Now this is quite unusual. We all know that popular Japanese videos are often being imported and reuploaded to YouTube and then also become popular in the west. Now the opposite has happened.
On August 3, YouTube user velveetaah uploaded a video of his 10-year-old daughter Maxine performing as Hatsune Miku. The video did not receive many views and pretty much slipped through YouTube unnoticed. However two days ago a Japanese user re-uploaded the video to NicoNicoDouga, Japan’s biggest video sharing website. In just a little more than 30 hours the video has already generated over 30.000 views and is getting close to 5000 comments. The video is already appearing on the top 25 videos for today and yesterday and will probably also make it’s way to the weekly ranking if it keeps receiving views and comments at this rate. Since the original video was also linked within the NicoNicoDouga repost the YouTube video also started to receive a lot of views and positive comments from Japanese users.
Congratulations Maxine!
Update: Views are now up to 70.000 and comments have bypassed the 11.000 mark.
For those of you who always wanted to show of your desire and love for Miku to the public.. here is some inspiration! Hiraku from NicoNicoDouga shows us how he created his Hatsune Miku inspired car!
Go ahead and check out the YouTube video to see how it was done step-by-step: Hatsune Miku flavored Suzuki Car
It was just brought to my attention that Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len apparently are included in Sega’s arcade smash hit Virtua Fighter 5 R since a few days.
But don’t get your hopes up too high - you still can’t let Miku fight against Rin and Len to see who really is the better Vocaloid singer. Instead, players of the arcade game now get the chance to win a virtual Nendoroid figure to decorate their character with.
While the game has been receiving updates since the debut release in mid 2006, this is probably one of the most surprising ones! Hatsune Miku is still incredibly popular and as some of you might know has already appeared in a few other games such as the Korean online golf game Pangya and 13 Sai no Hello Work on the Nintendo DS.
Via Japanator with thanks to Aku for pointing this out!
Just 3 more days till the Vocaloid Paradise Event will take place. Nick has kindly sent in a wonderful scan which he got down in Akihabara the other day. I figured I would share it with you all since the art is so great! For more info on the actual event please head over to Vocaloid Paradise if you are mighty of the Japanese language.
For those of you who want to add the wonderful art to their collection, just go ahead and click the thumbnail on the left to see the flyer in it’s full glory!
Now on to some sad news. As some of you might know ArmyCats, the author of MikuMiku had already been announcing that he might be more or less forced to take his blog offline since he is moving back to Taiwan. It appears as this is the case now, since MikuMiku seems unreachable. He was doing a great job of keeping the English vocaloid scene updated on Vocaloid events and rankings. If he does not manage to return and bring his blog back online, please see this post as a tribute to him and MikuMiku.info. He did a great job and will be missed!
Edit: MikuMiku.info is back up!
This post is to inform you that Mikufan.com will be moving to a new server within the next few weeks. The move should go smooth and we do not expect any noticeable downtime. Now on to some more important news!
The Hatsune Miku T-Shirt raffle will finally have the results and winners announced soon. I had some technical problems due to the lack of a working printer and had to think of a different but equally fair method of doing the raffle. Regarding the raffle a lot of people had been asking where one can buy the Hatsune Miku shirts. To clear some things up I have added a Hatsune Miku product page, which you can find in the top navigation menu.
Also, we are still looking for help regarding one or more new sister sites! If you interested in the other Vocaloid characters like the Kagamine twins or Kaito and would be willing to write about them in a similar style to Mikufan.com, please contact us directly at info@[nospam]mikufan.com! Obviously remove the [nospam] part.
