Da Best Of Hatsune Miku

These days, most of Japanese startups are aiming at overseas market as the domestic market has never seemed to stop shrinking. 'Go Overseas or Die' is kind of a stale phrase in Japan. This tendency is seen particularly in web developing businesses (since there's no physical distance in the internet) that their products are solely provided in English.

Hatsune Miku on Metro (British paper)

Hatsune Miku is not exactly the same, but she is clearly one of Japan's marketing hope, so, you can see these CD's lyric are all written in English... nope almost everything is written only in Japanese :P Yet, the world loves her.

Hatsune Miku is pops biggest draw as japanese 3d cartoon stagesensation

left: Hatsune Miku Best ~memories~     right: Hatsune Miku ~impacts~

I'm not sure we can get these physical CD's produced by Dwango Entertainment co. and distributed by Sony Music Direct at our local stores in US. Anyway these "Hatsune Miku Best ~memories~" and "Hatsune Miku ~impacts~" are released in Feb 2009 celebrating 2 year anniversary of Hatsune Miku (technically it's an anniversary of Software not herself since she is forever 16 years old). And I wanna introduce some of my favorite from these albums really quick. 

*Plz press  to see videolists.

Personally I like Impacts version better, as it's title suggests, it's a compilation of songs which has strong subliminal impacts on listner's mind and pretty addictive. Speaking of addictive songs, you can never miss this song.



This mysterious song is never be used in concerts nor CDs but it's a song that used in Google Chrome's TV commercials in Japan!!! (which was heavily aired during New Year holidays 2012, Awesome country huh??) Here is the commercial!!


Some people insist Miku is virtual (Yes she is) and some say even she is fake.. But at 0:45 of this video you see what Miku is made of... what you discover is people and how so many people create Miku together.
At the beginning Miku was merely a digital instrument which has been given a Anime style body because of the difficulty of marketing. But those people, I should say Otaku, put tremendous energy and created high quality music animation which even the company who produced Miku never expected to happen. Without these Otaku, who moved their hands and made things happen (for the clarification, the term Otaku is not limited to Anime or Manga fans, it's more like an enthusiast, at least in Japanese), Miku would never be such a big movement.
Finally something you should keep in mind is, you can be a part of this movement, I can be a part of this movement, everyone can be a part of this movement!

Update: the full version of music video of "Tell Your World" has released on Youtube on Mar 14 2012.