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NEL

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Apr 13, 2018
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can anyone help? i follow an artist on twitter who's illusttated art for some of deco*27's songs, like ghost rule. their name is hachisan. but i notuced their most recent tweet just says 'R.I.P.'? and the replies are all thanking them. i don't know if this is just a random tweet or if something happened to hachisan, but it is giving me a bit of anxiety so if anyone can help find out it would be very much appreciated!

the tweet in queation:
 

uncreepy

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Apr 9, 2018
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can anyone help? i follow an artist on twitter who's illusttated art for some of deco*27's songs, like ghost rule. their name is hachisan. but i notuced their most recent tweet just says 'R.I.P.'? and the replies are all thanking them. i don't know if this is just a random tweet or if something happened to hachisan, but it is giving me a bit of anxiety so if anyone can help find out it would be very much appreciated!

the tweet in queation:
I think this is what happened, but please keep in mind that I might be wrong, because it was very hard to find information since it just happened.

Hachisan is the "mother" of a VTuber called Takigami Rito (瀧上りと). Being their mother just means they designed/drew them. The company that handles a bunch of Vtubers seems to have fired Takigami Rito today and published a statement about it: 弊社所属、瀧上りとに関するお知らせ | Re:AcT - バーチャルタレント (Vtuber) 事務所
I don't know what happened, but it was a breach of contract relating to lying, breaking non-disclosure agreement, saying bad things about Re:Act, and using multiple VTuber accounts.

I think based on this information, Hachisan is saying RIP about Takigami Rito. If I find out more news, I will update this.
 

hamano

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Despite the cancellation of Hirosaki Sakura festival, they're still having a "Sakura Miku in Hirosaki" illustration contest.

 

peaches2217

Give me Gackpoid AI or give me DEATH
Sep 11, 2019
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Awww, how cute of them to do this! I don't know if I'll participate in the song contest or not, but I appreciate the free trial of Miku English either way :miku_ani_lili: .
It's worth noting that her English trial has always been free, though. That said, I forgot that, saw your comment, and got super excited to try it out... even though I've had her English bank for nearly two years now... what can I say? I see "free trial," I jump.

I might try the figure painting thing! Though my artistic hand leaves much to be desired, heh.
 
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Leon

AKA missy20201 (Elliot)
Apr 8, 2018
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There doesn't appear to be a dedicated headcanon thread (?) so I'll share here!

Driven by my bitterness disappointment over my order of Nemu getting cancelled, as well as relief at getting almost an A on an exam I thought I'd failed, I've ordered a V2 Miki! Aha,,
Here's hoping this one's successful! LOL. And on the topic of Miki, I thought I'd share my thoughts about her and Piko!

As with many, I already hc'd both as robots, and ever since that old epiphany hit the fandom, I've also fully accepted/integrated the siblings bit into it as well. My hc for Piko has long since been one I think is quite fun --

He's very much the stereotypical robot. Emotionally absent, and quite straight-faced. In fanart I don't even draw him pupils, to add to he "blank slate" look I give him. He's intelligent in the imperfect, fallible way that computers are, but he's very quiet and speaks rarely, so you wouldn't know it. His tone is always quite flat. His friends (namely Len, Oliver, Fukase, Moke, Flower) drag him along with their antics, but he's impassive about any and all of it. Not that his friends care. They involve him in their conversations (read: arguments) seamlessly, regardless of his responses, or lack thereof. It's quite sweet! Some of the other Vocaloids, namely the older members, are a little mystified or unsettled by him, but it's essentially unanimously agreed to leave him be. He's not hurting anything.

I like to think that, in time, he starts to learn more human behaviors. Starts out small, repeating phrases his friends find humorous with a totally straight face (much to their utter joy). Or quietly taking his own initiative to spend time with those he's close to, or making decisions on things without someone else telling him what he should do, no matter how small the matter. This process would be really gradual, but over the years I like to think that he'll come to have an understanding of what it is to be his own version of human. He'll never be as boisterous or impulsive as his friends, but he learns to smile a little, and to genuinely enjoy things, and love his friends and family. How to recognize and express his thoughts and opinions. It's wholesome in every sense, because I am a huge sucker for an android-come-conscious story :')

But now I've sat down and put my vague thoughts and notions of Miki's character into a more solid form too! This one's kinda long.

Her voice is lively and sharp, so I've always transferred that over to her personality. She's lively and loud and has strong opinions and a desire to make them known. She's determined to formulate her own opinions on things, and will not stand to be a pushover, or to see others being made one. A strong sense of justice and a willingness to look out for others. She has a kind heart, but when the situation calls for it, she's willing to be mean. She makes friends quickly and easily, and even those she isn't close to seem fond of her, even if just in a vague "ah yeah she's cool" type of way.

You put her next to her brother, and despite their similar appearances (I imagine the same height and skintone), they're such polar opposites that people can't believe they're related. Well, not by blood, but you get my point. While Piko blends into the background and behaves similar to a cardboard cutout, Miki seems larger than life and positively vibrant to those around her. Miki's appearance lends to an obvious understanding that she's a robot, what with her bare arms and legs with joints on full display. So despite her behavior, it's obvious what she is right away. Piko on the other hand, has joints that are harder to see (you really gotta squint at his boxart, for example) but his behavior makes it impossible for him to be anything but a robot (in a world such as this where robots exist, anyway, even if I do imagine they're uncommon in this Vocaloids-are-humans-on-singing-contracts world of mine). So, funny enough, neither passes as human, but for opposing reasons!

Another fun tidbit is that I like to imagine that even if Miki wears clothes that cover her joints, there's just something.... a little bit off about her, that clues into her mechanical roots. Her stare might be too glassy at times, or she may sit too perfectly still if left without stimulus for a while. Just small quirks that mark her as just a little odd, that little bit different. It's nothing huge that you'd notice right away, but spending enough time around her would make them really obvious, if one cared enough to look.

Also I see her as extremely protective of her little brother, tying back into her personality basis in the first paragraph. Due to some behind the scenes troubles, she and Piko ended up being "finished" by different companies, and it's incredibly evident that Piko's company doesn't care that much for him. Miki feels a little bad about it, considering her company puts time into her for system updates and occasional software upgrades vs Piko essentially being finished and dumped. While she is overwhelmed and giddy when he starts to slowly become his own person, she has always been aggressively vocal that there is nothing "wrong" with him, functional emotional core or not. She was fully prepared to love him for the rest of their lives with him never having a single flicker of emotion. While it goes entirely over Piko's head for the longest time, Miki is at least half the reason he's left alone by even those wary or scornful of him. Her loud spunky attitude calms to something borderline motherly when she's looking after her brother, and as he slowly gains emotional intelligence, he's hit by how much she put into taking care of him, and eternally grateful. I'm soft for gentle sibling dynamics ;;A;;
 
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Sep 21, 2019
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Hopefully this isn’t true, because then there goes a lot of really great MMD models, motions, and crap ton of Vocaloid history..:kaito_lili:

(I’ll do some digging and see if I can find anything…)
 
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Sep 21, 2019
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Yeah. Assuming they’d be shutting down Nicoseiga, too, that’ll create a huge problem for us MMDers…
Nico is one of my favorite services because it felt like I genuinely stood a chance at being seen and finding content I wanna see instead of being confined to YouTube’s algorithm.
 
Sep 21, 2019
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Upon further investigation (by which I mean logging into and poking around Nico), I can't find any indication that they'd be shutting down? No warnings, notices, etc. Japanese home page is full of NicoNico cho stuff, you can still purchase premium memberships, etc..
Wonder where people are getting this termination of services idea... maybe "termination of services" means something more along the lines of "hey, our tos has changed, please review because if you break it we'll terminate your service". :unsure:
 
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Blue Of Mind

The world that I do not know...
Apr 8, 2018
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Maybe some Japanese users misread the updated NicoNico TOS and started to panic? Because something kind of similar happened a while back on YouTube when they updated their ToS and it was poorly written on YT's end.

In some ways, I do think Nico lags behind YT in some features, but on the other hand, I greatly prefer the culture on Nico nowadays compared to YT, despite the language barrier. Nico today reminds me a lot of YT back when it wasn't overrun with corporation channels and random annoying people exploiting the algorithm every day.
 
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