"Sakura no Ame" absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku Out！ Popular Graduation Song

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"Sakura no Ame" absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku Out！ Popular Graduation Song

November 27, 200812:30 PM | Contributor:akiba

"Sakura no Ame" absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku Out！ Popular Graduation Song "Hatsune-Miku"'s new single "Sakura no Ame" hit the stores.

"Hatsune-Miku" is the first installment in the "Vocaloid 2" Character Vocal Series.　Sampling the voice of Saki Fujita, a Japanese voice actress, it makes it possible to create songs. By making the sung voice more natural which was the obsticle of the previous software, not to mention the visuals of the character herself, has become very popular among "Nico Nico Douga" users and the doujin world. There are releases from major labels featuring "Hatsune-Miku", making her name more popular.

The new single featuring "Hatsune-Miku" is "Sakura no Ame" , a major label debut single by the 3 piece accoustic band "absorb". When a member of "absorb" uploaded the song by Hatsune-Miku in February 2008 on "Nico Nico Douga" video sharing website, rumors spread and the song was played over 500,000times in no time.

There is a "Sakura no Ame Project" where the users are to sing along together. Also, there are offers poring in from schools all over Japan to use the song for their graduation ceremony.

The 7 songs recordings include "Sakura no Ame" by absorb, Hatsune Miku, piano version for chorus. Piano and guitar are centered to fit the bittersweet but strong feeling of graduation. Hatsune-Miku in a Japanese high school uniform standing along abosrb members are on the cover as well as a musical score for chorus is included as an CD-EXTRA.

Appointed shops are giving out 2 of the 3 special cards of "Hatsune Miku" picture cards per purchase.


absorb/absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku "Sakura no Ame" <Featuring> "Sakura no Ame"-standard edit-（absorb)/"Sakura no Ame"（absorb)/"Sakura no Ame"-less　vocal-（absorb)/"Sakura no Ame"-piano version for chorus-（absorb)/"Sakura no Ame"-standard edit-（absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku）/"Sakura no Ame"（absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku）/"Sakura no Ame"-less vocal-（absorb feat.Hatsune-Miku）


Sticker to show it's a "Hatsune-Miku" music piece	Comic Tora No Ana Honten's POP Sales pitch："Graduation again, for you"	Special Card 2 out of 3 cards included such as Tsundere(?) Hatsune-Miku ,Sharing an umbrella with Hatsune-Miku etc.