After being recently teased, we finally get to enjoy the full music video for Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai 2015’s theme song, “Hand in Hand” by kz(livetune). The song also marks his first solo Vocaloid work since “Decorator“, the theme song for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd, over a year earlier.
Magical Mirai 2015 will be taking place at Nippon Budokan venue in Tokyo between September 4th and 5th. Additionally, the Magical Mirai 2015 official album is still available for order, which includes a DVD with this music video. More here: https://www.mikufan.com/?p=12374
For the first time in six years of Racing Miku history, Goodsmile Racing has announced the 2016 Racing Miku design contest on Piapro, with themes as “Blaze”, “Victory” and “Phoenix”. The announcement was made via live stream held earlier today on June 20th at 21:00 JST.
While an official link is not yet provided, the contest will open up on Piapro starting from June 22nd~July 21st. The winning design will be announced via live stream on July 22nd. Along with the announcement, the team also revealed the concept art for 2014 Racing Miku, designed by Shigeto Koyama.
Following the previous teasing, the Real Action Heroes “Hatsune Miku Project Diva F Honey Whip” figure has been confirmed for two versions: “Standard” and “Deluxe” editions. The “Deluxe” edition will include a second outfit and accessory kit based on the “Supreme” module from Project Diva F 2nd.
This year’s Winter Wonder Festival has been no different from the past events: Lots of news regarding new and upcoming figure releases and more. We’ve done our best to round up news of official figure announcements at this year’s Winter WonFes (2015).
Highlights of reveals and announcements:
Greatest Idol ver. Hatsune Miku figure by GSC (scale unknown) – Date and Pricing: N/A
1/4 Scale Hatsune Miku V3 Figure by FREEing – Preorder Date: March 2015 Pricing: N/A
Racing Miku 2015 figma Revealed – Preorder Date: March 2015 Pricing: N/A
Racing Miku 2015 nendoroid prototype revealed – Orders now open
RAH Miku: Honey Whip version Announced – More info late February 2015
Racing Miku 2014 EV Mirai ver. 1/7 Scale Revealed – Date and Pricing: N/A
Natural Module version (Project Diva) SEGA Prize Figure – July 2015 Release
Project Diva F 2nd pose SEGA Prize Figure – May 2015 Release
On top of these announcements, Good Smile Racing’s new racing vehicle, the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3, has been revealed in its full glory, complete with its Racing Miku 2015 itasha wraps. It also shows off a new artwork showing Racing Miku riding a robotic unicorn.
Below is the full gallery of photos with links to sources.
Every year always contains new and exciting surprises for Hatsune Miku and the world of Vocaloid, and 2014 was no exception by any means. Many huge notable events happened this year, and it will surely give 2015 hard time to top. Here is a quick list of just some of the events that happened in the year 2014:
• Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd Released in Japan (and later overseas).
• Three new life-sized Hatsune Miku statues were revealed (Wing Shop, Magical Mirai and Sky Town).
• Hatsune Miku Expo events held in Jakarta Indonesia, and Los Angeles and New York in the United States.
• The “Hatsune Miku Project Diva” game series celebrated its 5th anniversary.
• Hatsune Miku cameoed with the popular J-rock band “Bump of Chicken”.
• Many new figures and nendoroids of various types announced and released.
• Hatsune Miku opened for Lady Gaga’s Artpop Ball tour across the United States and Canada.
• Pharrell Williams remixed the Hatsune Miku classic “Last Night, Good Night”.
• “Mikuture”, a free ApiMiku AR app, released worldwide in Japanese and English.
• Project Mirai DX for 3DS announced for Western release (and later for Japan).
• Hatsune Miku celebrates her 7th anniversary.
• Magical Mirai concert events held in Osaka and Tokyo.
• A second Hatsune Miku English voice bank is announced for development.
• Snow Miku 2015 design chosen.
• Hatsune Miku debuts on David Letterman.
• Good Smile Racing wins the 2014 SUPER GT championship.
• 2015 Racing Miku design revealed.
And this is just a small list of everything that happened! We are excited to see what 2015 will bring, and we hope you are, too. Enjoy this New Year’s illustration by Snowmioo from Twitter. Happy new year, everyone!
Illustration “Happy Birthday Miku!” by Tsuzakitsu Nomi from Pixiv.
Hatsune Miku has finally reached the 7th year of her journey since her first release on August 31st, 2007. Seven is quite a lucky number, and we’ve certainly been lucky to be able to enjoy what she’s been able to bring to the lives of fans around the world for all those years.
The past year has brought brought us the release of Hatsune Miku’s VOCALOID3 software, the beginning of an international Miku Expo event, a new Racing Miku and Snow Miku design, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd’s international release, and so much more. And not to forget the endless amounts of video, music and illustrative art works.
And as per tradition, artists have taken to Pixiv to overload the servers with a vast amount of illustrations to celebrate the birthday of our beloved virtual diva. Below are some of our personal favorite picks, but you can view the full selection of images for Hatsune Miku’s 7th anniversary from here: http://www.pixiv.net/search.php?word=ミク誕生祭2014
