Why do people love hatsune miku

The singing voices themselves, however, were not made by Yamaha. Instead, other companies would create their own programmable singers and release them as an individual product. There were many unique virtual singers before Hatsune Miku—coming from many different companies—but none of them spread beyond their intended audience of composers. Miku was different. At the time of her "birth," she was little more than a character design to be used for box art—the sum total of her backstory called her "an android diva in the near-future world where songs are lost.

But the best design in the world wouldn't have been enough if she didn't have the voice to match. Using samples of Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita, Crypton Future Media made a cute voice comparable to the most popular of Japanese pop-stars. Her voice software was such a hit that Crypton Future Media was unable to keep up with the demand immediately after its release—an unprecedented feat for similar composing software in Japan.

With Miku's Vocaloid 2 in the hands of more people than any singing software before it, Miku was primed for her big break. The internet was happy to oblige. Soon people who had never even thought about the existence of voice synthesizing software were buying copies of Miku's Vocaloid 2. Thus began the flow of new songs.

And because of the ease of creating songs in Vocaloid 2 , original music flooded the net as did scores of Hatsune Miku covers of popular Japanese songs. They kept postposing her forever because there was always some Miku update going on that was obviously more important than Luka, and when they actually finally released her append it was a huge disappointment to many Luka fans they had years and years waiting for her, a botched job they called it. And CV04, the poor nameless stillborn that existed since around who's never going to see light that's almost for sure, at least at this rate.

But I don't want to talk now about the decadence of crypton as a vocaloid company but on all the paraphernallia they set up for Miku's goddamn 10th birthday. Now it's over, and it looks like they are starting to remember that the Kagamine's birthday its going to be in 2 months as well! I think they are releasing two albums and thank you they didn't forget. I think, every single vocaloid fan I know from my social circle wouldn't even be into vocaloid by now if it wasn't by some Kagamine song.

There is also this Hachi new song he made for said Miku's birthday, sand planet where there is criticism of the decadence of vocaloid welp rather miku's from the pov of Miku stans fandom. Henny, this has been going on since at least.

I remember a ridiculous number of Japanese producers leaving the fandom after that year many of my favorites but no one cared because they weren't huge miku producers, gasp some of them even mained other voicebanks, can you believe it!

Now that an outstanding Miku producer says it it must be true, though. Miku fans are too loud, are noisy, are annoying, are overdramatic, and are often the reason why many people ended up leaving the vocaloid fanbase and of its decadence on the first place.

There, I said it. When someone says that they like Miku over any other vocaloid out of all other vocaloids tends to be because they don't care enough about the fandom to get in deeper and find other songs and other voices. This is not only people's fault obviously. Of course with that strong cult all over exclusively Miku's character who's gonna actually look on youtube for the good semi-obscure songs of not so well-known voicebanks from some years ago?

Very few people actually. This also splashes japanese producers of course. Thanks god nowadays there are a lot of overseas active producers but some years ago only the japanese made the vocaloid songs. Then repeat. This became a huge vicious circle, because it became then even more pointless to use any voicebank that wasn't Miku's with the exception of Gumi's or IA's maybe , because people on nico wouldn't bother on listen to a nobody's original song where they used Kaito, Gakupo, miki, iroha, or whatever the voice you want.

In fact I still find good songs for other vocaloids when I browse nico, it's just That they don't get many views because very few peole cares. This came out a loooot longer than intended, guess I really wanted to vent. So yeah, people hate Miku because she's popular, and this popularity came off as destructive.

Hope I cleared some doubts for the newfriends around here. I will not make excuses for the CFM company, to me their a company with a lot of cracks at the seams. But it means a person who is very into anime, manga, video games or any other virtual media to the detriment of their social skills.

This term was created in s after Japan went through high-growth period resulting in most people having spare money to spend on their hobbies.

Majority of the household became nuclear families; dad worked overtime every day and came home after everyone went to bed, mom stayed home and took care of children, children studied to pass entrance exams to high schools and universities.

Houses and buildings covered the city landscape and there were not many place for kids to play outside. I think that led to some boys turning into Otaku.

Hatsune Miku fans are the same types of people. Some of them might not have good social skills or they are afraid of real relationships. But they have creativity and they found a way to express it through Hatsune Miku. Your email address will not be published.

Miku can sing in English, Chinese, Taiwanese, and perhaps in Italian, always with a funny and cute accent. In fact, back in she was initially created as an anthropomorphized mascot for a virtual singing software by a Japanese technology company, called Crypton Future Media CFM. In Japan, voice synthesis software was reasonably popular, and it was used to generate broadcast for train stations, an answering system for telephone companies and so on.

It was used to speak, not to sing. I figured, in order for it to appeal to people and be loved by people, it needed to have a human touch, and something like a cartoon character was the right tool for that. CFM had learned important lessons from the small success of Meiko.

That led to the creation of Hatsune Miku and their exponential growth. Within the first month of its release, 10K units were sold. Within 10 years K software units were sold and it remains the best seller…even now. How did it happen and what is driving the exponential growth?

Unlike the other human idol or flesh-and-blood divas, Hatsune Miku was created with a fairly simple configuration such that creators and fans have plenty space for their creativity: They get to define her characteristics, give her rich stories, and make her sing and dance in different ways.

Miku is no longer a marketing ploy, she is a powerful co-creation platform.