In less than two hours, at 00:30 JST, Episode 01 of GUMI's TV debut series, Koi Suru Dessan Ningyou will air on NHK's E-TV, Aoyama 1SEG Kaihatsu!

Visit the site here.

To clarify: it's not actually on TV -- it's a web-televised anime short; and GUMI's not actually acting of course, though she does provide the voice for the song the short is based on, as well as playing the part of the actual Main Character's (the Drawing Doll) object of affection. It's not even a series yet, really -- it's the pilot/pitch for a series and will be broken down into four web-episodes that we can watch on NHK's E-TV website.

However, if it gets enough votes to win against the other five pilot/pitched programs, it WILL become a regular show that is included in NHK's roster, providing us with sasakure.UK music sang by an animated GUMI on TV.

If you're a fan of GUMI, please watch the pilot and then vote for it. Voting will open during the program, which will be on 00:30 - 00:55 JST. There is a countdown at NHK's Aoyama 1SEG Kaihatsu website if anyone's worried that they'll miss out.

Via Anime News Network:

Animator Masanori Okamoto is producing, filming, and writing the script for the adaptation of sasakure.UK's song. Popular masked dancer Hitori de Dekiru Mon is acting as the human version of the doll. GUMI plays the girl that the doll is in love with. sasakure.UK has composed enough songs to use as themes for four episodes. sasakure.UK received assistance from Okamoto in composing the songs.

The story revolves around a drawing mannequin who is used by a girl every single day to help her draw. The doll falls in love with her, and one day suddenly gains the power to move.

GUMI, the Vocaloid, will be playing the human character, while Hitori de Dekiru Mon, a human, will be playing the inanimate drawing doll character. How awesome is that?

The short will be animated using the Pixilation technique and you can view an example of Okamoto's work in the ANN article.

I hope everyone manages to watch it!

Following on the heels of GUMitia, EXIT TUNES will be releasing EXIT TUNES PRESENTS GUMity from Megpoid, their sixth GUMI-only compilation, on August 07, 2013. The artwork this time was provided by 富岡二郎 (tomiokajiro) who also drew the PV for Takamatt's Tokyo Funk. In case you have no pixiv account, Tomiokajiro also has a tumblr right here in case you guys want to follow.

TITLE - EXIT TUNES PRESENTS GUMity from Megpoid
HOMEPAGE - http://gumity.com
PRICE - ￥1905 (￥2,000 with tax)
FREEBIES - a limited first press poster, 1 random rubber cellphone straps, 1 random mousepad
RELEASE - August 07, 2013

There are specific store-bought freebies for anyone wanting to buy the CD over the counter in Japan which are not available for international fans. If you're not from Japan, you can buy it internationally from any of these places:
- Amazon JP
- CD Japan
- YesAsia

Cut contains the track list, the links to the songs already uploaded to NND, as well as pictures of freebies.

It's three weeks to the celebration of GUMI's release (officially June 25/26) and Internet Co. LTD is releasing a song compilation album to celebrate the occasion! They've got a lot of things planned as well so watch out for further news about GUMI's birthday celebration this year.

The video below showcases the line-up for this album and it will be sold for ￥1,800 (tax included) and include songs from a lesser-known variety of producers, so it's really interesting to see Internet giving more producers the spotlight. This album will be released by SPUTONIC and will contain 16 songs in total.

COMIC@LOID Vol. 1, thus named despite being the second volume in the series, was released for public consumption last March 9, 2013 and can be viewed either at Nico Douga or over at Book Walker. On March 19, 2013, it will also be available for viewing on Pixiv.


COMIC@LOID Vol. 1 is 84 pages and contains visualized/expanded story lines based off of popular songs DECO*27's Mozaik Role, 40mP's Cut-Off Line (Kiritorisen) and Last Note's Renai Yuusha.