It originated from a scene of Inoue Orihime "throwing onions" in the Japanese cartoon "Bleach", accompanied by a local folk song from "Scandinavia".
The popular cartoon dance song "Holly Dolly - Dolly Song" is adapted from Finnish folk music.
Loituma Girl or Leekspin is a Flash animation in which an onomatopoeic chant from the traditional Finnish folk song "Eva's Polka" is embedded. This Finnish folk song comes from the Finnish quartet Loituma1996 Year's debut album "Beautiful Things". It appeared on the Internet in 2006 and quickly became popular. The animated version consists of five parts. The content is the action of Orihime Inoue throwing onions in the Japanese animation "BLEACH", and intercepts a 27-second loop of music from "Eva's Polka" mentioned above.
The Onion Song animation is excerpted from an episode from the 12th minute to the 14th minute (different versions) of episode 2 of "BLEACH". In the original animation, Inoue Orihime is playing with the other two characters in the animation. When Ichigo Kurosaki was chatting with Rukia Kuchiki, he shook the green onion in his hand counterclockwise. This episode is one in a series of jokes surrounding her character, where she wants to cook dishes with flavors so unique that they are almost inedible. There are also some differences in whether the thing Orihime throws in the anime is a real plant. In the Japanese version of the anime, it is labeled as an onion, but in the American version, it is shown to be a different species of leek, the plant from which the anime is named. The reason for this disagreement may be that the national symbol of Wales is the leek.
This music comes from the second half of the 5th section and the entire 6th section of "Eva's Polka". Unlike the rest of the song, this section has no specific meaning at all. It is just some syllables that sound like Finnish. This section is different in every performance and is completely improvised by the singer on the stage. out (compare onomatopoeic singing in jazz). As a result, these stanzas are often not listed on the sheet music, which can cause problems when finding lyrics that match the music of the anime.
The original Loituma (original song title Dolly Song Leva's Polka Holly) is a singing team from Finland. There are four members who form four parts to sing. Their songs are all based on traditional songs. Mainly Finnish music. They participated in the Kaostinen Folk Music Festival in 1997 and attracted much attention. It is a Finnish folk band. The lead singer Anita Lehtola is a very charming female singer. She often participates in various world music , Anita's singing has the meaning of Runo-song (Runo-song is also called "rune-song" or "poem-song". "rune" means ancient Nordic and Finnish poetry. This is a Finnish folk poetry , its form is a repetitive poetry form that rhymes at the beginning), cold and very charming, as if it has brought us to a green land, far away and just like an illusion. History Loituma sang this song a cappella at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival in 1997, after which the song began to attract everyone's attention.
However, until 2006, this song was only known in a few European countries such as Finland
"Ievan Polkka" is a polka song from Finland Polkka is a Scandinavian folk song. It was written in the 1930s by Eino Kettunen in the traditional polka tune of Eastern Europe. After the a cappella group Loituma made it famous in 1995, the version circulated changed the first letter "I" of the song's title to "L", not only because they looked very similar, but also symbolized Another nickname for this song is "Loituma's Polkka". Among them, Ievan in Finnish is the English Eva (Ieva, Eeva). The version mainly circulated in the market is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.