iPhone’s new voice interface Siri is getting kind of artificial personality with human voice and many prepared witty answers. If so, such “virtual person in machine” is of course the Japanese anime/manga people’s favorite theme as seen on human voice synthesizer Hatsune Miku and her Vocaloid buddies are followed by a lot of illustrations, comics, dance movie, etc.
Around the social drawing community Pixiv, there are already many Siri illustrations by Japanese creators.
By Bohe(@bhe_bbo)
By Kuuki Satoh. This uses the line that Siri’s name sounds ass in Japanese (Shiri).
More on Pixiv [J].
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