World’s First Virtual Pop Idol Has Become
An International MusicSensation And
Will Be Featured In A Special Concert Film For Fans
Live Viewing Japan, adistribution company focused on bringing Japanese entertainment media to aninternational audience, has announced that it will stage a very specialone-night-only Hatsune Miku event simultaneously in nine major U.S. cities onThursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:00pm (local time).
Hatsune Miku Live Party 2011 39's LIVE in SAPPORO (originally organized by5bp Inc. in August, 2011) will screen a live concert performance of HatsuneMiku in movie theaters in select markets. More information about this exclusiveone-night-only event is available here.
The citiesthat will host the Hatsune Miku event include:
Baltimore, MD
Boston (Manchester), MA
Chicago, IL
Houston, TX
Los Angeles, CA
Orange, CA
New York, NY – Two locations
San Francisco/Bay Area, CA
Seattle, WA
“We’re very excited to present this unique Hatsune Miku experience forher U.S. fans,” says Live Viewing Japan Exective Director Hiroki Kotani. “Miku has captivated a global audience witha mix of catchy pop music and captivating technology-inspired visuals. Herpopularity has opened an entirely new range of possibilities to blend a cutepop idol persona with technology and computer-created graphics. We invite fansto visit the Live Viewing Japan web link for more information and for specificmovie theater event locations. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see HatsuneMiku perform!”
Pop idol Hatsune Miku, whose name means,“first sound of the future,” is a Vocaloid (meaning machine-made vocals) digital female avatar andthe most popular of the Vocaloid Character Series softwareoriginallycreated by Crypton Future Media, Inc. using Yamaha’s Vocaloid 2 engine to createorganic-sounding synthesized vocal tracks.
In Japan, Hatsune Miku is a major national phenomenon and has appearedin numerous popular video games and music videos. She’s also played severalenthusiastic “concerts,” where she performs on stage projected as a 3D hologramand backed by a live band. Miku recently played her first live concert in theU.S. called, “MIKUNOPOLIS in LOS ANGELES,” at the Nokia Theatre forthe 2011Anime Expo, held this past July in Los Angeles, CA. The show sold out in only 4hours, further underscoring the growing popularity she enjoys in North America.Hatsune Miku was also recently featured in a T.V. commercial for the ToyotaCorolla.
Live Viewing Japan has seized on the growing global popularity ofHatsune Miku and has plans to screen her live concert film in several countriesincluding France, Thailand and Brazil.
About Live Viewing Japan:
Live Viewing Japan is a Japanese-based media distribution companyfocused on bringing a variety of entertainment properties to a globaltheatre-going audience. More information on the company and its projects isavailable at: www.liveviewing.jp.
