This term was created in s after Japan went through high-growth period resulting in most people having spare money to spend on their hobbies. Majority of the household became nuclear families; dad worked overtime every day and came home after everyone went to bed, mom stayed home and took care of children, children studied to pass entrance exams to high schools and universities.
Houses and buildings covered the city landscape and there were not many place for kids to play outside. I think that led to some boys turning into Otaku. Hatsune Miku fans are the same types of people. Some of them might not have good social skills or they are afraid of real relationships. But they have creativity and they found a way to express it through Hatsune Miku. Your email address will not be published.
Please input characters displayed above. Of course Miku has a publicist — seven years after her release, she is now a full-fledged global phenomenon. She has launched the careers of now-popular artists who got their start writing songs for her like the Japanese alt-rock band Supercell and the electro-pop act livetune.
Technology that projects her 3-D image onto a screen has allowed Miku to perform live around the world and even star in an all-Vocaloid opera, for which her outfit was designed by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.
And now — a little over a year since the English version of Miku software was released — a growing number of Americans know her too. At least half of the crowd is sporting some kind of Miku swag a group of teens wear matching T-shirts of four Vocaloid characters crossing Abbey Road, purchased at Hot Topic , and about a third are in cosplay gear.
Big questions. Does a cyborg Justin Bieber offer a safer return on investment than the actual Justin Bieber? Cincinnati, turns out. They drove here just for the show. It will be a few seconds before the irony sinks in. Far more revolutionary is the fact that all her music — including the songs performed in concert — is written by fans, some of whom cannot read music and never felt empowered to write a song before Miku came along.
And fans retain the copyright on any songs they write, so in some rare cases they can make money off viral hits. I just got done with a summer session in Japan a few days ago. In one of my classes a guy gave a presentation on Hatsune Miku and showed a few videos of her hologram concerts. I had heard she was popular, but I thought it was an isolated group of diehard fans.
So when I saw people from around the world completely losing their shit for a hologram of an anime girl it felt like I was having an existential crisis. I don't understand why she's so popular. I've tried to listening to her music and it sounds like exactly what it is, a computer trying to sing on key and almost succeeding. Hell, the faster songs sound like Siri having a seizure. It's also weird to me when I compare it to the American music scene, where there is a growing hatred for any music that's deemed corporate or overly electronic.
People love to hate T-Pain and Skrillex because they are perceived to use technology as a crux to make up for a lack of musical talent. They also lash out at any music that exists solely as a means of making money and betrays the ideals of a musician producing music for the sake of art or their own love for the medium. Miku represents the most corporatized musician possible as she's literally a mascot.
It's also impossible for their to be any kind of musical authorship behind her music since she doesn't exist. I'm not criticizing the fandom behind Miku, I just really don't understand it. There are many people who are put off by Miku's voice, simply because they personally aren't attracted to her voice type. On top of this high pitched voices like hers can even physically hurt people's ears not because they think she sounds that awful but because the ringing in their ears can cause headaches, i'm no professional on such conditions but there's a fair bunch of people here who can tell you it happens to them.
Naturally then they can find a design unappealing because it incorporates many common anime design tropes Despite how original you think her design is she was designed with having anime elements in mind. Of course they can ignore the design since it's "the voice that matters" but no matter how you look at it the character is part of the product so you can't just detatch the character from the voice just like that.
And what's wrong with hating Miku? Now people can't dislike a vocaloid? Do we have to like every single goddamn singing robot ever released? Look, the reason why I don't like her or rather, it's more accurate to say that I strongly dislike her fans is very simple: Some years ago it was the 10th aniversary of Meiko, and then Kaito.
If it's not for Meiko and Kaito, there wouldn't had been any Miku or any CV series in the first place. Let's not get started on the ridiculous amount of updates and voicebanks Miku is constantly getting, when it took literally years for crypton to release a simple update for KaiMei who were trapped inside the archaic vocaloid1 interface.
Oh and lets not get started on Luka's append wait hell. God that sure was terrible, it was supposed to came out for vocaloid2 and in the end it ultimately was released for vocaloid4. They kept postposing her forever because there was always some Miku update going on that was obviously more important than Luka, and when they actually finally released her append it was a huge disappointment to many Luka fans they had years and years waiting for her, a botched job they called it.
And CV04, the poor nameless stillborn that existed since around who's never going to see light that's almost for sure, at least at this rate. But I don't want to talk now about the decadence of crypton as a vocaloid company but on all the paraphernallia they set up for Miku's goddamn 10th birthday. Now it's over, and it looks like they are starting to remember that the Kagamine's birthday its going to be in 2 months as well!
I think they are releasing two albums and thank you they didn't forget. I think, every single vocaloid fan I know from my social circle wouldn't even be into vocaloid by now if it wasn't by some Kagamine song. There is also this Hachi new song he made for said Miku's birthday, sand planet where there is criticism of the decadence of vocaloid welp rather miku's from the pov of Miku stans fandom.
Henny, this has been going on since at least. I remember a ridiculous number of Japanese producers leaving the fandom after that year many of my favorites but no one cared because they weren't huge miku producers, gasp some of them even mained other voicebanks, can you believe it! Now that an outstanding Miku producer says it it must be true, though.
Miku fans are too loud, are noisy, are annoying, are overdramatic, and are often the reason why many people ended up leaving the vocaloid fanbase and of its decadence on the first place. There, I said it. When someone says that they like Miku over any other vocaloid out of all other vocaloids tends to be because they don't care enough about the fandom to get in deeper and find other songs and other voices. This is not only people's fault obviously.
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