Marking the second edition in our collaboration with JCL Team UKYO to create an OSTRO VAM frame graphic featuring Hatsune Miku, the 2024 OSTRO VAM Hatsune Miku Edition features a stunning design by the anime artist Mogumo. Mogumo is famous as the character designer of "The Witch from Mercury," which is the fifteenth mainline entry in the Gundam franchise.
Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku (Japanese:初音ミク). As an innovative and evocative entertainer, Miku represents for many the sound of the future. The character has been developed for a line of singing voice synthesizer products. The software can recreate a singing voice carefully recorded and processed for Hatsune Miku, making it possible to generate an entire song’s vocal parts by entering a melody and lyrics on a computer.
Racing Miku for JCL Team Ukyo
As the racing version of Hatsune Miku, Racing Miku features yearly not only on the JCL Team UKYO special edition cycling, but also on Super GT motorsport vehicles. In fact, Miku’s involvement with motorsports inspired the design used on the OSTRO VAM. The image of Racing Miku on the frame is distinguished as the JCL Team UKYO edition by the fact that Miku is wearing the official 2024 cycling team kit.
The 2024 season has proved to be a very successful one for JCL Team UKYO. The squad with riders primarily from Japan and Italy, with Nathan Earle being the lone Australian, have racked up 16 victories and counting. Multi stages and overall victories in both the Tour of Japan and the Tour of Bulgaria prove the strength and depth of the squad. For the Tour of Japan, Giovanni Carboni won two stages, including a solo victory at the top of the fearsome climb up Mount Fuji.
And at the Tour of Bulgaria, the team won three of the five stages on the way to an overall victory by Matteo Malucelli. The team also took the top three places on the podium.
A win in stage 1 of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia and multiple stage victories at the PETRONAS Le Tour de Langkawi have rounded out the stellar year for the Japanese squad aboard their Factor OSTRO VAMs.
What is “Hatsune Miku”?
Hatsune Miku is a music software developed by Crypton Future Media, INC., which enables anyone to make their computer sing by entering lyrics and melodies. As a massive number of users created music using the software and posted their works on the Internet, Hatsune Miku quickly evolved into a cultural phenomenon. Since then, Hatsune Miku has gained much attention as a character, involved in many fields such as merchandising and live performance as a virtual singer. Now her popularity has spread across the globe.
Note: Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, Megurine Luka, MEIKO and KAITO are also virtual singers developed by Crypton Future Media, INC.
What is “Racing Miku”?
Racing Miku is a race version of Hatsune Miku and the exclusive mascot of the Hatsune Miku GT Project since 2010. Although officially named “Hatsune Miku Racing Version,” it is normally known as “Racing Miku.” It is designed by a different illustrator every year and is the symbol of the project.
