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Scrapped Princess/Polyphonica's Sakaki Pens 'Vocaloid' Work
posted on by Sarah Nelkin
An editor for Crypton Future Media's Hatsune Miku and other virtual singer characters.
Sakaki himself franchise, although he said with a laugh that it also has a red-haired girl as the heroine.
Sakaki cautioned, "I'm not going to (or rather, I cannot) write something like 'the touching story of boy meets 'Hatsune --ku,' realizes the greatness of music, and matures as a Vocaloid producer by meeting many people!' (Laughs) Many Vocaloid-themed works call for 'adapting a Vocaloid song into a novel.' Instead of doing that, I am using the theme of Vocaloid itself as a key gadget."
As Sakaki indicated, he is not the first person to write a novel inspired by the Vocaloid movement. PHP also published a novel inspired by "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" song by cosMo@Bōsō-P.
Sakaki made his novel debut in 1998, and then followed that a year later with the first volume of released the anime.
Sakaki is also the original creator for the Polyphonica visual novel and anime, which aired in Japan in 2007. The Polyphonica Sentai Filmworks in North America.
[Via 0takomu]
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