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What initially surprised me was just how incredibly chill everything was. Maybe you didn't even know that Hatsune Miku did live shows-I sure as hell didn't-but the entire thing is like nothing I've ever experienced, and goes far beyond Miku as just a piece of software or a video game character. If you're reading this, you've likely heard of Hatsune Miku through her rhythm video games, or maybe her actual music.

Imagine if Siri or Alexa turned into popstars, and you're there. The software itself enables the program to sing by typing in rhythms and melodies. Kaito and Meiko (we'll get onto these two later) actually preceded Miku as vocaloids from Yamaha, the company that backed the development of the voice synthesizing software in 2000, that would go on to be used for vocaloids. Hatsune Miku is the biggest vocaloid sensation on the planet, but she wasn't the first of her kind. It was like telling your grandparents that you were going out to see a digital popstar sing a couple songs in Brixton (and I would later have this pleasure myself).

I think I read back the email invite about three times before I actually caught on to what I was being invited to. I'd ventured out to Hatsune Miku in Brixton on the invite of Sega, the developer and publisher of the Miku-headlined Project Diva rhythm game series. And then there was me, feeling incredibly out of place in jeans and a jacket. People were decked out in all sorts of fancy outfits from what I can only assume were from the Miku-verse, with huge floating dresses, exaggerated headpieces, and flowing pale green wigs.

Vocaloid miku full#

I didn't really know what I expected the crowd to be like at a Hatsune Miku concert, but full cosplay gear was on the list somewhere. I'd unwittingly stumbled into the biggest vocaloid sensation on the planet. The scalpers of east London were selling merch adorned with anime idols.

The line to get in wrapped around an entire block. Nothing could have prepared me for seeing Hatsune Miku live.