【ニコニコ動画】【初音ミク】コンビニＰＶ(Full.ver)【オリジナル曲】 Unfortunately, my seemingly endless job search has prevented this week’s column to be all that productive. My loss is your gain, however, which will be explained after the jump, but until then, enjoy what has to be one of the strangest on-the-job incidents anyone has ever seen.
【ニコニコ動画】【第4回MMD杯本選】Chaining Intention【PV】 The 3D Anime Olympics known as the 4th MMD Cup has now concluded and all the awards have been given out. Over 200 people created over 11 hours of MikuMikuDance footage, which ended up being watch over 4.3 million times. Above is what was deemed best of the best, but I think some
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Winter is birthday season in the Vocaloid world. 2/3 of the current roster (12 of 18) celebrate in December, January, or February, with the most relevant to this week’s column being the birthday of KAITO. The character made whole by Naoto Fuuta’s voice is celebrating his 4th anniversary this week. He’s a real classic, so
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Sorry for the late report; life got in the way. The DirectX9 version of MikuMikuDance is now up to Version 7.0, with major changes coming to the Self-shadow mode. Both the high-end and low-end versions got a new model in the “Rin act2” which is displayed at right in the above picture (using v5.22a). Also
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This week in Cryptically Titled Song Feature Column we celebrate a very popular holiday. No, not that one. I’m talking about Singles Awareness Day. Now, I won’t be participating in this holiday (for the first time since 200…7?) but I know some of you are. Therefore, I waste your time today by highlighting some of
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It’s been 4 weeks since the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking entered its 2010 Season and implemented new changes, namely the MyList Modifer. As you can see, results were mixed. Four out of five like that there was change, but half didn’t like this specific change. Our Vocaloidism number monkeys have now had time to figure out what’s
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As a veteran of anime fandom, conventions are nothing new to me. However, conventions that coincide with important dates are. This year’s Ohayocon fell on Megurine Luka’s birthday, so as a Vocaloidism editor with a camera, I just had to volunteer myself for duty. After the break is Day 1 in pics. Two notes, though.
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【ニコニコ動画】全部ＫＡＩＴＯで奏でるOlympic Fanfare[42人] The Winter Olympics begin this week. Kaito’s ready; are you?
We’re gonna have a good time this week. Well I will, at least, because by the time you read this, I’ll be well-entrenched in Ohio otaku craziness. So in honor of Megurine Luka’s retcon, we’ll look back on her first year of Age 20 by counting down her top hits like you (probably) have never
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…to a convention near you. If there are Vocaloid-related events that we are able to cover*, we’ll be there, hopefully while wearing a sweet hat. With next Saturday being a special day on the calendar, expect “blow out the budget SD card” coverage! *-Ability to cover events is dependent on our ability to pay for
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