Dec 312014
 


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Good Smile Racing has opened reservations for their 2015 Racing Miku Nendoroid courses starting today, with 4 different tiers as usual. All 4 tiers will come with the Nendoroid, but each tiers come with different bonus items depend on amount you wish to pledge. International orders are accepted.

Courses A and B, the first two pledge tiers, priced at 8,000 yen and 12,000 yen, respectively. Both courses will come with Good Smile Racing sponsorship card, Racing Miku Nendoroid, rubber key chain, and ticket holder. Course B will also include personal sponsor’s cap and Good Smile Racing tool case.

Courses C and D, the last two pledge tiers, covered all items from lower tiers and priced at 30,000 yen and 50,000 yen respectively. Course C will include team issue socks and windbreakers. Course D will include all items from the lower tiers, with team issue shorts and fleece jacket.

All reservations have been announced to end on February 28th, 2015. Expected release date is set to be in July this year. Please note that this is a sponsorship pledge, the amount you pledge will be withdrawn immediately upon your purchase.

Dec 312014
 

Every year always contains new and exciting surprises for Hatsune Miku and the world of Vocaloid, and 2014 was no exception by any means. Many huge notable events happened this year, and it will surely give 2015 hard time to top. Here is a quick list of just some of the events that happened in the year 2014:

    • Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd Released in Japan (and later overseas).
    • Three new life-sized Hatsune Miku statues were revealed (Wing Shop, Magical Mirai and Sky Town).
    • Hatsune Miku Expo events held in Jakarta Indonesia, and Los Angeles and New York in the United States.
    • The “Hatsune Miku Project Diva” game series celebrated its 5th anniversary.
    • Hatsune Miku cameoed with the popular J-rock band “Bump of Chicken”.
    • Many new figures and nendoroids of various types announced and released.
    • Hatsune Miku opened for Lady Gaga’s Artpop Ball tour across the United States and Canada.
    • Pharrell Williams remixed the Hatsune Miku classic “Last Night, Good Night”.
    • “Mikuture”, a free ApiMiku AR app, released worldwide in Japanese and English.
    • Project Mirai DX for 3DS announced for Western release (and later for Japan).
    • Hatsune Miku celebrates her 7th anniversary.
    • Magical Mirai concert events held in Osaka and Tokyo.
    • A second Hatsune Miku English voice bank is announced for development.
    • Snow Miku 2015 design chosen.
    • Hatsune Miku debuts on David Letterman.
    • Good Smile Racing wins the 2014 SUPER GT championship.
    • 2015 Racing Miku design revealed.

And this is just a small list of everything that happened! We are excited to see what 2015 will bring, and we hope you are, too. Enjoy this New Year’s illustration by Snowmioo from Twitter. Happy new year, everyone!

Dec 272014
 


 
Recently, the highly popular 3D choreography tool MikuMikuDance has appeared on Steam Greenlight, to begin the voting stage to be approved to the Steam store. The software was published to Steam Greenlight by Sekai Project, a company also known for licensing the release of visual novels on the Steam store.

“But isn’t MikuMikuDance already free?”, you’re probably wondering. The answer is yes, and the Steam release will remain free. The steam release has been approved by the creator himself, Higuchi, and it will serve as another distribution portal for the software, while also hopefully attracting new and curious users.

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Of course, this is only the beginning of Sekai Project’s plans. Currently, the MMD communities are scattered across various wikis, blogs and deviantarts. Sekai Project hopes to turn this into a more collaborative and organized community, much like Piapro.

The software and respective models must continue to follow all creators guidelines (of course), and it will be up to the community to help teach the newcomers proper Vocaloid etiquette. Go forth and vote to show your support!

EDIT: It’s been successfully greenlit!

Dec 252014
 


 
The final round for the next “Real Action Heroes: Hatsune Miku -Project Diva-” begins today, along with the reveal of the top 10 designs from the first round. The second round, however, will take place via the February 2015 issue of “Hobby Japan”. That means voting for this round is limited to Japan only.

The voting process is believed to be completed via postcards, while details will be revealed soon in the February 2015 issue of Hobby Japan magazine, which released today. Here are the names of the top 10 modules in English, in order of the highest number of votes: Vintage Dress, Orbit, Star Voice, Honey Whip, Pierretta, Ribbon Girl, Supreme, Orange Blossom, Magical Mirai, and Bless You.

The winning design will be announced by SEGA and Medicom Toy Factory at the 2015 Winter Wonder Festival event on February 8th, 2015. Visit the official event page here: http://miku.sega.jp/rah2nd/

You can read the details of the previous voting event from our previous article.

Dec 232014
 


 
You’ve likely seen photos of this sculpture teased at the recent Wonder Festival or Miku Expo events, and wondered, like many of us, when this figure would see the light of day. That day has come, and the Hatsune Miku Ebata Risa ver. 1/7 scale figure is finally up for order!

The figure was inspired by the artwork of Ebata Risa, which was created as the cover for the album “Melody Line(s)” by SmileR, which released earlier this year. Ebata Risa is also well known as the character designer for the Macross Frontier anime series.

The details and appearance of the figure, sculpted by Max Fectory, are quite stunning and unique compared to previous figures, with Miku sitting on a large crystal that appears to be floating in the air. Her outfit has a gothic lolita style, which may highly appeal to certain collectors.

The figure has an MSRP of 19,800 Yen ($165 USD) from Good Smile Company’s online shop, and orders will remain open until January 21st, 2015. It is expected to ship sometime in July 2015. The figure can also be found from several other online retailers for various prices, so feel free to look around.

> Good Smile Company Online Shop
> CDJapan
> Amiami
> Hobby Search

Check out some of the preview images below, or view the full gallery from Good Smile Company’s website!