LITTLE LITTLE PERSON PERSON!!

Fellow-blogger e-kvetcher alerted me to a Youtube segment that features some nice gams. Very nice gams. Although there is reason to suspect that they do not belong to a nice young thing of the female gender. According to the comments underneath, they might be male.

Yet the gams, tasty and girlish though they seem, are NOT the point of the video, the dancing green haired moppet on top of Pooh is.


Lest you now think that the high nonsense quotient in the sentence above shows that I have taken leave of my senses, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_lifNjNCc&feature=related

Nice gams, eh?
The singing, not so much.


The green haired moppet is 'Chibi Hatsune Miku (ちび初音ミク). The "normal" Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) doesn't look quite so """kawai""".
[Kawai (可愛い or 可愛) is a Japanese word that means 'cute', 'adorable'. The nearest English equivalent is 'nauseating' (腌臢).]


Chibi ((ちび or 禿び) means small or little. Not necessarily 'moe' (萌え), though there is considerable overlap.
There's also 'chibi-chibi', which is kind of precious, in a disturbing way.
The difference between normal, small, and small-small is best illustrated by this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8v7KNRRX7I


If you're Japanese, you probably think that's just 'kawaaiiiiiiiiii!!!!', and you danced along to it, didn't you? All four and half minutes.


Hatsune Miku performed the Levan Polka to great acclaim three years ago.
There were over a million hits for the various youtube segments.
This is probably the most "evocative" of the videos to that tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMp-Kgw5khw
Note the leek. It's her 'trademark'.

This video thoroughly illustrates the kawai quality that chibi creatures have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ875Mxx8sc

Please wipe the drool off your screen. She's not real.


But, for the true afficionadoes, this one is 'MOE meets CHIBI meets "come hither big boy"':
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J29j0Liq0M&feature=related


Oooooo, kawaii desu!!!
[That's Japanese for 'icky poo' (真駭聽的).]


Please imagine the miniature brass pole yourself. I couldn't find a suitable video.

Now, if all of this has convinced you that the Japanese are a mighty sick bunch, you may be right. On the other hand, they don't understand why we're in love with that horrid round-eared rodent, or those nasty pantsless ducks. And they really cannot fathom any of our horrid candy-floss childrens' films. Those are too saccharine, and far too unrealistic. What on earth is wrong with us?