Honey – Yukari and Friends

I haven't featured  any of those multi-performer videos for a while, but this one is actually quite well thought-out and fairly well executed. The motion isn't the most natural, but it's better than many and most of the pitfalls seem to have been successfully avoided.

Here, then, is Honey, with Yukari taking the singing solo lead, and it's switchable to High Definition too.

The performers are, left to right in the following order for most of the track (and no, I hadn't heard of the little UTAUloid on the far left either): Nana Haruka, Lapis Aoki, SeeU, Yukari Yuzuki, IA, CUL and Akikoloid...

The Lawson Navigator

Those readers who watched the VocaFarre video I posted a few months back will remember Akikoloid, the redhead vocaloid with the huge bun and a butcher's apron lookalike costume, created by Lawson.

Lawson operates a string of convenience stores, and Akikoloid has now become their 'navigator' to guide shoppers (and potential customers) to the products of the moment.

To give you a flavour, here is a short video (the latest of more than sixty 'news' videos Lawson has produced but only a few of which feature a full animated Akikoloid), which is currently showing at their so-called otaku mode web page. It has English subtitles, helpfully...