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Kanipan. (かにぱん。) is a female utaite who started in June 2007 (for reference, the utattemita category on Nico Nico Douga was added on the 5th of May, 2007) when she was 26 years old with a short cover of Air Man ga Taosenai , making her part of the older generation of utaite, which is impressive considering she is still active to this day.
She often displays her username as (V)・∀・(V) in her video titles.[2] Her username means "bread of the form of the crab"[3] and is a type of bread commonly found in convenience stores in Japan. In the past, she has covered songs very rapidly, sometimes uploading multiple videos in a day, and has so far sung about 350 solo covers and 80 collabs. This is partly due to the fact that she likes to cover some songs more than once. However, recently, she has slowed down and uploaded less frequently.
She has a voice that can sing high and girly like in her Do Re Mi Fa Rondo cover, or lower and boyish, both naturally without strain. When she covers songs with a male and female singer, she calls the feminine side of her voice KANI, and her masculine side Pan., as seen in the description of her Aa, Subarashiki Nyansei cover.
Kanipan. is noted to have a broad voice range, which covers notes from C#3 to A7 (screamed).[2] Another example of her showing her high notes off is her cover of the Kouon Chuuon'iki Test . The notes in the song go from hiA to hihihiE (A4-E7), and she takes it up a notch with a hihihihiB (B8). As shown in her duet with ISAZI in "Meiou" , she is also capable of providing an effective choral background.
She occasionally sings covers in other languages, such as Thai, English, or Finnish. They can be found on Nico Nico Douga under the tag "Kanipan. Foreign Language Series" (かにぱん。異国の言葉シリーズ). She is able to speak English at a near-native level.[2] An example of her singing in English is her cover of Double Lariat , with translyrics by Masatopia.
The range of her covers is fairly broad. She has even sung raps and random MADs, most commonly of the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!, such as Kaiba wa Taihen na Command Nyuuryoku wo Shiteimashita .
Kanipan. often posts "Kakokyoku Jigoku" (過去曲地獄, lit. past songs hell), which are basically bulk uploads of past songs.
Aside from singing she also sometimes does voice acting like things, often as a part of Nico Nico Kaizokudan, where she does the voice of Luffy. Kanipan. also occasionally dances, draws and does gameplays. She also collaborates with a French group of YouTubers, the VoxMakers, with a web series named "Japokani Gakushuchou" where she introduces elements of Japanese culture in her mother language, with subtitles in French and English.
Affiliations and Collaboration Projects[]
- Member of Jumping Spider with ISAZI
- Member of ISAPAN. with ISAZI
- Member of Chaotic-Freedom with ISAZI and Rougetsu
- Member of Hors d'oeuvres of crab with Zenna
- Member of Nico Nico Kaizokudan
- Member of Chinsukou (ちんすこう) with Nam Fung
- Kagayake! Zen Nihon 8 Beat Kayou Matsuri (Denkai Seisakusho album) (Released on December 29, 2009)
- Koukaku Yuusha Kanipanyu with ISAZI (Released on December 30, 2009)
- Origin of Parallel Filter (Released on December 30, 2009)
- TOHO EUROBEAT VOL.1 (Released on August 14, 2010)
- Mahou Shoujo Tarottorotto♪ with ISAZI (Released on December 31, 2010)
- TOHO EUROBEAT VOL.4 (Released on August 13, 2011)
- IMPERATOR ~ Affira te ipsum ~ with ISAZI (Released on December 04, 2011)
- THE BEST OF NON-STOP TOHO EUROBEAT 2011 (Released on December 30, 2011)
- SUPER EURO SMASH Vol.1 (Akiba Koubou album) (Released on April 28, 2012)
- SUPER EURO SMASH Vol.3 (Akiba Koubou album) (Released on April 27, 2013)
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Trivia[]
- Instead of "utattemita" (歌ってみた, lit. tried to sing), she puts "utattemipan." (歌ってみぱん。). In addition, she likes to alter song titles to make puns involving crabs and/or bread in Japanese and English.
- She has 2 accounts, one for uploading videos, and one exclusively for mylisting videos.
- On her birthday 2013, the members of Nico Nico Kaizokudan sang a song for her birthday, "Yume ni Katachi wa Nai Keredo", a parody of Uta ni Katachi wa Nai Keredo.
- She made a soundproof room out of cardboard.[4]
- She has an UTAU, called Kaninopan. It is confirmed to have an English voicebank.[5]
- She is also a gamer and has a gaming mylist on Nico Nico Douga and a whole playlist for her Season of Twilight game play.
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ Online profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kanipan.'s Nico Nico Pedia article
- ↑ Kanipan.'s YouTube channel
- ↑ "Kanipan's Danbocchi video"
- ↑ "Kaninopan.'s English voicebank sample"