Zodiac: Virgo
Height: 158 cm (5'2")
Weight: 42 kg (92.4 lbs)
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク, Hatsune Miku) is the first instalment in the Vocaloid Character Vocal Series released on August 31, 2007. The name of the título and the character of the software was chosen por combining Hatsu (初, First), Ne (音, Sound), and Miku (未来, Future). The data for the voice was created por actually sampling the voice of Saki Fujita, a Japanese voice actress. Unlike general purpose speech synthesizers, the software is tuned to create J-pop songs commonly heard in anime, but it is possible to create songs from other genres.
Nico Nico Douga played a fundamental role in the recognition and popularity of the software. Soon after the release of the software, users of Nico Nico Douga started posting videos with songs created por the software. According to Crypton, a popular video with a comically altered software mascot holding a leek, canto Ievan Polkka, presented multifarious possibilities of applying the software in multimedia content creation. As the recognition and popularity of the software grew, Nico Nico Douga became a place for collaborate content creation. popular original songs written por a user would generate illustrations, animación in 2D and 3D, and remixes por other users. Other creators would mostrar their unfinished work and ask for ideas.
On October 18, 2007, an Internet BBS website reported Hatsune Miku was suspected to be victim of censorship por google and Yahoo!, since imágenes of Miku did not mostrar up on the image searches. google and Yahoo denied any censorship on their part, blaming the missing imágenes on a bug that does not only affect "Hatsune Miku" but other buscar palabras clave as well. Both companies expressed a willingness to fix the problem as soon as possible. imágenes of Miku were re listed on Yahoo on October 19.
A Hatsune Miku manga called Maker Hikōshiki Hatsune Mix began serialization in the Japanese manga magazine Comic Rush on November 26, 2007, published por Jive. The manga is drawn por Kei, the original character designer for Hatsune Miku. A segundo manga called Hachune Miku no Nichijō Roipara! drawn por Ontama began serialization in the manga magazine Comp Ace on December 26, 2007, published por Kadokawa Shoten.
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