Feb 212013
 


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Family Mart is already gearing up to prepare for the next seasonal promotion featuring Hatsune Miku. For the first time, the event will exclusively feature a Sakura Miku theme with various products and prizes!

hc0g74000013x9y5From March 5th until April 1st, Family Mart stores will be selling various Sakura Miku themed lunches, snacks and desserts.

Making another return is the highly popular cheesecake and Mikuman meat-stuffed buns (a pun of the original name, “Nikuman”) with the Sakura Miku theme. Also making a return is the bottled vegetable juice, inspired by the song “Popipo“!

Prize giveaways are also part of this promotion, with the biggest items being jackets, Sakura Miku nendoroids, framed images of artworks, and copies of Kaito’s newly released VOCALOID3 software. Spending at least 500 yen on select store products will enter you for a chance to win these, and various other prizes. View the full article on Family Mart’s site, located here.


 

Feb 212013
 


Amusing to note how “Real Action Heroes” has yet to feature any real people.

Medicom Toy Co., SEGA and Good Smile Company have partnered up to create a “Real Action Heroes” figure based on Hatsune Miku’s character design from Project Diva ƒ (Vita) and Ƒ (PS3). The Action Heroes series of figures are large (1/6) scale posable figures of high quality and attention to detail. They also include several accessories. You can imagine them as larger Figmas with many design improvements.

The figure shown is a prototype on display at the 2013 Winter Wonfes, and it doesn’t reveal much other than the figure itself. With the figures at 1/6 scale, I can guess that this one will be around 27cm in height. Except for the planned release year of 2013, there is not yet any specific order or release dates. Pricing is also unknown, but will probably end up somewhere around 22,000 JPY, based on prices of other figures in the series.

Images provided by Moeyo (explicit site content warning).

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