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

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While most of you were probably already hoping that the caramelldansen meme had died down here is a fresh one to prove you wrong. This one has so-so audio and great new art! Enjoy!

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!

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Latest imports from NicoNicoDouga. Enjoy!