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Nico Nico Guide I : Registering for an Account
There are many guides written for Nico Nico Douga-related activities, but since this community is, after all, a Nico Nico-intensive comm, I decided to write guides myself so that you won't have problems searching for them when you need them.
All my guides will be image-intensive. Also, since the website is always changing, this will become outdated after time.
Nico Nico Douga is a Japanese website for video streaming, whether live or uploaded, among other things. It is like a Japanese version of Youtube, but much more versatile, in my opinion. Here are some of the features you can see in Nico Nico Douga:
• real-time comments are scrolled across the screen as you watch, meaning, if you commented on the video at a particular time, it will scroll across the screen to be seen by everyone;
• a mylist, or a list of videos you have marked as a favorite;
• a memory function, or the ability for you to preserve certain comments in a video; and
• a mypage that acts like a social networking site like mixi, including the option to add friends, join communities, watch updates and earn points depending on your activity in the website.
One of the few downsides of the website is that you cannot view the videos unless they are embedded in a site. If you try to view a video from the website itself, you need to have an account in order to watch. Since Vocaloid and utattemita videos are uploaded in Nico Nico douga, as a fan it's important to have an account there. This is how you do it...
1. First, click the make account button on the left of the screen:
2. You will be asked if you want to make a new free or paid account. We'll have a guide on paid accounts later so for now, click the option for the free one.
3. Input your e-mail address on the given space. It must be a working e-mail address.
4. Fill out the form. You can use this as a guide. I forgot to put in the image, but the left one (男性) is for male and the right one (女性) is for female.
5. If you have no problems, you will get to the terms and conditions page. Type in the verification code and click "submit".
6. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail account you gave in the first part. Click the link and your account will be confirmed. You can now use Nico Nico Douga.
The information you input in the form, the nickname, gender and birthdate, will be published on your profile once you register. There are options to make them private, we'll learn about that later on. For now, abuse the search bar on the homepage to search for your Vocaloid songs/composers and utaite. Of course, all your searches have to be in Japanese in order to go through.
All my guides will be image-intensive. Also, since the website is always changing, this will become outdated after time.
Nico Nico Douga is a Japanese website for video streaming, whether live or uploaded, among other things. It is like a Japanese version of Youtube, but much more versatile, in my opinion. Here are some of the features you can see in Nico Nico Douga:
• real-time comments are scrolled across the screen as you watch, meaning, if you commented on the video at a particular time, it will scroll across the screen to be seen by everyone;
• a mylist, or a list of videos you have marked as a favorite;
• a memory function, or the ability for you to preserve certain comments in a video; and
• a mypage that acts like a social networking site like mixi, including the option to add friends, join communities, watch updates and earn points depending on your activity in the website.
One of the few downsides of the website is that you cannot view the videos unless they are embedded in a site. If you try to view a video from the website itself, you need to have an account in order to watch. Since Vocaloid and utattemita videos are uploaded in Nico Nico douga, as a fan it's important to have an account there. This is how you do it...
1. First, click the make account button on the left of the screen:
2. You will be asked if you want to make a new free or paid account. We'll have a guide on paid accounts later so for now, click the option for the free one.
3. Input your e-mail address on the given space. It must be a working e-mail address.
4. Fill out the form. You can use this as a guide. I forgot to put in the image, but the left one (男性) is for male and the right one (女性) is for female.
5. If you have no problems, you will get to the terms and conditions page. Type in the verification code and click "submit".
6. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail account you gave in the first part. Click the link and your account will be confirmed. You can now use Nico Nico Douga.
The information you input in the form, the nickname, gender and birthdate, will be published on your profile once you register. There are options to make them private, we'll learn about that later on. For now, abuse the search bar on the homepage to search for your Vocaloid songs/composers and utaite. Of course, all your searches have to be in Japanese in order to go through.