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1. #VOCALOID HATSUNE MIKU ART STICKER PVC FIGURE PDF#
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It also happens to mark the release of ”初音ミク V3 ENGLISH”, which features newly recorded Hatsune Miku voicebanks, including a brand new English version, for the VOCALOID3 synthesis engine.Īnd so to commemorate this, I am reprinting the essay I wrote over a year ago here.

#VOCALOID HATSUNE MIKU ART STICKER PVC FIGURE SOFTWARE#

Today, August 31, 2013, marks the sixth year anniversary of the release of the PC software pagage, ”VOCALOID2 Character Vocal Series 01 初音ミク HATSUNE MIKU”. And so, I ended up taking that accumulated observations and writing a well-over-10-page “academic” essay on it. Nevertheless, to me, it was fascinating watching a single boxart drawing spawn an entire international community that went well beyond the original form of media (like the Touhou phenomena) and Hatsune Miku herself rise to the status of a virtual diva. But there wasn’t much more than that (if anything, I’m more of a fan of Megurine Luka’s design). I did play around with the software when VOCALOID2 Lily was released (I still think my attempt at a Lily cover of “Love is War” was pretty decent but I found the VY1 voice bank to be overall far superior:), and I did buy a bootlegged Hatchune Miku which I got signed by artists on the back and by Hiroyuki Itoh, CEO of Crypton Future Media on the front.

While I had never been all that interested in Hatsune Miku (and more interested in the VOCALOID technology itself, especially when VocaListener was first demo’d and when VOCALOID3 came out), I continued keeping up with the scene as something of interest. Our final project was to either write a 3-page essay on one of the three given topics, or a 5-page essay on a topic of your choice. The general field of discussion was more or less the development of otaku culture over the years (for example, our main “textbook” was Saito Tamaki’s “ Beautiful Fighting Girl“, which I do recommend). I was in my last year of university and one of the courses I was taking was EALC 169 – Advanced Japanese Pop Culture, i.e. After poking around a bit on the little known Japanese website called NicoNicoDouga and using lots of Google Translate, I learned about this cool voice synthesizing software engine called “VOCALOID2” (or rather, the second iteration of VOCALOID) and an interest boxart character design which was named “Hatsune Miku”.įast forward 5 years to the spring of 2012. It caught my interest because not only was the 3DCG pretty impressive (this was still during the time when Flash animations were still popular) but there was something about the audio that was quite unfamiliar to the western world. The first YouTube reprint of the 3DPV for Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru? / “【初音ミク】3DみくみくPV” Just under 6 years ago, while wandering around the somewhat unknown video-sharing website called YouTube, I came across an interesting 3D animated music video:

#VOCALOID HATSUNE MIKU ART STICKER PVC FIGURE PDF#

The complete PDF version of this can be found here. Post Views: 171 This is an essay I wrote while in university, titled “The World of Hatsune Miku – A brief overview of the VOCALOID phenomena”.