Origin[]
Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid idol who debuted in August 2007. Miku is a singing humanoid synthesizer, who debuted in Yamaha Corporation's VOCALOID2. Her voice sample is by the voice actress, Saki Fujita. Her base languages are Japanese, English, and Chinese, though you can tune her to be able to sing in many other languages. She has appeared in almost every cameo role in a number of recent anime series, as well as quest-starring in some of them like Flower Fairy (also known as Flower Angel), Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion, and the third season of Dropkick on My Devil!.
Furthermore, she got her own game series, co-produced by SEGA and Crypton Future Media, called Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA in 2009. The series went on to have more than 10 games and even its own spin-off series, Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai. She also made an appearance as one of the main Virtual Singers of Project Sekai: Colorful Stage. Miku is sometimes associated with a spring onion (often mistaken for a leek due to the similar appearance). Miku's personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at live virtual concerts onstage as an animated proiection (rear-cast projection on a specially coated glass screen). For a variety of reasons, Miku received unexpected commercial success. Due to Miku's popularity boom, Crypton had the chance to take advantage of early technical support for Miku and several guidebooks and magazine support were released solely focused on her vocals. This type of technical coverage was even possible long after Miku's initial release and methods of adapting her vocals are the most well documented among the VOCALOID2 era vocals. Since the success of her voicebank led to an expansion of marketing possibilities, most of the mass marketing has come after her initial release as a response to her popularity. Even with the addition of other Character Vocals, Miku's name continues to be used as the primary source of marketing for Crypton Future Media. In March 2012, the Nomura Research Institute estimated that the sales of all "Hatsune Miku" brand goods added up into the region of ¥10,000,000,000 since her release in 2007. Miku's name is now the easiest of all VOCALOIDs to market. Also owed to her popularity, many VOCALOID related products such as piano sheet music packs, books, and magazines carry her image on the front cover.
Concept[]
Crypton had the idea to release Miku as "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost.
Appearance[]
Miku is a tall young 16-year-old girl of a slender and lean build, and has large teal eyes with pronounced black eyelashes, along with very long teal twin pigtails that come just short of the floor. Her outfit is a collared grey satin sleeveless shirt with a teal frill, the shirt's sleeves continuing at her forearms with a black cloth material trimmed with teal. She also has a teal colored tie, matching her eyes and hair. Along with that, she also has a short black skirt with a teal part at the bottom all around. Her hair is kept up by two black futuristic ribbon like things made of a special material that floats in place, so they don't have to touch her hair, the inside of the ribbon things being pink.
Personality[]
Hatsune Miku does not have a personality that is considered canon, but this are what the media sometimes portravs her as. Hatsune Miku is usually seen as a carefree and cheerful-hearted girl who is very good at singing. Although, she is heroically popular. She attends a lot of good things with her good friends like KAITO and other heroic Vocaloids, who have been friendly to her.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Vocaloid skills
- Guitars skills
- Dancing and Singing skills
- Karate Hand-to-hand combatant
- Speed
- Genius-Level intelligence
- Strength
- Green Stick
- Growth and Shrinking
- Healing Voice
- International Programming
- Emotional Singing
- Leek Spinning
- Water Resistant
- Highly Durable
Notes[]
- Hatsune Miki is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0). You free to use those licenses that only apply to the original illustrations of the characters. You must put "by Crypton Future Media, INC. 2007 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
Unported License, "Based on a work at Piapro."
- Hatsune Miku's popularity can be attributed to this, with a large amount of her music library created by fans.
See Also[]
- Piapro: For Creators, Pretty Photo
- Vocaloid Wiki
- Wikipedia
- Who is Hatsune Miku?
- Heroes wiki
- Piapro Wiki
- Pratina Nov 9, 2007: KEI Interview (Archived)
- VocaloidOtaku - Our Favorite VOCALOIDS: Interview with KEI (Archive)