Sometimes people get crushes on fictional characters, like ones from anime and manga. More rarely, sometimes people get unofficial marriages with these characters. Akihiko Kondo, a man who unofficially married Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, has created a group called Association of Fictosexuality. It is a place …Read more »
Virtual idol Hatsune Miku has already been in the café business with her limited-time Sakura Miku café at Animate Café in Akihabara and Osaka. Now she’s back with a new café, and you don’t have to live in Akihabara or Osaka to access it. However, …Read more »
Earlier this year Otaku USA reported on a story of a bullied man finding happiness “marrying” Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. While the wedding might not be official, Akihiko Kondo has said it’s made his life better, and he’s found a supporter in Gene Simmons of KISS. …Read more »
If you love Love Live! Sunshine!! and Hatsune Miku, you have reason to be happy! They’re working together on the “We Are Challengers Project,” and that entails a new song and music video. Love Live! Sunshine!! just dropped a teaser of the song “BANZAI! digital …Read more »
The third season of Dropkick on My Devil! (known a Jashin-chan Dropkick in Japanese) is coming out this July. But prior to that date, the Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting Co., Ltd station is going to broadcast the Dropkick on My Devil! X Mame Anime program. This …Read more »
Next week, NHK documentary series Professional Work Style devotes an episode to Hatsune Miku. She joins comedians, doctors, and directors in the series. But does this virtual idol really work as hard as the others in the series? Well, it’s the programmers and composers who work …Read more »
It’s time to take a look at the “Professional Work Style” of a virtual superstar. Hatsune Miku will be the next subject of NHK documentary series Professional: Shigoto no Ryugi (Professional Work Style), a series that profiles high-level people in their respective fields. As the …Read more »
Four years ago Akihiko Kondo held a wedding ceremony where he married Hatsune Miku. It’s not an official marriage, but it made the news, and the Japanese paper The Mainichi caught up with Kondo to see how his wedded bliss is going. And, it turns …Read more »
Even if you’re not a Hatsune Miku fan, you’ve got to admit: this is quite a piece of work. It comes from the account of custom PC maker PC Beagle, who tweets: “We got an order to create a Hatsune Miku PC, so we did …Read more »
The game Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku came out in Japan last year, and will become available globally later in 2021. But that’s not all that’s going on with this franchise! The “Project Sekai Anniversary Festa 2021″ event revealed that the game is …Read more »
It’s time to get all the summery feels with the upcoming “Miku Land 2021 Summer Vacation” virtual reality event. Taking place August 27-31, you can join in through the Virtual Cast and the HoloModels augmented reality application. The event even has its own theme song, …Read more »
Have you ever wished you could visit the world of your favorite anime? That probably depends on the anime, to be fair. But if the answer is “yes,” then good news — it’s already happening! Virtual reality experiences are letting fans “walk around” the settings …Read more »
Hatsune Miku can perform for Lady Gaga or become a My Little Pony, but for a while there she couldn’t tweet. That’s because her Twitter account set her birthday as 2007, the year of her debut, and Twitter says you have to be at least …Read more »
It may seem like an incredibly late April Fools’ Day gag, but the latest Hatsune Miku collaboration is very real. This one sees the Vocaloid superstar teaming up with My Little Pony to become part of the collaborative bishoujo figure line from Kotobukiya and Hasbro. …Read more »
When we think of the alternate forms of Hatsune Miku, digital diva and multimedia star, we tend to think of her cuter forms. There’s Snow Miku, celebrated annually in Hokkaido. There’s Sakura Miku, who celebrates the beauty of spring in Japan. But what about the …Read more »
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