They had the first ever live Hatsune Miku concert recently in Japan (I forget where it was exactly). It was at some big music festival out there, and with as big of an idol Miku has become, you can imagine how huge the concert was sicne it was the first time they did anything on that level with her. The concert itself was exactly what you'd expect. It was a live band sitting in shadows bellow a huge screen where a giant display of Miku played as she sang and danced along with the band playing the instrumental parts of her songs. The event started with her theme, and soon after, the screen when black, and Miku's voice could be heard annouceing Black Rock Shooter's name. This then lead into a trailer for the anime that will be based on the character. So far, I have no idea what the anime will be about beyond that. The trailer looks good in terms of animation quality, and how well it flows and things like that.

Originally, some people thought it was just an animated video for a song about her sung by Miku, since BRS is supposed to be a re-imagining of Miku herself. The anime has been confirmed to be a full series, and the pilot episode will be out shortly. They have released the figure of Black Rock Shooter, but good luck getting it. lol. The figure runs for about $130 when not on sale, and the limited ammount made means that it will be a huge pain to try to buy later on, if it is ever sold on something like ebay. It is very high quality detail though, and it looks great for the price. I'm just not enough of a fan to pay more than $40 for it at the absolute most for it though.

From what I saw in the trailer, it looks like it will be a semi-action series. It will be a nice change from the flood of moe anime that has been coming out in the recent months. I mean seriously, I know it's popular and all, but it needs to stop. I miss back when they made anime just becuase they had a good story idea, and they didn't do it just to make a profit like they do with eveything now. The trailer does make it look liek there might end up being drama parts to it, but the main character is a girl with a giant gun. When has that ever turned out bad? *thinks back to how horribel every manga and anime with a girl with a giant gun has been, with the exception of that scene where Seras had that giant two page big gun in Hellsing* Okay, I'll admit, other than Hellsing's manga, that has never turned out well, but this could be the exception. I doubt it though. Oh well. lol.

Anyway, here is a link for the anime news. It's the only one I could get that didn't have recordings of the concert itself in it (since it's probly some leagal issue to post stuff like a recording of a live Miku concert. lol). And for anyone wondering about the Miku concert, you can find videos of it all over Nico, but it's nothing really unexpected. It would have been nicer if they kept her onscreen more instead of making it seem like they had to keep loading a entirely new video. I'd like to assume they had one constant video running of her, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was just seperate ones for each song and the trailer.