Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
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Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (Japanese : 魔理沙は大変なものを盗んでいきました) is a popular remix of a piece of music from the Touhou series by the doujin group IOSYS[1], which along with it’s promoting flash animated music video became hugely popular on the japanese internet/Doujin community.
A number of remixes, covers and alternate videos have been made for the song, and it’s popularity has spread into the western world as well.
Origin
The song ‘s music is based on Alice’s boss theme from the 7th Touhou game Perfect Cherry Blossom[2], titled "Doll Judgement ~ The Girl Who Played with People’s Shapes, which was relesed at the 64th Comiket in August 17th 2003. This song itself was a slight remix of Alice’s theme “Romantic Children” from the 5th Touhou game Mystic Square.[3]
Marisa Stole The Precious Thing was first released on the Touhou remix album Touhou Otome Bayashi (Touhou Maidens’ Orchestra), released by IOSYS on August 13th, 2006 at the popular comic book convention Comiket.
The song is sung from the viewpoint of Touhou character Alice Margatroid and describes, among other things, her mixed romantic feelings towards Touhou protagonist Marisa Kirisame, supporting her fanmade tsundere status. The titular precious thing that Marisa stole was in fact her heart.
IOSYS launched the special page for this album on August 10th, 2006[4], and released official promoting flash animation for the song. later, it was converted to movie and officially reuploaded to YouTube.[5] This well-made animation went viral among Japanese Otaku at that time.
The song has become popular in Doujin market enough to warrant a official 2 volume remix album by IOSYS titled Gossun Remix, made up entirely of 27 remixes of the song.[6]
Spread
After Nico Nico Douga (NND), a video sharing service in Japan, was launched in early 2007, this flash animation and many of Touhou remixes released in Doujin market were uploaded to there by many anonymous people, and some of them became to audio/visual resources of MAD video that was been opening its new era by NND at that time. Among them, it was one of the first big hit tunes by the popularity of many early works reusing this song.[7] For example, “Onmyoji Stole the precious thing” , the earliest hit in this song’s series, was already uploaded on Feburary 2007 before NND was banned from YouTube.[8]
As of September 2011, the amount of the video related to this song on NND is over 2700.[9]
The popularity of the song on NND is also shown by it’s incorporation into the Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga medleys , in which it is a regular feature, appearing in every single medley so far.
Creator’s Approval
Kagi, the creator of this flash animation and other promotion movies for IOSYSOS, was asked about the fad of his works on NND in the interview by online news ASCII.jp in 2008. He said he accepted this online fad favorably.
- Do you get angry with those unauthorized reproductions ?
Kagi : No, not at all. I appreciate them. I’d like to say “Thank you” to them.
I’m not so interested in copyright issues like this, and I don’t take money from ppl watching my flash animation. So, I think it’s nice that people can enjoy movies in such a way on there , in addition to my web site.
Via : ASCII.jp[10]
Notable Media Appearance
The Japanese kickboxer Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima[11], famous for his Otaku behavior and cosplaying during his entrance to the ring, appeared with marisa’s cosplay and “Marisa stole the precious thing” at the kickboxing tournament “K-1 World MAX” held in March 27th, 2010.
Westerner’s web
The animated videos for both this song and “Stops at the affected area and immediately dissolves ～ Lunatic Udongein” aka Overdrive (from which a popular varient of Kimoi Girls originates) increased the interest in Touhou the west, specifically on 4chan, where spamming of the Engrish phrases in the songs (such as WHY WHY WHY DON’T I MISS YOU A LOT, FOREVER?) became a popular response.
Examples
MADs
Kaiba Keyed the Horrible Command[12] (See also : Enemy Controller)
The Grandad Gave the Precious Werther’s Original to His Grandson[13] (See also : Werther’s Original)
The Crown Gave the Horrible Brainwash[14] / 1.2 million+ views on NND (See also : Ran Ran Ru)
The Crasher Broke the Precious Keyboard[15] / 1.9 million+ views on NND (See also : Angry German Kid)
Though the quality of these videos is not so good, these are the earliest hits in each fads on NND. This is because the format of MADs wasn’t established yet at that time.
Search Interest
External References
Editor’s Note: Registration on NND is needed to browse the original videos listed in this section.
[2] Touhou Wiki – Perfect Cherry Blossom
[3] Touhou Wiki – Mystic Square
[4]IOSYS OS – イオシス(IOSYS) – 「東方乙女囃子」特設ページ(2006-08-10) (Japanese)
[5] YouTube – “Marisa wa Taihennamono wo Nusunde Ikimashita” from “Toho Otomebayashi” by IOSYS – YouTube / Posted on 11-16-2006
[6]IOSYSOS – Gossun Remix
[7] Nico Nico Pedia – 盗んでいきましたシリーズ (the video series for Marisa Stole the Precious Thing)
[8] YouTube – 陰陽師は大変なものを盗んでいきました / Posted on 02-10-2007
[9] Nico Nico Douga – Search results for “盗んでいきましたシリーズ” (the video series for Marisa Stole the Precious Thing)
[10]ASCII.jp – ニコニコ動画の無断転載に「ありがとう」──「魔理沙は～」「ウサテイ」のFlash作者が語る本音｜古田雄介の“顔の見えるインターネット” / 01-08-2008 (Japanese)
[11] Wikipedia – Yuichiro Nagashima
[12] Nico Nico Douga – 遊戯王 海馬は大変なコマンド入力をしていきました(修正版) / Posted on 05-13-2007
[13] Nico Nico Douga – おじいさんは大変なヴェルタースオリジナルを孫に与えました（動画有ver / Posted on 08-31-2007
[14] Nico Nico Douga – 道化師は大変な洗脳を施していきました / Posted on 07-11-2007
[15] Nico Nico Douga – クラッシャーは大変なキーボードを破壊していきました / Posted on 06-09-2007
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