Hatsune Miku fans are outraged at China’s latest “original” creation, a Chinese virtual idol whose looks and live performance bear an excruciating similarity to those of Miku herself.
The video, currently disliked by 1483 and liked by 32:
Miku’s legion of loving fans, whether Japanese, Chinese or western, seem to be outraged:
“China just made Miku red and passed her off as their own virtual idol!”
“They could have headed off most of the critics by just changing her hairstyle.”
“At least give her a decent face.”
“Made In China… Not a big surprise.”
“Why does China not have its own ideas?”
“Red… like communist China. Not impressed.”
“I’ve never seen anything this bad before…”
“Why all the dislikes. Most of you may look at this as a Hatsune Miku rip off, but come on every great star needs a worthy competitor. Just give it a chance, it is about to get awesome. Now we need a Russian and American version.”
“It’s not fake. It’s original. Originally imitated.”
“The voice is faked… it’s a real voice but mixed so it sounded like a computerized voice.”
“China seriously..?!
Then Chinese go around saying everywhere that Japan steals their music contents and now this…
China, be more creative please…”
“Oh China, you have you own Vocaloids in development already. You couldn’t leave well enough alone could you?”
“Welcome to China: The Home of Where we Bastardize Everything, Even your Waifu.”
“I’m ashamed for being Chinese.”
“I’m so proud as a Chinese, copy everything from the world. Only copy the look but never reached the quality.”
It looks like some chinese internet-providing company named “Tencent” had this fine example of “originality”.
I’ll admit they could’ve done a better job on the character design, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t even a VOCALOID (voice doesn’t sound computer-generated to me)…
But going so far as to call it a fake Hatsune Miku? Let’s examine a few key aspects.
She has radically different clothing, which doesn’t show off her shoulders (so it’s hard to tell whether or not she sports a CV tattoo on her arm, but I doubt they would go into that much detail).
Her entire color scheme is completely different. It’s not unheard of for Miku to change hair colors or even hair styles in different modules, but there are no other defining characteristics that would make a true Miku fan say “hey, this is so much like Miku, China must be copying her…”
And let’s not forget the hairstyle. Twintails are SUPER popular, because let’s face it, they are SUPER adorable. Case in point: Black Rock Shooter. No, she is not a VOCALOID. But she does have that signature “osage” hairstyle.
I don’t particularly care for half-baked virtual singer “concerts” that don’t have a band, but if they actually put some more effort into it, they could make some real progress. The face is a bit weird, but the effects look cool.
Everyone… be careful…
that creepy thing could explode at any moment!
Fake Miku, Fake TF2, Fake Monster Hunter…
What’s next? Fake Minecraft? Fake DotA? Fake Starcraft?
At this point I shouldn’t be surprised but I’m getting miffed.
If they wanna make a fake Miku, at least make it KW Super Premium instead of making it in KW 9 quality.. this is just horrible..!!