Hatsune Miku has come for me 

Hatsune Miku

for those wondering, miku and the rest of the vocaloids are voice banks. their voices are provided from voice actors. in a literal sense, hatsune miku is an instrument!

RU-vidrs randomly starting to play project diva despite never having any experience related to Miku is my favorite type of genre on yt

a really good moment that wasnt included: it was the anniversary of KAITOs release on the day rt streamed this, and when chat told him he started looking through the songs to see if there were any birthday songs he could play for him

It's actually impressive how far rt has come. He went from having an abysmal sense of rhythm to having a mediocre sense of rhythm. Truly the best character arc.

RT saying "I don't think miku made it out alive" after rolling girl 💀

I love how he immediately noped out of The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku We've all been there lmao

8:24 I feel like this is a good moment to let people know that Hatsune Miku is a canon character in one of the Persona spinoffs

>Fails Rolling Girl "I don't think Miku made it out alive." Does he know, chat?

i can't see the end of the horizon HATSUNE MIKU?

You know that Hastune Miku has taken over the world when her presence is pretty much everywhere across the globe from food, cars to even Pokemon! She’s so influental that she even appeared on the Irish English Exam. *We live in her world now.*

Shout out to Twitch chat for immediately recommending Rolling Girl, they know what's good

Don’t forget Miku is just an instrument all songs are made by human beings that deserve to have their names known. All credit to them and their amazing talent

You can't escape her

Elected global leader, wildly successful game dev, and award-winning children's book author

Honestly that reaction to the cosMo songs (Disappearance, Intense Voice) is... definitely the right one, as a long time fan. Every time you see a cosMo song in a rhythm game you know it's gonna be a time.

Wowaka, the guy who made Rolling Girl and Unhappy Refrain passed away a few years back due to overwork. The guy played a huge role in non Japanese interest in vocaloid and is an incredibly important figure in the community. Seeing RT listen to ane enjoy some of his work for the first time fills me with so much joy, even now people are still discovering hid body of work. Rest in peace Wowaka

"Provide me with my Mikucation" > Instantly chooses Rolling Girl Chat actually has taste apparently.

About the "music" song its acutally "39 music" and if you read the 39 in particular way in japanese it spells out "Mi Ku". So the song is basically a "miku music" Edit: I should probably add that 39 is read "san kyuu" which is basically how you read out "Thank you" in japanese. So it's also "Thank you music"

chat losing it at any sight of kaito and even informing rt it was his birthday was so amazing

Classic 'A is B, B is A' confusion. Also had this confusion when I first played the game.

Whoever decided you have to look at all four corners of the screen at the same time for those multi-hits is a demon from hell.

So for my English exam, I had to write about surfboards in a question that nobody after the exam could make any sense of, even our resident geniuses had no damned clue (though I still somehow managed to pass, same as them) but kids 3 years ago got to write Hatsune Miku fanfiction? I have never been more jealous in my life of people at minimum a year younger than me

I'll never forgive him for calling rin and len the miku kids 😭

As someone who has around 50 perfects on (ex) extreme and also basically learned japanese because of vocaloid songs this is both extremely painful but also really endearing to see. Also someone should've told him about binding a four button push to the triggers.

The amount of music claims on this video and vod. Miku wants her money 😵

As someone with over 400 hours in this game, i expected him to do worse lol

Fun fact (to me, at least!) The "challenge time" segments, where things get way more difficult towards the end of each song, are actually *as* difficult as the song is in the next difficulty level. It can serve as a taste of what the next difficulty level will be like ^^

Man, it's so strange to think back to my childhood when Vocaloid was a strange little corner of the internet that barely anybody knew about. Hatsune Miku is a part of pop-culture now, and even if they dont know anything about Vocaloid people know of it. Times change and i could not be more happy about it.

3:32 Not sure if chat answered this, but there is technically no standard for what a "Hatsune Miku" MV looks like. You could buy her voicebank and then take a video of yourself twirling to her singing "SUBSCRIBE" over and over again for the duration of it and it would be a Vocaloid/Miku MV. The reason why she was in space is beacause like you said, alien. the song is about an alien falling in love.

As a rhythm game addict, I feel so proud watching the RTGame rhythm saga.

Chat suggesting a Wowaka song for the third song in was honestly such a chat move I didn't even see it coming. As someone who adores these games I had a few songs in mind that were more beginner friendly but chat just woke up and chose violence that day

1:39 - "Alien Alien" by NayutalieN 4:39 - "Beware of the Miku Miku Germs" by Hayaya 7:05 - "Rolling Girl" by wowaka 9:26 - "I'll Miku Miku You (For Reals)" by ika 10:18 - "39! Music" by Mikito-P 12:25 - "Gaikotsu Gakudan to Riria" by Tohma 13:56 - "LOL Lots of Laugh" by mikumix 15:55 - "Thousand Year Solo (DIVA Edit)" by yanagi 17:40 - "Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder - 39's Giving Day Edition" by Nori-P 19:25 - "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" by CosMo 19:38 - "Ashes to Ashes" by Tennen 21:32 - "The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku" by CosMo 24:35 - "1/6 -out of gravity-" by Vocaliod-P 26:25 - "39" by sasakure.UK 28:16 - "Blackjack" by Yucha-P 31:00 - "Catch the Wave" by kz 33:46 - "Unhappy Refrain" by wowaka 36:23 - "The World is Mine" by Ryo

In case chat failed to explain: Miku is a really popular vocaloid. A vocaloid is a voice bank that people use to create music! Basically a real person records all the sounds used in their language and when strung together they make words! Miku has the most variety in types of voice banks making her extremely Versatile. Also because she’s only a mascot for a voice bank, she can be used to tell whatever story you want! The Leek is a fanbase thing. Also Miku is god, the juice song, Levan polka, a lot of vocaloid lore is really fandom stuff made canon by Sega. (If i got anything wrong feel free to correct me, my knowledge is from 4 years ago so It could be outdated)

Actually I probably shouldn't double dip on comments but I figure I should explain Miku for the uninitiated. - Miku's a vocal synthesizer. Essentially this means people can buy a program that allows them to use Miku's voice in their songs. The best way I can explain it is if you were to use a fancy TTS as vocals in a song. - There actually are Miku concerts you can attend! There's 2 big ones named Miku Expo and Magical Mirai. There's no guy going ham on the tambourine sadly. If you've seen any Splatoon live concerts, it's essentially like that. - The 5 other characters featured in this game are KAITO (Blue), MEIKO (Red), Megurine Luka (Pink), and Kagamine Rin & Len (Yellow.) Len and Rin are my favorites. - Disappearance of Hatsune Miku and Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku are very (in)famous for their fast speed and vocals. Rolling Girl was created by wowaka, a highly respected producer who sadly passed away around 2019. (Edit: Fixed the date, thank you replies.) - I am VERY normal about Vocaloid and Hatsune Miku, if you're curious. Also you can read 39 as either san kyuu (thank you) or mi ku, which is why it shows up a lot in relation to Miku.

Rolling Girl on an RT Game video wasn't one for the 2024 bucket list

at this rate RT is gonna play project sekai on stream and give me a stroke

1:30 "how many are there?" more than you will ever be able to comprehend, dan

as someone obsessed w miku since childhood and has been watching dan for 5+ yrs, i am very happy w this video

for people wondering how tf theres so many miku songs, basically miku is a voice you can use, and literally thousands of independent creators have made miku songs. In fact, you yourself could make one and monetize it if you wanted to. The other characters in the game are other voices you can use. These are all known as vocaloids. There are other voice software you could use with their own characters but they have all kind of been named voicaloids as a generic term. Theres a whole ass voicloid genre of music you can find online. all made by independent creators so you can find wildly different types of music.

Seeing Dan struggle with the ABXY reminds me of when I, a Nintendo boy, started playing Xbox games and was confused about why all the buttons were wrong

A man with no rhythm keeps on playing rhythm games. 32:37 ...What? It's so weird to see pop culture stuff like that appear on like... actual academic exams.

I really want to see Dan play crypt of the necrodancer, it seems like it’ll be hilarious

Every second you are not running, Hatsune Miku is coming closer. We'll miss you RT, it was good while it lasted.

rt innocently playing rolling girl really took me out guys he doesnt know /ref

"A bad day in music class." You could say that.

I can't wait for RT to play the final boss of rhythm games: the Yakuza games' Karaoke minigames.

Ahh, hatsune miku. Every song of hers has an entire story behind it. The intense voice if hatsune miku is actually the sequel to disappearance. Im sure if you had time, people would be willing to regale with tales of every song in the game. Each with their own artist, time period and meaning.

I feel like the easiest way to describe vocaloids is, imagine if you made an OC that everyone loves that has a vooce and people make sing. Your OC keeps being put into fantastical stories or is simply used to TELL a story. Utauloids are cover artists of Vocaloids (Rouon Aro and Mine Laru my beloveds)

Project Diva Mega Mix is a real fun game when you understand how to play it and seeing Dan doing fairly well in this game was quite surprising. Also, using thumb is not recommended if you're wondering, you're supposed to use middle and index which takes a bit of practice but with time you get used to it.

Hatsune Miku finally broke free of her digitised world to consume Dan's life, just like the Leaving Cert predicted.

Some bits of Miku "lore" for those who want it! Keep in mind I'm not _huge_ into Vocaloid, I just have a few friends who like it more than I. Hatsune Miku is, of course, a mascot for a digital voicebank. Basically, she's a musical instrument with a face. As such, there is no "official" story for her, nor personality or anything. People use her likeness (and other Vocaloids') in music video because she's basically a pre-made character to use in the story they try to tell with their songs. This also makes her an excellent virtual idol! (This might seem obvious to some, but to those who know nothing of Miku this is some crucial info. Lord knows this took me a while to figure out!) She is often pictured with a leek because of one extremely early internet meme: Leekspin. Ievan polkka is an old finnish song, and in 2006, a Flash animation of a character from the anime Bleach spinning a leek set to this song was posted on Livejournal, and became viral. Later, someone made a Miku cover of the song, paired with an animation of a chibi version of her spinning a leek, and it also became viral. So now, Miku and leeks are inextricably tied. The tutorial song in this game is in fact Ievan polkka. The ever-present tambourine is not a Miku thing, it's a rhythm game thing. It's a very common sound cue to confirm a key press. You can usually change it in the settings. RT saying that he doesn't think Miku survived the Rolling Girl video clip hits different when you know what the lyrics are about... 39 Music's title (and honestly, whole concept) is based on a very cute Japanese pun. 39 is pronounced sankyuu, which sounds like thank you, but can also be read as Miku! That's also why that number comes up in a lot of other songs, and why March 9th is Miku Day. This game features other popular Vocaloids! There's Meiko (the red short-haired girl) and Kaito (the blue guy), who were part of the first generation of Vocaloids (meaning they're older than Miku!). There's also Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len (the yellow twins) and Megurine Luka (the pink-haired girl) who all debuted in the second generation of Vocaloids, the same as Miku. The explanation for 1/6 - out of the gravity - is accurate. The producer himself said so in an interview. Immediately quitting out after the first few seconds of Disappearance is a big mood. I'm surprised no one asked for Magnet to be played, that one's a classic. Not to mention all of the fanart it spawned. My favorite Vocaloid is Kamui Gakupo. He's a purple dude with a samurai motif. He is not in this game.

Hatsune miku helped turnip boy rob the bank (was in the ost)

Hatsune Miku: Woah, Pipe Bomb!

Holy fuck RT saying "I don't think Miku made it out alive" after rolling girl. The poor man doesn't know what he just said.

Crazy that by sheer random chance, he played most of my favourites, including Rolling Girl, 39 Music, and Lilia's Skeleton Orchestra (which really lost a lot without the costume imo) As someone who's been playing the series for a decade+ it's actually fascinating to watch a total amateur play and misinterpret so much of the UI at first blush. My favourite part is him apparently missing the words "CHALLENGE TIME" flashing on screen when it temporarily swaps to hard mode

so glad RT has finally embraced Miku. you could never escape her for long Edit: WHAT DO YOU MEAN AN OFFICIAL IRISH EXAM MADE TESTERS WRITE HATSUNE MIKU ISEKAI FANFIC????

Now I wanna see him play the Persona Dancing games

as someone who has 100%ed this game on steam and have played almost all the project games (and also loves vocaloid, going to miku expo this year!), this video was so fun lol. i hope more people get into vocaloid and project diva! vocaloid is such an expansive medium of music, so much creativity and beautiful artistry out there, and the games are what got me into the music. glad you had fun rt!

''chat, I need recommendations'' Cuts to rolling girl Yeah, seems about right haha

I still get hype af when I see miku content from non-vocaloid mains! I need people to actually talk vocaloid with irl but it's still not popular enough. My favourite songs in this game are Catch the Wave, Deep Sea City Underground, hibikase, and the Wowaka songs

32:43 the leaving cert is so funny sometimes, my leaving cert pre exam a few weeks ago had a comprehension on neil gaiman and name dropped good omens i was like holy shit AHDJJAJS

ok but the fact that rt started on alien alien... man has taste, even if he doesn't know it

Im genuinely shocked rt is very into anime and even forsook his flesh that one time and yet is so uneducated in miku. Id expect nothing less from this youtube.

obsessed with youtubers being sucked into miku's world without prior knowledge. miku is eternal.

Dan starting and immediately stopping Disappearance of Hatsune Miku made me die laughing and feel so seen at the same time

glad to see miku collabing with small streamers!

Everything we love in Hatsune Miku. The robotic voice, the loud tambourine, this game got everything

27:22 “shes got a live concert now shes movin up in the world” *wait till he hears about magical mirai*

Fun fact: i was at the same MCR Dublin concert as Dan but i was in the front at the mosh pit and someone actually had a Hatsune Miku plush and everytime they put Miku in the air the people in the pit around me started cheering for Miku, im pretty sure Gerard also acknowledge her "attendance" at one point lmao so Miku could very well come to Croke Park and there would be a big enough Irish audience

10:25 I was not expecting the line "Mozart walked so Miku could run", but I'm all for this new world view that has been shoved into my brain rent free

I was foolish to think I could just enjoy listening to some Miku songs. I always forget how terrible Dan is at rhythm games. But it was nice to watch him slowly improve and make less mistakes in the game.

Hatsune Miku created Minecraft and wrote Harry Potter. She is so talented!

“Remember the left hand exists” It’s like listening to a former catholic school kid trying to recover.

Jerma streams this: he's wearing an orange shirt. RT streams this: he's wearing an orange shirt. Coincidence? I think not.

Every second you are not running, Miku is approaching closer.

"mozart walked so miku could run" is not a sentence I ever thought I'd hear in my lifetime but I love it

I was waiting for this man to choose The Dissapearance of Hatsune Miku, and I was not disappointed that it was exactly what I expected. 😂 He just Noped tf outta there at The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku. 🤣 Brilliant!

Somehow, even knowing a few of these songs, I somehow had never seen Kaito before. 27:36 oh, I get it. 3 9 in Japanese would be san-kyuu which sounds like English thank you in a Japanese accent. So that song was a celebration of Miku’s history. Pretty positive for how vocaloid songs tend to go. Can’t even begin to list how many I’ve heard that get dark. Kagerou project songs especially.

Commenting to say that RT's shirt is neat

"We Beat the Miku Children" -RT

Oh, I know the lore for Miku and leeks! In her first hit Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru, she mentions the word "negi" which translates to leek (It's in the video at 9:37). Because of that, the Japanese fanbase decided that she likes leeks. Later on, someone took the song from the old Leekspin meme (Loituma) and redid the vocals with Miku. It might have caught on more than the original Leekspin... Since then, leeks have just been a part of the lore for her.

10:58 Oh my.... Hatsune Miku possessed him... how is he speaking without moving his lips..... 😨😨😰

Hatsune Miku my favorite Coachella singer

I was chilling drawing and I got fucking rolling girl jumpscared

rt listening to intense voice and going “no.” is so funny

Time for your daily fun fact! Did you know? Hatsune Miku is behind you. You can’t escape.

6:55 the moment RT asks for a recommendation, I fucking knew the fandom will never let go of rolling girl. That shit was my first miku song and taught me about depressed miku as i entered the rabbit hole. I got my ass handed to me as I wasn’t prepared for how depressed miku could be.

I watch this as blank faced and silent as you play. I enjoyed the video I just look like I’m at the funeral for someone I was mildly attached to at best.

I know it's funny to see Dan struggle at rhythm games, but it's genuinely sweet to see him having improved so much since he started. Diva's hard and he did really well! As a rhythm game mega fan watching these videos has been a delight :)

the best way i've found to describe vocaloids is that theyre the internet's ocs. They can literally be whoever you want them to be. Sometimes people agree on headcanons for them, but often times you can just go crazy with them

As a long time project diva and rhythm game player of 8 years, and a RTGame fan of 4, this is absolutely the mashup of the century (ALSO HE BOUGHT ALL OF THE DLC BEFORE EVEN PLAYING IT??? 😭)

I knew that Rolling Girl would be suggested the moment he asked for Mikucation Hatsune Miku

explaining miku to old people is so complicated I’m so glad RT Games is taking it upon himself to learn about her

It’s Mikuing time and then RTGame starts to Hatsune Miku all over the floor

I don’t know much about Miku but she sang Live & Learn from Sonic Adventure 2 so clearly she is the coolest

Hatsune Miku has...WHAT?!?!

Hatsune comes for all of us eventually.

"What's the most difficult thing I can find? The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku." Oh no. I played that at a Chunithm cabinet recently because it's one of the songs I know and I knew it was hard to sign but I was straight up out of breath trying to play it. EditL 19:36 ok yeah that was probaby a good choice

RT is just on his training arc for his ultimate rhythm challenge: Hi-Fi Rush (please play it it's so fun)