By LB Bryant 1 year, 5 months ago
I’ll admit that I’ve never really been into the whole Vocaloid trend. It’s an interesting concept that has produced some cool music (Japanese band Supercell got its start using vocaloid technology on NicoNicoDouga), but Miku Hatsune isn’t exactly my dream idol. Just because I’m not sitting at my laptop creating music with computer generated female vocals doesn’t mean that I’m not intrigued by the scope of this trend though. While she wasn’t the first, Miku Hatsune has still become arguably the most visible and popular vocaloid since her debut in 2007. She even played to a sold out arena of fans at her concert last year, proving that you don’t even have to be real to become successful in Japan.
So call me just a little curious now that the New People Center in San Francisco has announced that they will be showing Miku Hatsune’s US debut concert during their J-Pop Summit Festival. The digital film concert will take place on September 18th as part of the all day fest. Other bands set to perform alongside the virtual idol include Jinny Oops!, Hopie Spitshard, DJ Amaya and Excuses for Skipping. More information can be obtained by visiting the official J-Pop Summit website.
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So is anyone in the bay area thinking of checking out the show? With the software available in both Japanese and English I’m curious to know if they’ll make her speak English during the show (gods I hope not) at the very least. I’d like to fly down to SF for this show but somehow I don’t see it happening. Major brownie points to anyone who can get me a Miku Hatsune autograph though!
Sources: ANN, Image via gsc-mikatan
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To know L.B. Bryant is to know that he’s a tired little anime geek living on the Oregon Coast. Fueled by an almost obsessive love of anime and coffee, his writing takes him across the internet but his home is reviewing anime DVDs and reporting on the interesting news that crosses his path on OtakuReview.net. When not posting there or running around anime conventions in the Pacific Northwest, you can also find his other coffee fueled, sleep deprived ramblings on Twitter.
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I am rather tempted to go but is it just a film or her concert or is it like the original concert where is had a 3d image. Of her singing and dancing on stage?
hope its 3D
awesome!
Gaudy6523
1 year, 4 months agoHey now, don't dis Miku's English, with some work she speaks better than the average Japanese! As the resident Vocaloid supporter, I cry knowing that us East Coasters will never see this concert live... That being said, anyone want to provide the shaky-cam version of it for me?