Working!! Season 1 Opening Parodies
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Working!! Season 1 Opening Parodies (Japanese: WORKING!!OPパロ) refers to a series of parody video remixes for the opening credit movie for 1st TV anime season of Japanese 4-panel comic strip manga series Working!! written by Karino Takatsu.
Origin
The 1st TV anime season for the manga, Working!!, aired 13 episodes between April and June in 2010. Its opening theme song "SOMEONE ELSE" was composed by Satoru Kousaki[1] who has also composed many songs for the famous animes such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Lucky Star and Monogatari Series, and sung by voice actresses for the main characters Kana Asumi[2], Saki Fujita[3] and Eri Kitamura.[4] Additionally, this opening credit movie is known for the resemblance to "Soramimi Cake", the openig credit movie for Azumanga Daioh. That's because the director for both of the movies is the same person, Kiyotaka Ohata.
Spread
Parody videos reproducing this opening movie by MAD or hand-drawn animation became to be uploaded to the Japanese video sharing service niconico Douga (niconico) around the end of its first month.[5] And the song itself also owns instrumental covers on niconico.[6]
On the other hand, videos in this parody video series have been often deleted due to copyright infringement by this anime's copyright holder Aniplex because this child company for Sony Music Entertainment is very negative to reusing of their contents. Hence, the whole amount of videos in this series isn't so large. And some of parody video creators use Hatsune Miku cover version[7] as the musical source to avoid deletions.
Working'!! OP Parodies
As well as "SOMEONE ELSE", The opening credit movie for 2nd TV anime season, "COOLISH WALK", had its own parody video fad in the following year.
For more information about that particular phenomenon, please check the KYM entry for Working!! Season 2 Opening Parodies.
Various Examples
Left: K-on! | Right: Shuzo Matsuoka
Left: Non Non Biyori | Right: Hidamari Sketch
Left: Love Live! | Right: Touhou Project
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External References
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[1] Wikipedia – Satoru Kōsaki
[2] Wikipedia – Kana Asumi
[3] Wikipedia – Saki Fujita
[4] Wikipedia – Eri Kitamura
[5] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag WORKING!!OPパロ
[6] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag SOMEONE_ELSE
[7] niconico Douga – 【WORKING!! OP】初音ミクのSOMEONE ELSE（TV SIZE） / Posted on 04-05-2010
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