The CEO of the company responsible for the live Miku concert fans have condemned as “pathetic” has issued an apology, but fans remain unimpressed.
For some reason deciding to awkwardly deliver a long and tedious series of explanations by way of Twitter, organiser 5pb’s CEO Chiyomaru Shikura attempted to extinguish the flames of Mikumaniac outrage:
“Regarding our inability to satisfy the expectations of some of you, I must apologise. It was inexcusable.”
However, when it comes to addressing the major complaint about the event – that 5pb didn’t even bother using a transparent screen as in previous performances – he expresses surprise that it was omitted, but as a reason only lamely offers “this was the result of the choice that was made,” even after checking with stage staff.
In earlier exchanges he had stated rather oddly claimed he could not apologise, as it would be on behalf of the other parties involved as well as 5pb – this buck-passing only further incited angry Miku fans however, and he soon recanted:
“It’s not that ‘I can’t apologise,’ it is more that ‘I can’t just apologise on my own without consulting everyone involved,’ and this delayed the apology.”
Fans seem less concerned about “what went wrong?” than they are with “why did you think you could get away with this?”, so it seems unlikely this level of contrition will really appease them.
I think this happened because SEGA wasn’t involved. They cannot matched SEGA’s animation skill and technology to matched last year’s concert. I think they should cooperates again with SEGA for future concerts..
The sad part about the animation is, it was animated by SEGA subsidiary Marza Animation Planet, whose sole purpose in life is to do “quality animations” (i.e., not “video game animations”).
That’s like saying your animation was done by Pixar instead of (insert your favorite game engine developer here). One would expect Pixar to have better animations because they’re concentrating on animating a full-length, pre-rendered movie as opposed to short-length, realtime-rendered animations like in games.
It’s really sad when your full-length animation team does a worse job than your game-development team.
He`s acting like a Tsundere, but males simply don`t have appeal when doing that, it only makes them look miserably laughable. Also he`s terrible at it too.
I could really care less about Miku but I understand their frustrations. No one goes to a concert to watch a music video!
I have watched the show.. it wasn’t all that bad. Sure the graphic quality went down compared to the previous concert, but it’s quite good actually. Too bad they didn’t use the clear screen though…
If the previous concert scores 100, I would score this one as 85..
Is it just me or is that screen not even a 1/3 of the size of last year?