Panaman

Note: This sample is being streamed directly from the utaite's original on TmBox, as he has forbidden reprints to video sharing sites outside of Nico Nico Douga.
Panaman (ぱなまん) is a relatively new known for his powerful, syrupy yet crisp, mid-high ranged voice. His singing style includes distinct trills and inflections, is particularly expressive and has a guttural, slightly rough quality to it; as such, his voice is often described as being suited to rock songs. His song choices also tend to reflect this, as the intensity of his singing often prevents him from covering slower-paced songs or ballads as effectively; however he has covered "quiet" songs such as "Telomere no Ubugoe" and has stated that he enjoys and wishes to practice singing similarly non-rock songsFebruary 28, 2014 Tweet.
In addition to his work as Panaman, he also lends his voice to some of the guitarist RipTONE's band cover projects, where he is credited as Tachibana Machi (橘万智), or simply Tachibana (橘) for short. To date, he has provided the lead vocals for band covers of ONE OK ROCK's "Re:make" and the Shingeki no Kyojin ending theme "great escape". His participation in these is kept somewhat of an open secret; comment filters on the videos change any instance of "Panaman" into "Tachibana", and Panaman himself has asked for people to not call him by his usual name in these coversFebruary 19, 2014 Tweet.
His debut cover was the ballad "Refrain Loop", which was later re-mixed by the original composer of the song, KazukunP; however, like many of his early covers, it has since been omitted from his mylist. His first hit cover was "Last Last", which currently has 420K views and 7K mylists, and his most popular cover is "About Me", which currently has 2.1M views and 24K mylists as of February 2019. In addition, several of his covers have at least half a million views.
His singing voice and vocal style are often compared to those of professional musicians, and in particular are noted to be quite similar to those of Taka's, the lead vocalist of the band ONE OK ROCK, which is often commented on by viewers whenever he covers one of their songs. The tag "Pro from the wilderness" (野生のプロ yasei no puro) is often added to his videos.
He has stated in the uploader comments of his more recent covers that he does not want his videos to be reposted to video sharing sites such as YouTube, and asked that people please refrain from doing so. He set up his own YouTube channel in July 2016, in order to address the problem of reprints. Panaman's blog entry about his YouTube channel
==Affiliations and Collaboration Projects==
==List of Covered Songs==
===Songs on TmBox===
===Songs on Twitter===
==Discography==
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==Trivia==
* In addition to singing, he can also play several instruments, including drumsTmBox drums cover of "Kamisama Nejimaki", electricTmBox guitar cover of "Kenshinteki Ningen wa Yasashii Hito ni Narenai", and acoustic guitarTmBox acoustic cover of "For the First Time in Forever". He also likes to post short instrumental songs he composes and arranges on TmBox.
* He is 172 cm tall (5'7").ask.fm Q & A regarding his height
* His favorite food is tamagoyaki.ask.fm Q & A regarding what food he never leaves out of his bento
* His best subject in school was math, particularly division and mental arithmetic.ask.fm Q & A regarding his best subject in school
* He is often depicted with an apple motif; usually either holding an apple or as an apple. This is derived from the caricature of the aforementioned fruit in his user icon, which he drew himself and affectionately calls Ringo-senpai (りんご先輩), "ringo" meaning "apple".September 02, 2013 Tweet
* While he has set up a YouTube channel, he expressed that he did this out of a sense of necessity to prevent reprints. He enjoys the comments function on Nico Nico Douga and still wishes to focus most of his activities on Nico Nico Douga.
* He has uploaded a remarkable number of English covers with relatively accurate pronunciation, a fact that is pointed out by fans and fellow utaite, including MesTweet from Mes about Panaman's pronounciation. However, he says he is not proficient in English, with his fluency only being at the level of "I'm fine, thank you". A tweet to Rio about his English proficiencyA tweet about how he cannot speak English
* His favourite sound to pronounce in English is the suffix "-tion".A tweet to nqrse about "-tion"
==External Links==
* Blomaga
* Twitter (as Panaman)
* Twitter (as Tachibana Machi)
* TmBox
* ask.fm
* EXIT TUNES page