Chibi Miku-san (ちびミクさん) is a manga strip created, and drawn by Minami. A very adorable story about a miniature version of Hatsune Miku and her friends in a slice of life style storytelling.
This manga strip started from June 5th, 2008, submitted in the form of 4-koma almost daily (not anymore recently), as of 2010 April it reached 450 chapters so far.
Characteristics
One of the appealing point of this 4-koma, aside from it's extremely cute characters, is that almost every strip shows no dialogues, effectively making it a story without words and easy to read.
The setting of the story takes place in this city called Bokarocho (歩家路町), which is similar to the English word "Vocal", while cho means town, localized by the western fans as Vocalotown, a place for Vocaloids.
Its heartwarming and fuzzy type stories attracted a lot of viewers, and it became one of the most famous webcomic circulating around today.
Characters
Main Characters
Chibi Miku-san
The series main character, younger sister of Hatsune Miku. Being extremely small, it is no wonder that her actions and thoughts are that of a small little girl. Active and holds a strong curiousity. Her favourite food is Welsh Onion.
Kagamine Rin
The female twin of the two who looks after Chibi Miku-san.
She's a passionate gamer, holds a PSP. She is seen very nonchalant about just anything, but can actually do it if she tries.
Usually seen pulling various pranks and harmless jokes on Chibi Miku-san. Though that doesn't mean that she dislikes her, but rather bullying her just for the fun of it, or she thinks that Chibi Miku-san is too cute to not bully. She actually cares about her a lot, and sometimes treat her well.
She is also seen to be extremely scary when provoked - and shows no mercy when countering. However, she will never raise her hand on her sister Hatsune Miku no matter what, which shows that she actually respects her sister.
Her expression changes when she starts singing, and is surprisingly good at it.
Her only weakness : Thunder.
Kagamine Len
The male twin of the two who looks after Chibi Miku-san
A kind brother who does his best to satisfy anyone around him. He is also afraid of Rin, and dare not do anything against her.
He is also potrayed as a character full with misfortunes, like getting into accidents most of the time (thanks to Rin), doesn't recieve anything back after commiting so much, and so on.
Loves his sister Hatsune Miku.
Surprisingly he is also a person in charge of cooking and serving hotpot dish.
Chibi Miku-san family
Hatsune Miku
Chibi Miku-san's sister. Known affectionally by the fans as "Miku nee-san". She doesn't make much appearance as she is always seen going out.
She is a gentle girl who is always seen smiling, and also a charismatic sister who does everything flawlessly. However, she is actually easily scared, even on Rin sometimes.
She is also scary when being provoked.
She also lives together with Kaito and Meiko.
She is also seen with souvenirs whenever she came back from working, and is shown to have a unique taste in choosing.
KAITO
An actor, and singer. His landmark song is "Yokubou, Aisu to tomo ni" (Desire, together with ice cream)
Though being Hatsune Miku's guardian, it is unknown whether they both are related in blood or not. He has an affinity towards ice cream, and has a skill of a patissier in ice cream making.
Though bright and cheerful, he seems to be even more unfortunate than Len.
MEIKO
An actress and singer. Does duet with Kaito sometimes.
Though being Hatsune Miku's guardian, it is also unknown whether they both are related in blood or not. Likes to drink, and loves adorable stuff. She sometimes take pictures of them, and also forces them to cosplay.
She also likes to bully.
She is much bolder than Rin and for some unknown reason she doesn't show any mercy towards Kaito. However she does not do it out of hatred.
Friends of Chibi Miku-san
Chibi Neru-san
A self proclaimed rival of Chibi Miku-san, but more of a friend instead of being rival.
Though she likes Ren, she is somewhat unfortunate in this matter.
She is not really good with dogs for some reason.
Chibi Teto-san
Chibi Miku-san's friend. A fan of Kaito. Easily identified with her symbolic twintail hairstyle.
She has an unknown potential of being the strongest gamer in the series, beating even Rin herself (which she never won against Chibi Teto-san). However, she is dense to realize her own ability.
She likes animal, but is allergic to it.
Chibi Suzu-san
Friend of Chibi Miku-san, first apperance at chapter 301.
Easily hungry and has a stomach of a black hole, to the point she can even handle Teto's terrible cooking.
She also has a terrible vocal power that scares animals away.
An original VOCALOID character created by the author himself. Her full name is Kiyone Suzu.
People of Vocalotown
Yowane Haku
Shop owner of a candy shop "Yowane". Hatsune Miku's childhood friend. Though she handles the shop in top shape, she is also a little mischevious. Like her name suggests, she is easily prone to sickness, and has a constant backpain. However she is also the highest ranked character of the series.
FLchan
Shop owner of a fancy shop "FL", located just beside Yowane.
A clumsy character. She can be so clumsy to the point of hurting herself, which worries Yowane sometimes. Yowane sometimes helped her out in managing her shop until she recovers.
Though she is capable of keeping Megurine Luka on check, she doesn't seem to be convincing sometimes due to her clumsiness.
Megurine Luka
A shopkeeper working in FL. Though she has no eyes on cute things, she seems to be very fixtated on Chibi Miku-san. To the point of being labelled a lolicon.
Yokune Ruko
Hatsune Miku's childhood friend. Together with Yowane Haku, they used to play a lot when they were young. She moved outside of Vocalotown for work reasons soon after. She is very rich, owning a private mansion of her own.
She is quiet and silent, but not without emotions. She is surprisingly going along well with Kaito's antics, given her personality. She is also good at hiding herself without anyone noticing.
Defoko
Ruko's servant. She has a power to one hit KO any small flies, which shocks Hatsune Miku.
Though serious when working, she is extremely playful when it comes to playing with kids.
Momone Momo
Ruko's maid. Similar to Luka, she is captivated (quite badly) by Chibi Miku-san's adorable existence.
Others
Hamo
A puppy taken in as a pet by Chibi Miku-san. Named by Rin (In actuality the readers who took part in the poll). Smart, active and can be quite cautious of it's surroundings.
Yowaneko
A white cat is always seen with Yowane Haku and her candy shop. It's origin can be traced back to the creator, CAFFEIN who created Yowane Haku.
Negipara-san
A plushie who is seen holding a welsh onion on it's back. Chibi Miku-san's favourite plushie.
Unknown
True to it's name, it's an unknown mysterious...something (in a form of plushie). And for some reasons unknown, it is famous and everyone wants to own one of it.
