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【Deer Song】 "My Deer Friend Nokotan" OP Video Surpasses 10 Million Views, Known for Its Addictiveness: "It’s Habit-Forming" and "Feels Like the Heisei Era"

The non-credit OP video for the TV anime "My Deer Friend Nokotan," released on the 4th, has surpassed 10 million views (as of July 9, 9:50 PM). It has become the most viral opening video of the summer anime season. Online, it has been described as "an anime song brimming with Heisei vibes," "something you can watch mindlessly and get hooked on as the lyrics suggest," "a god-tier intro with high addictiveness that smoothly transitions into a god-tier chorus," and "definitely going to be in the year-end NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen."


Scenes from the OP video of the anime 'My Deer Friend Nokotan'

Scenes from the OP video of the anime 'My Deer Friend Nokotan'


The opening theme "Shika Iro Days" is a character song sung by the Shika Club members Noko Shikanoko (CV: Megumi Han), Torako Koshi (CV: Saki Fujita), Anzu Koshi (CV: Rui Tanabe), and Mememe Bashame (CV: Fuka Izumi). On TikTok, the intro repeating "Shikanoko no kono ko ko ko shitan tan" went viral with a video of Torako Koshi (Koshtan) dancing, reaching 10 million views and over 800,000 likes, making it a trending new song. The opening video released this time features the four members of the Shika Club dancing cutely to the phrase "Shikanoko no kono ko ko ko shitan tan". It has a chaotic feel with real deer appearing at various points, while still evoking the pop style of Heisei-era anime. The ending video, unveiled ahead of the ABEMA pre-release, features the ending theme "Shika Senbei Song". The live-action footage in the background of the marching Nokotan and friends was filmed at an actual deer senbei factory in Nara Prefecture. The video provides an educational look at the production process of deer senbei, deepening the viewers' understanding of deer. The series follows Torako Koshi, a high school girl attending Tokyo Metropolitan Hinominami High School. One day on her way to school, she feels something cold hit her face. Looking up, she sees a girl with a runny nose and antlers stuck in a power line, unable to move. After rescuing the clumsy girl with strange 'antlers', Noko Shikanoko, Torako Koshi's life, which she has carefully maintained as an honor student (on the surface), begins to unravel... This is a girl-meets-deer(?) story about a former delinquent girl meeting a deer(?).


Source : ORICON NEWS

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