Today I was asked to look at a digital singing star named Hatsune Miku
and a cartoon called Capelito (カペリート in Japanese).
The latter is seemingly of Spanish origin. Simply, it’s a claymation about a mushroom whose top changes at the squeeze of his nose. Some third year girls were doing this weird thing squeezing their noses and this is what they directed me to watch. The former I was introduced to by a second year girl in a note she wrote and put in my ‘mail box’. The singer is a projection. The vocals are fully digitalised, created on software called Vocaloid (the name given to these types of singers also… sinister sounding, right…? so Blade Runner… since arriving, I haven’t really came in to much contact with this tech-future fetish the Japanese, through anime and manga, so clearly express… cool..), that was put together by Yamaha and a Spanish university.
Look at that, a link to our little カペリート above.
