Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク Miku Hatsune ) is a female VOCALOID created by Crypton Future Media, She is a singing voice synthesizer featured in over 100,000 songs released worldwide. Hatsune Miku means "The first Sound from the Future".

Appearance
Miku is a tall, female japanese girl. When she first comes out, she has long ponytails that extend up to her two legs. Hatsune Miku's hair is turquoise because the signature of its producer is turquoise because the signature colour of her creator is turquoise. she has gray bodysuit with teal tie, black skirt with teal stripes, black boots and she has oversleeve long black sleeve. She has a red-pink tattoo with "01" inscribed on her arm and a square pink buckle and a black headset with pink lights.

Personality
Miku is an energetic, optimistic, happy, lovely and kind VOCALOID girl. Miku loves her friends but is a little arrogant. She can be, stingy or rude at times. Sometimes she can get angry if something she wants doesn't happen. This personality of her; she has been seen in the music video and lyrics for the song "World is Mine". She is also the dizziest singer, who often appears to be a bit clueless, and seems to not completely understand her powers, along with a few other things. Miku is Cheerful, gentle, sweet and compassionate. She's helpful and a bit childish sometimes, gets along with pretty much everyone. Also hard-working and always does her best for her fans.

Skills

 * Music Talent: The ability to change pitch, inflect tone, and belt out different notes, and even sing multiple differing lines at once. Thusly creating a voice that simply didn't sound like a dead monotone. She was also even made to produce her own music at will. Post discovering herself however, Miku has become a digital entity.
 * Wrestler Talent: Miku has knowledge of fighting and she has fighting positions according to "Seraphim on the Ring".

Marketing
Miku has been heavily promoted since 2008 and was originally aimed at professional musicians. On September 12, 2007, Amazon.co.jp reported sales of Hatsune Miku totaling 57,500,000 yen, making her the number one selling software of that time. She was the first vocal to be developed and distributed by Crypton Future Media and sung in Japanese. Her instant success is owed to Vocaloid being a cultural hit in Japan and she reportedly sold 40,000 units by July 2008, selling on average 300 units a week. By January 2011, she had sold 60,000 units.

Backstory
Vocaloid is an advanced voice synthesizer software. Musicians can input melodies and lyrics and the program, like a virtual signer, will perform it to produce new songs. Hatsune Miku is one the digital voices musicians can use, and to promote her, Crypton Future Media gave Hatsune Miku a profile and personality.

Her name is from the Japanese characters for first, sound, and future, so her name means “first sound from the future.” According to her backstory, Hatsune Miku comes from a not-so-distant future where music was lost. She emerged as a 16-year-old singing android who reintroduced the skills to the world.

Although there are other Vocaloids, Hatsune Miku is perhaps the most well-known. She has a distinctive look; she’s an anime-style cartoon character with long teal hair pulled back in two ponytails. She’s performed real-life 3D concerts to audiences worldwide, has hit the top of Japanese album charts, collaborated with and opened for other artists including Lady Gaga, and appeared on David Letterman.

Part of the reason that Hatsune Miku is so popular is that she was created to be collaborative. The original illustrations of her are licensed under Creative Commons, and there’s a large community dedicated to creating and sharing songs for her. So far, Crypton Future Media boasts that over 100,000 songs have been produced using her vocal software.

Trivia

 * Hatsune Miku isn't a digital persona for a real singer. She's actually a synthesized character, called a Vocaloid, from top to bottom. Not only is her image generated by computer, but her singing voice is totally synthesized, too. To create this voice, Japanese voice actress and singer Saki Fujita's voice was sampled.