Nico Nico Douga is the You­Tube of Japan. I’d love to link you some of the bril­liant videos they have over there, as well as the great inter­face and the way that the com­ments can fly across the video in rela­tion to the point they are talk­ing about, but you can’t see any of the videos on the site without regis­ter­ing. So today we’re going to walk you through the rel­at­ively simple regis­tra­tion process.

When you first visit the site you’re greeted with some­thing very sim­ilar to the screen above. Clum­sily trans­lated (using a com­bin­a­tion of Babel Fish, Google Trans­late, POPjisyo, and friends) it reads some­thing like this (make sure to click on the image below to see a read­able ver­sion):

You’re going to want to click on the pink link “new account”, where you will now be met with the below screen.

Click on the grey box to choose to pro­ceed with regis­ter­ing your “com­mon account”. We’ve con­veni­ently (and once again, clum­sily) trans­lated the next screen for you. Once again, make sure to click on the image below to see a read­able ver­sion.

A few things on this screen, firstly you can choose your “thumb­nail” image by select­ing the options from the drop-down box on the right of the image. Secondly, for “province”, scroll all the way to the bot­tom of the drop-down box and select “Other(overseas)”.

The next screen will con­firm the inform­a­tion you have entered, as well as show the TOS. Scroll down a little and enter the text for the CAPTCHA. If the cur­rent text is unread­able, then click the but­ton to the right of the text box to reload the CAPTCHA. Once you have entered the text click the but­ton below the box to con­tinue. The next page tells you that a link has been emailed to you that you must click within the next 24 hours to com­plete the regis­tra­tion. So open up your email cli­ent and you should find an email from Nico Nico Douga (if not, then check your Spam box), the email will again con­firm all of your inform­a­tion and ask for you to click on the link to com­plete your regis­tra­tion process.

You can now visit their begin­ners page and watch the 3 delight­fully weird tutorial videos. Or click through from there to the main page and start watch­ing. Just to get you star­ted we have the ini­tial page that we trans­lated below:

All those links in the light blue boxes are tags that you can use to browse the vari­ous cat­egor­ies, so start click­ing away!