This past Saturday, NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN ran a twenty minute English segment on Hatsune Miku as part of their Japanese Pop Culture Magazine series of programs. This program, like others, are broadcast over the airwaves, and they are relayed by stations outside of Japan as well. Furthermore, recent broadcasts can also be streamed from
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At Nico Nico Chokaigi 2012‘s “VOCALOID NEWS” event, representatives of i-style Project announced the name メルリ(merli) as the winner of the naming contest for Aoki Lapis’s elder sister. They will be auditioning for someone to voice the new sound bank soon. YAMAHA also promoted its VOCALOID3 music contest and revealed that the mystery VOCALOID3 sound
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Sorry for being really late this week… PSO2 Beta got the better of me and caused me to almost forget about this D: but here is this weeks ranking!
A new entry on the SEGA Miku blog has revealed that BluRays of the two concerts will be available starting on August 29, 2012. A BluRay for either concert comes in at 6300 JPY (tax included) whereas a DVD would be 5250 JPY (tax included). A 4-CD set of the concert music will also be
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CreCrew, run by SBSArtech, is hosting a design contest for SeeU goods. You must use either SeeU’s logo, her original design, her SD character, and CreCrew’s mascot which will should all be available in SeeU’s official website shortly. The original image can be seen below along with the rules and the logo, original design, SD
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Seven Stone Studio announced a few days ago on its website that its third animation project will be titled “VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT” and posted a teaser design as well where Luo Tianyi is singing vocals and the other characters are playing backing instrumentals. A promotional video is expected to air on May 15 at Shanghai’s
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SEGA has now announced the release date and pricing for the PlayStation Vita version of their upcoming game in the Project DIVA series, NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA. The game will be available on August 30, 2012 at a price point of 7329 JPY (tax included) for the PlayStation Vita Card version and 6600 JPY
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At its professional event for promoting Windows 8, Microsoft screened an opening video produced by MASATAKA and ELECTROCUTICA (Treow) called “Through the Window”. The video, which ran during Windows Developer Days‘ second day keynote session (“A new ecosystem for the smart devices era, created using Windows 8 and the cloud”), features “8” and the character
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Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
VOCALOID3 voice banks IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES-, Aoki Lapis and Yuzuki Yukari are now eligible for the VOCALOID3 Release Commemoration Contest. Users of Aoki Lapis will be eligible for a chance to win the i-style Project prize, which is an Aoki Lapis silver ring and Cubase. Furthermore, a few more prizes have been added
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