This episode’s guest is Kento Itoh, voice actor for Toya Aoyagi!
Commentary from Itoh:
“It feels awesome to be the first up to bat for this radio series! I wonder if I was able to properly convey my excitement for the game, and my love of VOCALOID. I hope this series will really take off from here on out. Please enjoy!”
Autograph Campaign
To celebrate the launch of Project SEKAI Colorful Radio, there is now a Twitter campaign being held where 3 entrants will be chosen at random to win an autograph from Itoh himself!
— ใใญใธใงใฏใใปใซใค ใซใฉใใซในใใผใธ๏ผ feat. ๅ้ณใใฏ (@pj_sekai) January 8, 2020
Winners will be contacted by direct message, so make sure that your Twitter account is able to receive them. The autographs will be sent to the winners sometime in March, 2020. Best of luck to all!
**UPDATE ON JANUARY 15, 2020**
Episode 2 of Colorful Radio has now been uploaded online! This episode features Hinata Satou, voice actress for Mizuki Akiyama, who talks about her audition experience!
— ใใญใธใงใฏใใปใซใค ใซใฉใใซในใใผใธ๏ผ feat. ๅ้ณใใฏ (@pj_sekai) January 15, 2020
Comments from Satou:
“This is Hinata Satou, the speaker for this week’s Project SEKAI Colorful Radio! I voice Mizuki Akiyama-chan! I’ll be talking about what makes the game so appealing in this episode, so please give it a listen!”
There is also now an autograph campaign for Satou as well!
Like before, simply follow Project SEKAI’s official Twitter account and retweet the below Tweet by 11:59 PM on January 21 (JST) to enter for the chance to win one of three autographs from the voice actress!
Now some more information and images have surfaced for the upcoming auto chess RPG and Miku’s role in it!
Collaboration Character Details
The first in-game image reveals Miku’s character portrait for the game, which is based on her V4X design. In the game, Miku will play a princess who makes it her mission to share the power of love with everyone in the game world by singing for them. And she’ll apparently also accomplish this by marching into battle with players!
The collaboration event also promises many new exclusive missions for players to partake in for generous rewards like new gear for their heroes, and the chance to deepen their bonds with the princess characters.
Stay tuned for launch date and more information as it is announced. You can download 300 Auto Chess for Android and soon for iOS devices from TapTap here!
**UPDATE ON JANUARY 8, 2020**
It has now been announced that from January 10 through February 6, pre-event Hatsune Miku Gift Packs will be made available for players to purchase before the collaboration officially begins!
The screenshots below reveal a standard version of the pack for ๏ฟฅ128 RMB, plus a collector’s version for ๏ฟฅ328 RMB that will net players even more items and benefit!
Furthermore, it’s been teased that it won’t just be Miku who will be debuting in the 300 Auto Chess world, but all of her friends as well! We’re assuming this means the rest of the piapro characters (MEIKO, KAITO, Rin, Len, and Luka) will also be a part of the collaboration in some way.
To get players ready, the game makers are currently preparing what they are calling the “Hatsune Miku Family Portrait” pre-event campaign through which players can obtain Miku and all of her friends! Stay tuned for more info on that!
The information for today’s update comes from this article.
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“I’ve started using weibo โชัโ(โ โโขโโโโขโ โ)โั Please follow me if you’d likeโช https://weibo.com/u/7348444118 Now, someone please teach me Chinese… ั(โเนโโโแบโโโเนโ)ั
On her official weibo account, her very first post shows her greeting fans in both Japanese and Chinese! It sure doesn’t look like she’s having any problems learning the latter!
Or is she? Her second post about the Unapippigo seems to use Japanese and English instead. Well, at your own pace, Una!
We look forward to seeing what else Una will do for her Chinese language-speaking fans now! Stay tuned!
Links
Below, you can follow Otomachi Una on all her social media accounts!
GraffArt SHOP has announced the Hatsune Miku “Suya Chara” series of goods coming to various store locations on January 18! “Suya” is short for “suya suya,” the onomatopoeic word for sleeping soundly in Japanese, and this series appropriately features the piapro characters fast asleep on music note-shaped cushions!
17 Livers (users of the app) who enter the contest will be challenged to submit videos of themselves dancing the Catch the Wave dance. During the “Supporter Challenge” phase, audience vote will then determine who the top five 17 Livers are in the “special supporter” and “game distribution” categories, and those top 17 Livers will receive the following prizes:
Special Supporter Prizes
2nd ~ 5th place: – A Nintendo Switch – A copy of Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Mega 39’s – The chance to participate in a special supporter audition through which they can win the opportunity to perform during a promotional Project DIVA Mega 39’s release livestream on DENGEKI ONLINE
1st place: – All of the above, plus a special event profile
Game Distribution Prizes
2nd ~ 5th place: – A Nintendo Switch – A copy of Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Mega 39’s
1st place: – All of the above, plus a special event profile
After the “Supporter Debut” phase, the top five 17 Livers in each category will have their videos judged based on the criteria of how “high spirited” they dance, and how much they can get audiences to want to play the game.
Contest Timeline
โปAll times are JST
Supporter Challenge
January 1, 7:00 PM ~ January 6, 11:59 PM
Supporter Debut
January 1, 7:00 PM ~ January 11, 11:59 PM
Results Announcement
January 24, 2020 (planned)
Game Pre-Release Demo Party
February 1 from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM (planned)
This is where the top 17 Livers in the Game Distribution category can participate
Game Release Livestream Date
February 13, 2020 (planned)
โปEvent to take place in the Tokyo Metropolitan area, so winning entrants will have to be able to make the trip there
On the webpage, go to the “ๅๅ ๆนๆณ” section pictured below, and click on the large red button that reads “ใใฟใใใๅผใ” to draw an o-mikuji!
Step 3
Your fortune will then be sent via direct message to your Twitter account. Check it, and see what kind of fortune and corresponding prize you get!
Prizes
ใป่ถ ใใฏใใฏๅ (Super Miku Miku Fortune): An Amazon gift card worth ๏ฟฅ3,939 JPYใ5 winnersใ
ใปๅคงๅ (Great Fortune) An Amazon gift card worth ๏ฟฅ500 JPYใ30 winnersใ
ใปไธญๅ (Medium Fortune) An Amazon gift card worth ๏ฟฅ100 JPYใ200 winnersใ
ใปๅฐๅ (Small Fortune) An Amazon gift card worth ๏ฟฅ50 JPYใ9,765 winnersใ
ใปๆซๅ (Unknown Fortune) Smart phone wallpaper
If you pull ๅฐๅ (Small Fortune) or higher, you will get a direct message on Twitter with the Amazon gift code that you must redeem by the given deadline to receive the prize.
For the record, here’s what I got on my first draw!
Small Fortune “In the first store you enter, you may meet your master’s elder sister.”
You can then share your results on Twitter and further promote the campaign!
Unknown fortune “You may find yourself clashing with your friends over something you never thought about before…!?
Best of luck (literally) to all who will be drawing o-mikuji fortunes during the campaign, and look forward to more Project SEKAI Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku news!
The following day, right at 12:00 midnight (JST) on January 1, 2020, he unveiled Web Synthesizer V, a fully functional version of Synthesizer V that runs on a browser!
Although at the current stage it isn't as powerful as the desktop version as it uses a minimized voice database, we believe it is a good time to invest in web techs. It could be the next platform for audio production. It could also be a great addition to the current eco system.
For developers: while developing Web Synthesizer V we also ported JUCE framework to Web Assembly. Right now it's GUI+Audio Output only, but adding the rest won't be hard.https://t.co/T1oszsS2pC
As soon as you launch the webpage, it will load a demo of the song ่ตคใจใใผ / Akatonbo that is fully editable. You can add freely add and edit notes and their lyrics, change parameters like pitch, vibrato, loudness, breathiness, gender, and more. All edits can even be played back. Furthermore, you can upload your own file to edit right on the browser!
1st Place has announced a massive New Year sale for up to 70% off on IA & ONE goods on the HACHIMAKI Shop throughout January, 2020!
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Here are the goods that will have their prices reduced during the sale period. Be sure to check their respective product pages on January 6 for their sale prices:
There will also be a planned “IA ONE Lucky Box” with purchase options of ๏ฟฅ5,000 or ๏ฟฅ10,000 JPY for a set of goods that have not yet been announced. Given the name, however, we guess that they could be fukubukuro grab bags.
Lucky Boxes that are purchased before January 16, 2020 are planned to be shipped on that day along with any individual goods that were purchased by then.
Be sure to check back here on January 6, 2020 for more information on the big sale as it is announced!
Usually when I write articles on collaborations, it’s all about how to best spend your time in the collab and how to maximize your benefits. However, the Love Nikki x Hatsune Miku collaboration is incredibly different from the collabs that many Miku fans have come to love. So this time, I’ll be doing a bit of a break down and a bit of a review.
The Basics
The collaboration itself is based on the plot of trying to find Miku Magical Mirai 2018. In this collaboration, each Miku is a different Miku and there are three of them to find: Magical Mirai 2016, Magical Mirai 2017, and Magical Mirai 2018 with 2018 being the “finale” so to speak. However, if you’re lucky, you may manage to find her before the other Mikus!
You can also obtain Rin and Len suits (full themed outfits are called “suits” in the game) although they seem more like small bonuses than anything else compared to the complexity of the Miku suits you obtain in game.
Obtaining the Suits
Unlike in many of the Miku collabs we’ve grown to love and hate at the same time because of the endless grinding and all of the level caps that give older players more of a chance at getting the exclusive items/units, the Love Nikki collaboration takes a different approach. Some would argue it’s a much fairer approach. Free to Play players would definitely agree that the time sink of grinding would be far more fair.
This is because the entire event is based around in-game currency called “Diamonds” which are essentially the Love Nikki version of “Pay to Win” currency. While you can obtain Diamonds through quests, completing suits, and other ways as you go throughout the game, the quickest way by far is to just exchange your real life money for the Diamonds.
The main area for the collaboration
The entire event is just exploring the Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai pavilion using your Diamonds. You get one free chance per day which won’t get you anywhere since the event is going on for less than a week (December 25th until December 31st at 23:59 [UTC-8]). Each exploration nets you a single Magic Cube. Collecting certain amounts of cubes will allow you to hit milestones and get special suits.
The milestones and their most common rewards are as follows:
20 Magical Cubes: Kagamine Rin or Len 50 Magical Cubes: Kagamine Rin or Len 120 Magical Cubes: Magical Mirai 2016 Miku 170 Magical Cubes: Magical Mirai 2017 Miku 265 Magical Cubes: Magical Mirai 2018 Miku + Magical Mirai Stage
There have been people pulling the rewards out of this order but most players will pull in the order listed.
Each exploration after the initial free one will cost you 30 Diamonds and you can choose to do bulk explorations of 10 for 300 Diamonds. If you’re interested in a full cost breakdown, you can check out the Reddit post here for more information. Thankfully, I had a lot of Diamonds left over from when I was addicted to Love Nikki several years ago so I was able to collect the Magical Cubes with no problem.
Other available suits
Each suit contains 6 or more pieces and completing the suits nets you gems, coins, and even special pose packs. The item descriptions are actually really cute especially for Magical Mirai 2017 which refer to lyrics of Sand Planet / Dune.
Adding all of the items obtained would make this article painfully long for mobile users. However, you can follow our Facebook where we’ll post breakdowns of each suit and then update this article with links to those breakdowns.
Bonus Events
Share your love of Miku on the official Love Nikki Facebook for a chance to win free suits and more! All you have to do is like the page and the post shown above and then comment with your favorite Miku related thing!
– 3 people will win the Magical Mirai 2018 suit – 1 person will win all five of the collaboration suits – And if the post gets get 40K (likes+comments+shares), 10 other people will win 7*Daily Diamond Cards (valued 420 Diamonds) each!
There’s also a special AR Event going on with even more prizes! Prizes for this competition are as follows:
– 5 people will win 7*Daily Diamond Cards(valued 420 Diamonds) each! – 10 people will win 120 Stamina each! – 50 people will win 25 Starcoins each!
If you’re unsure of how to get the AR function to work, you can use his lovely tutorial on Youtube here.
More Information
For more information, be sure to keep an eye on our Facebook page as well as the official Love Nikki Facebook page. There are only a few days left in the event so if you’re interested in it, be sure to join the game soon!
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