Why I still use the Asus TUF Hatsune Miku collection

March 9 is Miku Day — the numbers 3 and 9 can be read as “mi” and “ku” in Japanese — and I used the occasion to call out the Asus TUF Hatsune Miku collection. The set remains readily available from $24.99 and, to my eye, contains some of the best-looking gaming accessories I've seen.

Despite testing a wide range of keyboards, mice and headsets for the hardware team, I keep returning to this collection. The K3 Gen II Hatsune Miku Edition keyboard is covered in iconography you’d expect from an official license: the ‘01’ on the Escape key, music notation across the function row, Miku on the spacebar and a removable top cover in her signature turquoise.

I’ve used the keyboard for almost a year and it’s a pleasure to type on — creamy keypresses, a silicone gasket mount and dampening foam that tame loud clicks.

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