mOa: June 2011

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Kaonashi カオナシ

The creator

Hayao Miyazaki 宮崎駿

The character
No Face/Faceless/Kaonashi
From Spirited Away 千と千尋～
Likes Chihiro Ogino 荻野千尋

Characteristics Lonely
Feeds on Others' emotions
Ability Assumes the voice and personality of those he "eats"

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What is Kaonashi?

"Kaonashi is Miyazaki himself," says Toshio Suzuki, producer of Sen to Chihiro, in the PREMIRE interview but Miyazaki fervently denies his partner's interpretation. "No!" he says. "Kaonashi is a metaphor, the libido that everybody secretly harbors."

Often offers Chihiro gifts like gold and bath token

Pictures

Watch

How to Make Kaonashi's Mask?

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Hatsune Miku 初音ミク

Official website
http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/pages/prod/vocaloid/cv01.jsp

Fansite

http://www.mikufan.com/

Project Diva
http://miku.sega.jp/

Download
[ Vocaloid 2 ]
[ MikuMiku Dance ]

The developer
Crypton Future Media
Location Sapporo, Japan
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The character
Hatsune Miku 初音ミク
What Singing synthesizer application (uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology)

Origin of name Hatsu 初 (first), Ne 音 (sound), Miku ミク (future)

Voice sampled from Saki Fujita 藤田咲
Designed by KEI (His gallery)

Age 16
Date of birth 31st of August
Horoscope Virgo

Height 158 cm

Weight 42 kg

Favourite genre J-Pop, Dance-Pop

Favourite tempo 70-150 BPM

Best voice range A3-E5

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Why is she holding a leek?
Because of a popular video with "Hachune Miku" holding a leek and singing "Ievan Polkka" (A character in "Loituma Girl/Leek Spinl" span a leek while singing the Finnish song)

Loituma Girl

Who is Hachune Miku はちゅね?

What? A mispronunciation of Hatsune

Created by Otomania and Tamago

Characteristics Childish, silly disposition

* According here, she is holding a spring onion instead of leek.

Pictures

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Live Concert

Game
http://games.superglossary.com/game-14517/Hatsune_Miku_Mission.html
Use directional keys to guide Hatsune Miku. Avoid the musical notes and take the leeks.

Friday, June 10, 2011

Japanese emoticons

Kaoani

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/3530/newframe.html

Kiron

Onpu

Futaba

Pany

Ha-Min

Kaomoji 顔文字
http://blog.kaomozi.moo.jp/?cid=34666

http://kaomozi.moo.jp/chat.html

Example of Kaomoji: *･ﾟ☆.｡.:*･ﾟ￡(｡･ェ･)o[†...Thanks...†]o(･ェ･｡)β｡.:*･ﾟ☆.｡.:*
The following pictures are not Kaomoji. I found them at the site that has Kaomoji only.