I’ve seen every episode of the anime yet I don’t remember seeing this.
Yes friends, it’s true. Hatsune Miku is teaming up with Toyota to promote the Toyota Corolla. You can view one of the commercial videos below:
If you’re unfamiliar with Miku, she’s the digital personification used to represent a voice used in a digital synthesizer program called Vocaloid. There are other voices aside from Miku as well: Megurine Ruka, Len, Rin and at least a half dozen others. The Vocaloid software was originally developed by Yamaha. It’s some pretty cool software. They took real human voices and recorded every possible sound needed to form words. Users enter the lyrics they would like sung and the software makes it happen. So why should you care about some software mascot? Well Miku is very popular in Japan as are the other Vocaloid characters. They are used in music videos created with the Vocaloid software. Companies like the Good Smile Company have made collectible figurines and they are hot sellers.
Here’s another video of Miku actually performing “live” in concert and be sure to take note of the crowd’s energy:
Miku has even become part of the Ievan Polka/Loituma meme:
The above is an odd video. There’s many funny ones available on Youtube and I won’t link them all here.
**Correction! This is not Freddie but Mike Haggar from the Final Fight game series. Freddie has a twin!**
I wish I had one of these for my office!
If you don't see why this is awesome, please leave this website!
Know of any other cool images like this? I appreciate quality over quantity.
Although not yet available to watch instantly, you can watch both the anime series and the live action movie through Netflix as an alternative to buying the DVDs yourself.
The 4-disc anime series is available here: Anime on Netflix and the live action movie is available here: Live action movie
Currently the anime series is rated 3.6/5 stars and the movie is at 3/5.
I was also recommended to check out 3 other anime series. The first is Gurren Lagann which I saw and did enjoy. The next is Desert Punk, which at first I thought was Sand Land the anime but I had the titles confused. The third series is School Rumble. I actually had a wall scroll from that series for sale on eBay a while back. Netflix guesses I’m not just going to like it, but that I’ll really like it. Well we’ll see soon enough.
This is from the anime series, Soul Eater. I just find it the “Engrish” to be quite amusing and definitely worth sharing:
On another note, Soul Eater is a decent watch and worth checking out if you are looking for a good 52 episode series.
So if you watched the anime, there was the question of Why Kamiyama was forced to go to Cromartie High School. You were told you had to read the manga to find out what happened. Well for the time being the Cromartie High School manga is up here and you can learn what exactly Kamiyama did to end up being considered a delinquent.
DO NOT READ BELOW THIS LINE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED! I recommend reading the manga yourself but if for some reason the link above no longer works or you’re unable to obtain it, I’ll explain if for you here…
This video is actually from 2006, but being that I’m still a recent convert to Cromartie High, I think the age of the video should not be held against me.
If you’re not familiar, the song is “Dragostea din Tei” which is Romanian for “Love under the Linden Tree” or something very close to that. The singers are a group called O-zone though others have covered the song including Haiducii and I believe even Rihanna uses a sample of the music in one of her more recent songs.
As far as the Cromartie version goes, It was entertaining. The video choices were good, though the mouths did not match the words perfectly.
This is one of my favorite clips from the show. I’ve seen some people get very flustered over comments made by internet trolls so seeing it in an anime was great. The end is the best.
I’m sure there’s 100 different rips of this video being passed around the internet and each will have a varying quality. The video below is decent 480p with good audio. One of the better videos that I’ve seen available. Enjoy!
I can’t stop raving about the Mechazawa Plush. It’s just so awesome. It’s only imperfection is that it’s not lifesize, though I don’t really have the space for a lifesize Mechazawa-kun in my apartment.
