The third collaboration performance with Hatsune Miku and KODO has been announced! The next event is titled This is Nippon Premium Theater ~Musubi~ Hatsune Miku x KODO Special Live 2020.
โปAll prices are after-tax โปAll attendants will get a special glowstick
Applications for advanced ticket lottery will be open from February 10, 11:00 am to February 16, 11:00 am on Ticketpia. General sales will begin on March 11, 10:00 am:
Here’s some commentary from the famed producer himself on this honor that you can find on the event’s homepage!
“Ever since I first watched the Hatsine Miku x KODO Special Live in 2017, I’ve been wanting to make a song featuring taiko drums in it, capturing the amazing intensity of a taiko performance.”
“Then a few years later, I get a request completely out of the blue from the Hatsune Miku x KODO group themselves to make a song.”
“After feeling that intensity from a KODO performance throughout 2017 and 2018, I never thought that I would ever get such a request that I longed for. Now I’m able to put all that vigor into writing an appropriate song for them.”
“I wrote this song to carry both the sense of unity and physicality that KODO performance have, as well as let the listener get the sensation of feeling intensely hot wind. Please look forward to hearing it!”
**UPDATE ON MARCH 21, 2020**
We now know the title of MikitoP’s song:
“NEPPUU๏ฝ็ฑ้ขจ๏ฝ!” (lit. “Hot Wind”)
See below for a teaser for the song in the show’s brand new trailer!
On the first of March 2020, the aptly titled “Hamamatsu! Otomachi! Una walk โช” event will be held, and it definitely looks like fun! As stated in our first article of the event, this is the latest collaboration project between Una and the Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Company!
It functions like a type of scavenger hunt / trail walk, where you follow a specific course route throughout Shizuoka, all the way to the finish. But don’t worry, all of that exercise isn’t in vain – there are prizes up for grabs if you complete the course too.
The course begins at “Tenryu-hama-nako Railway : Miyaguchi Station (okay, that was a mouthfulโฆ).
Registry for the event will occur between 8:30 and 11AM (JST). Participation is free, so once you’ve got your map, it’ll be time to start!
During the course, you’ll follow the trail through to these areas, all situated within Shizuoka :
[At NICOE, if you present your course map, you should be able to join in with some taste testing of freshly made yakiimo (baked sweet potato, a popular type of street food in Japan). Ahh..I’m hungry just thinking about itโฆ]
[Here is where the prizes come in! If you present your course map to staff, you’ll be able to receive an adorable A4 clear file of Una, who’s happily wearing her super fancy train – driving attire, as well as a can badge (you can one of the two shown in the image above). ]
Next will be the final stop, “Enshuu Railway : Saginomiya Station!” The course is about 11 kilometres altogether, and should take roughly two and a half hours to complete.
The badges shown are limited to this event only, so make sure to join in if you can to get the exclusive merch! Just make sure to keep hold of your course map at all times, and complete the trail quickly to avoid missing out.
Sounds pretty cool right? It might consist of a lot of travelling, but it’ll be fun nonetheless.
That’s all we know for now! I really want those can badges myself… But good luck to everyone who participates!
I have to say, there’s one event that I’m particularly excited about this year : the Sakura Miku x Goodsmile Company x Animate Cafe collaboration happening soon!
— ใขใใกใคใใซใใง็ทๅ (@animate_cafe) January 31, 2020
But why am I quite so excited? Well, that’s because I’ll be going there myself! So what do we know about the event already?
We know that the event will be running from the 18th March to 20th April 2020, and that there has been a variety of cherry blossom – themed art pieces produced for it (as to be expected). As well as this, the event will be held in Akihabara and Osaka, and it’s free entry for all.
Actually, that reminds me! There was also a competition for people to submit ideas for the Cafรฉ’s potential menu items AND artwork for its collaboration merchandise recently. People were encouraged to produce art to represent what kind of food and drink they’d like to see there, as well as to put forward drawings to be used for the newest sakura-centred Vocaloid goods. The deadline for this was the 31st October 2019, and so far we have results for both of these!
So…here is the adorable art which was selected!
The main visuals for it were created by ่ณ้ใตใฏ :
As well as this, there is a variety of other art featured on the official collaboration page, so it was safe to assume that there would be plenty of cute merchandise with these on available too.ย If you’re curious about the merchandise which will be available, you can read about it all here!
Here are the other artists and their stunning work:
(I have to say, the piece by Tsurushima Tatsumi is probably my favourite, since Rin and Len look super cute…I definitely want whatever merch has this on it!)
eyemirror has finally launched the official website for their collaboration eyeglasses with Yuzuki Yukari! Promotional art was provided by ๆๅๅ / Ayakura Juu!
Furthermore, those who purchase any one of the glasses will get a free clear file folder also bearing an original illustration of Yukari by ๆๅๅ / Ayakura Juu!
Other Merchandise
Finally, two other pieces of merchandise have been newly revealed!
Glasses Cloth
Comes in a tin can Price: ๏ฟฅ1,300 JPY Can be used about 300 times
Lens Cleaner
Container size: 155mm x 35mm Price: ๏ฟฅ1,300 JPY
Any Yukari fan who wears glasses (and even those who don’t) should absolutely check these products out at Koetsuki 6 on February 11 at the Ota City Industrial Plaza PiO!
On February 3, 2020 at 7:00 PM (JST), Bumpyใใใ / Bumpy Urushi and ใกใใP / ChomP hosted the official livestream unveiling the latest official compilation album from VOCALOMAKETS!
Album title: ๆๆใฎ่ฉฉII / Hoshitsuki no Uta II
With just a little over 24 hours of notice, VOCALOMAKETS has announced that they will be livestreaming a special program on Niconico Live, introducing their second official compilation album featuring Yuzuki Yukari and Kizuna Akari!
VOCALOMAKETS plans to release their second compilation album on February 11, 2020 at the Kono Koe Todoke, Tsuki Made mo 6 doujin event (“Koetsuki for short”). This livestream will be introducing its songs to fans.
Be sure to tune in if you have a premium Niconico account, or read our summary of the livestream content after it airs!
Furthermore, whenever the timing was intentional or not, the Koetsuki organizers have uploaded the mini live concert from the fourth Koetsuki event back from May 5, 2018 to YouTube right after the VOCALOMAKETS livestream was announced!
Genius Inc. recently released their newest game entitled “Doki Doki Sweets Girlfriend”, featuring the three Tohoku Sisters – Tohoku Zunko, Tohoku Kiritan and Tohoku Itako!
For those who don’t know, Genius Inc. is a japanese company which was established in 2014, who produce a variety of “Appdramas” (a similar concept to your regular Dating Sims).ย
…And their newest “bishoujo” game is no exception to the trend:
— ๆฑๅใใๅญ(ๅ ฌๅผ)๐2/11 ๅฃฐๆใๆฑใๆใซใใผ (@t_zunko) January 31, 2020
Let’s take a look shall we?
The story:
You’re a highschool boy working in a Wagashi store, which your uncle left to you in his last will. You’re despairing over how no customers ever come to your store… when you notice a beautiful girl walking outside.
You’re admiring her from inside your store until… she collapses outside! You rush out to help her, and bring her inside the store. She seems ill… so you try to feed her, but she’s adamant about ONLY eating Zunda Mochi (a type of sweet made by putting mashed edamame on top of mochi). And oh boy, is she adamant indeed.
Just to be clear, she ONLY eats Zunda mochi. Did you hear that? ONLY zunda mochi!
After a particularly taxing conversation with her, you bring her the requested Zunda Mochi and she perks up, explaining that her name is Zunko. After a while of conversing, you agree to let her help you save your store… but only if you change it into a Zunda Mochi store!
You eventually agree, and allow Zunko to stay at your place. How could life get any better?
In continuing into the next chapter, you will meet Kiritan and Itako, and complete your roster of girls who will help you on your journey to become the best Zunda Mochi store!
Now I’ll explain how this game works.
Once you open the app, you just tap the screen and you’ll be able to choose the name you want the girls to refer to you as (don’t worry, you can change your name later if you want).
Once you choose your name, you’ll start the game straightaway.
As for the actual gameplay…
You start the game with 30 rubies and 3 tickets. The game is divided into many chapters, and you pay one ticket per chapter you play. At the end of each chapter, you can choose to go to the next chapter (1 ticket) or replay the chapter you just did (1 ticket). One ticket will regenerate every 3 hours.
(The first time you play, you can replay chapter 1 for free. Sunsequent replays will cost one ticket each)
Every now and then there will be the opportunity to choose a dialogue option as you play. Sometimes these options will allow you to increase your affinity with a character by paying for an option with rubies.
When you choose one of these affinity increasing options, you’ll have the opportunity to unlock exclusive scenes with the girls!
So far, it seems like you can ONLY increase your affinity with Zunko and Itako. What will happen when you increase your affinity with the girls high enough? You’ll have to play to find out!
One of the nicest things that you can find in the game are these little popping up “information bubbles” which explain details about traditional Japanese culture, like “wagashi”, and “miso”.
Other controls
By pressing the “house” icon in the top right, you’ll get the menu.
By pressing “restart”, you can start the game again from Chapter 1 (all purchases are kept though). This means that if you’re not happy with the options you’ve chosen, you can start from scratch!
Pressing “Shop” will take you to their in game store, where you can use real life money to buy more “Rubies” and “Tickets” (which I’ll explain later).
“User settings” allows you to change your name (it says that you can change the language, but it looks like the only one available is English). You can also view your user ID.
I wouldn’t recommend the “Autoplay” option, since it doesn’t look like there’s a way to turn it off if you want to. The only thing that seems to work is going into “Game settings” and putting the Autoplay speed to the lowest speed, or closing the app and reopening it.
“More by Genius Inc.” Will take you to a page showing the company’s other bishoujo games.
“News” takes you to their official Facebook page.
“Minigames” takes you to a singular minigame which is a slot machine. Depending on which three icons you match, you’ll get “P” points, which you can exchange for rubies. After matching three icons, the game will ask if you want to triple your “P” points by watching an advert.
“Game settings” lets you dictate the game volume, transparency of the text box and autoplay speed.
“Backlog” shows you all of the previous dialogue from the current chapter.
In the bottom left, there’s a button which allows you to watch an advert to earn 30 “P” points. (You can do this once every 5 hours)
Now all that’s left to do is download the game and play! At the moment you can only play it on Android devices, and the only language is English. However, the company intends to make an IOS version AND add more languages to their game over time. I’d expect it to be translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Portuguese reasonably soon, since these are the languages Genius Inc. tend to use for their games.
I must admit, it’s certainly an interesting game. Despite the simplicity, I’m definitely going to keep playing and see what different outcomes I can get.
That’s all I’ve got for you for now! Keep an eye out on our social media pages for more Vocaloid-themed game content soon.
Worried that you missed the January 31 deadline for Harvest Avanna? Fret not! You’ll be glad to hear that entry to Avanna design contest has been extended by another month! The new deadline is February 29, 2020.
If you’re having designer’s block, then check out some of the entries that talented artist have already submitted! You never know, some might just spur your creative juices!
[vocaloid] here is my submission to @HarvestAvanna 's design contest… it was a lot of fun to draw!! now if you'll excuse me [naps for 4 years] #HA2020Designpic.twitter.com/s2UNLZsgTP
figuring out these colors was SO HARD but i think i at least got it ok this is my design for the #HA2020Design ! i went off the idea of leaves falling into water, with those ring patterns representing ripples and the transparent water sleeves @HarvestAvanna pic.twitter.com/orsrGGvxn2
I just realized I've been forgetting to post this, lol Here's my design entry for Harvest Avanna!#HA2020Design As always with my designs, I tried to keep it simple, though I did incorporate some research into it, hahaha… pic.twitter.com/OlDibSO3vL
— (ใคยฐใฎยฐ)ใค Iffy ๐โณ๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐๐(678/300) (@Iffem) January 7, 2020
#HA2020Design My design for this contest , it is a bit late but I hope you like it ๐๐๐๐ !! I really don't have time that is why I didn't draw it very well ๐๐๐ pic.twitter.com/mhBQML2T12
My design for @HarvestAvanna's #HA2020Design contest is here! My original idea was to do something simple, but I also wanted to add some enchanted forest vibes
Seeing as January 30th was Megurine Luka’s birthday, I was delighted to see that Mikucolle has been updated to celebrate the special occasion! There’s still time to join in too, so here’s what to expect:
1. Free Miku coins when you log in!
Upon opening the app, I was greeted with this gorgeous art of Luka:
By tapping on the screen, I got an alert saying that from January 30th to February 3rd (13:59 JST), you can get 5 Miku coins a day just by logging in! If you haven’t already checked the app, make sure you log in to make the most of this offer!
2. A selection of Special Luka Gacha!
In the news section, you can see that the free Miku Coins wasn’t all that’s in store for us…Throughout the duration of this event, there will also be some special “Happy Birthday Megurine Luka- only Gacha” available to play.
Special cards available include:
–ใ็ฅๆญใฎๅฅณ็ฅใซใซใ/”Iwai-uta no Megami Luka” (Goddess of Festive Song Luka) -SSR+
Skill: “Delivering Gospel (็ฆ้ณใใๅฑใ). This card will deal a super strong attack against all of the enemies based on its singing power (ๆญๅฑๅ)
(If you’ve checked out Mikucolle during Miku’sbirthday, you’d have seen that the special card released that time is from the same artist, but depicting Miku in a wedding dress!)
Now for the available gachas! The first gacha available is a free one. You can have one shot at the full gacha without paying.
The second gacha in the list will cost 100 Miku coins, and with each pull you’ll get 10 cards, plus 1 extra. You should get no less than SR cards, plus one SSR+ card. All of the cards listed here will come with a max level and max rank already (if you manage to get them!), so no need to rank them up yourself!
The third gacha in the list has three options. The first one on the left is one pull only, and it costs 3 Miku coins. You can do this one once a day.
The second one is also a one pull gacha, but you can play it as many times a day as you like. This one costs 5 Miku coins per pull.
And finally is the third option, which gives you 10 cards plus one extra, so it’s the best value for money. You should get at least one SSR with this gacha, and it costs 50 miku coins.
3. Special Luka packs available for purchase!
Last but certainly not least, there are some special packs for Luka in the store.
Pack 1. Megurine Luka Birthday Pack 10000
Option 1: ยฅ10000 ($91.82 USD/ยฃ70.16)
-225 miku coins (Buy 100, get 125 free!)
– One Megurine Luka “bodyguard”
Option 2: ยฅ4900
-106 miku coins (Buy 49, get 57 free!
-One Megurine Luka “assistance team”
So it seems that there are even more ways to celebrate Luka’s birthday, courtesy of Mikucolle! Good luck with your Gacha pulls, everyone. Feel free to let us know if you get any good cards. I have awful luck, so I doubt I’ll do well myself….but there’s still time to try your luck! Remember: this all finishes by February 3rd (13:59 JST).
Have fun playing! That’s all for now, take care everyone.
As we draw closer to the expected release of Hatsune Miku Project DIVA MegaMix on the Nintendo Switch, SEGA has announced the winners of their T-shirt Design Contest!
Congratulations to the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix T-Shirt Design Contest winners!!
Spot these designs in-game when Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix launches in the west on Nintendo Switch later this year. pic.twitter.com/SwV9ws7zbD
The contest first opened in November 2019 where the t-shirt designs for Project DIVA game were submitted until December 20, 2019. While the official contest page had mentioned that the winners would be announced by January 13, 2020; there has been a significant delay as the winning designs came out just before the end of this month.
Winning Designs
The following are the chosen designs by SEGA which will be implemented in the game as the part of the T-shirt custom outfits! Itโs worth noting that among the winners is a MEIKO-inspired design!
I still can't believe I won! Thank you @sega and much love to @cfm_miku_en ๐!!!! I can't wait to finally have Miku on Switch, Holy Leek shirt and all!
Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Mega Mix is releasing this year to the West exclusively on the Nintendo Switch, as a first for the SEGA rhythm game series and a departure from the PlayStation. The release date has not been announced yet as of writing.
Meanwhile, SEGA in Japan has also released another gaming preview footage for the Japanese version of the game, ๅ้ณใใฏ Project DIVA MEGA39โs featuring Magnet by minato, Dreamin Chuchu by emon(Tes.), and Luka Lukaโ Night Fever by samfree (in time for Lukaโs 11th anniversary!) with a release date already set for February 13, 2020!
What are your thoughts about the winning designs? Are you looking forward to MegaMix releasing in the West? As a Switch-owner, I can barely contain my excitement!
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