What is Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes?

A remix format built on a MikuMikuDance clip of Charizard and Dragonite doing a matching routine, with users swapping in different songs that appear to sync with the animation[1].

Where did Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes come from?

The base MMD animation was made by MMDSatoshi and uploaded to YouTube by Southern Lights on August 7th, 2016, set to the J-Pop track Gokuraku Jodo[4].

What does Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes mean?

It's a running joke that the two Pokémon can dance to any track, which is why every edit swaps only the audio and keeps the same animation[3].

How do you use Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes?

People typically take the original loop and dub a new song over it, picking tracks whose beat lines up with the dragons' steps, such as YMCA or Ariana Grande's Into You[1].

Is Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes still popular?

The main run was in August 2016 with coverage from Polygon, The Verge and Slate, and it's since sat as a classic Pokémon-fandom video edit rather than an active trend[2].

Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes

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Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes are a series of edited videos where the two Pokémon perform a synchronized MikuMikuDance routine to different pop songs. The format started in August 2016 with a J-Pop original and quickly spread to Twitter as fans swapped the audio for tracks like Ariana Grande's Into You and the Village People's YMCA.

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Overview

Charizard And Dragonite Dance Remixes are short loops of the two Pokémon performing a matching MikuMikuDance routine, with fans swapping the background music so the pair appears to hit the beat of whatever song is dubbed over them1. The joke is that the animation's timing is loose enough to sync convincingly with almost any track, from J-Pop to disco3.

Most versions run about fifteen to thirty seconds, keep the original camera angle on the two dragons, and change only the audio. The format sits alongside other 2016 dance-loop edits, but the Pokémon pairing gave it a built-in fandom on Twitter and Tumblr2.

How It Spread

Pokémon Brasil and other international fan pages reposted the video with new soundtracks, and by mid-August 2016 Twitter users were dubbing it over pop songs at a steady clip2. Ashley Feinberg's edit set to Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas helped push the format into wider circulation, and versions using Ariana Grande's Into You, YMCA and the You Reposted In The Wrong Neighborhood audio followed within days1.

Gaming and general-interest press picked it up almost immediately. Polygon ran a rundown crediting the Twitter accounts driving the trend2, The Verge framed it as the tip of a broader dancing-Pokémon wave1, and Slate collected side-by-side edits showing the dragons staying on beat across genres3. CollegeHumor added its own supercut arguing the loop worked with basically any song5.

After that late-August 2016 burst the remixes settled into a recurring Pokémon-fandom bit, resurfacing whenever a new song lends itself to the loop's timing4.

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