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The \"Miku Miku Fairy Tale\" title at the beginning is pronounced \"Miku Miku Douwa.\" Sort of a pun off \"Nico Nico Douga.\"
\"Take it easy\" is the popular translation of (yukkuri shiteite ne!). The phrase makes sense on its own in this song, but it's actually part of an odd Japanese internet trend that will take a little explanation.
First, there is a popular vertical-scrolling bullet hell series of shooter games referred to collectively as the Touhou Project. The characters in the game are a collection of girls who fight in the sky with magic spells and a cast of supporting characters. It's attracted a large following, in no small part because of their creator's permissive attitude toward derivative works. One fan group is even producing an anime series based on the Touhou games.
The \"yukkuri\" are another Touhou fan creation. A yukkuri is the exaggerated, disembodied head of a Touhou character. Their catchphrase is \"Take it easy!\" because that's what they do: very little. They originated from a failed attempt at recreating two main Touhou characters in Shift_JIS art (the Japanese equivalent of ASCII art). Yukkuri have been a popular meme ever since.
This video begins with a bunch of yukkuri-styled Hatsune Mikus, all bearing the yukkuri's signature facial expression.
The song Miku is trying to study is Scuttle Buttin' by Stevie Ray Vaughan. When she throws it aside you can see \"SRV\" on the cover.
Crypton is the company that makes Vocaloids, so naturally their sign would be up at \"Voca Bowling.\" Miku's amplifier is branded \"Cripton.\"
Above the lane Miku's ball lands in, the score monitor shows McDonald's characters: Donald (all strikes), the Hamburgler, Grimace (all gutterballs), and a fourth name (all strikes) that is illegible due to encoding artifacts in the original video.
When Miku is celebrating her strike at the bowling alley, she holds her arms up like Ronald McDonald in a Japanese McDonald's commercial, and he appears on the monitors above. Edits of McDonald's commercials, and especially the one with the \"ran ran ruu\" sound clip (the one that repeats on the monitors), are another Nico Nico Douga meme.
