Omega Kawaii Cloud Song (2006)

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“Omega Kawaii Cloud Song” is a flash animation created by DeviantArt user SpookyDoom (Nellie Malton) on September 1st 2005. This animation consists a chibi caricature of Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 singing about potions giving him cavities and fighting cactuars.

The Youtube video was uploaded by Alcaka on January 24th 2006.

This was a person who had stumbled upon the animation and decided to post it on Youtube to share it with others. As of December 2009, the video has over 1,000,000 views.

The video had also seen success on other video sharing sites like www.mefeedia.com

On DeviantArt, other users began creating their own versions of the animation.

The Appeal

One reason why the animation has been so successful may be because the cuteness of Chibi Cloud (Omega meaning very and Kawaii meaning Cute). Cuteness (take Babies laughing for example) has a long history of appeal. The song also had silly lyrics set to a catchy tune.

Lyrics

My name is Cloud
I have a sword
I fight Cactuars
Because I’m Bored
I like to ride on Chocobos
It’s better than
Having Afros
And when I go
Into an Inn
Fifteen seconds
It’s day again
And I will use
A phoenix down
So when I die
I will not Frown
Because I am Cloud
My Hair defies all gravity
And I can’t have too many potions
Or I might get cavities
If I can’t slice you
Then that’s ok
I’ll use my magic
Anyway
And I will defeat
That Sephiroth
Because he’s not
David Lee Roth

Derivatives

There have been very many imitators who change to lyrics to fit in with who there singer is for example there has been Sora song who is from the Kingdom Hearts series who sing about Key-blades and Xemnas.

There is also a version of Roxas who sings about his “friend” Axel

Then there is Squall from FF8 who’s song is done in the style of the Cloud song

There is a Vaan from FF12 who’s song is also in the style of Cloud’s song

There is an Irvine song from FF13

There has even been a Gir version from Invader Zim

And there has been an Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist version

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18 Comments

Chris Menning
Nov 03, 2009 at 10:57PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Each video has views in the hundreds of thousands up to the millions.

But I can’t wrap my head around why. This kind of stuff is all pokeymans to me.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 03, 2009 at 11:16PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Déjà vu! I distinctly remember having a dream about seeing a page that looks extremely like this one, a dream from my childhood (when I was about 9 I think). ZOMG! MIND FUCK!

I’m scared now…

Watcher
Nov 04, 2009 at 12:47AM UTC , Watcher wrote:

@Chris
Never Compare Final Fantasy to Pokecrap.
(Even though these videos are crap)

Provie
Nov 04, 2009 at 02:33AM UTC , Provie wrote:

I never got into final fantasy, but this animation always amused me

Josh Stephens
Nov 04, 2009 at 04:17PM UTC , Josh Stephens wrote:

LoL that is kinda funny Jostin

Ben "Jammin" Proctor
Nov 04, 2009 at 05:59PM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

No no no no no!
This WILL not be a meme.
I will make sure that this is not a meme.
But I don’t need to because IT’S NOT!

Josh Stephens
Nov 04, 2009 at 06:10PM UTC , Josh Stephens wrote:

what the hell why the hell do you not want it to be a meme

Rihk
Nov 05, 2009 at 03:00PM UTC , Rihk wrote:

I certainly don’t like it, but it seems at least somewhat memetic.

Lindell
Nov 05, 2009 at 05:46PM UTC , Lindell wrote:

Are there enough variants for this to qualify as a meme?

Razur
Nov 21, 2009 at 06:08AM UTC , Razur wrote:

+1 Deadpool

Although it will be admitted that this is a fairly popular flash animation, there no multiple remakes of it. Two or Three remakes, or animations that follow the same pattern does not make this a meme.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 21, 2009 at 06:27AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

@ Razur

Not enough derivatives? What gave you that idea?

For the most part, this article still needs moar info, IMO, but I can’t think of what’s lacking. Oh well, I guess a simple clean up and more videos would be good for now, I guess. Other than that, I will vote…

+1 Confirm

Razur
Nov 27, 2009 at 06:18AM UTC , Razur wrote:

@ Jostin Asuncion

Okay, so there are more variations than the ones that are mentioned. But it just doesn’t scream “meme” at me. But hey, that’s my opinion.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 27, 2009 at 06:23AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

That’s alright Razur, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.

Josh Stephens
Nov 28, 2009 at 08:57PM UTC , Josh Stephens wrote:

is this enough for you?

Chris Menning
Nov 28, 2009 at 10:26PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

It’s really not clear how it went from being a chibi drawing to a song.

First the lyrics are listed, and then it just says “it was then uploaded to youtube” without explaining who wrote the lyrics or who made the video.

A link to the Deviant Art profile where this comes from would be helpful.

Chris Menning
Nov 29, 2009 at 02:07AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

“The Cloud Song” is an animation created by Nellie Malton (deviant ID: Spookydoom) first uploaded September 1st, 2005
http://spookydoom.deviantart.com/art/The-Cloud-Song-22451106

Including dates and links to your sources is the most important part of writing an article that can be confirmed.

Josh Stephens
Dec 01, 2009 at 08:49PM UTC , Josh Stephens wrote:

is this alrite now
FLAME WARS!!!!

Chris Menning
Dec 01, 2009 at 09:15PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I’m going to rearrange it a bit just for the sake of making it easier on the eyes.

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