Started as a mere face of a synthesized program Vocaloid2, 16 years old Hatsune Miku’s grew up as a world phenomenon of “featured cyber-pop-star”. Powered by her cute and high pitched voice which may not be achieved by humans, she is truly blessed. Looking again, Hatsune Miku is actually not a popstar, in fact she isn’t even an human at all. She’s a production of Yamaha to be a face of their program named Vocaloid. Yamaha is known for the synthesized specialty. A Yamaha Synthesizer was earlier often used for midi files. … Though I won’t bother you with the Yamaha, check the wikipedia page for it.

Nowadays we find Vocaloid and especially Hatsune Miku all over the world (blogs). I read the criticism at riuva to blog anything popular, but Miku can’t be ignored. She’s just too cute and her voice is something unearth. There is no way you can ignore her voice and it’s quite unbelievable she gained popularity in just a few months after her broadcast in Tokyo (see the youtube review). She crossed the path as popstar and anime all together having both the popularity of anime and music fans. Breaking the boundaries Miku introduces a new world to a lot of newbies. The world of synthesized music, high pitched and fully digital. Now enough introduction and start roling the figure review.
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This week GoodSmile releases Nanoha Takamachi’s Raging Heart and her best friend Fate Testarossa Swimsuit. I must admit I’m not really stunned to buy either one of them. Still to see them together in this picture brightens my day amd the Raging Heart would be a greawt keychain. So GoodSmile still care for Nanoha. We must hope they carry on.

On the other side, I think they* seriously need to check Nanoha’s face over again.

*They are GoodSmile and CMS which both lacks the girlisch face of Nanoha and the staring, sad eyes of Fate. Well, ok, if you were on the beach you shouldn’t look sad, but I mean, the faces are kinda dull. I can’t remember Nanoha having such a bust too.

If I do see them in the local stores, I actually may buy them. Let’s see what abunai offers at september. Abunai is a dutch anime convention I will attend to at September. It isn’t as expensive as the AnimeCon was in May, but shouldn’t be any smaller at all.

GoodSmile Fate Testarossa Swimsuit
GoodSmile Nanoha Takamachi’s Raging Heart

Taiga, from ToraDora. Official from moe.imouto 72268

Hello my fellow visitors. Yesterdays night and today’s morning was quite a stumble for my poor server. It didn’t took me very long to find the cause and a stumbled upon an hack. I’m not sure how long the hack lasted, but it might be the full previous week. I’ve no clue how they did it, so poor me hopes it won’t happen again. Your virus scanner/firewall now shouldn’t warn any longer about a fake and dangerous site “trafing.com”. Do NOT visit that site! If your virus scanner/firewall is still making warnings, please use Ctrl-R or Ctrl-F5 in your web browser to fully refresh the page. You may also remove Hirvine from your history to resolve the problem. Again, I’m truly sorry I haven’t found the hack earlier, the site is known for their ad or spyware. You might want to check your pc. Mine was still clean, but you never know.

To Visitors, Hirvine does NOT display any advertising.
When you do see any please refresh the site due an hack earlier this week.
(It’s all okay by now, read the date)

Webbloggers having Wordpress might want to read on as the hack was found in Wordpress. Obvious I have no clue if the hack was fetched by any plugins.

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Louise de la Valiel is a student at the magic school who is barely able to cast the most simplest spells. When she is to summon her life time guardian familiar, probably a Lizard, Dragon or Salamander in the magic world she lives ine. She instead summons a Japanese boy from earth. Being laughed at her summoning can’t be redo, so she drags the boy to his ‘cage’. The boy still is her familiar and though it doesn’t seems so, it is a gift send from the heavens (for her). Obviously the boy, Hiraga Saito, is kinda confused and doesn’t obey his master commands very well.

Soon after being summoned Hirage clears his mind. Though confused he doesn’t allow anyone to laugh at him and makes a big fuss. It doesn’t even take a day until he discovers his master, Louise reputation. Louise is mostly addressed as Zero at the campus, referring the zero to her spell casting skills. Though she’s incompetent in casting she still tries her best all the time. Even the family spots her and her father is mostly disappointed. A  la Valiel, a noble blood, must be able to cast at least those simple spells at the acedemy.  This might be the cause why Louise has a low tempter. Can Hiraga find the real Louise behind Zero? Is Zero really the first la Valiel without grand casting spells, or does she behold a more severe spell?

Zero no Tsukaima, The familiar of Zero, is a humorous anime series. Stuffed with ecchi and magic it appears to be quite a charming series over 3 seasons.

Related blogs: Polyvinylcrush
Price: €49.99 (~ $71 American Dollars)
Publisher: Kotobukiya
Sculpted: Masaki Sanada
Scale: 1/8
Store: archonia

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I’ve spotted some Nanoha nendroids at nekomagic. Nekomagic have some nice shots from the Hobby Complex 07 which was held in Tokyo. Among these there nendoroids there were also several Nanoha figures I wasn’t familiar with. I’ve copy-pasted the Nanoha images here on hirvine, since I’m a big Nanoha fan. To view all the photos of the Hobby Comple 07, Tokyo , please visit nekomagic.

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Animecon 2009 at the Netherlands, Almelo

Final I went to an animecon last Saturday (a week ago). Animecon 2009 the Netherlands, Almelo, after 2+ hours of pushing the traffic I finally stepped into an big luxe hotel. Theater Hotel Almelo is an huge hotel in which Animecon each year “celebrates” anime. I never went to any anime event like AnimeCon and so I figured cosplay is common, common is unusual . If I didn’t want to push the scenery I just had to jump into a custom. Well next time …

I didn’t make photo’s, but I think quite a lot of people did so I ran around the internet to find. I didn’t found too many, but a pair of photo’s are on flickr and StiX and Zucht of stix have uploaded a AnimeCon 2009, The Netherlands Almelo slideshow on youtube.

I really don’t have any photo’s here, so I guess I stop right here.
If you would read on you will be informed what actually happened during the downtime and unstability of Hirvine.com the last pair of weeks.

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Shamal is one of the wolkenritters in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and StrikerS. Together with Vita, Signum and Zafira she makes part of party to protect the master of the book of darkness, Hayate. Her device is called “Clear Wind” which is alike a two diamond shaped stones carved on two rings each. Shamal wears the rings on her forefinger and the second on her ringfinger.

In battle she doesn’t directly merges into battle, as her strength isn’t physical attended. Instead she casts curses and steals magic from her victims’ Linker Core’s. A linker core is the heart of a magician in which magic flows from. Without a linker core, the magician has no magic and so cannot cast spells. A linker core can be broken if Shamal leeches a longer period.

It is Shamal’s duty to keep an eye on the group and transfer the adsorbed magic to the book of darkness and fill it. She acts like the mother of the group.

Related urls: otaku-life, wcloudxkumo
Publisher: CMS
Sculpted: ???
Height: ~210 mm high (8.3 inch)
Scale: 1/6
Price: €80 (US $104)
Accessorizes: 2 books (1 open, 1 closed), 4 different faces and hands

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Index, original at http://e-shuushuu.net/image/138987/

Since the anime series “ToraDora” and “To Aru Majutsu no Index” (A Certain Magical Index) ended a week ago I didn’t found any anime to replace them. Up until now I re-watch some series and decided to start watching “Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu” (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya). At first I didn’t felt much to watch an female student living her school life, but there is a lot commotion around this anime so I gave it a shot…

Wow, Haruhi Suzumiya is só cool! It’s completely different from what I thought it was. :/ I should have read some episode posts on the blogs around here.

I wondered how many people are “lost” when their favourite series ends. How do you find another great anime? Luckily a number of blogs have created posts which could guide you to a new great series. As I’m quite lazy I’m just going to sum them up and inform you how I get to know my upcoming anime series. You should know I’m a dutchman without the ability the receive the Japanese broadcast. So I don’t have to great anime commercials and am completely depended by fansbubs.

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Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu is a 40 episode series about a girlwho believes in magic. This teenager girl is named Alice and is an average student. On a casual day her teacher is making his students life hard. He’s dissapointed and remains jamming on the red notes.

Joking Alice put some red stuff on her hands and ask if she could use magic to put up the rates. Confused the teachers stares her and in that moment she rubs the red stuff over a classmate face. Laughing she asks if it’s red enough.

The class shatters but the boy and his friend doesn’t take it lightly and grabs her beloved fathers book. Then they make run for it and Alice is forced to go after them. Their teacher screams all over, but they run off to a in-build section of the school. The get outside on a three floor high ground.

When the boys reaches a death end they are forced to handover her fathers book. Instead they hold it back over the edge. Alice warns them not to throw it and pushs the boys aside to grab her book. Unfortunately she slips and falls. However she vanishses into the thin air. When she awakes she’s in the middle of a forest. So will soon find out about the magic of this world. The true magic isn’t as lovely as she thought. But she remain the believe. Magic is made to make people happy!

Find the summaries at the Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu category of this blog. You can find the Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu OST at the anime ost section.

Zero no Tsukaima, Louise. Original at http://moe.imouto.org/post/show/62807/

Previous weekend I intended to update my Wordpress 2.6 theme to version 2.7. However, as you may see, the design fails at certain points. What’s worse? I did look up the blog with Internet Explorer 7 and it seems one of the blog post has a small error . How frustrating…

Well I guess I have a the weekend to fix all of this. Microsoft Internet Explorer users may find some parts of the site completely in header-1 (huge characters) for the moment. I’m really sorry, but I can’t change it for now. Today and tomorrow I have a job to attend to. Sorry, at least I wanted you to know. The design bug is known and I’ll fix it in the weekend. Thank you.

Any webdevelopers should check IETester which let you test Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, 6, 7 and 8. It has nothing todo with anime, but just for other webdevelopers this tool is a must-have.

updated: Solved header-format bug for the MSIE Users. … Rich Text Editors are nice, but sometimes they can give you an headache. I’ll continue later to solve the left and right mystery. The problem started when I flushed all my cache earlier to put up the new design apparently.
updated 28th May, 2006 at 17:25 GMT+1: Completely fixed all errors