Aug 312008
 

I wonder why no one did this before? The NicoNicoDouga Ryuuseigun is the most famous mega medley on NicoNicoDouga. This version features Miku, Kaito, Meiko and the Kagamine twins performing it from start to finish. Enjoy!

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssxz2FQhs7M 463 392]

Note: Due to the 15 minute runtime this video had to be split to two parts. Linked above is part one.

Aug 302008
 

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While this was already announced a few days ago I sadly did not have the time to post it until now. Anyway, it appears that Sega is making a completely Hatsune Miku dedicated game. Unlike the previous DS game which only featured Hatsune Miku in some minigames, this one will be all about her. The main focus of the game will be the rhythm game based story mode. During gameplay you can win several accessories and furniture to decorate Miku and her room. After that you can watch her walk around her room and do several activities. The untitled game is up for release in early 2009. No further details are known. For now enjoy the first impressions from these scans.

Aug 172008
 

Now this is quite unusual. We all know that popular Japanese videos are often being imported and reuploaded to YouTube and then also become popular in the west. Now the opposite has happened.

gaijinmiku

On August 3, YouTube user velveetaah uploaded a video of his 10-year-old daughter Maxine performing as Hatsune Miku. The video did not receive many views and pretty much slipped through YouTube unnoticed. However two days ago a Japanese user re-uploaded the video to NicoNicoDouga, Japan’s biggest video sharing website. In just a little more than 30 hours the video has already generated over 30.000 views and is getting close to 5000 comments. The video is already appearing on the top 25 videos for today and yesterday and will probably also make it’s way to the weekly ranking if it keeps receiving views and comments at this rate. Since the original video was also linked within the NicoNicoDouga repost the YouTube video also started to receive a lot of views and positive comments from Japanese users.

Congratulations Maxine!

Update: Views are now up to 70.000 and comments have bypassed the 11.000 mark.