Miku Hatsune

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Hoshi no Kakera
	Re: package (livetune feat.)
	Miku no Kanzume (OSTER project feat.)
	supercell (supercell feat.)
	Exit Tunes presents Vocarhythm (feat./Omnibus)
	Re: MIKUS (livetune feat.)
	unformed (doriko feat.)
	Exit Tunes presentes The Very Best Of (Deadball P loves Hatsune Miku)
	Exit Tunes presents Vocalostar (feat./Omnibus)
	Hatsune Miku - Project DIVA (Project DIVA feat.)
	Toy Box (OneRoom feat.)
	8 bit darling project; Deluxe (Sweet Vacation meets)
	Hatsune Miku Best - impacts (Omnibus)
	Hatsune Miku Best - memories (Omnibus)
	Heartsnative (MOSAIC.WAV × Tsuruta Kamo feat.)
	Exit Tunes presents The Complete Best of (Deadball P feat.)
	Exit Tunes presents The Complete Best Of (azuma feat.)
	Rainbox Snow - Aurora ni Egaita Love Letter (Ōzoku Band feat.)
	Exit Tunes presents The Complete Best Of (164 from 203soundworks feat.)
	Miku-Ro Adventure! (Aprils feat.)
	magnet - favorites plus (minato (Ryūsei P) feat.Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka)
	Exit Tunes presents Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku (omnibus)
	Cinderella Summer feat. Hatsune Miku (Shōta & Chūwa feat.)
	Hatsune Miku no Shōshitsu (cosMo @ Bōsō P feat.)
	Miku no Hi Kanshasai 39's Giving Day Project DIVA presents Hatsune Miku Concert - Komban wa, Hatsune Miku desu.
	Shikisai no Hoshi (Yūyu feat.Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin / Len)
	Singles
	Sakura no Ame (absorb feat.)
	Shibuya (BECCA feat.)
	Kocchi Muite Baby (ryo (supercell) / kz (livetune) feat.)

Miku Hatsune ( Japanese 初音ミク , Hatsune Miku ) is a virtual character designed by the Japanese mangaka and illustrator Kei Garō for Crypton Future Media . It was presented to the public for the first time in 2007 as the mascot of the software Hatsune Miku , an artificial singing voice developed by Crypton that is based on the software synthesizer Vocaloid2 , and subsequently achieved widespread fame. She first appeared in fan-made music videos on Nico Nico Douga and became increasingly popular through various adaptations. Finally, Miku Hatsune was marketed as an “independent product” and adapted through numerous media. In 2008, Miku Hatsune became the first synthetic pop icon and received the Seiun Prize in the free category .

According to Crypton, over 100,000 pieces with the voice of Miku Hatsune had been published by 2013, 170,000 videos were uploaded to Youtube with her and around 1,000,000 illustrations were created with her.

Relationship to the Vocaloid series

“Freely Tomorrow” - Mitchie M ^{? / i}
Example of a song
created with Vocaloid software
with vocals by Hatsune Miku.

A manga- style character, Miku Hatsune adorned the packaging of the voice known as Hatsune Miku and was part of the first product in a series of voices produced by Crypton for Vocaloid 2 on August 31, 2007 . Her name was also an allusion to the first publication and is made up of the components Hatsu ( 初 , German “first”), Ne ( 音 , German “sound”) and Miku ( 未来 , German “future”), so "first sound from the future". Your first name is often associated with the number 39 , as mi also means “3” and ku also means “9”.

In contrast to the usual anime characters, Miku also had her own voice, which is synthesized by Vocaloid. The data for describing the underlying language model for the software come from the Japanese Seiyū Saki Fujita . However, her voice was not adapted to the general colloquial language as usual , but specially designed for the creation of J-Pop titles, as they are common in animes , especially for a tempo of 70 to 150 bpm and an optimal vocal range of A3 to E5.

On April 30, 2010 the extension Miku Append was released , which added six new vocal variations:

Surname	Description of the voice	Tempo [bpm]	optimal vocal range
Sweet	"Contains many sighs, sweetly whispering"	55-155	F3-D5
Dark	"Balanced, slightly melancholic"	60-145	D3-B4
Soft	"Gentle and graceful"	70-150	A3-E5
Light	"Lively, strong and bright"	85-175	A3-D5
Vivid	"Clear and clear as with speaking exercises"	95-180	G3-D5
Solid	"Stiff and tense"	65-160	D3-C5

On August 31, 2013, an English language version called Hatsune Miku V3 English was released based on the newer Vocaloid-3 software. This variant is optimized for a tempo of 100–130 bpm and a vocal range of B2 – B3.

The Japanese version of Vocaloid 3 was released on September 26, 2013 with the variations Original (vocal range A2 – E4), Sweet (F2 – D4), Dark (D2 – B3), Soft (A2 – E4) and Solid (D2 – C4) ) with largely the same properties as the Vocaloid 2 versions, but with a modified vocal range, which remained the same in terms of the number of octaves , but was lowered by one octave each.

Appearance

Her appearance is that of a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise hair that is tied with two magenta square hair rings to form two pigtails that hang low. Among these, she wears headphones like the characters that were later released. She wears a sleeveless school uniform with a short mini skirt and a long tie . Your forearms are covered by arm stockings. Her clothes have a futuristic design with different colored lights on her armrests and skirt. In addition to her concept design, Hatsune Miku also has many different "modules" which are designed by various illustrators for art, events, pieces of music and games. These modules can look very close to the concept design or be completely different. Most of the time, their main features such as their color scheme or their general silhouette are retained. She wears a red tattoo on her upper arm that reads as "01" and thus represents a further allusion to the first of the characters in the Vocaloid 2 series produced by Crypton Future Media . The characters Rin and Len Kagamine carried the number "02", followed by Luka Megurine with the "03". The number "04" worn by Teto Kasane is often misinterpreted . However, this is not a character from the Vocaloid series, but a UTAU , and is therefore not directly related to the official characters of Crypton Future Media. Other official characters in the series did not have these numbers as a distinguishing feature, while the fan-based characters Yowane Haku and Akita Neru, later "adopted" by Crypton Future Media, also have a tattoo, which Yowane Haku calls "DTM" and Akita Neru "DEN2 " read. Miku Hatsune is 1.58 m tall and weighs 42 kg according to the manufacturer Crypton Future Media .

Due to the high level of use of your illustration by KEI, it was released by Crypton in 2012 under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.

popularity

Cosplay from Miku Hatsune

In the beginning, music videos that were set by the Japanese video host Nico Nico Douga mainly spread . A popular video showed Miku in the same pose as Orihime Inoue from Bleach , whose appearance in a Flash video as Loituma Girl made the Finnish band Loituma known internationally. This time, however, the adjuster had the software interpret the title known as Ievan Polkka . Manufacturer Crypton saw this as proof of the many possible uses of its software. The Miku used in the video in super-deformed representation with a leek stick is also referred to as a separate character named Miku Hachune ( はちゅねミク , Hachune Miku ).

With increased awareness of the software, Nico Nico Douga turned into a place for collaborative project work. The pieces of music generated by some users were illustrated by other users or animated in 2D or 3D. This resulted in numerous remixes where certain versions were crossed with one another. The hype about the character intensified when, on October 18, 2007, various media reported, citing a mailbox (BBS), that Miku Hatsune had been censored by Google and Yahoo! because no images of the well-known figure appeared in the image search of both providers. Google and Yahoo, for their part, denied censorship and stated that a bug in both systems meant that “Hatsune Miku” ( 初音ミ wie) and some other keywords could not be found. Both providers then promised to eliminate the error as soon as possible. Since October 19, 2007, the first pictures of Miku have been listed again in the Yahoo search.

Made known through the videos and the press, Miku, Rin and Len had their first cameo in an episode (Zoku) Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei in an anime television series in which a wide variety of people and characters tried to imitate the voice of Meru Otonashi . In the OVA of Lucky Star Miku also had a brief appearance in the Cosplay -Traum of Kagami.

Music productions

Numerous dōjin ongaku (fan-produced music) have appeared on the basis of Hatsune Miku . Over time (early 2008) the first albums were created, for example by Frontier Works or self-published. Due to the relationship to the product, she was repeatedly given as the interpreter. The pieces were also used in other media, such as the computer game Tori no Hoshi - Aerial Planet ( トリノホシ〜Aerial Planet〜 ), which means that the voice associated with it can also be heard in other media.

On August 27, 2008, Victor Entertainment released the album Re: package . It contained a selection of songs sung by the voice of Hatsune Miku . The titles were created by a group of dojin artists who called themselves Livetune . The album sold more than 20,000 copies in the first week and was able to secure fifth place in the Oricon charts . Miku Hatsune became the first synthetic pop icon and received the prize in the free category at the 2008 Seiun Prize .

In 2009 the album supercell was released on March 4th, the artist named supercell feat. Miku Hatsune was specified. Within the first day, the CD sold more than 20,000 times and thus reached 2nd place in the daily and finally 4th place in the weekly charts. Even in the run-up to publication, many of the titles were offered for free download by the creators and had appeared in numerous versions on the well-known video platforms Nico Nico Douga and YouTube . These included Koi wa Sensō ( 恋は戦争 , dt. "Love is war") and Melt ( メルト , Meruto , dt. "Melting"). By May 2010, 100,000 copies of this album had sold, making it the most successful of all Vocaloid albums.

Also in 2009, the two albums Hatsune Miku Best - impacts ( 初音ミクベスト ~ impacts ~ ) and Hatsune Miku Best - memories ( 初音ミクベスト ~ memories ~ ) were released on August 26th . Reached place on the Japanese album charts. These are summaries of previously published tracks and singles.

On May 19, 2010 the compilation Exit Tunes presents Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku . With the advantage that no major album started in the release week, it reached number 1 with 23,000 copies sold.

Live performances

Miku Hatsune had her first live appearance at Animelo Summer Live 2009 -RE: BRIDGE- , the largest annual anime music concert, which was held for the second time in the Saitama Super Arena . There she interpreted popular titles such as Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru (Shiteyan yo) and Black Rock Shooter in front of around 25,000 viewers, virtually displayed on a video wall . At the same time, an adaptation of Black Rock Shooter as an anime television series was announced at the end of the performance .

On November 21, 2009, she performed at the Anime Festival Asia (AFA) in Singapore .

Miku Hatsune had her first solo concert Miku no Hi Kanshasai 39's Giving Day , which also included Rin, Len and Luka on March 9, 2010 in the Zepp Tokyo concert hall in Odaiba , Tokyo . The 39’s in the name, officially translated Thank’s , can also refer to the date and read as Miku . Including the encores, 39 pieces were performed, with a 3D representation of them projected onto a transparent screen in human size. Live recordings were streamed promptly on the Nico Nico Douga video platform and were released on September 1, 2010 as audio CD, UMD, DVD and Blu-ray. The concert won the Network Media Award category at the 15th Animation Kobe in 2010 , which Miku Hatsune had already received in 2008.

On March 9, 2011, another concert, Hatsune Miku Live Party 2011 -39′s Live IN TOKYO- , was also performed in Zepp Tokyo and streamed promptly via Nico Nico Douga.

On July 2, 2011, the MIKUNOPOLIS concert in Los Angeles took place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles as part of the Anime Expo . Like the previous ones, the concert could be watched on Nico Nico Douga.

On March 8 and 9, 2012, the concert Miku no Hi Daikanshasai ( ミクのの大 City 祭 ) in the Tokyo Dome City Hall followed, which was streamed again via Nico Nico Douga.

Since 2013, around the time of Miku's birthday at the end of August, concerts under the title "Magical Mirai" (マジカルtライ, Majikaru Mirai , Eng . "Magical Future") have taken place in Japan, at which Miku and other Vocaloid characters such as Kagamine Rin and Len, MEIKO, KAITO and Megurine Luka perform well-known Vocaloid songs. The instrumental part of the songs is played live by a band of the same name. The concerts are combined with an exhibition about Miku and Vocaloid in general. In 2017, the concerts also celebrated Miku's tenth birthday. Over 30,000 people attended the concert and exhibition. Since 2016 the concerts have been taking place in the Makuhari Messe , among other places .

Outside of Japan there have been regular concerts under the title "Miku EXPO" in other countries since 2014. As part of this, there have now been events in the USA, Canada, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Mexico. As with "Magical Mirai", popular songs from various Vocaloid characters are performed together with a live band. Despite the "EXPO" in the name, the concerts are not connected to an exhibition. In 2018 there were concerts in Europe for the first time with concerts in London, Paris and Cologne. On December 4, 2018, a live concert by Hatsune Miku in Germany took place for the first time in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. A second Germany concert took place on January 20, 2020 in the Verti Music Hall in Berlin.

During Lady Gaga's ArtRave: The Artpop Ball World Tour 2014, Miku appeared as the opening act at some concerts . Gaga had previously commented on Twitter as a fan of Miku.

Advertising figure in the Super GT championship

Good Smile Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 , 2018

In the 2008 Super GT season, two racing cars competed in the GT300 class, which were provided with the images and color schemes of the characters Miku Hatsune and Rin and Len Kagamine (two other characters from the Vocaloid2 series ). The Hatsune Miku study Glad BMW Z4 (# 808), which was on the road for study , a tuning provider of BMW . The Hatsune Miku study Glad BMW Z4 (# 808) was named by the media as the first Itasha to take part in an international race organized by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . Although the car only four times in qualifying took and could not even qualify, he took on the last race of the season in part and completed the race with an eighteenth place from. Crypton appeared as a supporter of the team. The car drew attention not only because of its special appearance and color scheme, but was also considered a candidate for BMW's possible return to the Super GT since the Z4 had already dominated Group N in Japan.

With the daring design, Study was also one of the first teams to adopt color schemes from the public instead of relying on professional designers. In the run-up to this, a call was made on the Vocaloid fan website Piapro for a design for a racing car. Many of the volunteer designers assumed that it would only be about the design of a racing car from one of the lower classes or exhibits for the comiket or car shows. Many of the artists gave the original design the number 39 (# 39), which is often associated with Miku Hatsune. However, this number already belonged to Toyota and their team SARD in the GT500 class and had to be changed accordingly. After the end of the race, it was announced that the study will also feature Miku Hatsune as a theme in 2009 and the car will be sold under the name of the study GLAD Racing . Hoshina, the chairman of the team, noted that he particularly liked the asymmetrical color design of the car as it was a rarity.

Space travel

In September 2009, a Chibi version of Miku Hatsune, called Miku Hachune, was on board a private rocket of the Japanese Social Media Satellite Development Project (SOMESAT, formerly はちゅね宇宙航空研究開発機構 , Hachune Uchū Kōkū Kenkyū Kaihatsu Kikō , or HAXA for short based on JAXA ) as part of the eXtreme Performance Rocket Ships (XPRS) in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada . However, this only reached a height of 1.5 km. The project itself comes from the group Nico Nico Gijutsubu ( ニコニコ技術部 , dt. "Nico-Nico engineering department") on the Japanese video platform Nico Nico Douga , whereby the engineer Sumio Morioka ( 森岡澄夫 ) was the driving force behind the project.

In November 2009, Sumio Morioka started a petition to add a Miku image to one of 90 pieces of the 12 × 8 cm aluminum plates that serve as the stabilizing weight of the Akatsuki Venus orbiter of the Japanese space agency JAXA. Instead of the 100 required signatures, 14,000 were finally collected, and the Orbiter started with three plates with Miku illustrations. One of the illustrations is a parody of the Pioneer badge with Miku Hatsune and Miku Hachune instead of the man-woman couple.

Adaptations in other media

Manga

The mangaka KEI published the manga maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix ( メーカー非公式初音みっくす ). It appeared in Comic Rush magazine , published by Jive , from November 26, 2007 (1/2008 issue) to October 26, 2010 (12/2010 issue). The manga was also summarized in three anthologies ( Tankōbon ) between December 7, 2008 and November 6, 2010 .

Another manga called Hachune Miku no Nichijō Roipara! ( はちゅねミクの日常ろいぱら! ), Drawn by Ontama, has been published since December 26, 2007 (issue 2/2008) within the Comp Ace magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten . Up to October 26, 2010, 3 anthologies were also published.

Jive published two anthology comic volumes in February and March 2008 called Hatsune Miku: Anthology Comic ( 初音ミクアンソロジーコミック ; ISBN 978-4-86176-489-9 and ISBN 978-4-86176-589-6 ), which contains several stories by different authors. On September 25, 2008, Kadokawa published another anthology called Hatsune Miku Mixing Box ( 初音ミク MIXING BOX; ISBN 978-4-06-358260-4 ), which also contained a DVD and a figure.

On October 30, 2010, the Yonkoma manga Miku-4 ( みくよん , Miku yon ; ISBN 978-4-87257-991-8 ) by Nagimiso was published by East Press . Another Yonkoma - Shūkan Hajimete no Hatsune Miku ( 週刊はじめての初音ミク ) - has appeared weekly in Shūeisha's magazine Young Jump since issue 40/2010 on September 2, 2010, drawn by Kentarō Hayashi.

Further publications

ASCII MediaWorks published Mook (magazine in book form) on February 6, 2010 Dengeki Layers bible Vol. 2: Vocaloid ( 電撃レイヤーズ bible Vol.2 VOCALOID; ISBN 978-4-04-868173-5 ) with a focus on Cosplay - making appropriate costumes, etc. - from Miku and the other Vocaloids.

On the 27th of the same month, Kadokawa published the 123-page illustration book Hatsune Miku Graphics: Vocaloid Art & Comic ( 初音ミク Graphics VOCALOID ART & COMIC; ISBN 978-4-04-854463-4 ), which contains a collection of illustrations by various artists Relation to Miku represents. The equally extensive second volume ISBN 978-4-04-854541-9 was published on November 30th .

Computer games

The Japanese version of the online multiplayer game PangYa uses Miku as an advertising character for his new campaign , which started on May 22, 2008 and offered her as one of the characters. She had her first appearance in a console game in 13-sai no Hello Work DS ( 13 歳のハローワーク DS ), a game for Nintendo DS in which she played as a supporting character in the musician mini-game, then twice in the main story and after the playthrough of the game appeared in a repeatable quiz level.

On July 2, 2009, appeared PSP - rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA ( 初音ミク-Project DIVA ) from Sega . In the first week, it placed 102,821 copies sold at number 2 in the Japanese game charts. Most stores sold more than 90% of the items shipped, and many stores sold out over the weekend. In addition, there is now an arcade variant called Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Arcade (of which test versions could already be played in selected arcade halls up to May 2010) in selected arcades in Japan and Singapore as well as the Philippines and one in Los Angeles (on the occasion of the 2011 Mikunopolis concert) ready to play. On June 24, 2010, an add-on for the PSP game called Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Dreamy Theater was released . This add-on is played on the PlayStation 3 and, after connecting a PSP (with an inserted Project DIVA game), enables the game to be played on a television in the aforementioned Project DIVA arcade graphics. On July 29, 2010, the successor Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA 2nd ( 初音ミクプロジェクトディーヴヴァ 2nd ) was released, which has an expanded game mechanics and also brings more content for the other Vocaloid characters. The PS3 adaptation, called Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Dreamy Theater 2nd , was released on November 4th. On November 10th, the game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Extend was released , an expanded version of "2nd", but in which more costumes and other songs are included. Another part with the title “Project DIVA ƒ” was released for the PlayStation Vita on August 30, 2012 and will also be offered for the PlayStation 3 on March 7, 2013 . At the same time as the release of the PS Vita version, Sega was working on a similar game for the Nintendo 3DS , which appeared on March 8, 2012 under the name Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai and makes use of the AR function of the 3DS.

literature

Anna Maria Michel: This star doesn't even exist! The singer Hatsune Miku only exists virtually, but that doesn't prevent going on tour: she invites you to the Happening of 2016. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 29, 2015, Medien, p. 13.

Web links

Website of the software at Crypton (Japanese)
Profile of Miku Hatsune at Crypton (Japanese)
Website for the Hatsune Miku game series: Project DIVA at Sega (Japanese)

Individual evidence

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↑ Hatsune Miku Magical Miriai 2018 website. Retrieved January 5, 2019 .

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