MikuMiku Metro
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 23, 2010 17:07 JST
- Tags: Events, Hatsune Miku, Marketing, Mass Media, Music, UK, Vocaloid
Hatsune Miku fans have noted with interest the Vocaloid sensation’s UK tabloid debut, in the pages of rag Metro.
The article in question was published both in the print and online editions of Metro, the UK’s 4th most popular daily:
Details of the event mentioned are visible in previous articles – although strictly speaking there was nothing “holographic” about the technology used to project her likeness onto the stage.
The ironic side to the article is that the art used in the paper edition is by top lolicon mangaka Rustle, most of whose works are now illegal in the UK thanks to its decline into a moralist surveillance state.
The article also fails to mention Miku’s official age is 16 – illegal to draw suggestively in the UK, although legal for an adult to have sex with were she in fact real, handily criminalising most of her British fanbase.
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Can't wait to read about her sex scandals in the tabloids.
lol won't be long til a sex tape gets leaked
Happened long ago. Miku's a real celeb now. ^_^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxe1VsEsrY
They should get some japanese chick to cosplay Miku and turn her into a Music Idol or something.
Then again, maybe it would be a fail...
You sir, just made my day.... rofl
As long as it's not drug controversies I'd be fine with that..
Oh the hypocrisy.
Well I guess it's about time to get that plane ticket to London so that I can fuck a 16yo right in the middle of Westminster Square and be back by the lunch time. (/sarcasm)
Dumb brits are dumb.
They can't even read Chibi Miku without fear of getting jailed because it shows lolis with miniskirt...
I'm pondering wether or not a lawsuit against metro for showing a fictional 16 year-old in a suggestive pose would serve well to point out how retarded those laws are.
Don't blame the public for the actions of dumbass governments.
We take no responsibility for their stupidity.
You know, that's a great idea.
It's just a matter of Tories going all Thatcher and LibDems betraying all their values and voters to appease their coalition partners.
Actually, no. Not even 50% voted for the main party this time.
The public sure voted the assholes, though.
We can look at whatever we want as long as its justified, unlike America with its patriot act and Christian-nutjob run government. We don't censor the human form unless its harmful, the people on this site have no idea how open Britain is. The bans come as a way of pleasing foreign comment, part of a political move. Also I won't get shot at or arrested for having an opinion contrary to majority in Britain.
Fine, fuck a 16-year-old. Just don't hire an artist to draw the incident. That would be illegal!
All hail Britannia!
I'm enjoying all this delicious lack of researching that popular media all over the world seem to be afflicted with. Gives me a good laugh every time. It takes..what..? A minute to search online and find out all about Miku (age and all)?
The metro is not from one county is has many editions and content is shared.
there is an Irish edition but it only has 28 pages compered to 76 pages in the UK edition
http://e-edition.metroherald.ie/2010/10/22/
http://e-edition.metro.co.uk/2010/10/22/
*nods sadly in agreement*
If only they knew the facts about our beloved Miku Hatsune and her fellow Voc@loids...
By the way, if anyone wants all the works of Rustle, I have everything by him...
Rustle's doujin works are in my profile...
Scroll down all the way to the bottom~
I would get a great kick out of that.
This might require photoshop.
This is beyond ironic. Oh, the hilarity.
I dont know what would happen: people being amazed on the fact that shes not real, yet famouse than, or the fact that something tells me that most people in the UK probably wont read this considering its so brand new, it might be and probably is stupid.
Wonder what the reaction is.
Being from the UK, I can tell you...
People won't be amazed, we already get so many articles about the Gorillaz being "cartoons" and "virtual". Since it's not a well written article and only gives basic information, people won't care at all.
It's more of a "did you know? oh, that's interesting." type thing.
Not impressed..
I saw it and said "omg its mikumiku" most of my class said it was cool one said it was stupid but I just told him to stfu
So... it is illegal to draw Miku having sex, but were she a real girl, it would be OK to have sex with her.
Wow... This is the kind of shit you feed to the HAL9000 to make his head explode.
Remember that in Britain, we've just come out of 13 years of rule by socialist Christfags. Just think about that for a second. Socialism and Christfaggotry combined. Imagine the worst parts of the Democrats and the Republicans, with no pesky constitution or Bill of Rights to get in their way and stop them from making an average of a new law for every day they were in charge.
That's the kind of government we've just had, so it's no surprised our laws are fucked up beyond belief.
Yup. Only the sick brains of politicians and femnazis can produce such mind fuck.
Am I the only one who raged that the fact they westernized Fujita Saki's name?
So how long will it be till we see Miku on the line up in Godskitechen?
yay miku!!! omg this made my day lol
miku miku iikuuuu~
matte matte OK iikuu yo! (We are here to spread Hatsune Miku's domination aren't we?)
Oh! Do the same for America! Americans must have an article about her.
This is wrong.
The English should fight for King and Country against this.
LOL, YOU NEED TO GET A LIFE.
This newspaper has just invited many unwanted fans for our precious 2D Goddess. This tabloid increases the chance that Soulja Boy and others like him will pollute her.
I believe that only those who choose the right path and decide to be a fan of Hatsune Miku without tabloid influences should be accepted as true fans.
Do you realize how pathetic you sounded?
I feel the same way. It's sad that so many nerds don't see eye to eye with otaku and would rather prase something like this than fight against it.
Legal fruit loops.
I love em.
Lol, they're all in possession of child pornography.
Haha, being a Britfag myself I hardly think we qualify as a 'moralist surveillance state' just yet, and neither is the London Metro a 'rag', but yes, the whole absurdity of our loli-laws baffles me at times.
Damn I live in the UK, how did I not see this :O. Well because I don't read the metro but Miku getting some British exposure is awesome :D
Yay, Unexpected consequence.
thoguh with bands Like Gorrilaz birthed in the Uk its not to Awe inspiring ^_^ though i wonder how aq concert would play out there.
I've listened to a number of Hatsune Miku songs without prejudice. God that shit is annoying.
not surprising in a country where the police are expected to fight armed robbers w/ pea shooters,lol
It's pretty hard to fight crime when you're:
1. Stuck behind a desk
2. Don't give a fuck about the common people
The only time you'll ever see police in the UK on the street is when they're all marching in a line demanding more pay
The UK, it's a fucking cesspool.
Wait, really? So you can't draw her two-dimensionally but you could have sex with her in the real world. Oh bitter irony...
Personally I'm just butthurt that they got so much of the information wrong.
Her first concert wasnt this march, that was her second one, technically her third but her second 'solo live'. Her first two were in 2009.
She doesn't have 'a' video game, she has two.
Most importantly, it completely fails to mention the reason Miku is popular; because of how she created this whole subculture around fan-produced ORIGINAL songs. They make it sound like all Vocaloid is is crappy covers of existing songs on youtube. I mean, supercell's album of original songs getting in the top 3 Oricon charts? You'd think it'd include something about that. It kind of just reads like someone who just got into Vocaloid by watching Lady Gaga covers on youtube and couldn't be bothered to do any more research about it.
Lol, no-life otaku.
omigod I have an interest in vocaloid, therefore I have no life. I certainly must have less of a life than the guy who goes around to nearly every comment just to let them know they don't have lives. 8/
Ps the correct term is 'fujoshi'.
@14:40
We don´t care what you think.
Does it look like I give a fuck? Otaku, fujoshi, you're still pathetic to me.