August, 2016

  • 16 August

    Otakon 2016 Recap

    Otakon 2016 marked the last Otakon to take place in Baltimore, Maryland, for at least a few years. Due to the Baltimore Convention Center (Otakon’s home since 1999) needing renovations, Otakon is moving to Washington, D.C., come next year. However, this Otakon wasn’t a sad weekend. In fact, it was …

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  • 16 August

    Hacka Doll Teases the Hatsune Miku “August 39th Project” This Summer

    This August 31st will mark Hatsune Miku’s ninth birthday! Of course, that’s a fact that every VOCALOID fan should know. And likely to coincide with that day is the so-called “August 39th Project,” for which a teaser site has been revealed on the official blog for Hacka Doll, an app …

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  • 12 August

    VOCALOID News Network at Otakuthon 2016 Recap

    Hello everyone! As you may have known, I (Luna from VNN French) had the (last minute) privilege to attend the annual Otakuthon from August 5th to 7th in Montréal, Canada. It was my first time going to a convention and I must say, while I was mostly excited, I was …

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  • 12 August

    After Shanghai and Hong Kong, “PARTY A GO-GO” in Costa Rica!

    1st PLACE is happy to officially announce a new live concert date to IA’ s “PARTY A GO-GO” tour around the world. After the announcement of the live concerts in Shanghai and Hong Kong, a new date has been added! IA will be performing at BN ARENA in San José (Costa Rica) on October …

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  • 11 August

    VNN in Arabic is Now Live!

    You can now find all your news in Arabic on VNN! We still need to adjust a few things due to Arabic being written right to left, nothing major. However, this will be fixed very shortly. We hope to see you there! Also make sure to check out our Facebook …

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  • 11 August

    Hatsune Miku Collaborates With Artemis Kings For Beautiful Silver Rings & Pendants

    Unique and stylistic silver jewelry with a Hatsune Miku theme? Artemis Kings, a Japanese jewelry maker, has made just that in a recent collaboration to create a set of themed rings and pendants. The metal of each piece is made using high quality 925 sterling silver, and epoxy resin for …

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  • 10 August

    VNN’s neuste Erweiterungen “ProjectDIVA.Wiki” und “ProjectDIVA.Net”

    Und wieder einmal erweitern wir unser VNN. Diesmal handelt es sich um ProjectDIVA.wiki und ProjectDIVA.net welche wir nun unter unsere Fittiche nehmen. Diese werden jedoch nicht direkt auf die VNN Seite eingefügt, sondern bleiben unabhängige Webseiten. Unser System Administrator ‘Akurasix’ wird beide, mit der Unterstützung anderer Administratoren unserer Webseite, leiten. Wir hoffen, dass die Erweiterung den Projekt DIVA Nutzern der …

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  • 10 August

    VNN’s Newest Addition “Project DIVA .Wiki” and “ProjectDIVA.Net”

    Once again, we are expanding VNN even further. However, this time we are adding the Project DIVA .Wiki and ProjectDIVA.net under our banner. They will not be directly implemented into VNN’s website, they will remain as standalone websites. These will be taken care of by our system administrator Akurasix, with …

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  • 10 August

    Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Demo Now Available In NA And EU, DLC Details Announced

    As promised by SEGA, the free demo for Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X is now out in EU and NA regions on the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita platforms! You can grab it from the links below: US Vita: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-demo/cid=UP0177-PCSE00886_00-PJDX393PRPRTRIAL US PS4: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-demo/cid=UP0177-CUSA04636_00-PJDX393PRPRTRIAL EU Vita: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/games/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-demo/cid=EP0177-PCSB01009_00-PJDX393PRPRTRIAL EU PS4: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/games/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-demo/cid=EP0177-CUSA05768_00-PJDX393PRPRTRIAL  

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  • 9 August

    VNN Will Be Available in 10 Languages Soon with the Addition of the Arabic Language!

    Since this is the fourth article of the sort in about a week, we will keep this one short. We will be adding Arabic to our list of languages on VNN shortly. This means that VNN will be available in 10 languages! Although it wasn’t our plan to have them …

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  • 9 August

    VOCALOID News Network at Otakon!

    We’ve been talking about it for a while but now we’ve got the article! VNN will be at Otakon! Of course, we’re not the only VOCALOID related goodness going on this weekend. We’ll be hanging out with EmpathP, who has two panels, and we’ll even be attending the VOCALOTAKON photo …

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  • 8 August

    VNN German Coming Soon!

    When we said we were going to add more languages in the future, we were not lying. Although we did not plan on it being so close together. However, German is a language that we have been wanting to add for some time and we are happy to finally be …

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  • 8 August

    Hatsune Miku Opera THE END Coming to Germany!

    After appearing in France last year, the “Hatsune Miku Opera THE END” is coming to Germany! Fans can enjoy the opera on August 18th, 19th, and 20th. There will be one showing each day! Show Times All shows will be held at Kampnagel, an international center for arts. They are …

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  • 7 August

    VNN Russian is Now Live!

    Only a few days ago, we announced that we were beginning work on VNN Russian and it would be out soon. Well, we really meant it! All of our articles will now be translated in Russian on VNN. We hope to bring as much VOCALOID related things to the Russian …

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  • 7 August

    Voicemith’s UTAU JOAN & OSCAR

    For those of you who are not familiar with Voicemith, they are the people behind the well-known Chinese UTAU Xia Yu Yao (夏語遙). She has a CV-VC Japanese voice bank and a CVVC simplified Chinese voice bank. They now have two new UTAUs, JOAN and OSCAR, currently only with Chinese voice banks.   …

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