The Fukuoka Dialect: "Brief" Lesson featuring 鳴花ヒメ・ミコト (MEIKA Hime & Mikoto)

2019.07.05

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Let's everyone speak in the Fukuoka dialect!

The Fukuoka dialect is hugely popular all over the country because it sounds "cute"! As for in what situations it can be used, the Fukuoka-born pair of vocaloids, "鳴花ヒメ・ミコト" (MEIKA Hime & Mikoto) introduce lines that will pierce your heart! The boundlessly bright-voiced 'Hime' will demonstrate "Hakata-ben (dialect)", and the cool, strong-voiced 'Mikoto' will demonstrate "Kitakyushu-ben (dialect)"! In this special edition, we present the "Chatterbox Chapter" and the "Love Confession" Chapter♪

PROFILE｜鳴花ヒメ・ミコト (MEIKA Hime & Mikoto)

(From left) 鳴花ヒメ・ミコト (MEIKA Hime & Mikoto) Illustrated by △○□×
The spirit of the provincial flower, the plum. A pair of vocaloids born in Fukuoka in March 2019. These characters are speech synthesizers as well as VOCALOIDs that are compatible with the speech synthesizer software, "VOCALOID" (singing voice synthesizer software) and "gynoid Talk" (text recitation software), voiced by seiyu Koiwai Kotori and employing illustrator △○□× (Miwashiba) for their character designs. The pair is made up of the boundlessly bright moodmaker, Hime, and the 'tsukkomi' (straight man in Japanese comedy) who coolly suppresses her, Mikoto.

★ The ending theme song for episodes one through six of the TV anime "博多明太！ぴりからこちゃん" (Hakata Mentai! Pirikarakochan) that starts broadcasting from July 2019 is set to be "ぴっぴぴりから、ぴりからこ。 feat. 鳴花ヒメ・ミコト" (Pippi-pirikara, pirikarako. feat. MEIKA Hime & Mikoto). [Lyrics, melody, arrangement by: mathru@KanimisoP]

■博多明太！ぴりからこちゃん (Hakata Mentai! Pirakarakochan) Official Website: https://pirikarakochan.com/