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Miku - Upfront magazine

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[From the Scholastic/New York Times magazine Upfront (for teens)]
[2011.01.10]

The Hologram Rock Star

Sixteen-year-old Hatsune Miku filled stadiums of adoring fans on a recent concert tour. Her albums have topped Japan's music charts. She's attracted more than 55,000 Facebook followers. Oh, and one other thing worth noting: She's totally fake. Miku is a singing digital avatar created by Crypton Future Media in Sapporo, Japan. Crypton's software, which retails for about $200, allows anyone to write lyrics and melodies for avatars to perform on-screen in a lifelike voice synthesized to sound like real-life Japanese pop stars. (A 3-D hologram of Miku performs at her "live" concerts.) Since Miku was introduced to the world in 2007, more than 30,000 songs and movies about her have been created, and you can see many of them on YouTube and the Japanese video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga. Though Miku-mania started in Japan, it's now catching on in the U.S. Last fall, Miku made her first American appearance at the New People center in San Francisco's Japantown.

Caption: Japanese singing sensation Hatsune Miku may be virtual, but she draws large crowds - of real people.

[They make some mistakes such as the "avatars... [performing] on screen" part, when the software just does music. MikuMikuDance (fan-made freeware) does the "on screen" part.]
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Actually the program they used to get Miku to dance and perform wasn't from MikuMikuDance. SEGA aloud Crypton and the concert sponsers to use their data from Project DIVA and Project DIVA Arcade for the models. Although they did do some tweaking on the models (such as the physics of the hair etc.). And it is true that only recently has Miku and Vocaloid caught the American eye; Miku has been under the radar in America and around the world atleast a year after she came out. Not to mention that Toyota has claimed Miku as their spokes model for their new car the Corolla. However, Miku fans have been quite angry that Miku has been changed to appeal to the "American version of anime", especially in the commerical.

But never the less, America welcomes you Miku!