Omega Kawaii Cloud Song

About

“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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