Wow! My head is still spinning from a whole afternoon and evening with a group of 9 Nico Chuus, all of them very generous and interesting. They gave 6 hours of their precious time, which they could have used otherwise to watch Nico videos.…

(We transferred this entry from another blog, originally it was written May 10th) Hamano-san, the media theorist of Nico Nico Douga!Hamano-san is a researcher at Nihon Gigei Inc, and one of the few, who has started to write the media theor…

Today I had an informative dinner with X (who wants to stay anonymous). He describes himself as a proud Otaku, and gives me an introduction into some of background knowledge that is necessary to understand Nico Nico Douga – most of the Jap…

Non-Japanese readers might ask, what the whole fuzz is about. Most Western observers of the Internet still do not know that something like Nico Nico Douga even exists at all. So I thought it might make sense to give a very basic introducti…

What a party! 12 hours after I, Goetz, have arrived from London, I find myself in Shinjuku in the middle of 70 crazy “Nico chuus” (=“Nico junkies", devoted Nico Nico Douga fans). These fans are here to spend a whole night of Karaoke. But t…