Hanazawawawa!! (Durarara!! ED1 Parody)

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Nico Nico Douga users never fail to impress by creating amazing fan-made videos. There’s been a sort of a craze going on at Japan’s popular video sharing site in recent months over creating seiyuu-based parody videos of Durarara‘s first ending sequence, featuring “Trust Me” by Matsushita Yuuya. It’s likely due to how the sequence itself is fairly straightforward with a vertical scrolling of characters, but when you see it with an interesting assortment that are all played by one seiyuu of the Durarara series, it’s still pretty cool to see.

Some are particularly well done, but I find this “Hanazawawawa” one featuring Sonohara Anri‘s seiyuu — the always moe Hanazawa Kana — to be one of the nicer ones. It’s Hanazawa Kana all the time here and I love how this version lists credits for each of the characters to make it look like an ending sequence as well, all played by Kana of course. Some characters that most people will recognize in addition to Anri are Tenshi from Angel Beats, Nadeko from Bakemonogatari, Suou from Darker than BLACK, Zange-chan from Kannagi, and Kobato from Kobato. For a full-list of the characters in the order they appear, see below. Enjoy!

1. Kaminagi Ryouko in Zegapain2. Hazemi Nakoru in Getsumento Heiki Mina3. Anmoto Shiika in Mushi-Uta4. Potemayo in Potemayo5. Zange-chan in Kannagi6. Yuki in Cencoroll7. Sophie in Tales of Graces (VG)8. Mizutani Eri in THE IDOLM@STER Dearly Stars (VG)9. Yuuki Mikan in To LOVE-Ru10. Henaro in The Tower of Druaga ~the Sword of URUK~11. Kusano in SEKIREI12. Amano Tooko in Bungaku Shoujo13. Shiina Mayuri in Steins;Gate (VG)14. Suzuki Sora in Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~15. Sonohara Anri in Durarara!!16. Sharon Rainsworth in Pandora Hearts17. Elea in Blassreiter18. Hanato Kobato in Kobato.19. Suou Pavlichenko in Darker than BLACK: Ryuusei no Gemini20. Sengoku Nadeko in Bakemonogatari21. Tachibana Kanade (Tenshi) in Angel Beats!* (VG) denotes that it’s a video game.

48 Comments

  1. Island Esper

    Kusano !!!! Kobato!!! omg nicely done

  2. viral

    Glad to see Potemayo in here, I thought she wouldn’t appear, since it wasn’t really a popular role of Hanazawa (I think).

  3. Rei

    OMG THAT’S FANTASTIC. I know 3/4 on that list I think. Wow~ Love Hanazawa Kana :3~ and Yuya lol

  4. Satoida

    That’s really cool! Even though I barely knew any of the characters ^^;;

  5. Ashan

    Recognised quite a few characters! I didn’t even know she played half of those to be honest. 🙂

  6. Kevin

    I love Hanazawa! Glad that Sora Suzuki was included.

  7. megalith

    “Nico Nico Douga users never fail to impress by creating amazing fan-made videos.”Amen…. Not to mention the video editing skills the people have over there. I seem to question my actual manhood, but I LOL’d so hard at the Billy Herrington videos.CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK!!Impress me divine by watching this vid to the end. :PThat said watching all those vids out there made me hyped about building a new PC for video editing!!

  8. MrRei

    wow that’s good.. but some characters were not perfectly made (like kanade)…

  9. MrRei

    Speaking of Nadeko, did Bakemonogatari 15(Tsubasa Cat, Part Five) came out yet?

  10. omg simply brilliant XDlotsa nostalgia moments too, like ryoko from zegapainoh yuki’s holding cenco too, looks grumpy XD

  11. Nicely done as usual by NND fans, though I prefer someone else’s instead of Hanazawa’s lol.

  12. nissannut

    Very cool and clever! It seemed to scroll a bit fast, but using different characters that Hanazawa Kana voiced was a very nice touch. Thanks for the share!

  13. beeboobeeboo

    lmfao wow. I remember there was one on the entire FF13 cast as well.

  14. daabuu

    They forgot Sora from Sketchbook ~Full Colors~

  15. SunRise

    OMG divine you have to post more of these awesome video if you have the time!!!Awesome clip:)

  16. anon

    anon who made that vid spent >9000 hours, clearly being korean.

  17. Shirt

    -waiting for the Working!! post-

  18. Okazaki-san

    Wow,I only recognize a few of them,gotta catch up on my anime.

  19. unlisted

    Wow. Well done.

  20. Liberta

    OMG I want to save it to add to my collection but I can’t find it on Youtube! lol Guess ill have to wait abit XD

  21. awsm… maybe they also did something similar with other seiyu XD

    • divine

      They did. There are lots of variations to this by other people for seiyuu such as Nakamura Yuuichi (Kadota), Kamiya Hiroshi (Izaya), and even Tomatsu Haruka (Rio, small role).

      • divine

        A lot of the other versions aren’t hand-drawn, so they aren’t as seamless and nicely done as this one.If you’re interested in the Tomatsu Haruka one, it can be found here:http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10513459Note: you need an account to watch Nico Nico Douga videos.

  22. AznCoffee

    Hanazawa Kana is (currently) my favorite VA xDHer voice is so cute and aklgjkdsjg innocent >__<

  23. Blue

    Wow, that was really cute! I loved the inclusion of Sharon.There’s a really impressive Hetalia version of the first Durarara ending where they change into their younger selves when the circle-things hit them. I it’s okay to post links then I guess it’s best for people to see for themselves (because I suck at describing things); http://de.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10580327Nico Nico has loads of awesome things!

  24. BlueEyedReaper

    Nyaaa~ I really love Kana Hanazawa!!! She do very cute songs and voice [Renai Circulation male version!!!]Wahhh: I wanna hear Mato Kuroi’s voice [BRS] . . . Kana did her voice 😀

  25. vortex

    haha i remember this craze some time back. Is it still on going? lol

  26. Kinny Riddle

    “Kana-chan kawaii, Kana-chan~” is the new seiyuu fan motto, I think. :)She and Toyosaki Aki are now ranked top two in my “most moe seiyuu list”.She can go from the totally air-headed Kobato, to the cunning Zange-chan, the dark Suoh, and the calm of Kanade with no sweat at all. Now if only she can improve her singing, her seiyuu stardom will shoot up more.

  27. Kanon

    Thank you so much for posting this! Despite being such a huge fan of Kana-chan, I completely missed this for some reason.

  28. Linn

    Awesome! 0:33 Sophie! **

  29. Rockmanshii

    Yeah, the video is nice enough to be pointed out, it made me cheer up after a day of exams.

  30. Michiko

    Ryoko Kaminagi from Zegapain is the reason why Kana Hanazawa is my favourite seiyuu. ^^ Her title role of Kobato and Suoh from Darker than Black are the reasons why she still is.

  31. Suppa Tenko

    Hahaha, its Sophie :3

  32. Tama

    Heheh.. Still love her role as Lovely Zange Chan.

  33. Croosboy

    awwwwwwww niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

  34. rasone0104

    nicely done

  35. Zaku Fan

    There was an Angel Beats OP with Little busters and the Angel Beats OP remake with Durarara’s OP2 that was very impressive as well. Really made me orz a bit.

  36. Ossu

    anyone know all the characters from top to bottom?

    • Liberta

      I had a good Snicker after reading this comment XD

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