(Note: You don't need to write this much if you post about your Mikuration picks. There's nothing that says you need to post any kind of explanation/notification at all. I just wrote this for fun. It ended up getting a little more involved than I anticipated, but it was interesting. :) )
Mikuration picks for February
are up!
I'm not sure how widespread observance of Valentine's Day is, but for fun I decided to make it the theme of my picks for this month. There are lots of songs I could have chosen, but I tried to pick some that I thought weren't ones that would come immediately to mind.
1. "Unfragment" by HSP
You might think this is something of an unusual choice. The song's lyrics, per the most complete translation I could find (
Unfragment), are rather confusing. But the best I can put it together, this seems to be a song about Miku falling in love with her producer, and being pained by the fact a variety of things are always going to separate them (the literal fact of a screen between them; the opposing cultural views of the "moralists," whose "lies" she sometimes has to tell in song, even when she disagrees; even maybe the producer's own significant other, or just their real life, if you assume that that is the "first" she's jealous of). The PV (also done by HSP) does offer some reason for hope, though, as she ends up escaping from the system, presumably to try to enter the real world.
2. "Saturation" by fatP
Probably the primary reason I chose this one is because I love how it sounds :). If you look at the lyrics for this one (
Saturation), the reason why it was chosen is probably pretty clear. The first verse is very descriptive, but not NSFW.
The really interesting bit of this song, I think, is the mirror. It's a major feature in the song, and it's brought up prominently in the Project Diva PV, too. Depending on how you look at the mirror, the meaning of the song can change a lot. If you more or less ignore it, it's clearly enough a song about two lovers. If you acknowledge it but treat it like it's analogizing one of those people to the other (as though they were so close that they were mirror images?), it's still basically a love song. Alternatively, if you treat it as a literal mirror, then the song could be about someone loving her/himself--looking in the mirror and really understanding the person she/he sees, and realizing that embracing that person is the first and foremost thing she/he is going to do. I'm not entirely sure how likely that last interpretation is (For one thing, it's impossible to get your reflection to trace its lips along your neck. That could be just a case of the producer obfuscating his/her real intended meaning with a more expected interpretation, though.), but there are parts of the song in which that interpretation works really well.
3. "Hatsune Miku Love and the Dissolution of Culture Boundaries" by gmimanga.exepicstudios.com
In terms of the image, I found the one I picked to be cute and well-done. Hope you guys like it! I got the name from the article on the gmimanga site where the picture supposedly came from, but that site apparently isn't working anymore and I had to source the image from Pinterest. There's some further discussion about the sourcing of the image in the description in the gallery, if you're interested.
Edit: I'd planned to mention this earlier, but guess I forgot--next up for Mikuration is
@ZAR-PARTY!
Maybe I'll make some more Miku Fanart...but no promises on that. : P
Sadly, I have no urge to join the Mikurator so sorry on that part. 
