Niconico (ニコニコ) is a popular Japanese video sharing site. The site is sometimes still known by its old name, Niconico Douga (ニコニコ動画, [i]Niconico Video[/i]), and similarly so still believed to require registration to watch any videos onsite, when access has been loosened up over the years.

Niconico has several sister sites:

* Niconico Seiga (ニコニコ静画, [i]Niconico Imageboard[/i]), an imageboard.
* Niconico Nama Hosou (ニコニコ生放送, [i]Niconico Live Streaming[/i]), a livestreaming service. Often abbreviated as ニコ生 or ニコなま.
* Nicopedia (ニコニコ大百科), a wiki system. Each article also has a [[2channel]]-like [[oekaki]] board.

A unique feature of Nicovideo is that user comments are displayed as a scrolling feed over the video. See [[Danmaku comments]].

Niconico's mascot character is called "Niconico TV-chan (ニコニコテレビちゃん)":http://dic.nicovideo.jp/id/695104 (tagged here as [[Terebi-chan]]).

This tag is used for posts referencing the site itself, and locations associated with the site (such as the old [[niconico headquarters (harajuku)|Harajuku HQ]]), as well as for various Niconico(-adjacent) characters that have gained some fanart.

h4. See also

* [[AcFun]]
* [[Bilibili]] (A Chinese video site with similar style)
* [[Danmaku comments]]
* [[Do your best Niconico management]]
* [[Niconico RPG]]
* [[Bad Nicoseiga id]]
* [[Bad Nicovideo id]]
* [[Nicoseiga sample]]
* [[Indie utaite]]

h4. External links

* "Nicovideo":http://www.nicovideo.jp/
* "Nicopedia":http://dic.nicovideo.jp/
* "NicoSeiga":http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/
* "Wikipedia: Niconico":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niconico
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