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This isn’t new, hell this isn’t even recent. But it doesn’t matter because Miku and Mega Man are both timeless. This video features Hatsune Miku, the first synthesized character voice of the popular Vocaloid 2 software suite, singing the music of Mega Man 3. Now let’s get our education on by completely ignoring everything every college professor told me about using Wikipedia as a source and go ahead and use Wikipedia as a source.
Hatsune Miku (初音ミク?) is the first installment in the Vocaloid 2 Character Vocal Series released on August 31, 2007. The name of the title and the character of the software was chosen by combining Hatsu (初 First?), Ne (音 Sound?), and Miku (未来 Future?).[12] The data for the voice was created by actually sampling the voice of Saki Fujita, a Japanese voice actress. Unlike general purpose speech synthesizers, the software is tuned to create J-pop songs commonly heard in anime, but it is possible to create songs from other genres.
Isn’t learning fun? Check out the video below!
So, we are going to daily fig it up this evening. Mostly because Brooks didn’t want to look at the last article on the front page anymore. Fortunately we have an outdoor exploring Nanoha Takamachi fig that makes me remember that in the “outside world” it might be Spring. Well at least for us northern hemisphere folk. The rest of you will have to find some depressing figs to symbolize Fall. Like anything from Fate/Stay Night, which I have continued to curse ever since finishing. DAMN YOU FATE/STAY NIGHT.
source: figure.fm
We’ve featured Hatsune Miku quite a few times. So by now you should be in the know regarding her identity. This time around our little Vocaloid Idol is tearing up the streets in a racer! Huzzah! This picture and those below come from tomopop.com, so be sure to check out what all they got goin on.
Moe moe kyun, indeed. Mio is for sure looking cute and seksi, and our hearts would be going *kyun kyun* if ours weren’t made of brass gears and cogs. The shot is of a new 1/8th scale fig being distributed by Good Smile Company
So it’s been a few days since we posted a Daily Fig, mostly because over the weekend we had something in the neighborhood of three on the front page and it really started to creep us out and we had ourselves a little self imposed intervention. So it’s sort of the not so daily fig at this point but having partially fallen off the wagon we are letting loose on you this fig of Lupin III. Lupin is the lead character in the anime of the same name who leads a small gang of criminals on various heists, sort of like Leverage and Hustle. I don’t remember where I saw these shots so I apologize to the source. To make it up to the rest of you I’ll also include a completely unsourced shot of Fujiko Mine.
Larry Carroll, of MTV’s Splashpage, sat down with Jon Landau who talked about Director James Cameron’s intent to take on the task of bringing Battle Angel Alita to film once Avatar 2 is completed. I gotta say I have the feeling this won’t go so well, and will still make 2 trillion dollars for Cameron to swim around in like Old Scrooge McDuck.
“We had a wonderful writer who came in and collaborated with Jim, Laeta Kalogridis, who worked on it; Laeta brought to our attention that there was much more to this world of Battle Angel than we ever knew,” explained Landau. “We were familiar with the anime that had been produced, we were familiar with one of the main books. But she opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.”
In a way, it was this eye-opening that caused Cameron to choose “Avatar” first.
“We really wanted to take our time in developing a large arc-ing story that really encompasses the whole world,” remembered Landau. “We were very close to doing that movie before we did ‘Avatar,’ and I think you’ll see that resurface. That’s a story in our minds about: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to fall in love? Are you human if you have a heart? Are you human if you have a mind? Or are you human if you just have a body? It’s a journey of self-discovery for a young girl.”
Check out the rest of the interview over at MTV Splashpage.
Todays fig Pixel Maritan from “Magical Marine Pixel Maritan“, likes to assist in the teaching of the English languages more colorful phrases. Actually Brooks and I really aren’t sure if it is a serious teaching aid, a joke, or some combination of the two. Either way who’s going to argue with her? Check out the video below for an example! It’s isn’t what you would call “safe for work” and features some strong language. So be sure to look both ways first.
image source: Nendoroid.org
FUNimation has just announced that it has acquired all sorts of fancy licencing rights to the hit television Anime series Trigun. They speculated that we should see it start to hit shelves once again this fall. Being one of the first Animes that I was exposed to it has a pretty high ranking on my list of favorites. In fact I still have the box set that I bought during its last release by Pioneer and am happy to see that more will have the opportunity to experience the sci-fi/comedy.
