Stardust’s 2020 Birthday Celebrations + Stardust Minus Revealed
Stardust’s 5th anniversary has arrived at last, and Quadimension has prepared a lot of surprises in order to celebrate this special day! Let’s take a look at each of them.
New song, “零和Zero-Sum”
Let’s start with probably the most important news so far: Stardust has received a brand-new song entitled 零和Zero-Sum!
You can listen to it here!
But that wasn’t the only version of the song that was uploaded today.
On the new MEDIUM⁵ Bilibili channel, another version of the song was also uploaded, serving as the demo song for a new Synthesiver V voice bank called Stardust Minus, voiced by Sawako碎花子!
You can listen to this version here!
Music, Arrangement: KIDE
Synthesizer V Studio Tuning:瑞安Ryan
Character Design: xiao葉有囍
Minus is a new spin-off character created for for MEDIUM⁵ universe. This artwork features her in-game design, so her final voicebank artwork may actually look quite different from it.
Some people may have noticed already that Quadimension teased us with things about Minus since the end of July. At the time, all we saw was a silhouette, so we had no chance of guessing that it would actually be a brand-new character.
What are your thoughts about Minus so far? Do you like her voice?
Chibi Figure Pre-order Bonus
Stardust’s Traditional Garb Ver. chibi clay figure is available for pre-order here for ¥198 RMB!
And to help sweeten the deal, Quadimension is now giving away a free glitter badge with pre-orders using the original illustration by Maple that the figure is based on!
Stardust 1/7 Scale Figure Announced
That’s not the only figure news for Stardust’s birthday. Also announced is her “Whisper of the Star” 1/7 scale figure! A 3D prototype for it has even been revealed!
This figure has been known about since late January this year, but it seems like Quadimension has decided to add some changes to the initial model, which led to this newer, unblurred photo.
This is how it looked like few months ago:
Taobao page for this product can be found here.
Stardust 2019 Birthday Merch 20% Off
If you haven’t purchased Stardust’s 2019 merch yet, then your extreme patience has been rewarded! All of said items can now be ordered at a reasonable 20% off!
See here for the product page, and read this article from 2019 for details about each piece of merchandise!
Stardust Album 百万花王 Crossfade and Pre-order Coming Soon
In album news, it was confirmed that MeLo’s long-awaited album, 百万花王 / Baǐwàn Huāwáng (A Million Flower Kings) ft. Stardust will soon have a crossfade video made available online, and is available for pre-order!
Find its product page here!
Birthday song: Cyber Buddha
In addition 零和Zero-Sum, Stardust’s official 2020 birthday song was also uploaded to her official Bilibili channel today!
Listen to it here
Song title: Cyber Buddha
Planning: 逝羽 / Shìyǔ
Music, arrangement: 星辉 / Xīng Huī
Lyrics: 大九_LN
Tuning: 星葵 / Xīng Kuí
Illustration: 六点 / Liù diǎn
PV: owen-z
Directors: 婉霞 (Wǎn Xiá), 落叶荷 / Luòyè Hé
QQ Stickers
Finally, new cute stickers featuring Stardust and all of the MEDIUM⁵ sisters are now available for QQ! Scan the QR code in the above image to access them! Also see here for the source image in case the code above is too small.
Illustrations were provided by 枫叶 / Maple, the artist for the 五维介质姐妹日常 / Life with the MEDIUM⁵ Sisters 4-panel comics where some of these sticker images came from!
Links
Stardust’s official Weibo and 2020 birthday announcement post