This should lead to do a some reflexion about how fragile can be vocaloid, depend on usto keep the things happening. But also we should keep the sanity and no turn ourselves in a crowd of maniatical paranoics. Miku don’t need yandere lovers.

A small clarification on the Akita Neru segment — the root of her character came about before the the clamor had died down. Yahoo had restored the images by the 21st and Google by the 23rd, according to the well-sourced Japanese Wikipedia article on Hatsune Miku. According to the niconico encyclopedia entry on Akita Neru, her origin was a huge number of posts on message boards trying to quiet down the clamor, with messages like “I’m bored of this already” and “I’m going to sleep, you should too.” The speed and apparent likeness between all these messages made people wonder if this wasn’t something spontaneous and instead something planned and coordinated. And then on November 1, character illustrations and descriptions were posted on 2ch threads of the purported culprit behind the postings. This is why she is also referred to as “boukaroido”, with “bouka” written in kanji to mean something like “fire prevention”.

PS: What is your source on cosMo getting inspired by the events to write Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu? The timing sure lends credence to the theory, but I would appreciate a quote from him if this is actually true. Sure, the events were titled Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu, but do recall that cosMo did release an earlier song called Hatsune Miku no Bousou. Fans familiar with Haruhi should notice that both titles are very similar to the titles of the Haruhi novels, and it is very likely the decision to name the series of events “Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu” was due to the Haruhi novel naming scheme as well. Furthermore, the actual content of the song seems to indicate a malfunctioning Miku being considered for deletion and trying to belt out one last love song to her master as quickly as possible in the small time alloted. Perhaps the events did lead cosMo to consider writing a song about Miku disappearing, but at least the song content doesn’t seem to indicate he wanted to actually write about the events that unfolded recently. (I’ve also checked some sources, such as interviews and confirmed from his comments that the point in time when he started working on the song did fall after the 17th)

Ahem, will you celebrate my 5th birthday (1st of november)? And Meiko’s (5th of november), too, since her success leaded to creation of Miku. And 8 years is much.

I had no idea Akita Neru was developed due to the Disappearance event! You learn something new every day!

@hightrancesea: Sure. [LINK]

It’s also something that everyone in the community has been talking about and “celebrating” for years now.

@jrharbort: The link you posted links to a MikuStar page which claims the song was inspired by the events, but that page itself provides no sources. On the other hand, I just found this Google+ interview with cosMo, where they asked him about his thoughts at the time he came up with the idea for the song and when he was punching the notes in:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117525656268411212735/posts/VZCNtwByUJY

He wrote: “I came up with the idea for the song while I was commuting to university. I was riding on a motorized bike in early winter, so it was cold. As for the title of the song, it came from book title ‘Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu,’ which my eyes would come across from time to time when I glanced around the room. The backing music was actually one of the instrumental songs I made before starting VOCALOID; I picked the catchiest one.”

Furthermore, by community, do you mean the English-speaking community? I have to say I’m fairly well-connected with the Japanese speaking Miku fan community and have yet to come across any huge “celebrations” or talk of the anniversaries so far.

Hopefully Miku will never leave us.

@jrharbort: Sorry to sound so confrontational, but I’m generally quite blunt/candid when it comes to fact checking or clarifications; it tends to save everyone time when I lay everything out, but it certainly does sound more aggressive

[...]   Quelle: MikuFan.com [...]

@TODD
She only will if we let her. Hopefully, the community, especially Miku, will keep on going strong. (I’m hoping that she’ll outlive me…hehehe.)

Aaaaand now I feel like a ass because I LITERALLY just uninstalled my Vocaloid2 software :C