(via PiaPro) Miku chan got her Negi and Rin has already found her new toy! Seems that a brand new NicoNico meme has just started to spread in the Japanese underground...

Update:  Akiba blog has spotted the first Rin shop displys in Akiba featuring her new "toy".

Crypton has finally revealed the official Vocaloid 2 new package and... I've been really surprised to discover that Rin got a brother called Ren!!! Actually they seems twins (as they got the same look and age). There will be two data sets of voices Rin/Len (at the same price of the original Miku box).
The game, ops, the application will be released on 24 December!


Rin: 14 years old -  152cm tall and 43kg.   Len: 14 years old, 156cm tall and 47kg

(via Gilcrows) Today Mikku Man X, a platform doujin mashup of Rockman and Miku chan, has been released.  This doujin game is pretty fun (among the enemies there is even Morrigan!) with a solid gamplay and great soundtrack (no Vocaloid 2 songs but a great arrangement of the original Rockman theme).
You can download the file here (but be patient since the server is overloaded with requests and it's not easy to download the zip).

Updated: I just found the file mirrored here (the link appears as an on-screen comment at 7:08 in the NicoNico video) .

I know, I should post aboutmy visit to  the Tokyo Games Show, but you will get everything from the videogame mega blogs and actually I'm more inolved in junk diving in Akiba than shopping for the latset videogames... Anyway, while Ievan Polka, singed by Atsune Miku, is going to be the next Crazy Frog (almost for the Nico Nico community), other Vocaloid 2 videos are getting on...

An artist drawing Miku on his PC (background music is a meadly of Miku videos like this)...

Moe parody of Japanese JR station announces.

                 (more on Akiba Blog)
Few weeks ago, after I found it on sale in Akiba's Laox MusicVox shop, I posted about Vocaloid 2 on my mixi blog.  According to Akiba blog and several other sources seems that this music software has been really succesfull (it's on top spot of Amazon Japan sales ranking) and the first printing is already sold out. Vocaloid is a technology and application software developed by Yamaha that enables users to synthesize authentic-sounding singing by just typing in the melody and the lyrics of a song. Yamaha announced its development in 2003, and in 2004 the first application software product was launched. It was not released as a Yamaha product, but a software package of Vocaloid Singer Libraries developed by third party licensees (Zero-G and Crypton) which included Yamaha's Vocaloid software. Vocaloid 2 singer, just released by Crypton, features the voice of Atsune Miku: a 16 years old virtual Singer (according to her official bio she is 158 cm tall, weights 42 Kg  and loves pop and dance music).
These are official MP3 demo songs: Song 1,  Song 2 and Song 3 or YouTube medley.

In the last two weeks Atsune Miku stormed the japanese otaku and video gamers undeground and many users poster their own music created with Vocaloid 2 on Nico Nico (japanese equivalent of You Tube). It's really impressive how powerfull can be a 100$ software!  Finally anime and videogame fans can have their personal seiyu in their room!
These are some some Nico Nico video reposted on gaijin friendly You Tube:

True my heart: a pure bishoujo song!


Another otaku classic vocaloid mashup!