Popular human voice synthesizer Vocaloid Hatsune Miku are getting known oversea as a Japanese web phenomenon. Like the global company Google picked it up as a "singer" for Chrome promotion in Japan, where they chose Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga for US.

As the Chrome video shows, there are massive number of generated songs and videos are created, uploaded on Nico Nico Douga and YouTube.

On YouTube, some Miku fans started noticing that some of the Hatsune Miku videos were removed with "copyright violation" recently. Many of the banned videos are English and other subtitled ones made from the original Japanese versions.

Nico Nico Pedia has a detailed history of the issue started in last November [J]. According to it, the users who reported the copyright violation all have a name Junichi Sasa, or slightly modified of it, who are unlikely own the copyright of the removed videos.

Fans made a video to inform this issue. The English subbed one is here,

Chinese,

French,

The copyright holder of the Hatsune Miku's video is each creator, so, on regular copyright report, the original creators are encouraged to claim YouTube to get it back. However, making things difficult is that many of Hatsune Miku videos are re-uploaded from Nico Nico Douga to YouTube by non-authors, and foreign language subtitled versions are usually made another users. In that meaning, those removed videos are not really by the original copyright holder.

Even when the author does not care, or is pleased that their videos are distributed across the web services and the languages, not many of them notice and take countermeasure on those distributed versions.

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"Tell Your World ", the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories.

iTunes Japan chart at 19th January was following.

The song was released in 18th January on iTunes Japan and right after the release, ranked top 10. On next day, it ranked 1st.

Google's promotional campaign video for its Chrome, "Google Chrome: Hatsune Miku" uses "Tell Your World." The video depicts how Hatsune Miku, the virtual singer, has developed online creativity and tells everyone can be creator on the web.

This video has been viewed over 1.8 million times since its release in 14th December.

Great music choice, Google Japan!

Google Chrome: Hatsune Miku (初音ミク)

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As Google evangelized that Hatsune Miku is an user-generated phenomenon, not just a girl's voice synthesizer application. Then, all of her characters, song, voice and dances at concerts may not be a possessions of officials. Fans are trying to reproduce her concerts in their rooms.

YouTube user aokikc used a mosquito screen as a substitute for expensive DILAD screen.

39diyMMDConcert from US reproduced her Mikunopolis concert in Los Angels.

To let her dance, they use MMD(Miku Miku Dance).

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Like US Google featuring Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, Google Japan chose the most popular singer on Japanese web, virtual singing tool Hatsune Miku, a 61 seconds video which praises all involved creators.

The playing count does not move up from 309, which might be from Japanese word-play 3(=Mi) 9(=ku). You may check the stats of the video and see it is played heavily now in Japan.

Unofficial home ground of Hatsune Miku movement Nico Nico Douga, from where most of videos really come, does not appear in the video, probably because YouTube is a competitor of Nico Nico Douga in Japan.

" Hatsune Miku " is a virtual singer who can sing any song that anybody composes.

It has made a massive impact on all creators through the web.
They, inspired by her songs, have published their original works
not only in the field of music, but in illustration, video,
CG, cosplay, live performance and dance.

Besides over 30,000 original tracks, many more works are
still being released over the web.

Feel the possibilities of the web through the social phenomenon caused by million craetors.

"Tell Your World" / livetune feat. Hatsune Miku
Lyrics・Music: kz

　Grasp the phrase I happen to be humming
　Spread secret words of the heart into the sky

　I want to tell you
　I want to give you
　Nodes of feelings forms a link
　Connecting everything. Connecting to everywhere

This film was created with the support of CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA Inc,
SEGA, and many creators and fans from all around the world.

See Also:

Asiajin » Computer-Synthesized Vocal Album Tops The Japanese Chart First In History

Asiajin » tagged articles with Hatsune Miku

Google Chrome: Lady Gaga for Japan

Google Chrome: Justin Bieber for Japan

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Moymoypalaboy's Everybody (Backstreet Boys) is a popular user generated movie played about 3 million times on YouTube. Then what is this movie rapidly adding its played count?

From the Japanese title

"【MMD】 「顔芸担当」 × 「エアボ兄弟」 でEVERYBODY 【オリジナル】"

"[MMD][Kaogei Tantou]x[Eabo Kyodai] de EVERYBODY [Original]",

which shows the left side movie is made by MMD = Miku Miku Dance. Eabo Kyodai = "Air-Vocal Brothers", is the name Japanese gave the Moymoypalaboy unit.

Miku Miku Dance is a free virtual 3D figure dance authoring tool, which was originally developed by fans of Vocaloid, human voice singing synthesizer software represented by pretty popular virtual diva Hatsune Miku, to promote Vocaloid singers over the web.

By MMD, many Japanese hobby video authors, who play around on Japanese online movie sharing service Nico Nico Douga, can make dynamic 3D animations with 3D figure data.

In August, the 7th online MMD contest was held virtually on Nico Nico Douga. Contestants were given some themes and create movies, compete with Nico Nico users vote.

The left side movie was one of the contestants, and the one with the original is "Hikaku douga"(movie for comparison), to show how their video is "synchronized" well with its motif.

Here is a comparison movie with two more Everybody, one of which is a recent Japanese internet meme Enoch frEl Shaddaiom.

The MMD contest had hundreds of such movies. Unfortunately most of them requires Japanese (especially anime) cultural contexts, but some use foreign-origined materials.

Remake the highlight scene of Equilibrium ("Rebellion" in Japan), Gun=Kata movie having cult-like popularity with Hatsune Miku.

Children's picture book "The Missing Piece" is known in Japan, too. This "Miku wo Sagashini", parodies its Japanese title "Boku wo Sagashini"("Seeking Myself") again features Hatsune Miku as a character.

If you have ever seen Ramen's The Japanese Tradition -Dogeza-, sarcastic gag film explaining Japanese genuflexion form of apology, is reproduced.

Sega's 3D battle game Virtua Fighter 2 demo scene with Vocaloid characters

The grand prized was given to this movie, a popular game character sing and dance a popular Vocaloid song.

As always, if you want to watch more of these movies than the ones copied into YouTube by someone, registering Nico Nico Douga and search by "MMD", "Miku Miku Dance" will give you thousands of MMD-made movies.

At this point, many of the user generated movies are trying to mimic the original, boasting how much they can reproduce scenes on the commercial products. But this widening trend with a lot of sunday video authors and free tools could generate something really interesting and original in near future.

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