Today’s 2nd illustration of the 39 day countdown to Hatsune Miku’s 12th anniversary comes from PIaNo!
Here’s what PIaNo had to say for Miku’s 12th anniversary:
Into the deep blue, is the place that light rays through.
PIaNo’s Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3128194
38 days left to Hatsune Miku’s 12th Anniversary!
From the recent Goodsmile Racing’s live stream comes a Racing Miku visual for the 2019 SUZUKA 10 HOURS race, to which the team will be participating in next month. Drawn by the artist Annin Oiko with direction by Shigeto Koyama, she wears a beautiful pink haregi surrounded in cherry blossoms.
The machine featuring the design is expected at the upcoming 2019 SUZUKA 10 HOURS race, which will be hled at Suzuka circuit on August 23rd~25th. She’s the also second Racing Miku Haregi ver. design to date since Tony Taka’s in 2017-2018. Fight, GSR!
2019 SUZUKA 10 HOURS: https://www.suzukacircuit.jp/10h_en/
Goodsmile Racing team: https://www.goodsmileracing.com/en/team2019_suzuka/
What does the number 12 mean? The total of 3 plus 9? The number of months contained in a year? Every Miku fan has an answer for themselves. We’ve already celebrated Hatsune Miku’s birthday 11 times, and her 12th will be no exception.
She’s the spotlight that lit up our life in the past, and now we gotta light her up for sure. Arranged by ColorfulMiku Yuiwo, we’ve gathered 39 illustrators in China who love #初音ミク. In the next 39 days, we’ll show you the infinite possibilities of the future! We hope that you, as a Miku fan, can receive the total of every creator’s love. So let’s start to countdown, and paint the genesis of Hatsune Miku together!
Today’s 1st illustration of the 39 day countdown comes from Gu Hai Nìshui!
I feel very lucky to take part in this Anniversary Countdown. I’m very happy about it. Thank you for this opportunity~ Today is a special day just in time. I’ve drawn Miku in そらのサカナ, and a Red Pen in her hand, I’ll be very happy if you can recognize it! Goodnight to powaP. There’s a few days left to Miku’s birthday, and I hope that her smooth and healing voice can reach to the bottom of your heart.
Gu Hai Nìshui’s Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/2122651304
Artwork Link: https://www.weibo.com/2122651304/HEPoebOZU
Thanks to disclosed documents by the Guangzhou city government in China, Guangzhou city is now officially confirmed as one of the locations for the 2019 MIKU WITH YOU concert and exhibition tour in China!
This marks the first time a Hatsune Miku concert and exhibition will be held in this city of Guangzhou, and it will be held on November 23rd and 24th at the Guangzhou Canton Art Theater (also known as the Guangzhou Opera House).
We can expect a lot more announcements leading up to MIKU WITH YOU 2019, so stay tuned!
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— #Tokyo2020 #1YearToGo (@Tokyo2020) July 22, 2019
One of the first promotional videos for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has made its way online to the @Tokyo2020 twitter account, and quite a few Miku fans couldn’t help but notice that there’s a quick half second sound blip of Hatsune Miku singing at 0:10 into the video! Check out the video above and listen for yourself!
What we hear is short audio clip of a song with Miku singing “Tanoshi mo”. And while short, it’s very distinctly Hatsune Miku! This inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics campaign likely stems back to Prime Minister Abe’s desire to include Hatsune Miku as one of Japan’s symbolic pop culture icons to help promote the 2020 Olympics to the world.
Is this all that remains to be seen of Miku’s involvement in the 2020 Olympics? We’ll have to keep watching to find out!