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.
Ask any fan of virtual idol Miku Hatsune. It should have a leek. The character, who always carries a leek, is huge in Japan, and Toyota is even using Miku to sell cars in the West.
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.
