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50/50, I'm sure they would've liked the characters to catch on with people, but they grew way more than I'm sure Yamaha ever thought they would internationally even. Weebs everywhere love Miku and don't even know she's from audio software by Yamaha

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Her sleeves are literally a Yamaha DX7, which makes it obvious to synth nerds everywhere, but... not sure how much of the weeb population are also synth nerds.

Minor correction: Miku, Luka, Rin/Len, Kaito and Meiko are not Yamaha products. Crypton Future Media is the company behind them, as they're third party voice banks for Yamaha's Vocaloid platform. (+/- the newer NT version of Miku, which uses its own thing.) Yamaha only recently started shipping their own voices at all, and none of them have the same fan cachet.

like their targeted advertising collaboration with dominos, known to be the favored pizza of audio professionals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuI4l0jK7s

Being true to who you are makes all your dreams possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_XMIGjJoS8

Related (and of interest to HN) - the effort to save the Hatsune Miku Dominos app[0], the quest to track down Scott Oelkers, President of Dominos Pizza Japan (featured in the ad)[1] and interview [2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=341IsnWdaT4

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCaZt6Dy2_A

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLUCZux2Sbs

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