posted by Fuangping

One of these days, Vocaloids have been rooted in Japanese culture especially for Internet culture. Not only its innovative singing system but also its cute characters seems like contributing to the popularity.

The last day, such a web-famous vocaloid finally appeared on real political topic; ruling Democratic Party of Japan tried to use Hatsune Miku, the most popular vocaloid, in their promotion video for the election going on now.

According to the Kenzo Huzisue the Member of the House of Councilors, the Party asked the company who had the copy right of vocaloid but was denied. "I wanted to make the promotion video with Hatsune Miku, But the company which had its comprehensive copy rights turned down the offer because it must not support specific political organization. "

Hearing this news, Japanese netizens who basically hate DPJ (general people relatively support DPJ. very opposite against netizens. one of big enigmas) got excited, and spurred to hate DPJ more, saying "The stupid party tried to use OUR angel MiKU!!". Many caricatures of DPJ were posted on 2channel. Pictures below are some of them.