Posts Tagged ‘anime’
This is Live. No. Really. Sort of. (DaddyTube)
This video, of Hatsune Miku, a Japanese Vocaloid star (?), blew my mind. You have to watch long enough to really get the effect I got. I don’t want to spoil it but I will tell you that this is a live concert. Watch a bit of it. Hell, watch the whole thing, it’s under 3 minutes.
Did you see what I saw? Actual real-live musicians playing along with a hologram? In front of an audience of actual humans?
Wow. Just… wow.
On the one hand, it’s End Times stuff. But the technology behind it is fascinating. There is a Vocaloid Keytar! (Warning: the video is very strange and includes a person in a dinosaur suit, dancing.) It goes deep.
I haven’t found anything that indicates there are any English versions. However, listening to a couple of songs (literally a couple, I only checked out two, both by Hatsune Miku, who is not a real person but performs with a live band) I’ve decided that it isn’t as bad as some current pop music. Plus you don’t have to worry about lyrics like “brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack” because it’s mostly in Japanese.
Not too bad, right? I mean, for pop music. It depends on how you feel about that sort of thing.
Mostly it was seeing the real musicians performing alongside a hologram that freaked me out.
h/t to the folks who showed this to me, one of whom was Lucas Gonze and the other of whom was Tom.
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Real Life Japanese Toy (Buying) Story
From Kotaku East, the story of a father trying to buy a Yokai Watch watch, which apparently isn’t a watch. It’s some kind of anime-related toy. The story, which I admit I expected to find exasperating, is actually rather sweet, mostly because the author, Brian Ashcraft, appears to have raised his son well. There’s no whining, no “dad, you go wait on line for the toy while I sit home and ignore the 782 toys that I already have”. The kid, who is 5 years old, even calls Toys R Us himself. He also does something very cute that I won’t spoil for you because it’s, well, cute, and the original article isn’t very long so just go ahead and click the link below and read it.
Consider it research: according to one of the related links below, the company that makes the Yokai Watch non-watch could release it over here. Looking at how popular this thing is in Japan, I’d say it’s worth a try.
Buying Japan’s Most Popular Toy Was Crazy Hard – Kotaku
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NY Comic Con Photos 2010
With the 2011 New York Comic Con almost upon us, I realized that I had pics from 2010 that I hadn’t shared. So here are some amusing photos from the 2010 New York Comic Con. Yoshis, Galactus and Archie — oh my! Read more »
