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Jiko Mujun☆
Marisa and Alice's Self-Contradiction☆ (魔理沙とアリスの自己矛盾☆, Marisa to Arisu no Jiko Mujun☆), or Self-Contradiction☆ (自己矛盾☆, Jiko Mujun☆)1) for short, is a high quality Jidaigeki-style Cookie☆ video published on February 15, 2020 for Cookie☆'s 10th anniversary.2)
Summary
A new voice drama is being shown off to the Cookie☆ neighborhood3) in July 2018, but we're taken to 2015 where an artist with original ideas struggled to get followers and hesitated to create fan content. She would be approached by a clown that lures her into the Cookie☆ neighborhood with a request. The artist takes this offer and her crude Reisen drawing gains so much attention beyond the artist's imagination.
“Yukari” advises the artist to use a Touhou Project avatar, then warns her about how Cookie☆ attracts scum who dance on the corpses of voice actors, has roots in hurting people, and hides this with flashy media that treat voice actors like anime characters which attracts more validation-seeking nobodies to exploit. The artist, using a “Reimu” avatar, acknowledges this but furthers her descent.
The artist tells another artist with a “Remilia” artist their purist views of Cookie☆, and “Remilia” mentions that Touhou Project is also suffering from boring people who hop on the subculture bandwagon. Then, “Shiriri” descends onto the Cookie☆ neighborhood, creating MAD videos and voice dramas that the inhabitants love, while also stealing our artist's following and this makes her incredibly bitter or jealous.
“Remilia” and a band of purists storm the scene and freeze4) everyone's accounts, preaching a return to the source material, but our artist now feels conflicted. “Yukari” would then give her a reality check on how she abandoned her original views and submitted to fan content creation, invalidating her purist beliefs, inflicting a mental breakdown as the artist realizes she lost touch with her original self.
At that moment, the clown returns with an offer to be a voice actress and artist in their shoddy voice drama, revealing himself as a director. Our artist knows that purists would hate the script, but he only cares about popularity. “Remilia” then intrudes with an ultimatum: a fake script to sabotage the voice drama or risk getting herself frozen. That's when we finally return to July 2018, the day of the voice drama's debut.
In the end, the artist rejects both options and goes on a lengthy rant on how she hates artists that utilize fan content for easy validation instead of generating the original content that they're capable of creating, then pleads everyone to forget Cookie☆ and be themselves. She gets frozen in a blaze of glory and “Yukari” gives us a title drop before the credits roll.
Cast and credits
| Voice actor | Character(s) voiced | Special tag | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuyusu (ゆゆす) | YYS姉貴 | Protagonist | FMRIM |
| “Sunny” | しりり最強姉貴 | ||
| “Sakuya” #1 (HSKY) | |||
| Agukaru (あぐかる) | AGCL姉貴 | “Yukari” | |
| “Luna” | リラン要求姉貴 | ||
| “Marisa” | |||
| Geru Futota (げるっふとーたぁ) | GR姉貴 | “Remilia” (HSK) | げるっふとーたぁ姉貴 |
| “Star” | 春画要求姉貴5) | ||
| “Sakuya” #2 | |||
| Shumiyō desu (趣味用です) | 趣味用兄貴 | Clown/Planner (ATUD/KZY) | KZY 美翔カズヤ |
| Jiko Mujun (自己矛盾) | 自己矛盾兄貴 | “Renko” | |
| Fumei (不明) | 不明兄貴 | “Maribel” | |
References
| Item(s) | Source Material or Reference Point |
|---|---|
| Protagonist | The protagonist is based on unknowns, as in content creators who've been discredited after deleting their accounts. This is hinted at with the Reisen drawing parodied in the beginning and “JOKER” hinted at being her favorite character. |
| “Sunny”, “Luna”, “Star” | The storyboard labels them as mob characters and there's no deeper meaning to them. Oh, the fairies of light… |
| Clown | Back when the script was written, Pennywise/It was a Niconico Douga meme where people put false subtitles during the drain scene, but the meme had passed by the time this voice drama released. Obviously, he's designed after ATUD who made Kusso☆ videos like Kusso☆ S3, etc. |
| “Ooh, a newbie?”, “The newbie should totally draw Riran-chan!”, “I'll let you join us if you draw porn~” | These are just examples of typical Niconico Seiga comments that show up when a new artist draws Cookie☆ for the first time. |
| UDK | The princess of Iwana threads who voiced Marisa in Cookie☆. She appears the most which seems to symbolize her status above everything else. |
| The protagonist's favorite voice actress | Who? JOKER. |
| The person who critiques the UDK drawing (17:03) | The storyboard labels him as “Aku Kurage” (赤くらげ, lit. “Red Jellyfish”), a problematic individual who created Shikiru☆. |
| The voice dramas cited as clout-farming (18:00) | Kasu☆, Zapper☆, Gobou☆, Kusso☆ S3, Halloween☆, Kusso☆ S4. |
| The man infamous for failed self-advertising | This is referring to “Maki” who was hyped up as a possible successor to Taisa's Cookie☆☆ works, but Halloween☆ flopped hard upon its release. Oddly enough, he'd be better known for Nabe☆ later on. |
| “Remilia” | The storyboard labels her as “Puritan HSK” and apparently someone named “Antiman” (アンチマン) went on this “scented sushi” (香る寿司) rant. |
| Shiriri | Shiriri was a MAD contributor from 2016 to 2018 with a “Konjac Jelly Momoko” (こんにゃくゼリー桃子) avatar. He's best known for Undertale otoMADs, ICG's Bizarre Adventure, Supeka☆, etc. In the video, he was frozen for being a “cultivator”, reflecting how his Twitter account was frozen on June 19, 2018 when it was actually the Koushinists. |
| Shiriri's Voice Drama | A blatant nod to Gorgonzola☆, though no counterparts were voiced. It should be noted that the protagonist also voiced Suika and Aya in Gorgonzola☆. |
| “Sakuya” #1 | The storyboard labels her as “HSKY” and she's based on HSK's drawing of Sakuya Izayoi, which you can see by her whip-like arms. |
| Director | The storyboard labels him as “KZY”, an infamous director that was accused of promoting his music through the Cookie☆ voice drama, Kasu☆. |
| The voice dramas criticized for clout-farming (42:50) | Cookie☆☆ S2, Kasu☆, Gorgonzola☆, Kusso☆, Zapper☆, Halloween☆, Easter☆. |
Notes
- The factions are “cultivation” (養殖, yōshoku) and “fundamentalism/purism” (原理主義, genri shugi).
- At the end of the video, the protagonist pulls out Masatō Ibu's Japanese cover of Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1976 song “Don't Blame the Children” (子供達を責めないで, Kodomotachi wo Semenaide). The original song points out how adults are responsible for children's violent behavior, while the translation by Yasushi Akimoto is humorous, rant-like, and intentionally contradictory. Translated here.
- The creator of Jiko Mujun☆, “Jiko Mujun” (自己矛盾), had been doxed on September 29, 2020 in the 2channel OnaSapo thread. He's a Shadai graduate who lives alone in Saitama Prefecture.
External links
- Marisa and Alice's Self-Contradiction☆ on Niconico Douga
- Marisa and Alice's Self-Contradiction☆ (Eng Sub) on YouTube - A clunky, double translation.
- Marisa and Alice's Self-Contradiction☆ (Eng Sub) on YouTube - A revised, hardsubbed version.
- Antinomy☆ on Niconico Encyclopedia
- Antinomy☆ on the Cookie☆ Explanation Wiki