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Sunday Comics: Dead Island One of the PlayStation Vita’s most interesting features is “rear touch” — the Vita’s backside touchpad controls. This newly announced, limited edition PlayStation Vita features virtual idol Hatsune Miku on the Vita’s back, which is prime touch real estate.
In Japan, I guess cosplayers start young! Via sister site Kotaku Japan, here is 3-year-old cosplayer doing her best take on virtual idol Hatsune Miku.
Hatsune Miku is a virtual idol that was originally created for Yamaha Vocaloid software. Now, Hatsune Miku pops up in her own Sega music games. Meaning? People wearing ridiculous Hatsune Miku costumes at Sega events!
At this weekend’s Wonder Festival in Chiba, Japan, collectible figures and cosplayers weren’t the only thing on display. There were also super cars — and race queens. The Neon Genesis Evangelion racing team (yes, there’s an Eva racing team!) was on hand, showing of its Super GT cars and bikes. The Eva team’s “race queens”, dressing as Evangelion characters, were also on hand.
Every winter, the Sapporo Snow Festival amazes visitors with snow sculptures. This year, a “Snow Miku” of virtual idol Hatsune Miku was erected. Today, it was destroyed after injuring a senior citizen.
While North America got home-grown popstar got Justin Bieber for Google Chrome commercials, Japan got a homegrown star of its own for Google Chrome ads. Make that, a virtual homegrown star.
In Japan, selling customised figures can get you arrested. It call also get you crazy amounts of money. Like this one did, for example.
Hatsune Miku is a virtual idol. She exists in the virtual space. In the latest Kids React, a group of kids react to the singer.
Virtual idol Miku Hatsune held amazing concerts in Japan that were put together by Sega (and some crappy ones by another company). Sega’s bringing her to this year’s Anime Expo for her North American debut concert. Vroom! [ANN]
It doesn’t matter if she holds concerts or appears in crappy commercials, Miku Hatsune is only virtual and certainly not some 12-year-old kid’s mother.
