Rakuten Point Dance AI Face Swap Video Template

What is the Rakuten Point Dance trend?

The Rakuten Point Dance is a viral choreography that first appeared in a 2020 Japanese commercial for Rakuten’s loyalty program. The ad featured a catchy song, synchronized dance moves, and exaggerated facial expressions. Clips from the commercial were quickly repurposed on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels, where creators began swapping in their own faces — or their friends’, characters’, and celebrities’ — to turn the original spot into a meme format.

Today, the Rakuten Point Dance is used for:

• Humorous face-swap memes
• Brand and creator promos with a playful twist
• VTuber and anime-style character edits
• Inside jokes in group chats and community content

Create a Rakuten Point Dance face swap in minutes

This template is built on Magic Hour’s AI Face Swap technology and the Face Swap Video creation flow. It lets you drop your face (or any face you have rights to use) into the Rakuten Point Dance video — no manual masking, rotoscoping, or advanced editing required.

You can:

• Swap in one or multiple faces across the dance
• Export in vertical, horizontal, or square formats for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and X
• Remix the template with your own footage or characters
• Stack other Magic Hour tools (lip-sync, image-to-video, talking photos) to build more complex edits

How to use this template in Magic Hour

1. Start from Face Swap Video
   Open Face Swap Video. Choose a Rakuten Point Dance base clip from your library or upload your own version of the dance.
2. Add the face you want to swap in
   Upload a clear photo of the face (or faces) you want to use. For best results:
   • Use a frontal or 3/4 view with good lighting
   • Avoid heavy filters, sunglasses, or motion blur
   • Use a high-resolution image (you can enhance images with the AI Image Upscaler if needed)
3. Generate the face-swapped dance
   Let Magic Hour apply AI face swap to every frame of the Rakuten Point Dance video, matching expressions and head movement automatically.
4. Remix and extend (optional)
   To build your own version of this template:
   • Use Video-to-Video to stylize the Rakuten dance (anime, 3D, comic, etc.).
   • Turn a still character or selfie into a dancing clip with Image-to-Video, then apply face swap.
   • Add synced dialogue with Lip Sync or turn a photo into a talking dancer using AI Talking Photo.
5. Export for your target platform
   Download in your preferred format and upload directly to TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or Twitter/X.

Remixing this template: build your own Rakuten-style format

If you want to go beyond the default template and create a custom Rakuten-style meme format for your brand, character, or community, you can:

• Create original characters
  Design avatars or mascots with:
  • Avatar Generator – for profile-pic style faces
  • AI Character Generator – for stylized or narrative characters
  • AI Anime Generator or Disney AI Generator – for specific illustration styles
  Then bring those characters into motion with Image-to-Video or Animation and apply face swap.
• Turn team photos into a meme sequence
  Use AI Headshot Generator or AI Selfie Generator to standardize your team’s photos, then swap them into the Rakuten Point Dance clip for product launches, conference promos, or hiring campaigns.
• Blend with talking or singing content
  Pair the dance with voiceovers:
  • Clone a voice with AI Voice Cloner or generate a new one with AI Voice Generator.
  • Sync lines or lyrics to the dancer’s mouth with AI Lip Sync.

Best practices for high-quality Rakuten Point Dance face swaps

• Use clean, high-res source images
  Sharper input faces produce cleaner swaps. You can restore older or low-resolution images with:
  • Unblur Image
  • Old Photo Restoration
  • Photo Colorizer for black-and-white sources
• Match lighting and angle where possible
  A frontal or slightly angled face with similar lighting to the dance clip yields the most natural result. If needed, you can generate matching portraits with the AI Photo Generator or AI Image Generator.
• Optimize for vertical video
  Most Rakuten Point Dance memes spread on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, so prioritize a vertical or 9:16 export. Use captions and overlays sparingly so the face remains the focal point.
• Respect rights and platform policies
  Always ensure you have permission to use someone’s face or likeness, and verify that your usage complies with local laws and each platform’s policies on deepfakes, parody, and synthetic media.

Where this template works best

Creators, marketers, and builders typically use this template for:

• Social campaigns – teasing product launches, events, or milestones with a lighthearted twist.
• Community engagement – turning fan photos, NFT PFPs, or Discord avatars into a shared dance meme.
• Personal content – inside jokes with friends, birthday videos, or meme responses.
• VTubers and virtual influencers – dropping a virtual persona into a recognizable, meme-friendly dance sequence.

Why use Magic Hour for Rakuten Point Dance edits?

Magic Hour focuses on production-quality AI video tools designed for creators and teams who care about speed, consistency, and control. For Rakuten Point Dance-style content, that means:

• High-fidelity face tracking via AI Face Swap across fast motion and expressive frames.
• Flexible formats for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, and standard social feeds.
• Composable workflows – combine Face Swap Video, Video-to-Video, Lip Sync, Text-to-Video, and more into a single pipeline.
• On-brand customization – generate brand-safe characters, outfits, and backgrounds with tools like AI Outfit Generator, AI Fashion Generator, and AI Background Generator.

Level up your Rakuten Point Dance content

Once you’re comfortable with the base template, you can push it further:

• Add meme captions using AI Meme Generator.
• Turn stills from the dance into stylized art with AI Art Generator or Comic Book Generator.
• Create GIF versions for chats and Discord using AI GIF Generator or Face Swap GIF.
• Generate thumbnails for YouTube uploads with the Thumbnail Maker.
• Improve clarity for reposts on larger screens using the Video Upscaler.

Start from the Rakuten Point Dance template in Face Swap Video, swap in your face or character, and iterate. In a few minutes, you’ll have a polished, on-trend clip ready to ship to TikTok, Reels, or Shorts — and a reusable meme format you can keep remixing for future campaigns.