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Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku to 'Sing in English'
posted on by Gia Manry
The official New York Comic Con last month that his company is planning a English version of Hatsune Miku, and he asked for 39,390 fans to show their on Facebook to demonstrate the demand. (The number 39 can be read in Japanese as "Miku" or "thank you" or sankyū.)
Cyberpunk Author William Gibson on Hatsune Miku
In a separate development, William Gibson — one of the earliest authors in the cyberpunk sub-genre of science fiction — posted on his Twitter on November 10 that "Hatsune Miku doesn't really rock me. I want higher rez, less anime." The artist Hibiki Chikada told Gibson, "Hatsune Miku is repeatedly copied on the net and thus reproducing herself. Infos attached by fans get her higher resolution," to which Gibson replied, "So Hatsune Miku involves some sort of ongoing crowd-sourced evolution?" Other posters explained the phenomenon further to Gibson.Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" and his first novel, 1984's Neuromancer, influenced science fiction in English and Japanese, particularly in anime and games. (Crypton's Itoh HoriPro debuted the virtual singer Kyoko Date in Japan.
Hatsune Miku in World Media
The Japanese blog Temple Knights has collected YouTube videos of news reports on Hatsune Miku from Poland, Spain, Romania, Mexico, and Brazil:
In the above video, a newscaster for the Polish television news program Panorama reports on a recent 'concert' performed by virtual idol Hatsune Miku. The concert's original New York.
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