The one sung by digitial seiyuu Miku Hatsune
The real one sung by seiyuu
Winner: Still the real seiyuu.
22 April 2008
Real Seiyuu v.s. Digitized Seiyuu: Hare Hare Yukai. Fight!
Thanks to blazin who posted the nyan nyan song on figurakuen, I end up browsing youtube for 3 hours and hearing all kind of music, and these two video strikes me as a very good comparison or human vs computer.
If you might have known already, in Japan there is this digitized seiyuu called Volcanoid and the first version is Miku Hatsune which is female voice version, tuned to sing japanese songs, digitally. It is really advance and it has been able to sing some songs really well. It is intended for aspiring song writers who cannot afford to hire really good seiyuu to sing his/her song but would like to showcase his/her composition.
How is that compared to the real seiyuu, I asked. A bit difficult when we do not have the same songs to compare with, but here I found it!
OK if you want to hear the real version, watch this one.
This is performed at a concert by the real seiyuu and it is the encore version.
Now compare that with the Volcanoid's Miku Hatsune version, who is a digitized vocal recording of a seiyuu, which is used by a computer program to create an artificial seiyuu.
My verdict is, Volcanoid is sure very advance already but it still has quite some time before it catches up with the real seiyuu. However, it probably only need a couple of year to sound really nice.
Anyway, if you want to listen to all of almost all of the seiyuu (main characters and minor characters, thanks to ShiningSeraph), who sings Hare Hare Yukai, here are all the versions. Enjoy!
By the way, for Pokemon fan zoom right to the end to watch a different Hare Hare Yukai performed by Pikachu & gang.
Aya Hirano (seiyuu of Haruhi Suzumiya) version:
Yuko Goto (seiyuu of Mikuru Asahina) version, which somehow I like the most (she has that "soft" voice):
Minori Chihara (seiyuu of Yuki Nagato), which I called "Supposedly Robotic But Actually Very Human Sounding" version:
Tomokazu Sugita (seiyuu of Kyon) version, the slow version, or I called "Melanchony of Kyon" version:
Daisuke Ono (seiyuu of Itsuki Koizumi) version:
Yuri Shiratori (seiyuu of Emiri Kimidori) version:
Natsuko Kuwatani (seiyuu of Ryoko Asakura) version:
Yuki Matsuoka (seiyuu of Tsuruya-san) version:
Sayaka Aoki (seiyuu of Kyon's younger sister) version, which I called "Chibi Hare Hare Forced-Kawaii" version:
Update! Hare Hare Yukai Pokemon version! Hahaha. Wait for the surprise ending.
If you might have known already, in Japan there is this digitized seiyuu called Volcanoid and the first version is Miku Hatsune which is female voice version, tuned to sing japanese songs, digitally. It is really advance and it has been able to sing some songs really well. It is intended for aspiring song writers who cannot afford to hire really good seiyuu to sing his/her song but would like to showcase his/her composition.
How is that compared to the real seiyuu, I asked. A bit difficult when we do not have the same songs to compare with, but here I found it!
OK if you want to hear the real version, watch this one.
This is performed at a concert by the real seiyuu and it is the encore version.
Now compare that with the Volcanoid's Miku Hatsune version, who is a digitized vocal recording of a seiyuu, which is used by a computer program to create an artificial seiyuu.
My verdict is, Volcanoid is sure very advance already but it still has quite some time before it catches up with the real seiyuu. However, it probably only need a couple of year to sound really nice.
Anyway, if you want to listen to all of almost all of the seiyuu (main characters and minor characters, thanks to ShiningSeraph), who sings Hare Hare Yukai, here are all the versions. Enjoy!
By the way, for Pokemon fan zoom right to the end to watch a different Hare Hare Yukai performed by Pikachu & gang.
Aya Hirano (seiyuu of Haruhi Suzumiya) version:
Yuko Goto (seiyuu of Mikuru Asahina) version, which somehow I like the most (she has that "soft" voice):
Minori Chihara (seiyuu of Yuki Nagato), which I called "Supposedly Robotic But Actually Very Human Sounding" version:
Tomokazu Sugita (seiyuu of Kyon) version, the slow version, or I called "Melanchony of Kyon" version:
Daisuke Ono (seiyuu of Itsuki Koizumi) version:
Yuri Shiratori (seiyuu of Emiri Kimidori) version:
Natsuko Kuwatani (seiyuu of Ryoko Asakura) version:
Yuki Matsuoka (seiyuu of Tsuruya-san) version:
Sayaka Aoki (seiyuu of Kyon's younger sister) version, which I called "Chibi Hare Hare Forced-Kawaii" version:
Update! Hare Hare Yukai Pokemon version! Hahaha. Wait for the surprise ending.
12 April 2008
Scratch made Miku Hatsune
This guys is super crafty and manage to scratch made a small Miku Hatsune (see the scale hint with the SD Card casing towards the end of the video).
The face is a bit odd, but considering it is scratch made, it is really a good effort.
Unfortunately there is not much hint on the material used, but I suspect some are scrap plastic from kits and some clay. The face seems to have clay as a base for the shape and later may be some kind of plastic polymer.
If you do not know who is Miku Hatsune, she is the first installment of Vocaloid, a human voice synthesizer for songs, where the composer only need to provide the lyrics and melody. It is developed by Yamaha Corporation.
You can read more about it on Vocaloid Wikipedia entry
The face is a bit odd, but considering it is scratch made, it is really a good effort.
Unfortunately there is not much hint on the material used, but I suspect some are scrap plastic from kits and some clay. The face seems to have clay as a base for the shape and later may be some kind of plastic polymer.
If you do not know who is Miku Hatsune, she is the first installment of Vocaloid, a human voice synthesizer for songs, where the composer only need to provide the lyrics and melody. It is developed by Yamaha Corporation.
You can read more about it on Vocaloid Wikipedia entry
Super Otaku or a shop pretending to be an Otaku
I found this YouTube video by browsing other blog (http://coeliandjeff.blogspot.com/).
This is so crazy it is unbelievable. Either this is a Otaku Convention where everybody bring their collection and showcase all to take video, or this is a video from a shop.
I suspect more of the latter because normally otaku will put theirs in shelves and not tables.
Anyway, watch this totally amazing display of PVC.
Can you name them all?
This is so crazy it is unbelievable. Either this is a Otaku Convention where everybody bring their collection and showcase all to take video, or this is a video from a shop.
I suspect more of the latter because normally otaku will put theirs in shelves and not tables.
Anyway, watch this totally amazing display of PVC.
Can you name them all?
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