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Date of upload: Apr 23, 2024 ^^
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When I was living in Japan, I went to a Miku concert and it was AMAZING. The holograms look incredible, there isn't a bad seat in the house bc they can make them super big so everyone can see them, and she did perform with a live band. In my case, it was a special one weekend only collaboration with a famous taiko drumming group so the energy was high and the bass was BUMPING. Best concert I've ever been to!!
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âwhen someoneâs historically been known to do the thing, and then you change the thing, seemingly for reasons that arenât anything but money⌠people get annoyed.â pretty apt sentence considering whatâs going on in the world of youtube channels wanting to make their own streaming website
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I think it's called "Expo" because there used to be activities and stuff to do in the venue before the concert too. But the important thing is the screen has actually first been used in MikuFes in Japan this year. It's the exact same set up as MikuFes, except the Japanese event had some set dressing on the stage to hide it, since the setup didn't have to travel.
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I was so mad about this show. I went back in 2016 and the Vocaloids were BIG holograms projected onto a transparent screen. I went to the Portland one and it SUCKED. They ran out of VIP bags for one, and they ended up opening the merch up to the PUBLIC FIVE HOURS before doors. So by the time most people got there the merch was sold out. On the website they said the merch was INSIDE the venue only btw, and that you couldn't access it until doors at 7pm.
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Ticketmaster is largely responsible for the insane ticket prices. Ticketmaster has no rules against people buying up whole venues in pre-sale and selling them 3x-4x the price. It isn't just a specific Miku Expo thing, it happens all the time with musical acts who have to use these ticketing apps. The terrible thing is that tickets that were $80 were now being sold for $200-$300 on top of Crunchyroll not disclosing to fans that the show was using an LED screen instead of the usual glass screens.
The Magical Mirai shows in Japan don't get this treatment so I am unsure why no one at Crypton or Crunchyroll is willing to address why they cheaped out on the North America tour.
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I went to a Vocaloid concert in Japan with the actual hologram and it is pretty impressive in person (when I could actually see, which was rare). They hyped up the live band a lot and each band member got a little solo show off thing which was very cool to see. The Japanese crowd energy is also soooo much better compared to what iâve seen in clips on twitter - the Japanese crowd will yell the chants and itâs great. It was also literally the worst organised event i ever went to in Japan though, the staff (unsure if venue or miku staff) were awful.
Also for context, Japan is veeerry strict with ticketing and resale, which might be where part of the problem with resale came from.
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As someone who grew up listening to vocaloid music and has been wishing to go to Miku Expo for over a decade, this turn of events was not only disappointing but embarrassing. I bought tickets for Miku Expo 2020 but that was canceled due to the pandemic, so imagine my exasperation that after 4 years, we get LED screens and not even Miku's usual band (no hate to the local bands they used, but it just shows how they're willing to cut corners.)
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the way she says kaito and meiko is driving me insane lol
from what I've seen in previous concerts, they used to do like skits in between some songs, that way it wasn't awkward. there were also some pretty cool transitions. this is honestly such a low effort copy of a vocaloid concert. sad to hear the screen is happening in Japan too.
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i don't know that it's like this anymore, but back in the day vocaloid was a very community focused thing. lots of miku's most popular songs are by people who were just fans of miku and got the software. the association with leeks etc was all started by fans, not to mention her VP. it wouldn't be accurate to say there's 1 or 10 or even 1000 people who "are" miku because the character's songs, quirks, etc were at least at one time all a community effort. it's a very strange niche of an idol who literally doesn't exist. the only ethical idol culture tbfh
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Major Miku fan here and want to answer few of your questions
1) itâs Miku EXPO since the songs are from a very wide array of artists around the world, most of which arenât big enough to go on tour. Itâll be a lot of fans only chance to see their music live.
2) it wasnât a hologram but several projections on several layers of glass to make her appear as if sheâs on stage and still visible even if youâre not sitting directly in front of the panels. A lot of the ticket pages advertised for the concert with this setup, so itâs majorly messed up, especially for those who bought tickets outside of orchestra
3) the recordings used for the screen were intended to be used as a projection (hence Miku being in a black void) from a variety of past performances, hence the awkward transitions and mismatches between whatâs on screen and whatâs being played ( the on the rocks performance previously had someone playing a piano on stage)
EDIT: some songs made specifically for the live concerts like Magical Cure Love Shot (Miku expo song contest winner) and Hyper Reality Show had renders exclusively for Miku Expo
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I dont know about any other American Miku fans but i know for me, I would be so excited to see Miku in North America as it seems (TO MY KNOWLEDGE) like shes only recently touring here. However, the screen MATTERS. I would be so disappointed if i went to see her and the other vocaloids and the screen was nothing like its supposed to be. Very confused as to what possessed them to use a different screen when the entire performance hinders on it.
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22:40 You bring up a point that has always bothered me as a long time die-hard Miku fan (Been listening to Vocaloid since 2010. I went to 2016 San Fran, 2018 San Fran, and again this year in San Jose). The transitions between songs feel lazy and, like you said, like just waiting for another video to start.
They used to do this thing (sometimes) where Miku would finish her song, and then STAY visible on stage. She'd do a little transition animation where she'd nod or wave, and then pose in the starting position for the next song. If there was an outfit change, there'd be a quick glitter type animation over her. Magical Mirai 2013 is the best example of these, the whole show is here on youtube. There's a bit where Rin and Len do a song with Miku, and when it's over, they both say, "love you!" and run off stage while Miku turns around to start the next dance. (The song was SHAKE IT, transitioning into Weekender Girl.)
I guess at some point Sega (or whoever funds the shows) decided that those transition animations cost too much to make, and needing to make unique song changes for every show wasn't worth it. So, they changed to just having her vanish and come back. This also makes it easier for them to use different models for Miku entirely, something else that bothers me for the sake of the "illusion" that she's a real performer. Quick outfit changes are one thing, there's a suspension of disbelief there. But, when they change from one type of model to another, and her face and physics of her hair change, that's another thing entirely that i wish they just wouldn't do anymore.
To use a couple examples, the outfit changes between Miku's default outfit, to 'World is mine' and 'unknown mother Goose' are fine. She looks like the same person in different clothes and hair.
But, the changes in model in songs like 'Vampire' and 'Tell Your World' bug the shit out of me. She is now a different person with a different face and body proportions.
Anyway, I'm rambling. But these are things I've had well over a decade to stew on lol
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@seere8906
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there actually is a human behind miku! itâs a voice bank so it still needed a voice provider! her name is Saki Fujita. every vocaloid has their own voice provider
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