MikuMiku Shinkansen Named “Hatsune”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 21, 2010 08:43 JST
- Tags: 2D vs 3D, Comparison, Hatsune Miku, Internet, Itasha, Marketing, Otaku, Trains
Japan’s latest high speed train looks set to be called “Hatsune” after Miku fans noticed it shared a colour-scheme with the virtual idol and flooded an online competition to select a name for the train.
The train tself, the latest “E5” class of shinkansen with a top speed of 300kph, is due to service lines in Tohoku. The choice of colour scheme appears to be coincidence.
Fans noticing the similarity immediately began a campaign on Mixi and Twitter in order to flood the polls with their choice of “Hatsune.”
The voting itself remains open until the end of the month, but with no other organised efforts to name the train it seems unlikely anything can stop Miku fans, short of disqualification.
On the other hand, normals and even some Miku fans are not happy:
Creepy.
Doesn’t your crotch get hot knowing our Miku-chan is now something train otaku fap over?
They do look a bit alike somehow.
It’s an exceedingly ugly Miku-chan…
They’ll be guys who splatter themselves on the train you know.
Stop that, creepy otaku.
Won’t they be happy that they can “get inside” Miku?
It’s absolutely disgusting that you’d come up with that…
Don’t name an ugly vehicle like this after Miku-chan you damn idiots!
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just a matter of time before someone gets run over by it...
Unlikely (suicides excluded, of course). Shinkansen tracks are _always_ protected from interlopers by fences or simply running on viaducts, and platforms have waist-high barriers designed to open only when a train is boarding. You have to be either trying to kill yourself or really, really stupid in order to get hit by one of these trains.
I can finally fulfill my dream of getting inside miku ... although its not exactly what i had in mind
It's exactly what i had in mind
I'am so gonna be the first chikan on that train...
FINAL FORM RIDE HATSUNE MIKU~!
well i will just do the usual...
fap fap fap fap fap...
since it's miku related they should just keep it as a related.
maybe Miku Hayasa. should be.
lol
It's funny when Colbert does this stuff, it's just sad when Otaku do it
That includes you
and me
Typical japanese, making everything into something from anime, and they wonder why the industry is dying.
we can enter hatsune miku now yay!... reminds me of the song chocolate train haha~
I wish we had trains like that around where I live. This place would be so much cooler.
If this is approved, Miku will have to be futanari. Train is way too phallic.
Oh well, pretend it's a big clit and go for it.
No, It's just one of her twin tails. just need a couple more vehicles and we'll have a Megazord Miku.
From what I understand on the website, it name will be "Suica"... anyone can confirm this ??
no, it's Suica-compatible. Suica is the name of IC ticket cards issued by JR East.
I'll definitely steal that "Miku"...
Another example of sacrificing aesthetics for functionality.
A-W-E-S-O-M-E lol
i dont think it was a coincidence, think the CEO is a mikutard who didn't have the guts to say it in the open.if it was just the color, okay, thats a coincidence; but the color and name poll? that just happens to be too convenient.
The train design might be a turn-off to many, but in the world of efficient travel, speed IS beauty.
On the other hand, everyone wants to ride in a train that simply oozes with style.
*Sigh...*
So, did the negi-twirling goddess' fans get their wish, or the organizers simply pulled the competition off due to "unforseen and regretful circumstances"?
The only way this could be better would be a TGV or a Paris Transilien train painted in Hatsune Miku colors.
(RER colors are good enough though ^^)
Why is it so ugly ? The shape of it looks like a big .... whatever, shouldn't it have colors after a male character ...
Hatsune: Miku in Disguise..
"Vocaloids, transform and roll out!"
*transformers sound*
I'm guessing it'll end up getting named after one of the conventional trains that went along the Ueno - Aomori route before the Tohoku Shinkansen opened. "Tsugaru" seems the most likely candidate, though JR East could come up with something completely different if they so choose.
I doubt "Hatsune" will be in the running; if anything it fits more along the naming scheme of the Tokaido/Sanyo Shinkansen, which has "Kodama" (echo), "Hikari" (light), and "Nozomi" (wish).
And the USA high speed rail line is close to competing with the likes of Europe, Japan, China... er, nevermind.
USA rail sucks. Better now than 10 years ago, but still sucks.
It would be much better and much more fun if it would be colored like leek/negi - it has the shape for it :)
Cathay Pacific?
These Otaku really need to get a life.
I'd say it's pretty unlikely that it'll get named "Hatsune". While JR East polls the masses, they reserve the right to name it whatever they want, and they usually name new Shinkansen services after the older, conventional-rail services they replace. This makes "Tsugaru" the most obvious candidate by far, though it could be something else evocative of Aomori Prefecture. Such as... erm... apples. Or rice. Or hicks.
I would not, however, object to "Hatsune" being used on the Tokaido / Sanyo Shinkansen, where the name fits much more cleanly with the Kodama (echo) / Hikari (light) / Nozomi (wish) scheme. Let's leave potential stopping-patterns for the hardcore rail-types to speculate upon.
"Hatsukari" and "Hakutsuru" are also possibilities, although these services were eliminated back in 2002. ("Tsugaru" is still running as a relay between Aomori and the present Shinkansen terminus at Hachinohe, but not for much longer.)
Everyone here is retarded.
Why does this thing make me think of Macross?
Should've named it the Rankansen.
Seriously that is the dumbest-looking train ever. Don't name it after Miku!
Shinkansen train VS roadroller frontal collision! Who'll win!?
(a: the giant pink octopus)
Just as planned.
"Won’t they be happy that they can “get inside” Miku?"
xD PURE GOLD!
This is the start of a fetish for trains xD (including the red one of course).
A start? 1chan already exists.
I bet that, even after it wins the poll, they don't name it that. Same way Colbert didn't get his ISS space module and the Mets didn't make "Never Gonna Give You Up" their 8th inning song. Internet polls never turn out the way the creators want and and they always puss out.
I think it's a relatively harmless association. Hatsune Miku is a family-friendly image, very Japanese, and has some international appeal.
It may not be what the train company expected, but it's hardly a 'damage control' situation.
I would have went further and seen it as a chance for a great PR stunt.
Partner up with Crypton and make it Mikus official train.
So tempted to make crass joke about running a train on Miku...
Wait, is that a train or a MOTHERFUCKING SPACESHIP!?
Well high speed trains and spaceships seek the maximum energy efficiency through aerodynamics, don't they?
No.
Has no air in space, so don't need aerodynamics.
well how do you get into space or back into the earths atmostphere without aerodynamics?
Of course, they are in space to begin with, right?
NASA won't send a rectangular ship to space, at least I wouldn't...
We are borg, we come in cubes.
I wouldn't mind coming in a cube, if you know what I mean.
There might not be atmosphere in space but there is on Earth and other planets so until we start building ships in space with no intentions of landing on planets we still need aerodynamics.
There isn't any air in space, so no... :lol:
facepalm/
There's an air in space museum.
somewhere at the end of that line I just know those track point straight up in the sky
Moving at the speed of light, baby.
Some singers eventually become actors. Miku ends up becoming a train.
=/ for a second I thought hatsune miku was named after that train. if it were, then i'd go to travel on this train. who knows, soon a city might call it "miku city" .. a pilgrimage!!
Hatsunekansen...
Somehow the front of the train looks funny...
Yep very funny ... Miku is getting a PEEEENIIS
"Hatsune" should be a light-speed train.
I agree; this train is not good enough to be related to Miku. change the paint job at once!
Why? i love that color.
And,
"Doesn’t your crotch get hot knowing our Miku-chan is now something train otaku fap over?"
that's too over-react. As Miku fans, I just see it is as miku 's private Shinkansen. Better than yelled
"It’s an exceedingly ugly Miku-chan…
Won’t they be happy that they can “get inside” Miku?
It’s absolutely disgusting that you’d come up with that…
Don’t name an ugly vehicle like this after Miku-chan you damn idiots!"
don't imagine it is as Miku (humanoid one)
It'd be much nicer if the train was shaped like a leek :3
better yet... make the entire inside vocaloid themed. put big screen tv's and stuff playing vocaloid songs and have things like a ice cream sundae with a leek on the side for decoration or if you were so inclined use that to eat your sundae :P
tako luka takoyaki maybe? :3
if only eh? :P
On second thought,
All aboard the Ha-choo-ne choo choo train!
Leek? I'd give it the name of Hatsunegi (First Leek) instead of Hatsune for an indirect reference at Miku so some Miku fans won't be that pissed.
Anyway, all aboard!
Chooo Chooo, Miku Miku Miku Miku~~
a big green penis with fast speed.
I'd like to ride Hatsune, if you know what I mean ;D
I know what you mean, if by "ride" you mean "insert penis"
Yeh but the downside is everybody gets a turn at riding her, heaven forbid anyone who might suicide with this train as well, guro to boot, not sure if want.
It'll cost you, and boy is she quick...
I'll accept anything Miku throws at me.
She still rawks, no matter what happens!
Holy shit, didn't see that one coming! How original!
Yeah, the front of the train resembles a jet's cone nose right? Sorta like a mix between a 747 dome nose and a F-15.
Death by Miku, always wanted the world's number one princess to step on you? Now she can do one better.
its time you people started growing up and stop with your cartoons
I vow to thee Hatsune Miku, to never leave her, and stay with her forever.
No twintails. Not Miku.
AGREE!
No shimapan. Definitely not Miku.
The seats are striped. lulz
If that were true, then the otakus would REALLY go wild just sitting there.....
So. Awesome.
first a car now a train, net is a JET PLANE! MIKU WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Cathay pacific airline already has Miku colour
World is Mine?
Rails are mine.
This or Asuka? Tough decision!
All aboard that failtrain
Oooh! I wanna ride Miku. It'd be cool if it transformed and the train turned into one of her twin-tails.
"Won’t they be happy that they can “get inside” Miku?"
This comment is win
Hatsune is a good name, mainly because it's 3 sullables just like Nozomi and Kodama and Hikari... the other main shinkansen lines.
And the meaning is good independantly from Miku: Hatsune = First sound
And since this is the first shinkansen to service that region, I like it.
"What´s my name?"
Speedalligator!!!!!!
u can finally ride her
lol otaku faggots
yay i finally enter miku
rofl
If they ever make a toy/collectors model of this train, somebody out there will use it as a dildo.
And still no Luka shinkansen in sight..... *sigh* :/
I'm rooting for a Luka Typhoon-class Submarine. With Tako-pedo (just because... to invoke that 'God that sounds so wrong for a weapon' feel) and SLBM (Submarine-Launched Ballistic Maguro).