KarenT Releases Summer Special Vocaloid Music Collection

 Posted by at 10:14 am  Albums, Hatsune Miku, Merchandise  No Responses »
Jul 152015
 

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Summer is here! So what better way to celebrate the season than the way we celebrate any other season (or day, for that matter): Enjoying Vocaloid music! Crypton Future Media’s record label KarenT has launched their 15th music collection special starting today, titled “Summer Song”. Featuring 23 songs across 11 albums, these songs are sure to brighten your day just as much as the Summer sun.

The albums are available from KarenT on iTunes and Amazon MP3 (must search manually on Amazon to find them).




U/M/A/A Launches English Info Page On Vocaloid Artists

 Posted by at 10:52 am  Hatsune Miku, Other  1 Response »
Jul 142015
 

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Many Vocaloid artists have a long history behind them, and some can be extremely broad to research. With this idea in mind, we have the latest update from UMAA today bringing in the launch of English information central for your favourite Vocaloid producers.

The newly launched information central contains all the information you need about the artists, including the artist biographies, discogs, tracklistings, video links, iTunes download links as well as SNS links as Facebook pages. The roster of the information central includes the following:

  • DECO*27
  • sasakure.UK
  • PinocchioP
  • siinamota
  • millstones
  • kous
  • MIKU-MIXTURE
  • GINGA
  • monochromia

Visit the official site: http://pinc.jp/Intl_download/

Featured Hatsune Miku illustrations #2: Marine Miku

 Posted by at 7:37 am  Hatsune Miku, Illustrations  No Responses »
Jul 142015
 

A recent resurfacing Hatsune Miku art trend on Pixiv features a design called “Marine Miku”, which dresses Miku in a cute “Marine-look” sailor(?) outfit. The design itself is not new, and early concepts date as far back as 2013. But recent illustrations from artists in South Korea have caused a resurgance of interest in Miku with this outfit. (Maybe the hot Summer is to blame?)

The trend kicked off thanks to the illustrator named Piyo, who drew this illustration titled “Marin Miku”, then followed up with this concept design on twitter:

Since then, more illustrators have followed. Of course, we’ll take any excuse we can get for illustrators to draw more cute/beautiful illustrations of Miku, and a sailor-looking outfit fits the season rather well. We wonder if this will catch on and become the next “Bottle Miku“, in terms of popularity. Below is a short gallery of illustrations, and you can view them all with the “マリンミク” tag on Pixiv.

マリンミク by Lpip on pixiv

マリンミク by LI.B on pixiv

無題 by LUNCH on pixiv

マリンミク by 如月ちょび on pixiv

マリンミク by ヒズリン on pixiv

MikuFan’s Introduction to VOCACON 2015, Japan’s World Vocaloid Convention

 Posted by at 11:28 pm  Concerts, Events, Exhibitions, Hatsune Miku  3 Responses »
Jul 132015
 

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In today’s world, the vocaloid culture is ever expanding, and gathering support from more creators and fans from around the globe. Yet despite this, we can’t help but feel that fans outside of Japan are often overlooked by creators and fans within Japan. Many producers I’ve spoken with have also been surprised by Vocaloid’s popularity overseas.

So with this feeling of isolation and disconnection with fans in Japan, it’s great to know that a group of fans have come together to form an event called “VOCACON“, which focuses on sharing the creations of the Vocaloid culture from around the world, finally giving fans within Japan a sense of the culture’s global scale.

I was able to speak with Yukky, one of VOCACON’s executive members, to learn more about some of Vocacon’s events from the convention held in February of this year. Continue reading »

Nendoroid Hatsune Miku: Harvest Moon Ver. Preorders Now Open

 Posted by at 8:03 pm  Figures, Hatsune Miku, Merchandise  6 Responses »
Jul 122015
 

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As recently promised by Kahotan from good Smile Company, the Hatsune Miku: Harvest Moon ver. nendoroid is now open for global preorders!

She is available exclusively from GSC’s online shop, and is priced at 4200 Yen. Preorders will close July 29th at 9:00 PM JST, or when preorder limits are reached. She is expected to ship sometime in November 2015. Shop link: http://goodsmile-global.ecq.sc/top/gscnenwd00539.html

Lastly, don’t forget to read Kahotan’s review to see all of the figures included features. This one is going to move fast, so good luck getting her!

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