Racing Miku Itasha!
Miku Itasha? That’s pretty normal right now… But a race-car Miku Itasha? Now THAT’s amazing! How did it come to this? Well, thanks to dtshyk, here’s the translated dialog…
Chief: “Does anyone have a novel idea for the team concept?”
Manager Kiyo-san: “How about ‘Itasha’?”
Chief: “Adopted!”
Jun-san: “Which character should we choose?”
Kiyo-san: “The licence handling will be troublesome if we choose ‘Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuutsu’ or ‘Lucky Star’ or ‘THE iDOLM@STER'”.
Ue-san: “Why not Hatsune Miku!”
Kiyo-san: “Good idea! We can celebrate her birthday by GT racing!
And so, the Miku Itasha was made and they’re really going to race on it at Suzuka Circuit this weekend. And today, they already practiced with it. Want to see the video? Click on the Nico Nico Douga video above! Read more for some more information and nice pictures!
Here’re the full detail of the event:
「2008 AUTOBACS SUPER GT 6th Game, 37th International Pokka 1000km 」
- Circuit： Suzuka Circuit (Suzuka, Mie Prefecture)
- Race Type: International Racing（5.807 km）
- Practice： 2008年8月22日(金)
- Qualifying： 2008年8月23日(土)
- Race： 2008年8月24日(日)
- A…are they printing a huge Miku Nendoroid? ;_;
- Uwaa~ Σヾ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ
- Nice logo by PIAPRO! Everyone seems to be excited about this event!
- It’s a BMW Z4 M Coupe Motorsport Version! with Miku drawn on top of it >w<
- And here’s the final product! Σ(・ω・ノ)ノ
- And seen from the side… It’s even better! >=3
- Congratulations to everyone involved in making this car! >=D
- Don’t forget the 初音ミクみく sticker~ xD
- More stickers! Eh? GOOD SMILE RACING? xD
- And there’s the final product… with a Miku nendoroid! >w<
Oh wait, there are MORE pictures of them!
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And here’s a nice big picture if you want to make a wallpaper with it or something…
- Nice Wallpaper! >=3
So there you go… Miku’s racing on the GT! I’ll post the details of the match later on… Thanks for reading!
Sources:
STGT痛車チーム広報課 ☆初音ミク×BMW☆
ASCII.jp
フィギュアメーカー・グッドスマイルカンパニー勤務 ミカタンブログ
dtshyk
Japan never fails to impress me xD They look like they’re having a lot of fun! All the staffs must love that car very much xDD It will be more amusing if the driver is listening to Miku’s song (Miku2 ni Shiteageru?) while driving xD
Yeah, it’s awesome xD
LOL, I don’t think so but it’d be so amusing if the driver is driving while listening to a Miku song xD
if they win the GT, it’d be a perfect birthday present for Miku =3
Mirror the training video to YouTube in English Title and you’ll have subscribers.
You can also put the Japanese title in the description of the video.
That’s EXACTLY what I did ^w^
Although I put it in Japanese… changed to English now, thanks for the recommendation! =D
For anyone interested, here’s the YouTube link:
And here’s my new YouTube channel, which would mirror Nico Nico Douga videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kevinayP
Note that http://www.youtube.com/user/kevinay is NOT me, it’s someone else. =3
I’ll make a blog post about the new features of this site soon =)