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Mirai no Neiro Panel Part 2

Kylaran — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:28:15 +0000

The producers themselves at the panel.

Part 1 of covering this panel took so long that I decided to make this into a two part post. Please forgive for the massive Youtube video dumping! I’ve added the producers’ Twitter and Website links, so don’t hesitate to show them your support, even if you don’t know any Japanese.

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Mirai no Neiro Panel Part 1

Kylaran — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:58:10 +0000

Vocaloids at the panel.

Although I enjoyed last year’s panel, this year’s Mirai no Neiro was an entirely different beast. Three hours long, the entire presentation was divided into roughly two halves: the first introduced never before seen promotion videos and messages from their creators, and the second involved presentations by creators who had come from Japan and Kenmochi Hideki of Yamaha. I’ve already discussed Kenmochi’s part of the panel, so I’ll focus on the rest of it in this post.

The Nihon Review is proud to bring you what is most likely the most extensive list of the PVs presented at Anime Expo 2011’s Mirai no Neiro panel, reconstructed from video, notes, and other sources. If anyone missed out on the names of the songs, here’s your chance to listen to them again. Also, I know for a fact I’m missing at least one video, so if anyone knows them contact me and I’ll put them in. Thanks!

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Virtual Diva: Hatsune Miku’s Popularity and the Sound of the Future

Kylaran — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:48:34 +0000

"miKu" by Moccy

What exactly does it mean to be a virtual diva? Before we can truly understand Hatsune Miku’s popularity, it’s perhaps best to identify what exactly she is. Surprisingly though, this is quite tricky: Clearly, in the most simple terms, she’s the character designed as the face of Fujita Saki’s recorded and digitalized voice for a music production software developed by Sega and Yamaha. But at the same time, there’s the idea that she doesn’t really exist; when we talk about Miku singing, we’re using metaphors to make something that strictly isn’t alive alive. Hatsune Miku, I think, is more complex than we sometimes make her out to be.

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VocaJazz

Sorrow-kun — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:02:50 +0000

It was on /a/ that I first stumbled on a couple of rather charming soft jazz Vocaloid songs arranged (and illustrated) by a Nico Nico denizen named Cocoacigarette-P, which I twittered about a couple of days ago. DKellis from Moe Check! also pointed out just how well they’re arranged, from a technical point of view, as well as their cute sense of humour. I was impressed, and after scratching the surface a bit more, I found that Cocoacigarette-P‘s works are just a few of many that march under the banner of “VocaJazz”, a genre of Vocaloid remixes of well recognized anime (and VN) songs that have had a jazz infusion. (Source of OP image).

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