History VideoGame / HatsuneMikuProjectDiva

[[caption-width-right:350:Hatsune Miku and her merry friends.[[labelnote:*]]From left to right, Kaito, Meiko, Kagamine Len, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin, Megurine Luka.[[/labelnote]]]]

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* AmbiguouslyGay: In some of the animated cutscenes, she's shown interacting with Rin in a way that would suggest they have romantic feelings for each other, such as them almost kissing before Luka interrupts them and the two holding hands while sleeping on the train. However, it's unknown if this was played up for the sake of {{Fanservice}} because the pairing was popular among shippers at the time, whether it's meant to be seen as a PseudoRomanticFriendship, or if she and Rin are meant to be dating.

** ''Hatsune Miku: Project Mix ''[=MEGA39's=]+''/''Mega Mix+'' (Steam, 2022) -- An UpdatedRerelease of ''Mega Mix'' that sees the series on PC for the first time ever. Contains over 170 songs, on top of an additional 70 songs through [=DLC=][[note]]This means the entire song list for Future Tone[[/note]]. Contains the ablity to switch between ''Mega Mix'' and ''Future Tone'''s visuals.

** ''Hatsune Miku: Project Mix [=MEGA39's=]+/Mega Mix+'' (Steam, 2022) -- An UpdatedRerelease of ''Mega Mix'' that sees the series on PC for the first time ever. Contains over 170 songs, on top of an additional 70 songs through [=DLC=][[note]]This means the entire song list for Future Tone[[/note]]. Contains the ablity to switch between ''Mega Mix'' and ''Future Tone'''s visuals.

** ''Hatsune Miku: Project Mix [=MEGA39's=]+/Mega Mix+'' (UsefulNotes/Steam, 2022) -- An UpdatedRerelease of ''Mega Mix'' that sees the series on PC for the first time ever. Contains over 170 songs, on top of an additional 70 songs through [=DLC=]. Contains the ablity to switch between ''Mega Mix'' and ''Future Tone'''s visuals.

** ''Hatsune Miku: Project Mix [=MEGA39's=]/Mega Mix+'' (UsefulNotes/Steam, 2022) -- An UpdatedRerelease of ''Mega Mix'' that sees the series on PC for the first time ever. Contains over 170 songs, on top of an additional 70 songs through [=DLC=]. Contains the ablity to switch between ''Mega Mix'' and ''Future Tone'''s visuals.

* PantyShot:
** "Satisfaction" can potentially deliver this if you have certain Modules on, averting MagicSkirt during [[FreezeFrameBonus a very particular frame.]]
** This is otherwise defied during the photo modes; if the models are positioned in such a way that an upskirt shot is possible, the game simply does not show the model. This happens even with the boys or if the girls aren't wearing skirts.

* WhoWearsShortShorts?: Miku's Yellow module in ''2nd'', ''extend'' and ''F 2nd'', Rin and Len's sport-themed modules in ''F''.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Kagerou Daze" in ''F 2nd'' is perhaps the only song in the series where Chance Time happens right at the start and clearing it affects the entire rest of the level.
** Also the only song in the international release that isn't translated on-screen, so players will either have to switch to romaji to see lyrics or have them omitted entirely.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Some [=PVs=] do not use in-game videos made specifically for the game, instead using videos copy-pasted from the internet. Highlights include "Senbonzakura" and "Hibikase" in ''Future Tone'' and "Dreamin Chuchu" in ''Mega Mix''. Also a very common practice in ''mirai'', but by ''mirai DX'' all of the [=YouTube/NND=] videos were replaced by proper in-game movies.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectSekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku'' / ''Hatsune Miku: COLORFUL STAGE!'' (Mobile, 2020) -- A smartphone rhythm game that brings the Vocaloid experience to mobile devices once more. Developed by Colorful Palette, a subsidiary of ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' developers [=CraftEgg=], ''Project SEKAI'' introduces a heavy focus on {{Cover Version}}s and story, with a large and varied group of original characters joining the Crypton characters.

** MEIKO and KAITO were literally absent from every ''DIVA'' opening[[note]]MEIKO was only passively mentioned in ''Extend'' as a contact on Miku's cellphone[[/note]] until the ''F'' series. Even farther back, Luka, Rin, and Len don't exist as far as the first game's opening is concerned.
** GUMI doesn't appear in any of the openings for the ''Mirai'' subseries, even though she has top billing in several songs. She also has not been licensed as even DLC for Project Diva, and is completely excluded from Future Tone.

** Miku's "Celebration" outfit in ''Future Tone DX'' is a 10th anniversary variant of her default outfit that shimmers rainbow, has a rainbow belt strap, rainbow lining on the skirt, and has giant, rainbow music stands tied up in a ribbon design flowing out of her back. Miku's hair also has [[MulticoloredHair strands of various colors added to it.]]

** Certain stages of the game are just altered versions of earlier stages like the stage in "Black Gold" is the same as the stage of "When First Love Ends" but with darker lightning and seats with different colors, the stage of "The Snow White Princess is..." is "Just be Friends"

stage but with green glowstick instead of pink and the screens show snowflakes instead of flowers and petals.

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage:
** ''World's End Dancehall -Live Dance Edition-'' in ''Arcade/Future Tone'' takes Miku and Luka through numerous existing stages throughout the song's duration.
** A lot of ''Arcade''-exclusive songs use multiple existing stages as well for their videos, due to being produced in Edit Mode.

** Medleys do this to a lot of well-known classics. Shout-out to ''Cool Medley -Cyber Rock Jam-'' in this department; it takes five typically-rock or hard rock songs and injects them with ''100% pure electronic rock.'' And it's badass.
*** Also, the Ending Medley remixes the ClimaxBoss songs with Miku's V3 voicebank and extra instrumentation, which is most noticeable with ''Intense Voice'', where the song noticeably '''''slows down''''' during the short breather moment.
* RelationshipValues: Every iteration of DIVA Room features these, with a separate gauge for each character. You can raise these with Item Events, giving them gifts, or simply interacting with them. The Derivatives do not have access to these features in the ''F'' series.

* RemixedLevel: Certain stages of the game are just altered versions of earlier stages like the stage in "Black Gold" is the same as the stage of "When First Love Ends" but with darker lightning and seats with different colors, the stage of "The Snow White Princess is..." is "Just be Friends" stage but with green glowstick instead of pink and the screens show snowflakes instead of flowers and petals.

** Kaito and Len aren't safe either. Both of them have multiple swimsuit modules, including a remarkably small speedo for Kaito, and Len's Punkish module has been likened to something a stripper would wear.

** ''Travel to The Other Side of The Moon'' uses Rin and Len version, instead of the original, which used GUMI and SONiKA.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectSekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku'' (Mobile, 2020) -- A smartphone rhythm game that brings the Vocaloid experience to mobile devices once more. Developed by Colorful Palette, a subsidiary of ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' developers [=CraftEgg=], ''Project SEKAI'' introduces a heavy focus on {{Cover Version}}s and story, with a large and varied group of original characters joining the Crypton characters.

* VillainProtagonist: "Aku no Musume", which features Rin playing the titular "Daughter of Evil" Riliane, a vain, wealthy princess who is a huge {{Jerkass}} with ZeroPercentApprovalRating.

* DummiedOut:
** "Sakura Rain" has unused data in ''Dreamy Theater'' but otherwise cannot be played in said game.
** In Japanese versions, ''F'' had a special DLC track that was "Popipo" from previous games, but with the addition of Playstation mascots Toro and Kuro as Miku's backup dancers. This is the only song to not have made it outside Japan, thus rendering it lost for international players.
** ''Project Mirai DX'' includes a few remnants of songs that didn't make it in: a 3D model of the stage from "Change Me" and the logo for "[=StargazeR=]".
** "saturation" and "Kagamine HachiHachi Flower Fight" have their data in ''Future Tone'' but otherwise cannot be selected in the game.
** A rather harsh case with ''Sakura Rain/Sakura no Ame'', where SEGA had their license revoked on it for several years, meaning any players of Project Diva found it skipped the song when plugged into the [=PS3=], and it took until F 2nd for it to return. An even more harsh example happened with ''Kagerou Daze'', where even Crypton Future Media haven't been able to use it since F 2nd.
** ''Arcade/Future Tone'' has unused data for "Sakura Rain -standard edit-" from ''Project DIVA'', a remix of the song "Alone Fighter" from ''VideoGame/GalaxyForce II'', and (most bizarrely) the Miku/GUMI duet song "Welcome to Wobbling Field". There is also a dummied out 6th difficulty called "Encore" that includes an unused "Random" note type that changes each time the song is played, and only [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPWeB73MJGg "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" has a complete chart for it.]]

* AllThereInTheManual: What the heck is even going on in ''mirai DX'''s Aku no Musume/Aku no Meshitukai? [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Well...]]

** Also the only song in the international release that isn't translated on-screen, so players will either have to switch to romanji to see lyrics or have them omitted entirely.

* ArtStyleDissonance: ''Mirai DX'' relishes in the fact that it has the cutest style in the franchise, and then goes and pairs it with some of the most unfitting songs possible. Standout examples include "Invisible", which is straight-up 99% '''metal''', while Aku no Musume/Aku no Meshitukai are quite possibly [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkest pair of songs in the entire franchise.]] If they had added any of the other songs in either series[[note]]"Invisible" is part of kemu's ''Pandora Voxx'' series, while the latter pair are from mothy's Story of Evil, which is part of the overarching Evillious Chronicles[[/note]], [[UpToEleven it would have only gotten worse.]]

** [[spoiler:Yowane Haku's cameo]] in "Aku no Meshitukai" as a reference to the ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'' series, where she was a white-haired girl, Clarith, living in Michaela's (Miku) village, who was apparently her secret lover.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectSekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku'' (Mobile, 2020) -- A smartphone rhythm game that brings the Vocaloid experience to mobile devices once more. Created in collaboration with ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' developers Craft Egg, ''Project Sekai'' prominently features a band-based aspect with a colorful cast of original characters, with each band helmed by the Crypton Vocaloids.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "Holy Lance Explosion Boy"]] uses quite a bit of pelvic thrust moves in its routine. The camera even zooms in on the player character's crotch at one point.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Really, it's amazing what kinds of songs can sneak past the radar.
** In ''Project Diva F 2nd'', we have songs which include ''very'' intimate LesYay, several different ways to kill someone, sex, (possible) suicide, Blackjack, repeated gruesome deaths, more sex, prostitution, ''borderline drug-induced rape'', and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a recipe for a cocktail]], almost all of which are fully translated into English.
** ''Mirai DX'', while overall more lighthearted than the main series, also has [[SarcasmMode fun]] themes like [[RunningGag sex]] ("Romeo and Cinderella"), aforementioned cocktail ("Clover Club"), beheading ([[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles "Aku no Musume" and "Aku no Meshitsukai"]]), '''flat-out genocide''', homicide, and ''incest rape'', [[TooLongDidntDub none of which (quite conveniently) is translated.]] Note that this game has a ''lower'' rating than that of the main series.
** ''X'' continues the trend by adding "[[UnusualEuphemism Holy Lance Explosion]] Boy" and "Quirky Medley - Giga Remix". For the former, the song is basically about a womanizer and littered with fairly explicit innuendo and sexual euphemisms, whereas the latter includes "Pincostique Luv", which contains very unsubtle references to masturbation, and the infamous "Gigantic O.T.N.", which is entirely (and unsubtly) about [[BiggerIsBetterInBed a certain part of his anatomy]]. Much like it's predecessor, they're also translated.
** Future Tone contains a vast majority of the more intimate and violent songs [[note]]Kagero Daze, and the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles songs haven't been released for the Arcade version, as well as the songs introduced in X[[/note]], only censored by the fact that, again, they have no full english lyrics.
** Some of the modules the characters wear may seem a little too risque for such an innocent seeming game. Special mention goes to Len's "Punkish" module, which is tight-fitting, appears to be made of leather and shows off his bare hips in a way that implies that [[VaporWear he's not wearing anything underneath]].

* ZettaiRyouiki: Miku and (to an extent) Luka, in their default outfits. Most of the other characters also get in on this with their optional modules. Even Len!

** In the first game on PSP, the game uses the [=PlayStation=] face button icons for note icons since they're the only way to hit the notes. ''DIVA 2nd'' allows using the D-pad to hit buttons, but the face buttons can still be used, and must be used in tandem with the D-pad for Double Notes. When the game hit arcades, the [=PlayStation=] button icons were retained due to familiarity for series fans. Although the ''Project mirai'' games on 3DS drop them, keeping only the PS button ''colors'' available, ''Mega Mix'' manages to get the PS icons available ''on a Nintendo system''.