Japan’s most northern prefecture, Hokkaido, have joined forces with a Vocaloid company to create a mascot for Hokkaido. The mascot, drawn by no other than Hatsune Miku’s designer Kei, goes by the name “Kitano Kamui” and is an “Idol in Making”.

Kamui will be used to promote the prefecture’s culture such as food, nature, scenery, history and more.

Her background is as follows:

Name : Kitano Kamui

Height : 152cm

Interests : Playing around with smartphones, karaoke, visiting the hot springs, eat.

Favourite food : Ramen, Sweets, B-grade gourmet.

Favourite colour : Pink

Birthplace : Hokkaido

Kamui is an idol-in-training, and was supposed to debut soon. But misfortune befalls her agency and it was decided that the agency will go out of business in 6 months’ time, due to lack of finance and the CEO’s sudden sickness. Because of that they thought they could no longer help her debut. Kamui’s manager wanted to at least fulfill his boss’ dream, which was to have their idol stand on the stage of Hokkaido Dome and perform in front of a full-seated crowd. Kamui then proclaimed that she will work hard to gather at least 30,000 fans around the web, find sponsors and make this dream happen. And that was the start of her challenge. (Source: VocaParty)

So here’s the catch: If we want her to become a Vocaloid, her Facebook page needs to hit 30,000 fans within half a year.

Does this sound interesting to you?

→Give Kamui’s Facebook page a visit!