Update on Aug 31st 2010: Reservation links from Hobby Search and AmiAmi now up.

Earlier yesterday Mikatan has updated her blog with preview images of the upcoming “Absolute HMO. Edition” Hatsune Miku Nendoroid which will be released by Good Smile Company.

For more preview images and information just continue reading after the break~

This Miku Nendoroid was [...]]]>

Update on Aug 31st 2010: Reservation links from Hobby Search and AmiAmi now up.

Earlier yesterday Mikatan has updated her blog with preview images of the upcoming “Absolute HMO. Edition” Hatsune Miku Nendoroid which will be released by Good Smile Company.

For more preview images and information just continue reading after the break~

This Miku Nendoroid was actually based on the video by HMO (Hatsune Miku Orchestra) below.

This song was originally sung by YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra), and a PV version of the song can be found here.

And onto more images~

There’s also faces for the Kagamine Rin and Len Nendoroid as well. =D

Reservations for this figure will start on August 31st. This blog post will be updated when the reservation links are out. To be priced at 4,000 yen each, Hobby Search and AmiAmi are taking reservations for the figure currently.

Information from Crypton’s Vocaloid2 CV Twitter account has made known of a new Append known as “Moody” for Kagamine Len together with a new Append Sweet demo for Rin as well, which you can listen to both of them below.

Len – Append Moody (Alpha)

Rin – Append Sweet (Alpha)

As these Appends are [...]]]>

Image source: はら

Information from Crypton’s Vocaloid2 CV Twitter account has made known of a new Append known as “Moody” for Kagamine Len together with a new Append Sweet demo for Rin as well, which you can listen to both of them below.

Len – Append Moody (Alpha)

Rin – Append Sweet (Alpha)

As these Appends are still in the experimental stage we can expect more changes and modifications to them in the future. We will be posting more news on this when we can get hold of them. =)

Info source: Vocaloid2 CV Twitter updates here and here

Crypton has recently tweeted from their Vocaloid2 CV account about the test versions of Rin’s Power Append (Beta) and Len’s Soft Append (beta), which you can listen to them below.

Rin’s Power Append (Beta)

Len’s Soft Append (Beta)

Do take note that these Append demos are still in the test stages so we can [...]]]>

Image source: 紅雪

Crypton has recently tweeted from their Vocaloid2 CV account about the test versions of Rin’s Power Append (Beta) and Len’s Soft Append (beta), which you can listen to them below.

Rin’s Power Append (Beta)

Len’s Soft Append (Beta)

Do take note that these Append demos are still in the test stages so we can still expect possible edits and modifications in the future. Also, just like the Kagamines’ voicebanks their Appends will be sold together as one package when it’s released.

Info source: Twitter updates Here and here

Information from Crypton’s Vocaloid2 CV Twitter account has revealed a test version of Rin’s Append Sweet and there’s also more information regarding Len’s Append which was made known recently. More to be revealed after the jump!

First off here’s the sample with Rin’s Append Sweet which goes in the order of Miku (Append [...]]]>

Image source: 紅雪

Information from Crypton’s Vocaloid2 CV Twitter account has revealed a test version of Rin’s Append Sweet and there’s also more information regarding Len’s Append which was made known recently. More to be revealed after the jump!

First off here’s the sample with Rin’s Append Sweet which goes in the order of Miku (Append Sweet) then followed by Rin (Append Sweet). Do take note that the Append is still in its experimental stage so do expect possible updates and changes in the future.

Now onto the news regarding Len’s Append. According to this tweet Crypton has just finished the sound check for the Alpha version of Kagamine Len’s Append and they will be planning to show his Append voice latest by January next year. Recording for Len’s Append will continue tomorrow throughout the week.

That’s about the information we have for now. More to be revealed when the news is made known. =)

Information thanks to Aster for the notification.

Finally we have our first Len song with over two million views on Nico Nico Douga and unsurprisingly it’s Servant of Evil (Or Aku no Meshitsukai), in which this feat was achieved on Aug 16th 2010 @ 12:07 hours Japan Time. Coincidentally this is also the first Len song to reach [...]]]>

Image source: なみもり

Finally we have our first Len song with over two million views on Nico Nico Douga and unsurprisingly it’s Servant of Evil (Or Aku no Meshitsukai), in which this feat was achieved on Aug 16th 2010 @ 12:07 hours Japan Time. Coincidentally this is also the first Len song to reach over one million views back in March 2009. For more information and images just continue reading after the break.

Credits:
Producer, Music, Lyrics, Movie – AkunoP (mothy)

Here’s an description regarding the story of the song itself, just to refresh everyone’s mind on it.

The story of the song is told through the views of the evil princess’s servant, Len, who is actually her twin brother. The evil princess has done many cruel things and is cold by nature, but her brother only sees the nice and innocent side of her, serving her whole-heartedly all the while. Then, while on a trip to another land, Len sees a woman with green colored hair (Hatsune Miku) and falls in love with her instantly. However, the Daughter of Evil, being jealous of what she saw, orders Len to have her killed, in which Len obeys without any hesitation.

Later, the woman’s partner (Kaito) as well as an uprising army (lead by Meiko) attack the castle in which the evil princess is living in wanting to take the evil princess’s life. It was then her servant came up with an idea to save her by exchanging each other’s clothes and trade places instead. As they are identical twins, no one would be able to tell that the “evil princess” is actually a fake. Unsurprisingly, everyone fell for the trick and the servant, disguised as the princess, was sent to the execution table and beheaded, as the princess watches and grieves for her brother. However, Len says that he has no regrets and and was glad to be of service to her princess even till the very end.

With the addition of Servant of Evil this would make it the 16th Vocaloid-related song and overall 81st on the Nico Nico Douga 2 million views video list. And onto some of the images created by Pixiv after the song’s first million views.

Image source: 茶畑

Image source: nagimiso

Image source: ロウ

Image source: たま

Image source: さく

Image source: かる

Congrats on Servant of Evil and hope we can get to see even more Vocaloid songs entering the million views list on Nico then.

Info reference: Hatsune MikuMiku

Well, after Len’s Aku no Meshitsukai (Servant of Evil) which hit one million views on Nico Nico Douga back in March 2009 we finally have another Len song which got the same achievement and it’s none other than OwataP’s “Paradichlorobenzene”, in which the feat was achieved on June 27th, 2010 at 16:14 [...]]]>

Image source: Hekicha

Well, after Len’s Aku no Meshitsukai (Servant of Evil) which hit one million views on Nico Nico Douga back in March 2009 we finally have another Len song which got the same achievement and it’s none other than OwataP’s “Paradichlorobenzene”, in which the feat was achieved on June 27th, 2010 at 16:14 hours Japan Time. For more information and illustrations regarding the song just continue reading after the break~

Producer – OwataP
Lyrics, Compose, Arrange – OwataP
Song Adjustment – Dios/SignalP
Illustration – 縣
PV – Mie no Hito

Uploaded on September 19th 2009, Paradichlorobenzene is actually the third song of the “Benzene” series by OwataP (In the order of Benzene –> Nitrobenzene –> Paradichlorobenzene). The story behind this song is actually open to everyone’s interpretation, as the lyrics tells that there’s no meaning to the song and the word altogether, as shown in the part below.

“Is there any meaning to this song? There’s no meaning to this song. Is there any sin to this song? There’s no sin to this song. Is there any meaning to ＊＊＊＊ (benzene)? There’s no meaning to ＊＊＊＊ (benzene). Is there any sin to ＊＊＊＊ (benzene)? The meaning to this song is… ＊＊＊＊ (benzene).”

OwataP has mentioned on his blog that the lyrics contain hidden messages and meanings in it as there are many clues in the video. One possible interpretation is the song talking about the dark side and the selfishness of man as they become jealous of other people’s works after having their own works insensitively disregarded by others. This in turn makes such people angry as they rage against themselves and others insensitively.

And on towards the illustrations made by different artists on Pixiv regarding this song.

Image source: 咲里キリコ

Image source: 霜

Image source: くつした

Image source: 縣

Image source: 縣

Image source: 縣

Image source: みなせ渚

Image source: ぜろきち

Congrats to Len’s second song on the million views list and hopefully we can get to see more Len songs on the list~ =D

Recently SEGA has updated the Project DIVA website with information on the new Project DIVA DLC Pack for the PSP which will be out on the July 1st 2010 and this time round, the pack will feature well known Rin, Len, and Luka songs in it. For the list of the 18 [...]]]>

Image source: とっつあん

Recently SEGA has updated the Project DIVA website with information on the new Project DIVA DLC Pack for the PSP which will be out on the July 1st 2010 and this time round, the pack will feature well known Rin, Len, and Luka songs in it. For the list of the 18 songs as well as more information in this DLC pack just continue reading after the break~

Firstly, above is the Promotional Video for the DLC pack and the list of songs that will appear in it is as below:

1) RING×RING×RING -　OSTER project
2) Susususu, Suki, Daisuki -　JevanniP/Mr.DDR
3) Mobairi: Sensation (C.A.LLME-EDIT) – sasakure.UK
4) Jikokeno -　Ginsaku
5) Transmit -　Dios/SignalP
6) Renraku Mada? -　LiveP
7) Nayuta no Kanata made -　TsurishiP
8) Bucchigiri ni Shite Ageru -　ika_mo/BucchigiriP
9) Sandscraper -Katakiri Rekka- -　MikusagiP/Migikin
10) RIP=RELEASE -　minato (RyuuseiP)
11) Palette -　yuyoyuppe, meola
12) Wander Last (A.R.MAGE-EDIT) -　sasakure.UK
13) Akahitoha -　WhiteFlame
14) Megurihime Buyoukyoku -　No.D
15) filozofio -　PandolistP
16) Luka Luka ★ Night Fever -　samfree
17) No Logic -　JimmyThumbP
18) Toeto -　ToraborutaP

High polygon model movies will be shown in this pack and a Toeto mini game will also be included. And you can customize your PSP using the original Rin・Len or Megurine Luka custom themes (images below).

Toeto minigame

High polygon movies and original Rin&Len/Luka custom themes

This Project DIVA DLC pack will be out on the PSN (PlayStation Network) Japan on July 1st 2010 at a price of 3,000 yen.

Yeah, we know how late we are in posting this article and we apologize. Earlier this week saw Hatsune Miku’s concert, both as a “thank you” to the Vocaloid community as well as a preview of what’s to come, more specifically in -Project DIVA-. For more pictures and song list, please read on after the [...]]]>

Yeah, we know how late we are in posting this article and we apologize. Earlier this week saw Hatsune Miku’s concert, both as a “thank you” to the Vocaloid community as well as a preview of what’s to come, more specifically in -Project DIVA-. For more pictures and song list, please read on after the break.

You can view a copy of the online streamed-version (with comments before the actual concert begins) here.

And here’s the Concert Songs List, concert images are below the list~

• Hajimete no Oto – Hatsune Miku
• Project DIVA desu. – Hatsune Miku
• World is Mine – Hatsune Miku
• Electric Angel – Hatsune Miku
• Sound – Hatsune Miku
• Koisuru VOC@LOID – Hatsune Miku
• Dear cocoa girls – Hatsune Miku
• StargazeR - Hatsune Miku
• The secret garden – Hatsune Miku
• Miracle Paint (first half) – Hatsune Miku
• Innocence – Hatsune Miku
• Hato – Hatsune Miku
• Beware of Miku Miku Bacteria! – Hatsune Miku
• Popipo – Hatsune Miku
• Sayonara Goodbye – Hatsune Miku
• Miracle Paint (second half) – Hatsune Miku
• Romeo and Cinderella – Hatsune Miku
• Dear – Hatsune Miku
• Teach me! Magical Lyric – DANCEROID
• Luka Luka☆Night Fever – DANCEROID
• Dear cocoa girls – Yui Kaori & Noto Arisa
• Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru – Yui Kaori & Noto Arisa
• Ura-Omote Lovers – Hatsune Miku
• Puzzle – Hatsune Miku
• VOiCE – Hatsune Miku
• 1/6 – Hatsune Miku
• Stardust Utopia – Megurine Luka
• Double Lariat – Megurine Luka
• Just Be Friends – Megurine Luka
• magnet – Miku & Luka
• Alice – Hatsune Miku
• I’m Your Diva – Hatsune Miku
• moon – Hatsune Miku
• Disappearance of Hatsune Miku – Hatsune Miku
• Meltdown – Kagamine Rin
• Kokoro – Kagamine Rin
• Butterfly on the Right Shoulder – Rin & Len
• Promise – Miku & Rin
• from Y to Y – Hatsune Miku
• Saihate – Hatsune Miku
• Strobo Nights – Hatsune Miku
• SPiCa – Hatsune Miku
• Ai Kotoba – Hatsune Miku
• Melt – Hatsune Miku

Note: Songs in italics denotes part of the Konnichiwa (Afternoon) live while the rest are part of the Konbanwa (Evening) live. Thanks to Mi for the notice.

DANCEROID

DANCEROID

Kagamine Rin - Meltdown (Roshin Yuukai)

Rin and Len singing "Migikata no Chou"

Miku and Luka singing "magnet"

Rin and Len - Butterfly on the Right Shoulder (Migikata no Chou)

Miku and Rin - Promise

Also, it’s been revealed during the concert that SEGA will be planning a downloadable expansion for “Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA-” known as “Dreamy Theater” which allows the user to play the game on his or her PS3, graphics wise it’s going to be comparable to Project DIVA Arcade. We will post more information about this when it’s made available.

Info and image source thanks to Dengeki
Additional image sources: Gamespot and Famitsu

For those of you in locations that follow Daylight Savings Time, we set the clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night/Sunday morning.  Since that hour is lost, we need to budget our time accordingly, so some short but sweet songs await you after the break.

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This may be the most obscure picture I've ever used

For those of you in locations that follow Daylight Savings Time, we set the clocks ahead one hour on Saturday night/Sunday morning.  Since that hour is lost, we need to budget our time accordingly, so some short but sweet songs await you after the break.

No set up for these.  Gotta save that time.

And here are your two videos on the Rankings Watch.

Crypton has tweeted from their Vocaloid2 CV account that a test version of “Kagamine Len Soft Append” has been uploaded onto Crypton’s blog. Additionally, Hatsune MikuMiku blog has revealed that a sample of Len’s “Whispering Voice Recording” using Asami Shimoda’s raw voice has also been uploaded. To listen to the voice samples [...]]]>

Image source: のき

Crypton has tweeted from their Vocaloid2 CV account that a test version of “Kagamine Len Soft Append” has been uploaded onto Crypton’s blog. Additionally, Hatsune MikuMiku blog has revealed that a sample of Len’s “Whispering Voice Recording” using Asami Shimoda’s raw voice has also been uploaded. To listen to the voice samples just continue reading after the break~

Here’s the link to Len’s “Whispering Voice Recording” sample. For Len’s soft Append, you can listen to it here. According to Crypton it’s still a work-in-progress so we can expect more changes and modifications to it in the future.

And now that Kagamine Len’s new Append has been announced, maybe it will be Rin’s turn next?