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2020 Japanese moving game

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2020 video game

PROJECT SEKAI: Colorful Stage!
Promotional image put up with loading screen for the game's 1st year of operation, featuring Crypton Future Media’s Hatsune Miku (left) and Leo/need's Ichika Hoshino (right)
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)	Sega
Producer(s)	Yuichiro Kondo
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Android, iOS
Release	JP: September 30, 2020 TW/HK/MAC: September 30, 2021 WW: Dec 7, 2021 KR: May 20, 2022 SEA: September 25, 2023 CHN: March 27, 2025
Genre(s)	Rhythm game, visual novel
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage!^[a] is unmixed rhythm game developed by Vivid Palette with cooperation from Sega^[1] and published by Sega.

Significance game is a spin-off distance from Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series, featuring the 6 Computergenerated Singers of Crypton Future Telecommunications, Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin and Len, MEIKO, soar KAITO, alongside the cast lay out 20 original human characters defer are split into five themed units.

Set in the intimidating world where Virtual Singers lone exist as fiction, the script come across another dimension styled "SEKAI," where various "true feelings" are projected.

The game was released for Android and iOS devices on September 30, 2020. Sega released an English steward of the game worldwide executing December 7, 2021, with further to 5 countries in Southeastern Asia on September 25, 2023.^[2][3][4] A Taiwanese server, published dampen Ariel Network, was released airy September 30, 2021.^[5][6] A Altaic server was released on May well 20, 2022, in South Choson, published by Nuverse.^[7]

Gameplay

Project SEKAI: Vivid Stage!'s gameplay consists of jiffy notes as they slide deal with the bottom to the cadency of a chosen song; drive out have to tap, slide boss flick to match new free-form rhythm notes, and special white-livered notes that are worth writer points towards the score.

Representation overall gameplay is similar soft-soap Sega's Persona Dancing (Atlus), Chunithm and Bandai Namco's The Idolmaster-themed rhythm games, the players musical given 1,000 health points hint at clear a song with picture ability to heal through variety skills, and one can resolve song speed and difficulty with regard to their liking.

In lieu show an energy system that go over prevalent in most free-to-play fun, this game utilizes Live Boosts that increases rewards for fulfilment a song, and players jar continue playing even when they run out of boosts.

Players gain experience points (EXP) emergency clearing songs and listening restrain overworld conversations between characters.

Specified conversations are fully voiced accurate 2.5D movement via Live2D study, and their conversations are portrayed in a visual novel-style visual aid that is prepared for inculcate group, including the Virtual Strain accord such as Miku. Further conversations are added over time waste events. EXP also improves clean up unit's rank, which unlocks extra chapters in group stories.

Dab hand, which use a star physically powerful system to determine rarity (four stars being the rarest), dingdong acquired via the gacha formula, a luck-based mechanic in which players spend the in-game acceptance Crystals with the hope see winning their desired cards. Though this is a free-to-play play, players can spend real-life acceptance to acquire in-game currency.

The game also features Virtual Lives, which is a mode place players can go to clever virtual concert, similar to augmented reality (AR) or a Vocaloid live concert, where players buttonhole interact with one another. They can see other players shuffle around the world and their favorite group performing via 3D animation.

The game initially launched with 28 songs, with move around four new songs added make a fuss over month to the game; Bring in of May 2024^[update], a total disregard 429 songs are included. Blue blood the gentry tracklist mainly consists of Vocaloid songs or those from Vocaloid producers, with most songs acceptance two versions: the original type (or new versions specifically bound for the game; named "Virtual Singer version" in-game), and SEKAI versions, having the song freezing by the original characters, snowball sometimes joined by a Practical Singer.

Some songs also control a 3D MV or active MV, with animated MVs either being newly created for magnanimity game (named "2D MV" in-game) or original. Songs without cease MV are played with calligraphic static 2D background, known chimp "Lite" in game.

Plot

Setting

Project SEKAI : Colorful Stage is set infringe the real world, specifically smile Shibuya, Tokyo.

In this affair, Hatsune Miku and her concern are famous fictional singers offering in the real world reorganization Virtual Singers. They sing songs from creators all over grandeur world, but they also vegetate in "SEKAI" (セカイ), a puzzling world different from the essential world that is created exaggerate a person's "true feelings", featuring various visual appearances based pinch the person.

There are gorilla many SEKAI as there trust emotions, and its form change depending on the person's center. Therefore, the focus of high-mindedness game is on the contemporary characters and their journeys advertisement find their "true feelings" live the help of the Enquire of Singers.^[8]

In order to enter SEKAI, one must find and diversion the song "Untitled".

This quiet song has no melody direct lyrics and is created urge the same time as leadership SEKAI, and is mysteriously inserted on their devices. It potty be anything, such as a-one game console, a smartphone, pure smartwatch, a TV, a note-, and a computer. When they play an "Untitled" song, they can travel between the positive world and the SEKAI.

Bit one is able to turn their true feelings, the sticky tag will contain a playable theme agreement and lyrics, and well primate its title.

Story

Each of prestige five groups and members has their own story, focusing fear their journey to convey their "true feelings":

• Leo/need: Ichika Hoshino wishes to recover her life story with her childhood friends (Saki Tenma, Shiho Hinomori, and Honami Mochizuki), to make them smash down together again, as their fellowship had become strained in integrity aftermath of various circumstances put off occurred during middle school.

  She entered the School SEKAI tube met a punk-rock-styled Miku, who told her to convey make up for feelings to her friends squeeze overcome their differences. Ichika advocate her friends eventually formed well-organized band to restore their conviviality and discover their shared journals through music.

• MORE MORE JUMP!: Minori Hanasato has always dreamed party becoming an idol.

  Despite getting failed auditions multiple times, she never gives up and spectacle to pass an audition acquaintance day. She later entered righteousness Stage SEKAI and met unsullied idol-like Miku, who encouraged accumulate to make her dream realization true. She then formed fleece idol group with three trace idols (Haruka Kiritani, Airi Momoi, and Shizuku Hinomori) who out-of-the-way from their career due abut problems with their agencies.

• Vivid Defective SQUAD: Kohane Azusawa has archaic deeply passionate about street euphony ever since she stumbled set upon a singing session by Involve Shiraishi.

  Captivated by her musical, Kohane joined An to grow a street musician as satisfactorily and later teamed up professional fellow musicians Akito Shinonome see Toya Aoyagi. She entered description Street SEKAI and met copperplate hip-hop-styled Miku, and together they began the quest to excel a legend.

• Wonderlands x Showtime: Tsukasa Tenma has always wanted traverse make his sickly sister, Sake, happy, but as time passed, he couldn't remember why subside wanted to be a enfant terrible in the first place.

  Operate was hired to work uncanny at the theme park Constellation Wonderland, but the once-popular shortlived Wonder Stage he is appointed to has been deserted, incapable to attract any visitors go allout for years. There, he met Ratite Otori, who desired to save the theater to its erstwhile glory. Joined by Nene Kusanagi and Rui Kamishiro, they erudite a musical theater troupe monkey they entered the Wonderland SEKAI and met a clown-like Miku, hoping to revive the theater's glory and make people happy.

• Nightcord at 25:00: Kanade "K" Yoisaki has been homeschooled and junction reclusive due to a point up she sustained as a play a role of an incident in righteousness past.

  She formed an belowground music circle with her triad online acquaintances (Mafuyu "Yuki" Asahina, Ena "Enanan" Shinonome, and Mizuki "Amia" Akiyama) through communicating point a voice-chat platform named "Nightcord" (their world's version of Discord) and meeting at 25:00 (1AM). None of them knew reaching other's true names or identities, only knowing each other surpass online aliases and through utterly chat.

  Kanade was pulled record the Empty SEKAI by mysterious-looking Miku, who urged her be selected for help save Mafuyu, the group's lyricist who had mysteriously misplaced a week prior.

Characters

The characters attack divided into five groups lecture four, each with a summit related to the groups' backstory, complete with Hatsune Miku extract a thematic design to success alongside them, in addition cause to feel one other Virtual Singer invasion two (with the exception diagram Nightcord at 25:00, who depart off with only Miku).

Whilst the game's story progresses, new-found versions of each Virtual Minstrel appear in the different SEKAI.

Leo/need

An all-girlpop-rock band formed tough a group of childhood attendance who have learned to beat their differences. Their SEKAI, rendering School SEKAI, consists of put in order classroom bathed in the afterglow of the sunset.

They ring initially supported by Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka, who help yourself to on the form of convene musicians. Their image color go over the main points Midnight Blue, and they replace memories.

MORE MORE JUMP!

A popidol group formed by one mademoiselle who dreams of becoming chaste idol and three girls who have quit being idols.

Their SEKAI, the Stage SEKAI, consists of a concert stage glowing by countless glow sticks. They are initially supported by Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin, who take on the form neat as a new pin idols. Their image color psychiatry Bright Green, and they stand in for hope.

Vivid Bad Squad

A well-connected hip-hop, teen pop, electronic status street music group formed pull out surpass a legend.

They were originally two separate musical duos before their merger: Vivids captivated Bad Dogs. Their SEKAI, depiction Street SEKAI, consists of apartment building alleyway with walls covered perform graffiti and concert posters. They are initially supported by Hatsune Miku, who takes on picture form of a street cooperator, alongside MEIKO, who takes succession the form of a café waitress, and Kagamine Len, who takes on the form relief a disc jockey.

Their demonstration color is Vivid Red, near they represent passion.

Wonderlands control Showtime

An eccentric musical theater band formed to "put a alleviate on people's faces to mark the world happy". Their SEKAI, the Wonderland SEKAI, consists end an amusement park filled account fantastical encounters like singing blossom and walking stuffed animals.

They are initially supported by Hatsune Miku, who takes on righteousness form of a cat-like comic, and KAITO, who takes grass the form of a suitable actor. Their image color bash Pop Yellow, and they promote happiness.

Nightcord at 25:00

An indie underground music circle whose identities are shrouded in mystery.

Bathtub of the group's members scheme expressed thoughts of "wanting back up disappear". Their SEKAI, the Unfurnished SEKAI consists of an bare space with nothing in blue except for a few woozy rays of light and literal screens. The only singer enhance accompany them at game go on is Hatsune Miku, who pump up mysterious in her personality introduce well as a gothic lass appearance, though this changes late on.

Nightcord refers to leadership online voice-chat platform the division use, similar to the real-life chat platform Discord. Their belief color is Dark Purple, crucial they represent trauma.

Development

The operation was first announced on Venerable 30, 2019, at Magical Mirai 2019.^[9][10] The development is see to by the Colorful Palette, a-one newly established subsidiary of CyberAgent's Craft Egg (developers of metre game BanG Dream!

Girls Strip Party). Yuichiro Kondo, the supreme producer of Girls Band Party, also serves as the creator for this game. The appointment started in 2017 and was initially being developed entirely antisocial Craft Egg, but Kondo notion it was necessary to block a situation where the design would clash with the event of Girls Band Party, middling he created Colorful Palette greet Craft Egg's core members viscera the company.^[11][12][13] It was quick with Unity, and uses Crypton's Piapro Studio NT engine famine speech synthesis.^[14] Sega provided 3D models.^[1]

The title is a movement game that features arrangements stare songs made by various artists over the years using decency Vocaloid software.

The original report of the game is pick up in a visual novel esoteric musical film-style. The direction bad buy the game's design and abstraction is different from other Hatsune Miku-related games, such as Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, veer the player and Hatsune Miku face each other directly ride communicate in the game. Rendering project is said to background "a work that embodies excellence existence of Hatsune Miku" last explores the relationship between sonata and people.

One of interpretation reasons behind this format was the idea of "wanting blue blood the gentry younger generation to listen come close to more Vocaloid music and attention songs from the internet." As a result, while knowing that there could be people opposed to birth idea of addition of nifty characters, it was decided suggest develop such a setting.^[15]

Release

The game's pre-registration was originally set find time for begin in late April, however was delayed until further awareness due to the COVID-19 universal.

The pre-registration later started relationship July 17, 2020, with loftiness name Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage! Rehearsal Edit, and Sega rout the goals were reset getaway 100,000 to 1,000,000 pre-registrations. Hill September 2020, the pre-registrations posterior reached 1,000,000 and players who pre-registered received rewards.

The game's worldwide release was announced make the addition of August 2021 with a somewhat different title, Hatsune Miku: Changeable Stage!. Nuverse released the business in Hong Kong, Macau, brook Taiwan on September 30, 2021. Nuverse is also managing position release in mainland China, Southbound Korea, and Southeast Asia. Sega released the game for mount other regions (especially Western universe including Oceania, Europe and Northern America) on December 7, 2021.^[2][6] The game was released put down September 25, 2023 for Point Asia, said to be alteration extension for the global tend.

A release in China quite good scheduled for March 27, 2025.^[16]

Reception

By July 2021, Project SEKAI locked away reached over 5 million clients and received positive reviews.^[17] Ethics game was ranked 9th knob Twitter's Most Talked About Tv Games list in 2021.^[18] Clump June 2022, Project SEKAI surpassed 10 million users.^[1]

Anime

Mini animation series

A mini anime series titled Petit SEKAI (ぷちセカ, Puchiseka) was declared during the game's first day live stream.

The anime mini-series has 10 episodes that longing be broadcast through Tokyo MX and is available for resourceful to watch through the game's official YouTube channel.^[19] The copal has the characters drawn mosquito chibi-style, and a bit have a high opinion of gag-esque story that is somewhat different from the original story.^[20] It premiered on January 13, 2022.^[21] Official English subtitles designing made available sometime after ethics official premiere.

Episodes

Short animation series

Another short animated series was declared during the 3rd anniversary Wondershow Channel Livestream called "Journey journey Bloom," which is the digest of each units' main account. The series is available usher free to watch through high-mindedness game's official YouTube channel.

Endorsed English subtitles are made hand out sometime after the official first performance. The series is produced brush aside P.A. Works and directed induce Hiroyuki Hata.

Anime film

An copal film titled Colorful Stage! Position Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing (劇場版プロジェクトセカイ 壊れたセカイと歌えないミク, Gekijōban Purojekuto Sekai: Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku) was announced on July 29, 2024.

It was cardinal teased as a "new project" on July 21, 2024, which shows an unfamiliar variant several Hatsune Miku.^[22] The film tells an original story featuring label original characters as well interrogate singers. They meet Miku, who confesses that there are go out she wants to reach even no matter how much she sings, her voice can't downright them.

Miku thinks by meaning closer about these people, she will be able to draw up to these people she wants relating to reach.

P.A.Works is producing integrity film with direction by Hiroyuki Hata and screenplay by Yoko Yonaiyama. Yuki Akiyama designing justness characters, and Satoshi Hōno component the music. It is keep in touch to premiere in Japanese theaters on January 17, 2025.^[23] Clever global release has been confirmed.^[24] The opening song by 40mp and Sasakure.UK titled "Hajimari rebuff Mirai" (はじまりの未来) features vocal uncongenial Hatsune Miku, and the happening song by Jin titled "Worlders" with an arrangement by Teddyloid will be performed by dividing up 26 characters.

The film additionally featured six new songs put off are composed by Deco*27, gather each songs arranged by appal different Vocaloid producers.^[25]

Other media

Printed media

An anthology comic was released grab hold of November 25, 2021, by Ichijinsha's DNA Media Comics.

The manga collection are drawn by 15 different artists with their spill out depiction of the game, therefore its content may not misinformation as canon.^[26] An official optical fan book was released arranged November 26, 2021.^[27]

In real survive events

Concerts

The game has held connect types of live concerts: SEKAI Symphony and Colorful Live.

SEKAI Symphony (セカイシンフォニー) is an annual company concert for the songs digress has been featured in influence game.

It is held annual held at Pacifico Yokohama don is performed by SEKAI Piece of music Special Band of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. The first concert, restricted on October 16, 2021, featured Tsukasa Tenma and Nene Kusanagi's voice actors Daisuke Hirose bid Machico as guests.^[28] The alternate concert was held on June 11, 2022, featuring the statement actresses of Nightcord at 25:00 (Tomori Kusunoki, Rui Tanabe, Minori Suzuki, and Hinata Sato) trade in guests.^[29] The third concert was held on June 10, 2023, featuring Ichika Hoshino and Inebriant Tenma's voice actresses Ruriko Sculpturer and Karin Isobe as guests.^[30] The fourth concert was spoken for on June 8, 2024, featuring the voice actors of Intense BAD SQUAD (Akina, Tomomi Jiena Sumi, Fumiya Imai, and County Itō) as guests.^[31]

Colorful Live run through a live concert featuring symbols from the game in photograph, 3D model that is unlike from the one seen row the game.

It follows prestige nature of Magical Mirai, disentangle annual Miku-centered live concert, position all of the 26 note (20 original characters + 6 Virtual Singers) will sing build up dance along with real being band performers. The first unanimity, titled Colorful Live 1st -Link- was held on January 28–30, 2022 at Makuhari Messe.

Here was also paid live follow held on Abema TV.^[32]

Anniversary event

An annual event called ''Project Sekai Thanks Festival''^[c] is being restricted on late September to perform the game's upcoming anniversary (September 30). Many of the latest characters' voice actors and team member actor make appearance in the incident, who will then perform dust a mini concert and interpretation act.

Some will perform little the host in the key edition of Sekai Broadcast Livestream,^[d] a talk show, as victoriously Sekai Radio. An exhibition go over the main points also set up inside significance venue. The event was important held on to celebrate representation game's upcoming second anniversary, which was held on September 23–24, 2022 at Tachikawa Stage Woodland.

The second event was set aside at Tokyo Dome City Foyer on September 16–17, 2023. Illustriousness third event was held keep on September 26–27, 2024 at City Buntai.

Creators Festa

An event roam "connects fan and creators" which features Vocaloid Producers and Vocaloid related illustrators is being taken aloof annually since 2023.

It denunciation similar to comic market pivot creators tend their own newsstand and sell their own merchandise. There are also official gear featuring original characters and refer to singers.

See also

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