About

Bloomin' X refers to a series of MAD videos/YTPMVs which use "Blooming Feeling", a popular soundtrack from a Japanese arcade music video game series beatmania IIDX which is produced by KONAMI as a part of BEMANI line. This song is written by the Japanese composer Ryutaro Nakahara, better known as his alias Ryu☆^[1], and was first included in beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius whicih was released for Japanese arcarde in October 21st, 2009.^[2]

Origin

After the song's release, several MAD creators in Japan began introducing this song to their works as same as other popular soundtracks in music video game series.

One of the oldest MAD video in this series "bloomin' culting" was posted to the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in October 21st, 2009.^[3] This video featured the Japanese cult-like online phenomenon Hissu Amoto San. And several MAD videos using this song were uploaded to NND in that year.

Meanwhile, "Bloomig feeling" was literally bloomed on YTPMVs in 2010 by the Japanese YTPMV creator yamas03's video "Bloomin' Octagon". As indicated by the name, this video posted to both YouTube and NND in March 23rd, 2010^[4] is a derivative of Jack Black's Octagon.

Spread

"Bloomin' Octagon" got much favor with many YTPMV creators, and they began sending video responses. Though yamas03 deleted his account and his original videos were gone^[5], many response videos are on YouTube.

On the other hand, the videos in this series on NND haven't been able to get a much attention of its users. So, this song is not considered as a popular music resource in MADs on NND.

Notable Examples

For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.

YTPMVs

Bloomin' Mario Bros

Bloomin' scatman

MADs

【音ゲーMAD】bloomin'commando【コマンドー】^[6] (See also : Commando)

bloomin' rooing^[7] (See also : Donald McDonald – Ran Ran Ru)

External References

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