In a creative documentary style (faux-cumentary) mirroring the faux everything in the Miku world, the director performs as the protagonist cosplayer, and gets involved with real hardcore fans. This film is a journey exploring identity through cosplay and the fandom of the cyber diva in a world where fantasy is more real than reality and the differentiation between the two becomes obsolete. She performs sold out concerts as a hologram. Her entire persona: lyrics, music and animation - is fan created, and that's her charm. To promote it, a cute manga character was created that quickly rose to stardom among the Tokyo "otaku" sub-culture. Hatsune Miku is a "vocaloid", a synthesizer software. "Ī western Cosplayer (costume-player) obsessed with the cyber diva Hatsune Miku, moves to Tokyo to look for an identity in the Hatsune Miku fan world, where she is drawn into a love affair with one of the fans and looses herself in the virtual star. "Talented fans constantly re-create her that's why she never dies.
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