About
Rolling Series, also known as Rolling with Rolling Girl (Japanese: ローリングガール転がってみた, Rolling Girl Korogatte Mita), refers to a style of hand-drawn animated videos that various kind of characters are literally rolling with a popular Vocaloid song “Rolling Girl”.
Origin
The first instance of this fad was uploaded to Nico Nico Douga (NND) to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Miku Hatsune by a user Gagame (ががめ) on August 31st[1] and September 1st[2] of 2010.
The 1st video (shown left) uses a singing cover. The 2nd one (shown right) uses the original Miku Hatune version.
Spread
Both video were able to reach a large audience partly due to it’s incorporation of Miku Hatsune phenomena. Then, other amatuer illustrators began mimicking the video style by using the audio track with various characters. As of January 2012, the amount of videos in this series on NND is about 200[3] and many of them are uploaded to YouTube.[4]
Notable Examples
For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.
Left: Puella Magi Madoka Magica[5] | Right: Dance(?) Cover[6]
Left: Miku Miku Dance[7] | Right: Billy Herrington[8]
Search Interest
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External References
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[1] Nico Nico douga – 【パラパラマンガ】ローリンガール【転がってみた】 / Posted on 08-31-2010
[2] Nico Nico douga – 【パラパラマンガ】ローリンガール【もう一回転がってみた】 / Posted on 09-01-2010
[3] Nico Nico Douga – Search results for ローリンガール転がってみた
[4] YouTube – Search results for ローリンガール転がってみた
[5] Nico Nico douga – 【魔法少女】まどか☆マギカでローリンガール【転がってみた】 / Posted on 09-07-2011
[6] Nico Nico douga – 【デビ作】ローリンガール転がってみた【回ってみた】 / Posted on 10-04-2010
[7] Nico Nico douga – 【第6回MMD杯本選】ローリンガール「転がってみた」（full) / Posted on 02-11-2011
[8] Nico Nico douga – 初音ミクが転がるアニメ / Posted on 01-01-2011