


Like the Vocaloids before it, the original target audience when Miku and Vocaloid 2 as a whole was released, was for professional producers only the otaku market did not come into play until a little after Miku was released in August 2007 subsequent brilliant creations by fans led to a chain of quality songs coming in for Miku, which only spurned the fanbase even further. Miku's voice was actually sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita (藤田咲), who prior to this has been the voice actor for several anime shows.

This character is responsible for turning Vocaloid into the cultural phenomenon it currently is now, with her generally appealing looks. Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is the first voice synthesizer software made with the Vocaloid 2 engine, and the first to have a human persona associated with it.
