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2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

6. Hatsune Miku, Virtual Machine-Woman

verfasst von : Yuji Sone

Erschienen in: Japanese Robot Culture

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

This chapter discusses a popular Pygmalion fantasy in the Japanese context, that is, the creation of an ideal woman, by examining the virtual singing performance of Hatsune Miku. Hatsune Miku is software that combines synthesised singing with an illustrated girl character. For its male fans, Hatsune Miku embodies the metonymical aural and visual signs of femininity. Fans within the otaku subculture manipulate and control the figure and its outputs through this software and related packages, which can generate images and music videos featuring the character. As scholars indicate, these productions can actually stimulate sexual arousal for hard-core fans. This chapter explores the darker side of the modernist fantasy of technologised progress by considering the figures of the robot and the woman in terms of themes of control and subjugation within the otaku subculture.

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Metadaten
Titel
Hatsune Miku, Virtual Machine-Woman
verfasst von
Yuji Sone
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Buch
Japanese Robot Culture

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-53216-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-52527-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52527-7_6