why the Lucky Star Opening article is not confirmed. Therefore, a super parodied sequence will still be a parody.

Pterodactyl
Sep 13, 2009 at 05:10PM UTC , Pterodactyl wrote:

Fangirl in 3.. 2.. 1.. AAAH HARUHI AHH AJUDGJ SF I LOVE ITSUKI RAAAH YES OKAY YA
Y!

Okay, like I said on the Lucky*Star article, [MAD].
I’m still going to write that article and explain it, so give me sometime.
I actually shouldn’t be in the office, it’s off-limits, and won’t be permitting until the end of September.

Blah-tan
Sep 15, 2009 at 10:29PM UTC , Blah-tan wrote:

^ TBH Itsuki creeps me out…

hunterhound
Sep 28, 2009 at 07:30AM UTC , hunterhound wrote:

It works just like Za Warudo, so it must be a meme!

Brad Kim
Nov 17, 2009 at 01:14AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

finuhlly confirmed! also, the mini-size version is featured in this week’s KYM dance dance monday!

http://blog.knowyourmeme.com/post/246188926

G1drake
Dec 02, 2009 at 04:21PM UTC , G1drake wrote:

well,at least theres no furry video based

Marina
Dec 03, 2009 at 03:41AM UTC , Marina wrote:

Sorry, I don’t know how to embed the youtube video soz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ghd1SFF_W8

Those are the prisoners from a prison in the Philippines doing the Haruhi Dance.

Sanjuro
Jan 01, 2010 at 11:34AM UTC , Sanjuro wrote:

This has to count:

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