Cantarella: The Musical!

【ニコニコ動画】『KAITO・ミク』カンタレラ(第二版)『オリジナル』 If you’re planning to visit Shibuya in August, you might want to get your theater on.  A stage production of the Kaito+Miku song “Cantarella” (seen above) will be playing at Space Zero from August 3 to 7.  There is some pedigree behind this, though.  Both show director Yukio Ueshima and leads Kentarō Kanesaki and
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A Very VOCALO.ID Interview

We normally don’t talk about the Indonesian Vocaloid scene around here (which is actually sort of odd) but that may all change quite soon.  Some of the country’s most fertile music minds have come together to produce VOCALO.ID, a collaboration album set to greet the world on June 1. I was able to sit down
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Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #190 – At Fanime

Vocaloid NND Weekly Ranking Weekly Vocaloid Ranking “Unselected” Ohai there. kurisuto here filling in for Pengy, who’s currently getting his anime dose at the Fanime. Since sippotan is back with the SP6, that may be the last VocaRan substitute done by iori… we’ll see!

MikuMikuDance v7.39 is the final release.

After approximately 3 years of advancements and upgrades, Yu Higuchi has announced that the latest version of MikuMikuDance will be the last version.  Earlier this May, Higuchi updated the free 3D animation program to include support for .pmx models, which have greater functionality and customization than traditional .pmd models.  It is partly because of the
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Kaito Append and English Miku Samples Revealed!

The creator of Miku, Crypton Future Media’s Wataru Sasaki, is participating in the “Vocaloid and the music software industry” lecture held at the University of Tokyo on May 28 and 29, as part of the “Gogatsu-sai” (May Festival, or MayFes for short). Samples of two different Kaito append voices – Power and Whisper (tentative) –
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