Ai Flower hasd just posted a couple of nice Miku kigurumi photos! Now things are getting weird: a virtual idol cosplayed by a male cosplayer who would like to be an anime girl...

During Robone contests in Japan I saw many robot wearing anime character costumes, but this one spotted by Robot Watch is on a different level and I think is the first example of true robot cosplay (or maybe I'm just too much in love with Hatsune Miku...) 

I just found this Hatsune Miku costume on Ebay. The quality is not great but it's preatty cheap (it's just  $45.99) so I think I'm gonna buy a special present to my girlfriend for St. Valentine!

I found this image on netamichelin so I don't know who really made this  really cool Intel Inside parody! I'm going to print the Miku (Vocaloid 2) sticker and put it on my PC!

I just found this Vocaloid 2 Miku custom version of the Sony Rolly SEP-10BT (the rolling robot that dances while playing MP3, ATRAC or AAC files). I think Rolly can't get any better!!

(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".

Today in March Rabbit  (Akiba) I bought Vocaloid cv 01 Hatsune Miku Book from DTM Magazine.
The book (but actually I should call it  a mook since it's an hybrid between a magazine and a book) is a 98 pages of "how tos" comes with a poster, mouse pad and a DVD (with both video and rom tracks).

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

From: Blueberry Ciders Circle
OK, the character in this illustration is not Miku nor Rin, but she is super moe and you can find several great illustrations (like this one) on Blueberry Ciders  website.
Yesterday we have been posted/linked by our loved Vocaloid Hatsune Miku Miku blog (actually we informed them about Miku Rasher Doujin game)!

なんか、イタリアのブログサイトから（ローマ字の）メールがあって、「ミク☆ラッシャーという同人ゲームが出てるよ」と教えてくれた。ミク☆ラッシャーの存在はどこかで見て知ってたけど、海外の人に教えてもらう、この状況がすごすぎる。

＞HOBBY BLOG　←そのサイト（thx Francesco :-D）

On this site there is a really NSFW miku and her negi illustration (settei here)!

From:  toinana.blog.shinobi.jp


 

The doujin circle Yoshiba Works ( from Miku Blaster fame) has just released a new game dedicated to Vocaloid 2 Miku chan. It runs on PC but got a 100% retro famicom style. Even the sountrack sounds pure 8 bit and I'm sure the (retro)game music fans will like it. I love the package designe parody of the original Vocaloid 2 box.
You can download the game here, here or on these mirros: Mirror 1,  Mirror ２, Mirror 3.





MIKU RASHER ( ミク☆ラッシャー) Credits:

Sound track: SAT
Grahic design: Nochi
Programmer: Ayacy
Package design: Noeru

Today on mixi (Vocaloid 2.02 Rin community) I found Kinako Mochiko: a beautifull cosplayer dressend like our Rin chan! Nose bleed mode ON!!

After admiring this cosplay beauty yo uare ready for some Vocaloid doujin artworks...

via monoganac2.sakura.ne.jp

If you are looking for an exclusive Christmas present for your girlfriend why don't bid on this japanese auction? There are a couple of days left and the price (36,000 yen) is not bad for a complete Miku costume. It's possibile to choose between three size:
Small (B〜84.　W.〜65　H〜92), Medium (B〜87.　W.〜67　H〜95) and Large (B〜90.　W.〜70　H〜99).

(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) .

Few days ago we posted a Miku (Vocaloid 2) mugen video. And finally the Miku character data for Mugen has been released!! (Wiki) Mugen is a freeware 2D PC fighting game engine designed by Elecbyte, written in C with the Allegro library. The engine was originally released in July 17 1999 and allows anyone to create characters, background stages and other game objects through interpreted text files, graphics, and sound compilations. It supports various types of audio formats and allows for most of the same type of functionality found in most any commercial 2D fighting games, up to and including close recreation of those games' characters and gameplay.

You can download Miku chan data here (created by "ゆ〜とはる").

There is also a custom Mugen stage called MikkuMiku. Download here (created by "Ju").

Insted if you are more into Lucky Star you can download a full character set here  (via ForosDz).


This is the Nendoroid figure version as seen on Amazon Japan.

This is the first Nendoroid (from GoodSmile company) dedicated to out beloved Miku chan! (from Hobby Japan January 2008  issue)

(Update 25/11) Akibablog got a great post about Miku Nendoroid.

Maybe we should change the blog name to Miku hobby blog, but being a techno otaku I love  Vocaloid 2 virtual idols and I just ordered our 1/1 Negi "figure" (480mm×50mm×20mm) on sale on the japanese online otaku shop Tanomi.com  The creator of this plastic negi has even made a (doujin style) web page parody of the original Vocaloid 2 website.
If you prefer more "traditional" figures you can bid on this garage kit we spotted on Yahoo Auctions.

I love these Bikkuriman parody stickers ispired by our Miku chan! Today the japanese doujin illustrator Morihama has added the new Vocaloid 2 Virtual Idol Kagamine Rin sticker too... seems that this year I got to plan Comiket Guide well ahead to be able to collect all these Miku/Vocaloid 2 goods!

From MikuMiku.info - Original NicoNico video here.

There are already two doujin soft for Nintendo DS dedicated to (Vocaloid 2) Natsune Miku. These DS homebrews has been released during Vocaloid M@ster event held last saturday in Tokyo. One is Mikutsun Vol.1 and one is DS Miku. 
This is a preview video shooted a month ago when Miku Stun has been spotted in Akibao (a famous underground shop in Akihabara).  To run these homebrews on your DS you need R4 or our supoer favourite NeoFlash MK5. 

  This is the video of the week: Hatsune Miku cosplay and anime song cover of LUM chan!!
These Miku videos ranked 2nd and 3rd in my personal Weekly Miku chart! I'm pretty sure that this winter negi will be the bestselling vegetable in Akiba!! As reported by Zepy (via Moonphase)  Hatsune Miku manga called Hatsune Mix! will start serialization in Comic RUSH starting from the 2008 January issue. The author is going to be none other than KEI, the artist who did the original character design for Hatsune Miku.


Akibablog spotted several ero doujin mangas dedicated to Miku chan!

NicoNico video mashup dedicated to Tiny Xevious (for the japanese retro computer PC-6601) created trought Vocaloid 2 (featuring the virtual idol Hatsune Miku). Great techno pop for all retrogamers and synth freanks!

Hatsune Miku mania seems getting bigger and bigger and we finally got the Miku robot dancing on Vocaloid 2 tunes...  to celebrate Miku chan we added a new widget (on the right column of this page) with a selection of the best songs produced by japanese otakus and posted on Nico Nico!

Original NicoNico video is here.

On november 3rd there will be a Vocaloid 2 "Hatsune Miku" only doujin event held in Tokyo so the Vocaloid 2 mania seems spreading out from the Nico Nico users.


Vocaloid version of Idolm@ster Go My Way song.

Ievan Polka,

                 (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!

This doujin masterpiece has been created with Vocaloid 2 and went straight on top of my ipod playlist! I hope Konami will change its mind on doujin culture and produce an official CD of this arrangement!