The First Creator's Demo - Hatsune Miku + Google Chorome

9th Mar 2012, at Miku's day, also the last day of Miku no Hi Kansyasai concert (Thanksgiving concert) at Tokyo Dome, the kick start of the new project called "Miku Creator's Project on Google+" was announced on Miku's google+ page as the last gift for this event.

With this second project of google for Miku, the first one is now almost a legendary commercial of google chorome aired during new year's holiday, world viewers can watch all the creating process of Miku's songs and flims. Creators who join this project are called VocaloP (abbreviation of Vocaloid Producer), and they will be showcasing their creating style and actual creating scene directly from the site.

Names of creators are not dropped yet, we only can watch first demo-version on Youtube.

If you can correctly answer the name of the creator of this demo before it'll be revealed on 17th Mar, you can get some kinds of gifts, so you Miku fans must give it a try!!

Other works from this project will be released on Miku's google+ page.

Keep good work Google and VocaloPs!!

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Sudo Genki "World Order" joins Fashion Show in Seibu, Tokyo

source: SOGO and SEIBU

Ikebukuro Seibu will hold a fashion show featuring handsome clothing shop staffs working there on 1st Mar. The performance unit "World Order" headed by former professional MMA fithter Sudo Genki will offer an opening act of this event. After the performance, they will join the judge of the fashion content, also a part of the event, along with audience to select the winner.

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let's support this awesome group!

WORLD ORDER(CD+DVD) (Amazon)

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Hatsune Miku Google Chrome Theme "Tell Your World" Full Version finally released!!

Hatsune Miku made my heart by this song...

I have something to deliver you....(Kimi ni todoketaimonoga....)

A full length Music Video of The famous tune from Google Chrome commercial, which has on aired nationwide in Japan, has finally, finally been released just one day before the release of Livetune's new album "Tell Your World EP".

This video is a collaborative work of several top creators. See the colorful tone, sharp move, dreamy effect, we can't expect more from this video. The good news is the first limited edition of "Tell Your World EP" is packed with DVD of music videos in the album.

Began from the New Year Holiday's Google Commercial to NHK's special program to various TV programs, Miku suddenly starts growing beyond the small online world of Youtube and Otaku community to mainstream. Maybe or most probably we can see her the Japanese version of Grammy award at this year end?? But before that, what about London Olympic??? YAY.
(source: Natalie)

Tracklist

1.	[CD] Tell Your World	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
2.	[CD] Far Away	[Disc 1] FAR AWAY
3.	[CD] Star Story	[Disc 1] STAR STORY
4.	[CD] Half Step	[Disc 1] HALF STEP
5.	[CD] Fly Out	[Disc 1] FLY OUT
6.	[CD] ジュビリー	[Disc 1] JUBILEE
7.	[CD] Tell Your World (Panda BoY Remix)	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
8.	[CD] Tell Your World (open the scenery rmx by fu_mou)	[Disc 1] TELL YOUR WORLD
9.	[DVD] Tell Your World -Music Clip-	[Disc 2] TELL YOUR WORLD
10.	[DVD] Tell Your World -Trailer movie-	[Disc 2] TELL YOUR WORLD

Slideshow - click to start

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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.

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