This is Nanami Nagura. She’s a very minor celebrity in Japan, but in the air guitar world, she’s a superstar.
This year, Nagura was dubbed the Air Guitar World Champion. Below, you can see her performing in Finland. She edged out two American air guitarists for the title. Congrats to her!
Nagura has been competing in Air Guitar competitions for the past few years. In 2012, she was actually a member of a Air Guitar idol group called Telepathy that never really took off, and their dreams of fame ended up deflated.
The Air Guitar World Championships have been held since 1996. I’m really not sure how one would judge a good air guitarist, but this year, she’s supposedly the best. She must be very excited — maybe even, wait for it, floating on air.
Nanami “Seven Seas” Nagura (JP), Air Guitar World Champion 2014 [World Air Guitar]
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12 responses to “The Greatest Air Guitarist In The World. Apparently.”
…what the fuck…
That’ll do internet..that’ll do..
hahahahahahaha
well done sir
I’m so glad you said that.
“I don’t know how you can take this seriously, and not be a dick”. McInnes pretty much sums up this video nicely for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjEpLCrzbk
Replace “air guitar” with “idiot” in that title and it all makes sense.
I guess they are fairly lenient on what they call air “guitar”
Yeah, this. That’s as close to air guitar as the running man is to ballroom.
Gotta love the Japanese <3
This competition is held in Finland though. She would have been up against more than just Japanese contestants.
My bad, but I still love em.
Rewording it to Japanese might be a bit more appropriate.
Hatsune Miku – Replaces humans with instruments
Nanami Nagura – Replaces instruments with humans
Her energy … it’s … ov.. e..r… 9 .. (:chedruid faints:)
Hahahaha… see when she mimed a C#add9 instead of an Em chord? What a n00b.