Thread:SirGawain8/@comment-36455278-20190125233412/@comment-31322722-20190127225638

Jezebella Star wrote: I don't care what you guys say, I know Hatsune Miku is an Anime character. She obviously looks like one, she is Japanese, and she has made a few apperances in a few different Animes like Himouto! Umaru-Chan! Okay? But like, she isn’t? Anime is short for the Japanese katakana word for animation, and it mainly pertains to tv and film. Hatsune Miku isn’t really a character either. She’s just a program with a voicebox. It’s up to the artist to make the actual music, form the lyrics, and tune her voice. The only reason why she has any sort of personification — similar to other Vocaloids — is for marketing purposes. The first Vocaloids that were made before Miku and even Meiko and Kaito didn’t even sell that well.

Also, it’s pretty much standard for Japanese cartoon characters to be drawn in that art style. Like, come on. But, if you played any of the Project Diva games, you’d know that 95% of the time, they try to make Miku look more like a Barbie doll than an anime character (she looked like an anime character in F, F 2nd, and X). It’s like saying that... I don’t know, the Rainbow Magicland cat is a character from an animated TV series. He’s not. Does he appear in animated shorts to promote the park? Yeah. If the park was more popular, would he make cameos in some TV shows? Probably. But he is just a face for the park. Just like how Miku is just a face for the program.