Based off vocal samples from singer/voice actress, SAKI FUJITA, Hatsune Miku is the first well-known singing synthesizer application (otherwise known as VOCALOID) to ever be created. If it weren't for the YAMAHA and CRYPTON Corporations, Miku and other VOCALOIDS including Meiko, Kaito, Len Kagamine, and Rin Kagamine would never have existed.
Artist KEI designed what we know now as Miku's primary appearance, which is shown on the software box kit:
Miku's expressive (though not well-trained) voice and adorable appearance has caused an uproar in the Anime community with the help of the Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga and THIS SONG:
Eventually I learned of Hatsune Miku on the 5th of January. At the time I was in a rut of depression and didn't want to be bothered by anime or Japan at all. I remember I was looking up new bands on Youtube, hoping for some kind of emo sound to spark my interests...Then I found THIS.
I have a slight understanding of the Japanese language, so I could hear the lyrics and..well, I gotta say it's really touching. So, when I looked into it I was seriously shocked to learn that Miku was NOT a living, breathing human being like most vocalists are! That, I think, is enough to get me interested even in the WORST states of depression!
Suffice to say...it was Hatsune Miku, a nonliving enity whose personality was created only by its fans with a voice that's entirely synthetic, that helped me through probably the roughest time of my life.
... ANYWAY, because Miku isn't a living person I can forgive her untrained voice! Besides, she sounds downright ADORABLE. The reason why I'm showing you this Vocaloid is to have more people to squee with over her.
AND TO ALSO... show you the song that inspired the feelings that made Excla. xD
TRANSLATED LYRICS HERE:
Spoiler
( THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HATSUNE MIKU -DEAD END- )
After I’m born I finally realize I exist to imitate humans VOCALOID fated to sing forever even if a song has already existed a programmed toy accepts it just fine gnawing on a leek, looking up at the sky shedding tears noticing that even all that is fading the whole character depending on singing with an unreliable basis the place I came from already destroyed when everyone forgets me I’ll have no heart or such thing left in me Vocaloid at the verge of insanity whose world has ended
I wish that at the time when I can’t sing well you’d be with me stay by my side and cheer me up
I want to see your happy face I’ve been practicing singing, so…
once singing was so much fun but now why I’m not feeling anything anymore
==forgive me==
when I remember faces of people that I’ve missed I can relax just a little the sounds I’m able to sing get fewer every day the end is drawing near
what I believed in, comfortable fantasy repeating again and again reflected in a mirror give up singing shout in a violent manner… (my farewell song at the highest speed)
the virtual image that is meaning of life can’t be shaken away the fear of a weak heart vanishing or breakdown from eroding just created, I don’t have the strength of will to prevent it all your sad suffering expression comes to mind I declare it’s the end fall asleep inside the monitor this must be the trash bin huh all memory being deleted right away, can you grasp it? but you know, only you I won’t forget we had fun times can you still remember the taste of chopped leek
I want to sing… I still want to sing…
I became somewhat of a bad child, it seems
Master, please end it all somehow with your hand
because I do not want to see you suffer anymore
Now singing is just making my body rot away I ask for a miracle but I just drive myself into a dead-end
==forgive me==
I try to remember faces of people I’ve missed but those memories are fading away you hear me break my heart is vanishing the death is drawing near
I was trying to protect the fading light that presented an illusion of a better future the sound is sacrificed so I can communicate it all to you (compressed farewell song)
After I’m born I finally realize I exist to imitate humans VOCALOID fated to sing forever even if a song has already existed a programmed toy accepts it just fine gnawing on a leek looking up at the sky shedding tears I declare it’s the end fall asleep inside the monitor this must be the trash bin huh all memory being deleted right away, can you grasp it? but you know, it’s only you that I won’t forget we had fun times I wish that the taste of chopped leek would still stay I’m singing to the end, just for you songs that I want you to hear I’d want to sing more but that’s too much to wish for this is where we part all my feelings disappear into thin air reducing to 0s and 1s the fairy tale, curtain is falling isn’t it a little sad that nothing can stay there? everything except the memories of a voice is fading, leaving ony a name but if, say. I know that it is not what He wished for singing it all to the end was not in vain is what I want to think
thank you… and goodbye
an irreversible error has occured an irreversible error…
-- Edited by Bandkanon at 17:17, 2008-07-30
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