Honobono Shrine Remixes
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About
Honobono Shrine Remixes (Japanese: ほのぼの神社アレンジ) refers to a series of musical remixes featuring a famous song in Cookie☆, the infamous fan-made animated drama for Touhou Project. In spite of the situation where most of the elements in the drama are mercilessly mocked and parodied by the fans of the Japanese gay porn phenomena A Midsummer Night's Lewd Dream, only this song has been keeping humorous and creative momentum on niconico Douga (niconico) since 2011.
Origin
The song "Honobono Shrine" (ほのぼの神社, Honobono Jinja; lit. "A Delightful Shrine") was created by an amateur composer Saichousei-no-Hito (再調整の人) for a doujin animated drama "Alice and Marisa's Cookie Kiss", better known as the dishonorable nickname "Cookie☆", which was published on niconico on February 15th, 2010 (shown below, left).[1] This song itslef is a remixed version of "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients" (shown below, left)[2] in Shuusou Gyoku[3], the first installment in doujin shoot em' up game series Seihou Project.[4] It was composed by the Touhou creator ZUN in 2000 for a theme song for Reimu Hakurei which made a guest appearance in that title developed by a doujin circle formed by his juniors in college.
Spread
Throughout the heavy online storm of Cookie☆, "Honobono Shrine" became famous as a sort of its theme song since it is the background music for the first scene in the drama and has been reused in numerous MAD videos ridiculing the voice actresses' poor acting. However, the composer received it favorably and uploaded the audio track to niconico in the following year for the gay porn fans.
Many niconico composers got addicted to this just 16-bar song by his lenient attitude, and a creative and non harmful musical remix movement featuring this song immediately started on the video sharing service. The amount of remixes increased rapidly and had reached to almost 1000 in its first 4 years.[5] Those are listed in both a wiki page dedicated to the movement[6] and the niconico playlists made by the original creator.[7]
Various Examples
In the track of the original song's naming style, musical remixes in this series are usually named by the phrasal template "X Shrine".
Left: "Final Boss Shrine" (J-RPG Battle Music Style) | Right: "Russian Folk Music Shrine"
Left: "Neoclassical Metal Shrine" | Right: "Artcore Shrine" (Drum'n'Bass)
Left: "Dubstep Shrine" | Right: "UC Shrine" (Slow Loris' Victory Pose with UC)
Search Interest
External References
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[1] niconico Douga – 【東方合同動画企画】魔理沙とアリスのクッキーKiss / Posted on 02-15-2010
[2] Touhou Wiki – Shuusou Gyoku/Music # Extra Stage Boss #2 – Reimu Hakurei's Theme
[3] Touhou Wiki – Shuusou Gyoku
[4] Touhou Wiki – Seihou Project
[5] niconico Douga – Search results for the tag ほのぼの神社アレンジ
[7] niconico Douga – Playlists for the remixes: ほもほも and ほもほもⅡ
