Hatsune Miku gets featured on TV (but not)
Hatsune Miku was featured on the variety show Akko ni omakase! (Youtube link) on TBS this morning, but it wasn’t exactly featured in a positive light, nor was it even focused on Hatsune Miku. Instead, it was busy with the usual negative portrayal of otaku that the media has always been so good at.
In the video, it features somebody from Crypton(the makers of Hatsune Miku) saying that they developed the software so people can be like Tsunku and produce Hatsune Miku like Morning Musume. Crypton has apologised on their blog (in the comments) for having accepted the interview by TBS in the first place and says that the statement was originally already prepared by TBS and the guy was made to say it.
The two guys featured in the video were told that the feature was going to be about how they use Hatsune Miku to compose songs, and the staff recorded almost 3 hours of them working on the software. But in the end, only the few minutes where they talked about otaku stuff was used on the air and only a few seconds of Hatsune Miku’s singing was featured. The cosplay at the end was insisted upon by the TBS staff because “there wasn’t enough impact”.
October 14th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Pleease - enough with thy vocaloid stuff. Hath will be given thunder & lightning!!!
October 15th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I say more on the vocaloid stuff.
This is bloody prejudice. Heck, TBS owed to be sued for trying to pervade a stereotype, and furthermore, for undermining the potential of such technology. I mean, this is something by YAMAHA. A distinct music company. Miku is no more then a means of making a dignified product attractive to the market.
This is as bad as that Taiwanes fool who made fun of Haruhi on national Taiwanese TV.
October 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
That style of filming and use of material sounds awfully familiar… - ZM, who doesn’t drink, smoke, or use drugs… he plays video games