The name of this release tour was Ningen no Atsumari (人間の集まり), which means “HUMAN Session”, title that goes very well with the concept of PinocchioP’s latest Album HUMAN. In this Human Session, PinocchioP did not perform alone, they were joined by DJ ZANIO, おはようございます (Ohayou Gozaimasu) a metalcore band, and sasakure.UK, a very well known vocaloid producer who seems to be close friends with PinocchioP as we see them touring together very often. Also, to complement the night VJ Happy Taro was in charge of the visuals.

It was a Saturday night in Shibuya, the streets were crowded with people looking to have a good time out with friends. Among all the club-goers gathering on the streets, we could distinguish PinocchioP’s audience, who knew very well that they came here to jump, dance, sing and sweat their guts out, all dressed up in casual clothes, confortably wearing big smiles and chill attitude. Honey-chan and Bee-kun flew over the heads of the people lining up in front of Club Asia, and got in right away.

The gig started with the opening act, DJ ZANIO, who enchanted the audience with his beautiful house music filled with the angelic voice of Miku. He was followed by おはようございます (Ohayou Gozaimasu) a metalcore band formed in 2015 by vocaloid producer UtsuP, who now plays the bass and the programming together with former vocalist of Merging Moon, Saba, and Nagi on guitars and chorus.

After a short but intense dose of metal, sasakure.UK enters the stage never failing to animate the crowd with his catchy tune “Mr Wonderland”. We would like to check out more about these artists in a next opportunity. You can find them on their Youtube accounts: おはようございます OFFICIAL and sasakure.UK Official.

Finally, after a long pause, the stage was ready to receive PinocchioP, who entered the stage together with DJ MK-Ⅱ wearing their usual white masks. They started off with “The Dawn of Japan” from their latest album HUMAN which turned the already electric atmosphere on, followed by their hit song “Everything About Animals” which, by the way, is Honey-chan favorite song. Hatsune Miku's voice on the catchy melody is very difficult to forget.

The hyper fast tracks “Tonchinkan Feast” and “I Just Hate People” set higher the mood of the crowd, that is how much straightforward vocaloid songs can get. There was no rest for the audience as “Cryptid" and “Kusare-gedou and Chocolate” came in pumping up with a deep bass beats and the sassy voice of Hatsune Miku.

The time to calm down and just enjoy listening came with “I'm glad you're evil too” this is a ballad with a beautiful slow melodic voice by Miku and a piano as the main instrument of the first half of track, the other half is decorated by samples sound here and there which intensify at the end. Definitely a great composition.

The highlight of the night was the promotional track of their latest album; “SAYONARA HUMAN”, the vocals are mainly by PinocchioP himself harmonizing with Miku’s voice very low in the background. This song has a very deep melancholic feeling, and a very beautiful melody.

“Mushroom Mother” is a very addictive song, Miku's voice sounds so cute and calmed. Some of the phrases stick for days in your head 'ya-i, ya-i, mashuruumu’, and the visuals that accompanies the audio track are so much fun to look at, they combine real images with a psychedelic animation of a man dancing very sexy.

They left the stage, and people were not satisfied. there's never enough when it comes to PinocchioP’s music, so the crowd screamed “encore, encore, encore”. Back on stage, there’s a third human with them carrying a bass, and “Gorgeous Big Conversation” is on! The heavy bass lines of UtsuP are all over the place.

Last song of the night was “All I Need are Things I Like” another favorite by the audience, this song’s message is very clear: or you do only what you want, or you just stop being alive, not longer human, but an automatic being. This is the voice of a machine telling you that…

PinocchioP gigs are for everyone who enjoys music with meaningful messages and don't mind getting all sweaty jumping and dancing. This was a great opportunity to experience vocaloid in all its splendour, four different acts, four different styles of producing and peforming music for a party thirsty audience.

Vocaloid is mostly regarded as a music genre in theory, but in the practice is more of a flexible form of making music, you can have metal vocaloid songs, pop vocaloid song, dance, electronic, experimental, you can make everything into a vocaloid song, this is the reason why the vocaloid artist called themselves producers. Probably gathering humans to dance at the rythm of electronic beats is what virtual Hatsune Miku dreams of, and vocaloid producers found a genious way to merge the digital realm with the human world through music.

What we learned at the end of the show, is that humans and computers can cohabit in the same venue, they can sing and dance together, and at least for one night… become one being.