Odorite Spotlight: Nyantaro

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Nyantaro / にゃんたろ

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Nyantaro is a male odorite, who has started working as a dancer named Lily in 2008. His early-stage career includes performances in the team ASIENCE, however he’s never uploaded anything under that nickname. He’s changed it to Nyantaro after the release of Vocaloid with the same name. On nico nico he has been posting videos regularly since last year.

There is a clear influence of vogueing on his dance technique. Vogueing is specific dance, that derives from the world of fashion. Its most characteristic elements are model-like poses and rigid movements of hands, arms, legs, and whole body, that form linear and symmetrical shapes. It is a largely improvised dance and Nyantaro just improvises in most of his solo videos. He keeps pace perfectly and accentuates music's changes in a way that makes the improvisation depend heavily on layoff, acceleration of rhythm, bass, sound effects, and vocal. He has also studied many other styles of dance including hip-hop, house, breakdance, pop, so his dance style can be, in fact, called freestyle.

Nyantaro has many victories in dance battles such as AB-BOY PARK2. Currently, as a leader of Nyantaro Project he is responsible for the dance configuration and choreography. Apart from him, the team consists of 5 other dancers: Reichel, Pan2, Kotaro, Ryo, and ShokupanMen. Starting from 2010, he also works as a DJ, which shows that his range of interests and activities is quite large.

sample dances:
A. Solos
• 1925 (freestyle improvisation by Nyantaro)
• ↑ Game of Life ↓ (freestyle improvisation by Nyantaro)
• Karakuri Pierrot (freestyle improvisation by Nyantaro)
• Envy Catwalk (freestyle improvisation by Nyantaro)
• Cantarella (freestyle improvisation by Nyantaro)

B. Collabs
• First Kiss (with Kyoji; Kozue's choreography)
• Rotten Heresy And Chocolate (Nyantaro Project; Nyantaro's choreography)
• Sweet Devil (Nyantaro Project & TEAM BLACK STARZ on Nico Nico Dance Master 3; choreography by Nyantaro Project and TEAM BLACK STARZ)
• Senbonzakura (with Onihe, Keitan, Ryo, and ANDY)

Mono says:
When I saw Nyantaro for the first time during some Nico Nico Dance Master, my reaction was basically something like a big “wow”. His live performances are always a delight and his sole appearance on stage is enough to excite the audience that always greets him with a storm of cheers and applause. It's not always because of the technique (which is of course pretty amazing), his attitude is even more important. The absolute self-confidence, charisma and power of the impact on the audience – and his dance that expresses it all.

Utaite Spotlight: Eal

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Eal / エアル

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Eal is not a new utaite, having started uploading his covers in Nico Nico Douga sometime late 2010. However, he is not as prolific as other utaite, so his mylist only has around eight covers. Still, that doesn't mean they pale in comparison to other singers'. You might have heard of Eal from his collaboration cover of Maji Love 1000% with Tane, Ahou no Sakata, Urata, Keysuke, and Rimokon.

Eal's voice is deep, throaty, and as most people say, erotic in a good way. He can be likened to Dasoku/Panyo in terms of "emakoi-ness" (ero + umai + kakkoii) but his voice is a bit higher and younger. He also has a distinct drawl which you can hear in especially low notes. His long notes are not impressive, but he has a way of making his breathless end notes sound amazingly enamoring. Eal usually sings rockish and jazzy songs, but he also has sung ballads. He also usually sings per request in his mylist. He used to sing with people in Skype kara namahousou but recently, he mostly does idle talk with his listeners instead.

According to his Nicopedia entry, he is around 25-34 years old, with blood type AB. He is also from Osaka.

sample songs
• Poker Face (YuchaP original)
• Shinpakusuu #0822 (Papiyon original)
• Yogoreta Prism (NioP original)
• Matryoshka (hachi original)
• Eh? Aa, Sou. (Papiyon original)


nikki says
I'm thankful to Maji Love 1000% for introducing me to Eal, although I'm ashamed I only heard of him now D:. As someone who likes voices which are more of Keysuke-Clear range, it's a bit of a surprise that I liked Eal's voice the first time I heard him but I really do. He sounds shaky at times, especially at powerful/high stuff, but he makes up for it by adlibbing or adding interesting breathy sounds to his songs XD;. If you like voices like Mi-chan's, Dasoku's, Panyo's, etc., do check Eal's works out and I don't think you'll regret it.