This project is the result of the collaboration between Crypton Future Media's virtual idol (Miku) and the American Arm of the Japanese car maker Toyota
-Corolla the official car of hatsune miku-
According to Toyota, both Hatsune Miku and Corolla are "driven by the sound of success."
"The new 2011 Toyota Corolla and Hatsune Miku have two very important things in
common -big dream in a compact package.
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The reactions of the fans are mixed:
America:
> “Holy shit, did you guys check the official page?
> Who the fuck draw that Miku on front page?
> Looked like fking shemale.”
> “I kinda like it…
> But I’m weird so don’t mind me.”
> “Nice, except the corolla is on the American top ten most stolen autos list for the last 17 yrs. I pass.”
> “They are giving a Miku life-size doll with each purchase? I might consider getting one…”
> “Legendary? The Corolla lost that status when it lost RWD.
> About the commercial, Miku’s eyes look scary. And ‘Hatsuni’? Ugh.”
> “This must be a desperate move by Toyota….. Selling based on just reliability doesn’t cut it anymore.
> There are new exciting C-segment (compact) startups from Ford, Hyundae and Kia vying to eat away Corolla’s dominance in the US market.”
> “They couldn’t outright use Tony’s art so they just “Americanized” her face.
> So much fail trying to put the super soulless Corolla with miku…and that site picture. El oh El, so much fail.”
> “Oh god, so bad. Fail. I’m not as happy about the commercial as I should be.
> What? Why? Normal people are probably going “WTF is that!?”
> They should raffle off a Miku itasha.
> “Jesus that was terrible. Did they really think her voice cracking was commercial worthy?”
Japan:
>“Toyota finally did it.”
>“At least use Sega’s modelling!
>“This is horrible!”
>“Seriously? This isn’t some MAD?”
>“No way.”
>“Creepy. People who aren’t used to it will recoil, even me.”
>“Finally some bright news.”
>“I’m sorry, so sorry!”
>“Come on Toyota, give us an itasha option.”
>“This is one of those commercials you’ll either love or hate.”
>“The quality of that 3D CG is seriously low…”
>“Should she be driving? She’s only 16?”
>“16 is enough there.”
At least there is a common ground in the dislike of the image, and it rampant plagiarism of Tony´s Miku pose:
Sources
4 comments:
I like the picture... .-.
All behold Toyota's Pirated Miku!
considering that toyota is a very large company, i'm not surprised that this happened, both the picture fiasco NOR the fact that they tried to link-market miku and the latest xerox of corolla car.
i darkly wonder if Ford or GM will follow suit and put out a Mickey Mouse edition or a superman/batman edition, (or worse yet, a peter griffin or homer simpson edition) whatever 'sooper-dooper neato wowee' car, truck, or car/truck combo deal they can sucker the populace with, more-so than any other sucker deal they manage to stick to the masses.
using chat from 2ch and 4chan, LOL ok.
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