Hatsune Miku is getting her very own chess set that comes with adorable minifigures, which transform the virtual idol into ...

Hatsune Miku fans have turned the World Cup into a running joke over her nationality, as a viral map collects thousands of ...

If you search for the acronym MMD on Niconico or YouTube — the two most popular video-sharing sites in Japan — the resulting list will have over 100,000 anime videos, most of which have 3-D ...

Hatsune Miku is more than a little big in Japan. She appears on billboards, in TV commercials, and gives sold-out concerts to legions of fans the world over. Of course, being a popular singer in and ...

Hatsune Miku in New York in October. Photo: Courtesy of Crypton Future Media It wasn’t until 2007, though, that Crypton released Hatsune Miku (her name means “first sound of the future”), a highly ...

It can be difficult to wrap your head around the concept of Japan’s virtual pop star Hatsune Miku, an eternal 16-year-old with teal, floor-length pigtails, a very real and rabid audience, and human ...