Having been present at Anime Expo since 2009, Mirai no Neiro – The Sound of the Future is a series of panels organized by Masa, who makes it from Japan to Anime Expo each year to introduce the audience to VOCALOID through presentations, music videos and messages from producers. This year, Mirai no Neiro brought
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According to a new post on the Project DIVA blog, SEGA is looking for fans to participate in the filming of a television commercial for their upcoming rhythm game, Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA- f. More specifically, on July 24, they want to film a huge crowd all doing the same dance moves to the song
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Hideki Kenmochi, one of the developers at YAMAHA behind the VOCALOID sound synthesis engine, flew to Los Angeles to give an overview and short tutorial of VOCALOID software at Anime Expo 2012. In his presentation, Mr. Kenmochi gave an overview of VOCALOID and described at a high level how the VOCALOID synthesis engine actually worked
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As was announced on the Hatsune Miku Facebook page, Kinokuniya at this year’s Anime Expo had a limited set of CDs from music label KarenT available for $25 each. The 11-track CD featured well-known artists such as mothy, Dios and minato. Over half of the 250 copies were sold on the first day. By the
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At their Anime Expo panel, Aniplex USA showed a trailer of footage from Mikunopolis, indicating their intention to release the product stateside. Previously, it was only available as an import with BD, DVD and CD versions, making it difficult to acquire for fans outside Japan. The official website will eventually contain information for the upcoming
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A demo song for galaco’s beta voice bank has now been added to Nico Nico Douga and YouTube. The short video features an animation of galaco with a megaphone along with a short clip of her singing a cover of Kou Shibasaki’s latest single, ANOTHER:WORLD. INTERNET’s Noboru Murakami did the tuning for this song. The
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The official Mikupa Twitter account revealed that there will be Mikupa concerts held in both Hong Kong and Taiwan in October of this year. The two (day and night) Hong Kong concerts will take place on October 2 in KITEC Star Hall, and tickets are available through HKTICKETING in three tiers: A tier for 680
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NAMCO Bandai has now officially announced through the Taiko no Tatsujin developer blog that GUMI songs will be featured in the arcade version of the game. The three songs slated for the drumming rhythm game are Hachi’s Matryoshka, YM’s Juumensou colorful ver. and DECO*27’s Mozaik Role. Furthermore, GUMI as well as the other INTERNET VOCALOID
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In time for GUMI’s birthday, head of INTERNET Co., Ltd. Noboru Murakami made some tweets referring to a project to bring out an English version of Megpoid. The first tweet thanked everyone for the birthday wishes and mentioned all the support she had received in the form of songs, illustrations, videos and cosplay outfits. It
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According to the official 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity website, the Hatsune Miku-Google Chrome ad campaign received one of the 44 Bronze Lion awards in the Direct Lions category. The festival, not to be confused with the Cannes International Films Festival which inspired it, celebrates creativity in advertising. The campaign was submitted by
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