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January, 2016

  • 22 January

    Hatsune Miku Returns to Taiwan For “Hatsune Miku Expo 2016 in Taiwan”, On-Stage June 25th-26th

    After nearly four years, it looks like Hatsune Miku will be making a return to the stage in Taiwan from June 25th-26th in “Hatsune Miku Expo 2016 in TAIWAN”! Taiwan is the 5th country announced for a visit in this year’s Miku Expo 2016 tour, which leaves the second half of the year open for

  • 20 January

    IA and ONE Anniversary Celebration Plans Announced

    January 27th marks the anniversaries of both IA and ONE, and 1st Place has recently announced several plans for an IA and ONE Anniversary celebration. They've created an official webpage and have also posted on the IA World page about their plans. Gallery art from the official anniversary website Main Details On January 27th, a

  • 15 January

    Snow Miku Updates: DJ Snow Mikudayo, Butsuka Runner Snow Miku Ver., & Daihatsu Cast Activa Collab

    The winter just got a little more exciting with the Snow Miku news announcements today. The first of which is the announcement of Snow Mikudayo and Neru as guest DJs for the Beat Blizzard Live DJ

  • 8 January

    Snow Miku 2016 Updates: Love Live Collaboration, Goods, Foods, Theme Song & More!

    The Snow Miku 2016 website received a large and exciting news update today covering many topics, so we’ll try to summarize them below. The Snow Miku Festival is a joint collaboration with the yearly Sapporo Snow Festival, and will be open from February 5th until February 11th JST. Possibly the largest of the announcements is

  • 8 January

    VOCALOID Fukase Demos, English Bank, and Release Date Revealed

    YAMAHA is gearing up for the release of VOCALOID Fukase. After several months of not hearing anything about him after the design contest winner was announced in September, we're getting a lot more than we expected! Release Details VOCALOID Fukase's Box Art The digital download of VOCALOID Fukase will be released on January 28th while

  • 4 January

    Stardust Art Book Contest Winners Revealed

    Back in September, Quadimension launched an art book contest for the VOCALOID Stardust. More information on this can be found in our previous article. The contest is now closed and five winners have been revealed on Weibo. Although only five winners have been chosen, the art book will consist of 30 to 40 pages.

December, 2015

  • 30 December

    Goodsmile Racing Announces 2016 Racing Miku Figma Sponsorship Courses Early

    Following the Nendoroid sponsorship courses announcement, Goodsmile Racing has announced the 2016 Figma sponsorship courses to begin on January 1st, 2016 JST. The full list of sponsor goods has also been announced, while the figma appearance itself is yet to be revealed. Similar to the Nendoroid sponsorship courses, there is also a new 5th course

  • 30 December

    Goodsmile Racing Announces 2016 Racing Miku Nendoroid Sponsorship Courses Early

    Goodsmile Racing is wasting no time with the new year and will be opening its 2016 Nendoroid sponsorship courses beginning January 1st, 2016 JST. While no pictures have been provided yet of what the Nendoroid will look like (however, expect one soon!), the sponsors course rewards have already been announced. There is also a new

  • 23 December

    New Information on Unity-chan and PROJECT AKAZA Revealed!

    Lots of information about Unity-chan and PROJECT AKAZA has been revealed since the Comiket announcement. It seems AKAZA will be a VOCALOID while Unity-chan's VOCALOID title is questionable. There are also several demos available for Unity-chan and VOCALOID SDK for Unity. VOCALOID SDK for Unity Demos On the official VOCALOID website, one can download three

  • 23 December

    GSR Reveals Racing Miku 2016 Details, Team Drivers, and Mercedes AMG GT3 Continuation

    Goodsmile Racing’s year-end live stream and website update brought some news about the upcoming 2016 racing season, which includes the new Racing Miku design, racing vehicle choice, and team drivers. To start, both previous drivers, Tatsuya Kataoka and Nobteru Taniguchi, will continue racing for the team in the 2016 race season.   GSR caused some