Dragonite & Charizard, dancing to all the popular tunes

If you love Pokémon Go, you’ll love this. But even if you don’t, you might appreciate the craft put into the animation and the internet’s response.

First, follow this link to see a J-Pop video from Garnidelia. Watch the dance, get a sense of the song.

Now switch over to this video, which shows two powerful Pokémon dancing to the same song.

So far, so good. Not sure who put this together (please tweet me if you know the details), but they clearly did it to match the vocals in the original. Then the internet stepped in to fix things.

A meme emerged with the challenge to replace the original audio with some popular tunes that matched the beat. I find the whole thing fascinating.

Though there are a ton of these floating around, this article with the NSFW title captures some of the better ones. My favorite, by far, is the very first video which uses Santana’s Smooth as the soundtrack.

If anyone can find an embeddable copy of this video, please tweet me a link so I can embed it in this post.

UPDATE: This article gives lots of background on the artist. [H/T Tuxbeej]