This line of figures from the prized item maker is released as a line of JAMMA Prizes -- often given out through UFO Crane machine in arcade store. Since it is so difficult to obtain the prizes, they are often greatly sought-after even in Japan. The premium figure line is crafted in higher quality than other JAMMA Prize product line.
Hatsun?e Mi?ku (????), is the name of a software voicebank, and its official moe anthropomorphism, a girl with long, turquoise twintails. Her personification has been marketed as a virtual idol, and has performed at concerts onstage as an animated projection (rear cast projection on a specially coated glass screen). The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first (? hatsu), sound (? ne) and future (??? mi?ku), thus meaning "the first sound of the future", referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series."