Viewsic “Countdown Annual 100 Featuring Vibri” (lost special event broadcast of Japanese music program; 1999)
the only photo that features Vibri appearing on the Viewsic Annual Countdown 100 event
Status: Lost
Viewsic (now known as MUSIC ON TV! or M-ON!) is a Japanese music cable network created by M-ON Entertainment. As the name suggests, it’s a music charting service/program based on sales, request, karaoke request, things from that nature.
During December 1999 to January 2000, a special event was broadcasted called “Viewsic Annual Countdown 100” which allegedly featured Vibri from the PS1 rhythm game, Vib-Ribbon as one of the hosts for this special.[1][2]
Background
Viewsic used to air a series of programs called “Viewsic Countdown 20” in 1999-2004. In the December 1999 edition, it introduced the top 100 songs on the year. Though in the special, people allegedly saw Vibri from Vib-Ribbon presenting the first 80 songs, while the top 20 songs are instead presented by Masashi Tashiro and Chiaki Fujimoto mentioned by the Japanese Wikipedia page for Viewsic.[3] From Japanese blogpost that survived from the time, all mentioned that Vibri allegedly appeared on the broadcast. One blogpost talks about how Mr.Matsuura (the creator of Vib-Ribbon) chose the music and the screen from Vib-Ribbon was playing all the time, quote:
前に書き込んだ Viewsicの朝早い番組は、やっぱりいろんな人が選曲した曲を2時間延々と流す番組のようです。 松浦さんの選曲のときは、ビブリボンの画面がずっと流れてました。 変なこと書き込んですみません。。。 ピブリボンのデザインをなさった「松浦季里」さんって、松浦さんの奥様なんですね。 けっこう、いろんなとこで見かけたので、関像あるのかなあって思ってたんです。 すっきりしました♪
Next quote is the translation:
Viewsic's early morning program that I wrote before seems to be a program that endlessly broadcasts songs selected by various people for 2 hours.
At the time of Mr. Matsuura's song selection, the screen of the vib ribbon was playing all the time.
I'm sorry for writing strange things...
"Kisato Matsuura" who designed the pibribon is Mr. Matsuura's wife. I saw it in a lot of places, so I was wondering if there was a barrier statue.
I feel refreshed♪[1]
Availability
On a fandom article claims that a YouTube video showed footage of the broadcast but was taken down by M-ON!, but nobody knows if this is true.
As of December 2023, no footage of the broadcast has resurfaced except for one singular photo from March 2020.
See Also
- Vib-Ribbon (lost original Mercedes-Benz version of PlayStation rhythm game; 1999)
- Vib-Ribbon Xmas Disc (found promotional mini CD for PlayStation game; 1999)