Hatsune Miku, who is she? This is she, the girl in the picture below!
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| Hatsune Miku's Boxart Illustration by KEI |
[This entry is marked "To Be Continued" meaning additional information maybe added in the upcoming future.]
It's something like this, she's the first "Virtual Diva". Still not convinced? How about this, one of her live concert videos in Youtube got at least fifteen million views! It's 15M, unbelievable many! The song she just sang was one of her famous songs, "World is Mine" composed by Ryo.
"WORLD IS MINE LIVE IN TOKYO"
by: 初音ミク
Are you convinced already how popular Miku is? If you're not, I think there's a problem with your brain. Maybe it's malfunctioning.
Anyway, Hatsune Miku is Crypton Future Media's THIRD Vocaloid. She is often mistaken as the FIRST because she's the most famous Vocaloid and because of the mark on her left shoulder saying, "CV01". But there you have, now you know she's the THIRD. The first ones by Crypton Future Media, done with the original VOCALOID SOFTWARE are Meiko and Kaito but we're not talking about them here.
Her first voicebank, the original, sounded a bit artificial and vague; nevertheless, it's very cute and pitchy which made her a big hit around the globe. Her voice received many awards from 2007 to 2009.
The "mangaka" (漫画家) or manga artist, KEI designed Miku. Her design is based on the Vocaloid 2 Engine and Yamaha's colors which are the digital and cyan design. When put together, a masterpiece is created. KEI thought of a unique design of her, thinking what best fits her cute voice. Her outfit was created and eventually, her image. The pigtails were exceptions though. KEI tried out a lot of hairstyles on Miku but stuck with pigtails after trying them out for some sort of reason.
Crypton released the following data about her:
Name: Hatsune Miku
Age: 16 years old (More likely, it's the Physical Age)
Height: 5'2" (About 158 cm)
Weight: 42 kg (About 92.4 lbs)
Suggested Tempo Range: 70~150 beats per minute
Suggested Vocal Range: A3~E5
Since then, fan arts and PVs started flying off in the internet. Since Miku is an open source character, the fans depict her image in many styles. May it be royalty, poor, average and many more.
She was a success until the year 2007 in the month of October...
SOURCE: VOCALOID Wiki
...Soon after Hatsune Miku was released, a TV program in Japan degraded the users of Miku. As a result, Miku's pictures became unavailable to search in main search engines, and Miku's article was deleted from the Japanese Wikipedia at the same time.
This news became widespread or "flamed up" in 2ch, then many writings to lay the news to rest or "to put off the fire" followed. The postings were with the phrases "飽きた、寝る。 (Got bored. Going to bed.)" or "寝る、お前らも寝ろよ。 (Gonna go to bed. Follow me, y'all!). Soon other users made a personification character for these postings as "Akita Neru", which Smith Hioka, the designer, later finalized. Neru came to represent the tsundere culture of Vocaloid.
But we're not going to talk about Neru here.
SOURCE: Vocaloid Otaku
On October 18, 2007, an Internet BBS website reported Hatsune Miku was suspected to be victim of censorship by Google and Yahoo!, since images of Miku did not show up on the image searches. Google and Yahoo denied any censorship on their part, blaming the missing images on a bug that does not only affect "Hatsune Miku" but other search keywords as well. Both companies expressed a willingness to fix the problem as soon as possible. Images of Miku were relisted on Yahoo on October 19.
(from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid#Hatsune_Miku)
In addition, some scandals that insulted Vocaloid occurred in October, 2007.
At this time, 2ch BBS was thrown into a great uproar. A rumor that it was string-pulling by the advertising agency (Dentsu Co.) which failed in the promotion of the virtual idol in the past spread. The comments which tried to quiet this uproar were posted many to 2ch by certain persons in this time. They posted many comments which insulted Vocaloid and Vocaloid fans.
When an angry fan chased the sending origin of these persons, it was recognized that their comments were made by cell phones. In addition, from another follow-up survey, it was recognized that it was an act by a famous string-pulling company.
Everything went great after that big controversy.
No, Miku is not a cartoon character. No, Miku is not an anime character. No, Miku is not used to trick people. YES, Miku is US.
Hatsune Miku is you, me and everyone. She's living because of us. If we're not here, she won't be even here. WE are HER CREATOR.
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク)
Her name was formed from the words "Hatsu" (初) meaning "first", "Ne" (音) meaning "sound" and "Miku" (未来) meaning "future". Normally, the word "Miku" is said as "Mirai" (未ら). Thus, when combined all, it would be "The First Sound from the Future" or something similar to that.Her first voicebank, the original, sounded a bit artificial and vague; nevertheless, it's very cute and pitchy which made her a big hit around the globe. Her voice received many awards from 2007 to 2009.
The "mangaka" (漫画家) or manga artist, KEI designed Miku. Her design is based on the Vocaloid 2 Engine and Yamaha's colors which are the digital and cyan design. When put together, a masterpiece is created. KEI thought of a unique design of her, thinking what best fits her cute voice. Her outfit was created and eventually, her image. The pigtails were exceptions though. KEI tried out a lot of hairstyles on Miku but stuck with pigtails after trying them out for some sort of reason.
Crypton released the following data about her:
Name: Hatsune Miku
Age: 16 years old (More likely, it's the Physical Age)
Height: 5'2" (About 158 cm)
Weight: 42 kg (About 92.4 lbs)
Suggested Tempo Range: 70~150 beats per minute
Suggested Vocal Range: A3~E5
Since then, fan arts and PVs started flying off in the internet. Since Miku is an open source character, the fans depict her image in many styles. May it be royalty, poor, average and many more.
She was a success until the year 2007 in the month of October...
SOURCE: VOCALOID Wiki
This news became widespread or "flamed up" in 2ch, then many writings to lay the news to rest or "to put off the fire" followed. The postings were with the phrases "飽きた、寝る。 (Got bored. Going to bed.)" or "寝る、お前らも寝ろよ。 (Gonna go to bed. Follow me, y'all!). Soon other users made a personification character for these postings as "Akita Neru", which Smith Hioka, the designer, later finalized. Neru came to represent the tsundere culture of Vocaloid.
But we're not going to talk about Neru here.
SOURCE: Vocaloid Otaku
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Her song, "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" was born because of this. Note: Image is not from source. I uploaded it. |
On October 18, 2007, an Internet BBS website reported Hatsune Miku was suspected to be victim of censorship by Google and Yahoo!, since images of Miku did not show up on the image searches. Google and Yahoo denied any censorship on their part, blaming the missing images on a bug that does not only affect "Hatsune Miku" but other search keywords as well. Both companies expressed a willingness to fix the problem as soon as possible. Images of Miku were relisted on Yahoo on October 19.
(from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid#Hatsune_Miku)
In addition, some scandals that insulted Vocaloid occurred in October, 2007.
At this time, 2ch BBS was thrown into a great uproar. A rumor that it was string-pulling by the advertising agency (Dentsu Co.) which failed in the promotion of the virtual idol in the past spread. The comments which tried to quiet this uproar were posted many to 2ch by certain persons in this time. They posted many comments which insulted Vocaloid and Vocaloid fans.
When an angry fan chased the sending origin of these persons, it was recognized that their comments were made by cell phones. In addition, from another follow-up survey, it was recognized that it was an act by a famous string-pulling company.
Everything went great after that big controversy.
No, Miku is not a cartoon character. No, Miku is not an anime character. No, Miku is not used to trick people. YES, Miku is US.
Hatsune Miku is you, me and everyone. She's living because of us. If we're not here, she won't be even here. WE are HER CREATOR.
Thanks to her append which was released eight months after her second birthday, her voice sounded more realistic. An example usage of this append would be this song from Youtube.
"HIRARI, HIRARI"
by: 初音ミクDARK
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