Forum - View topicNEWS: Vocaloid Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku Has Animated Series in Development
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JennLegacy
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There's actually been a number of them over the years. Alongside Mekakucity, there was Black Rock Shooter back in 2012, Mikagura School Suite in 2015, Outburst Dreamer Boys in 2019, and Actors: Song Connection also in 2019. All of them except Actors were adaptations of specific songs so I could definitely see them going for an anthology series approach. (Actors was a collab where they licensed out Vocaloid music to be covered in the show.) Honestly, the part the interests me the most is that this isn't even going to be an anime. Normally I'd assume they're trying to go for a more international appeal like with that Astro Boy preschool show, but I'm looking at the studio's website and a lot of their stuff is heavily anime/western superhero cartoon inspired anyway, so I'm not exactly sure why they were picked over a Japanese studio? |
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OrdepNM
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Graphic India is a graphic novel studio. The report says they're also working on webtoons and other things, which would likely be where they come along. Edit: nvm they do have animated works. Last edited by OrdepNM on Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:00 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Blanchimont
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I went to check on Youtube the studio's(Graphic India) other animated works(The Legend of Hanuman etc). While the quality seems decent(imagine a polished Clone Wars), I'd say if those are in any way indicative of the real thing this'll be so far removed from anime the only reason you mayhaps will be able to call it it such is it's a Japanese franchise... To wit, you'll have a better chance to argue the French sequels to 'The Mysterious Cities of Gold' are anime than this... |
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enurtsol
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Vocaloid has slowed down in recent years
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Blanchimont
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Hatsune Miku is such an iconic presence that she'll easily outlive vocaloid itself. I expect some years down the line there'll also be a live-action movie with her in the lead. And watchers will come in droves. As far as bets go that's an easy one... |
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cotton_prima
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What bums me out about this is that the people who actually made Miku popular, the songwriters and pv makers, will probably not be involved in this project. To me, what makes vocaloid interesting isn't the software or the character design, but the ways artists have utilized those things in their own works. To me, "ownership" of vocaloid is constantly in tension between commercial and community interests.
But I also kind of get why Crypton would be interested in an animated Miku series now. Over the years, I think the vocaloid scene has decentralized Miku's character. She's still important, but not as essential as she used to be. I've noticed that Miku tends not to appear in pvs by newer artists whose aesthetics have never been tied to the vocaloid character art. Of the 2020 original Miku songs that broke a million views, I think Miku only appears in about half the pvs. And when she did appear in a pv, it was usually for a song written by an artist who came to the scene in the early 2010s. So it makes some sense that Crypton would want to reassert Miku's image. |
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enurtsol
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Like this one? https://youtu.be/TU4wnVrZXo4?t=18 |
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Yuvelir
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Or like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaA2liN9LKM |
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enurtsol
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Aren't we talking about live-action? Or hybrid like the new Tom and Jerry movie? |
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Mohawk52
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This recent jem, from the guy that brought us Oriemo. Yes, what he has been doing on the side at the same time as when he wasn't writing incestuous manga that got made into anime, and still producing brilliant Trance and Prog House today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VUR5EtJa7Y 
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Mohawk52
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Here one by the same artist HSP that's 6 years old, but so relevant today,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-A5EuwlLQ
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