217 articles published in 2012
Crypton Future Media has now updated the KAITO V3 page with more product information, including detailed descriptions of the four sound banks as well as pricing. Preorders are open now at 16,800 JPY for a scheduled mid-February release of KAITO V3. Furthermore, in addition to Tiny VOCALOID3 Editor, the KAITO V3 package comes with Crypton’s […]
During its latest set of live streams, AH-Soft has announced that their VOCALOID3 sound bank Yuzuki Yukari will soon be available for sale through German channels. According to a clarifying tweet, the actual voice bank will remain the same, but this version will have a German language user interface. Furthermore, AH-Soft will be making an […]
The first episode of Mikumentary, a documentary by Assistant Professor Tara Knight from UCSD about the creative culture behind Hatsune Miku, has now been posted onto YouTube. A dream-like ambient song plays in the background while images from PIAPRO flash by as the three minute episode gives an overview of how multi-faceted Miku is, since […]
SEGA has put up a web page where fans can vote for songs from the PSP series of Project DIVA to be remade and redelivered onto the Vita and PS3 platforms. The page has a listing of all the default songs from each of the three games along with a questionnaire section at the end, […]
It appears that Vocalekt Visions’s neutrinoP had been working with INTERNET on making a demo song for GUMI English. He worked with the beta sound bank, and a short snippet of a demo song titled You Are The Reason has now been posted to niconico (and to YouTube as well). The song lyrics were written […]
The new English VOCALOID3 databank from Zero-G, Avanna, is now available for purchase. Currently, a download is offered at a 95 USD price point, and a button on the official page will automatically add the item to a cart and check out via Zero-G’s download shop. The official website also lists three short cover song […]
From now until Christmas, SEGA is running promotions on its Miku-related smartphone apps. For Hatsune Miku Live Stage Producer, a freemium app on Android and iOS, players who log in for at least three consecutive days between December 20 and December 25 will receive a free 2D “Aile d’ange” module (outfit) on January 10. Furthermore, […]
The Japanese PlayStation store is now listing a concert video of Mikupa Taiwan, dubbed the “Director’s Edition”. The title, which originally hit the store on December 19, is provided in both standard definition and high definition formats, and it is available either to rent (600 JPY) or to own (2000 JPY). A promotion by docomo […]
Crypton has now revealed a teaser website for its upcoming VOCALOID3 sound library, KAITO V3. A silhouette of KAITO’s new character design currently adorns the website. KAITO V3 will have four sound banks — STRAIGHT, SOFT, WHISPER and ENGLISH, and demos for the sound banks will be revealed one sound bank per day; a demo […]
With the 5th year anniversary of Kagamine Rin/Len release coming up on the 27th, MIKUBOOK is now asking fans to submit their messages and/or photos congratulating the twins’ birthday. Submissions will be used on a special page that will go live on December 27. Previously, Crypton ran a similar campaign for Miku’s birthday as well. […]
According to a post on the PIAPRO blog, Crypton Future Media has now made available the package artwork of the six VOCALOID software programs they have released to date through the Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommerical 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Previously, the name and the character design of each of the VOCALOID software packages were […]
The well-known VOCALOID panel series at Anime Expo entitled Mirai no Neiro – The Sound of the Future has now announced the first guest for the Anime Expo 2013 panel — t.Komine, otherwise known as UtataP. His Project Diva desu. song was played at the Kanshasai and Mikunopolis concerts, and the recent Paranoia-inspired song Kochira, […]
The official Mikupa website has now added information about Mikupa concerts to be held early February in Sapporo. There will be a total of four showings held at the Sapporo Shimin Hall over the weekend — a daytime and an evening showing for both February 9 and February 10. Touted as a compilation of two […]
A recent revamp of the VOCALOID STORE has added physical disc versions of several software offerings to the English and Chinese front ends of the store. As of now, customers who order physical disc versions of the software will be able to have it shipped internationally using EMS. Even though the price listing itself states […]
Official recordings of two VOCALOID events at the recent NekoCon 15 has now been posted on YouTube. The first video, posted about two weeks ago, is of the VOCALOID Producers Panel, where Tempo-P and EmpathP gave an overview on how music can be created with the software. It also featured a sneak peek of Avanna […]
The official website for the GUMI-themed rhythm game Megpoid the Music# was recently updated with a release date and details on the limited edition version of the game. The game is expected to hit shelves on March 28, 2013 and the limited edition comes with two figures — a petanko mini figure and a puchikko […]
Although this year’s Anime Festival Asia did not feature a return of the Mikupa concert series, it still had many things for the VOCALOID fans amongst its attendees — cosplay, merchandise, talk shows and DJ performances. While it would be pretty much impossible to cover everything, here’s a sampling of VOCALOID-related happenings at Anime Festival […]
Hatsune Miku Live Stage Producer (LSP) is a game developed by SEGA for iOS and Android devices. The game is currently available as an open beta in the Google Play Store for now, however is limited to Japanese devices only. As this is a beta, the data may be wiped after the beta period, and […]
We’ve posted about Zero-G‘s new VOCALOID Avanna before but now it’s time for what we’ve all been waiting, a demo of her singing and her character design. At NekoCon 15, a sneak peek of Avanna singing was demoed at the convention’s VOCALOID panel after the VocaNoIro concerts. The audio track, a cover of Enya’s “Only […]
It appears that the website Tales @ Nihongo de ok has again leekedleaked a few tidbits about an upcoming article in Famitsu, this time about the latest Project DIVA game’s PlayStation 3 version, Project DIVA F. According to the writeup, the title will have a capital “F” instead of a lower-case “f”, and six new […]
A new initiative titled “VOCALOID Trans-Pacific Project” (not to be confused with the more heinouscontroversial Trans-Pacific Partnership) was unveiled at DC Expo a few days ago. DC Expo (short for Digital Content Expo) is “an international event intended to shape the future of [the digital content] industry five or ten years into the future as […]
YAMAHA has released both VY2V3 and VocaListener yesterday, and both are available on the VOCALOID STORE. VY2V3 is available in a 9800 JPY standard package, a 17800 JPY Starter Pack and a 9800 JPY download version on the Japanese store. VocaListener is a plugin for the VOCALOID3 Editor and thus there’s only a download version […]
The official website for the upcoming rhythm game Megpoid the Music# is now up with preliminary information about the game. In addition to information published in Famitsu, the website gives a list of participating VOCALOID producers and illustrators. The multi-player aspect of the game apparently involves networking multiple consoles together, and the hint about the […]
Product listings for “VOCALOID(TM)3 Library MAYU” (item number QWCE-264 and distributed by Pony Canyon) from EXIT TUNES has started appearing on various online retailers’ websites. MAYU is a VOCALOID3 sound bank under development by EXIT TUNES, and the character is supposed to be a yandere middle school girl. The item has a list price of […]
According to various sources on the net, Crypton Future Media demonstrated several demos of their upcoming VOCALOID soundbanks at their NYCC panel, given by Crypton director for global development Kanae Muraki and Mikumentary director Tara Knight. The VOCALOID3 version of KAITO will feature three Japanese voice banks (which include a normal voice bank and whisper […]
A few things came up recently regarding Hatsune Miku and the UK. First, Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh was interviewed by J-POP GO. Although, halfway through, it ended up being Itoh asking questions of the interviewer. In the interview, Itoh mentioned that he knew about the whole Top Tens unofficial poll where Miku grasped number one. […]
Finally, on Saturday, October 6, Hatsune Miku held her first live concerts in Taiwan, at the foot of the Taipei 101. The morning, or rather, the entire day was lines, lines and lines, but the concert was considered a big success, gathering over nine thousand fans to sing along and jump around with Miku and […]
The MIKUBOOK staff have issued an apology about MIKU BINGO again, stating that they will not use the results of the bingo in order to keep it fair for everyone. The second run at the bingo was fraught with server overloads, and the winning numbers were actually available before the bingo game started. As consolation, […]
Festivities for Mikupa Taiwan actually started one day before the day of the concert. Fans from Japan and Taiwan collaborated together to hold a pre-party and managed to fill up the venue. The official tour group from Japan also swung by, swelling the numbers, and two famous Japanese VOCALOID producers made an appearance. The event […]
Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has now confirmed that the rhythm/action game Megpoid the music# (the last character is pronounced ‘sharp’) will indeed have a planned release in spring of next year on the PSP platform by little-known company ParaPhray (パラプレ). In addition to leaked details from earlier, the article adds a few more details as […]
Hatsune Miku and friends recently held two sets of concerts, with one set in Hong Kong on October 2 and one set in Taiwan on October 6. Each venue featured both afternoon and evening concerts, and the concerts blasted through 23 songs and one encore song in Hong Kong, with Taiwan getting an additional encore […]
VocaTone, the company behind the English VOCALOID3 sound bank Oliver, is now holding a competition to create music videos for Daniel Castro’s song “Birds”. The original song and lyrics can be downloaded directly from the contest site, and videos must include the song in its unmodified form. While it is not mandatory to create the […]
The current rumor floating around (all seemingly sourced from one particular site) is that on Thursday, video game magazine(s) will announce details on an upcoming PSP rhythm game featuring GUMI called megpoid the Music#. If the leaked information is correct, the game will come out this spring for 6090 JPY, with a limited edition slated […]
Miku Miku ni Shiteageru was one of Miku’s earliest hits, made within a month of the software’s release. Afterwards, the original producer, ika, along with MOSAIC.WAV, made a modified duet version of the song titled Minna Miku Miku ni Shiteageru for the Heartsnative album, which managed to hit number seven on the Oricon Daily charts. […]
Miku Miku Online is a networked virtual world environment that essentially acts as a chatroom. It was released in mid September and a demonstration video was uploaded to niconico. The software allows multiple online users to essentially participate in a virtual chat “world”, where players are represented by 3D avatars rendered from MikuMikuDance models. The […]
Coinciding with the start of Tokyo Game Show 2012, the website for SEGA’s upcoming autumn smartphone game release Hatsune Miku Live Stage Producer is now live. The game targets “iPhone 4 and above” as well as Android OS 2.3 and above, although some devices may not be supported. Live Stage Producer will be a free […]
According to a teaser site set up by SEGA, a smartphone game called Hatsune Miku Rai will be announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. The voiced version of the teaser site indicates an autumn release for a game where you can be Miku’s producer.
According to two new press releases from YAMAHA, release dates and pricing have been seen for VY2V3 as well as VocaListener. VY2V3 is an update of the VY2 male VOCALOID2 soundbank to the VOCALOID3 engine; additional recordings were made to improve the quality of the voice, and the product actually comes with two separate sound […]
Re:VB, the developer behind AniMiku, is organising a live Vocaloid concert to be held at Nekocon 2012. Also planned are two Vocaloid panels, covering Vocaloid music production and the creative team behind the events!
August 31 marks the fifth anniversary of the release of Hatsune Miku, and there were a ton of festivities this year to mark the occasion. As usual, pixiv, PIAPRO and Nico Nico were flooded with many celebratory uploads. Several live events were also held recently in the Tokyo area and even several of the concerts […]
In order to celebrate the release of VOCALOID3 Gackpoid, INTERNET is holding a contest where winners can get their songs added to JOYSOUND’s karaoke song database. Entries need to be uploaded before the end of September to Nico Nico Douga with the tag “JOYSOUNDがくっぽいど” locked. There will be separate awards for the Gackpoid, Gackpoid POWER […]
According to a press release from AH-Soft, makers of several VOCALOID sound banks and the VOICEROID line of speech synthesis programs, the VOICEROID+ software package for Tohoku Zunko will go on sale on September 28. She was originally created to help promote the recovery of the Tohoku region and her character is based on zundamochi, […]
In addition to the birthday wishes event, MIKUBOOK will also be holding a bingo event starting at 7PM Pacific time on August 31, 2012. The website will “call” out numbers, with participants clicking numbers on their sheet that have been called. After getting bingo and pushing the bingo button, the participant would win one of […]
According to a post on the Hatsune Miku official Facebook page, Crypton is holding an event on MIKUBOOK where fans can submit a message and photo to the website until September 7, and five lucky fans will be randomly picked to receive goods. All of the submitted photos and messages are currently viewable on the […]
Commemorating Lily’s 2nd anniversary and VOCALOID3 GUMI’s 1st anniversary, avex management and INTERNET Co., Ltd are holding a music contest, accepting entries in the span of time between August 25, Lily’s release date and October 15, with winners being announced on October 21, VOCALOID3 GUMI’s release date. To enter, the applicant must upload a song […]
According to a post on his website, MASATAKA is recruiting fans to help him draw his next Miku PV. What he wants is for fans to convert a total of 120 frames from a MikuMikuDance animation to drawn art. After submitting a handle name, email address (email addresses might be revealed to other fans because […]
Website http://miku-39.jp/ has now been updated with the addition of a customized music video for Mitchie M’s Birthday Song for Miku. Before watching the video, the viewer has the option of linking in a Twitter account, location information and a smartphone to further enhance the video. For example, the video will show your Twitter icon […]
The music-listening companion iOS app Music Girl Hatsune Miku is now live on the Japanese iTunes App Store. The app features Miku, who bops to songs you play from your music library. The animation was made by MARZA ANIMATION PLANET, who also worked on Project DIVA and Project DIVA 2nd. Listening to songs helps level […]
Recently, a new website called Vocanode sprouted up, offering to be a hub for creative VOCALOID/UTAU works outside Japan. While the website also hosts images and audio, the majority of the site is a directory of videos added by their original creators. Registration on the website automatically confers the user a channel, and users can […]
It appears that i-style Project, the creators behind Aoki Lapis and Merli, are currently looking to fans for two important tasks. First, as was mentioned before, they are asking fans to audition for the role of voice provider for Merli through September 10. However, through September 3, they are also recruiting “official creators” who will […]
Well I was getting skeptical about the new English Celtic VOCALOID and if she was going to be released in summer like sources claimed. I decided to e-mail Zero-G myself about the matter and they told me this.
The PanelPicker for 2013’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals opened up for voting on potential panels this Monday, and Alex LeAvitt‘s entry “Miku: The Open-Source Girl Who Conquered the World” needs enough votes to get a chance at being selected. SXSW is a “unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies” […]
Starting now, visitors can send a birthday message to Miku for the fifth anniversary of her sound bank’s release on a specially crafted site. The HTML5 site is a bit broken in Safari but works fine in Chrome and Firefox. Originally, the site used to be a teaser site with a link to Mitchie M’s […]
Hey everyone, it’s been pretty quiet lately, but here are some of the latest happenings in the Vocaloid world! Miku’s 5th anniversary is coming on the 31st of August, so let’s see what’s in store for us!
A broadcast was shown on July 29 at 8PM JST on Nico Nico Live to announce winners out of the 2,251 entries for the VOCALOID3 Release Commemoration Music Contest, which was held from November 15, 2011 to June 30, 2012. A demo of the galaco sound bank was also played and downloads for the galaco […]
Today, i-style Project updated their VOCALOID3 character page to include the character design for Aoki Lapis’s older sister, Merli. In contrast to Lapis’s fair-skinned appearance and jewel accessory, Merli has dark skin and butterflies for accessories. Her voice provider hasn’t been revealed yet, but she now has a character background. According to the official website, […]
Not only did this year’s Mirai no Neiro present music videos at Anime Expo 2012, the series of panels also hosted famous VOCALOID producers from Japan as well. KagomeP, Agoaniki, VocaliodP (OdoP), DeadballP and Dixie Flatline were present to introduce themselves and show off their songs. VocaliodP’s friend and illustrator Kyosuke also showed up to […]
SEGA, the company behind the original Miku Flick, has announced a sequel to their iOS rhythm game! Check out our older articles if you’d like to find out more about the original game. Otherwise, let’s get right to it!
Having been present at Anime Expo since 2009, Mirai no Neiro – The Sound of the Future is a series of panels organized by Masa, who makes it from Japan to Anime Expo each year to introduce the audience to VOCALOID through presentations, music videos and messages from producers. This year, Mirai no Neiro brought […]
According to a new post on the Project DIVA blog, SEGA is looking for fans to participate in the filming of a television commercial for their upcoming rhythm game, Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA- f. More specifically, on July 24, they want to film a huge crowd all doing the same dance moves to the song […]
Hideki Kenmochi, one of the developers at YAMAHA behind the VOCALOID sound synthesis engine, flew to Los Angeles to give an overview and short tutorial of VOCALOID software at Anime Expo 2012. In his presentation, Mr. Kenmochi gave an overview of VOCALOID and described at a high level how the VOCALOID synthesis engine actually worked […]
A two minute promotional video featuring Yuezheng Ling, Yuezheng Longya, and Luo Tianyi was released several hours ago. A song of Luo Tianyi plays in the background of this video, and although sometimes the vocals match the mouth flaps, the actual speaking and singing by the characters in this clip aren’t voiced. This promotional video […]
As was announced on the Hatsune Miku Facebook page, Kinokuniya at this year’s Anime Expo had a limited set of CDs from music label KarenT available for $25 each. The 11-track CD featured well-known artists such as mothy, Dios and minato. Over half of the 250 copies were sold on the first day. By the […]
Time for another vocaloid ranking!(already?)
A few days ago the official VOCALOID website announced the English VOCALOID Facebook.
At their Anime Expo panel, Aniplex USA showed a trailer of footage from Mikunopolis, indicating their intention to release the product stateside. Previously, it was only available as an import with BD, DVD and CD versions, making it difficult to acquire for fans outside Japan. The official website will eventually contain information for the upcoming […]
A demo song for galaco’s beta voice bank has now been added to Nico Nico Douga and YouTube. The short video features an animation of galaco with a megaphone along with a short clip of her singing a cover of Kou Shibasaki’s latest single, ANOTHER:WORLD. INTERNET’s Noboru Murakami did the tuning for this song. The […]
Ugh, so late, but I’m trying my best to catch up!
The official Mikupa Twitter account revealed that there will be Mikupa concerts held in both Hong Kong and Taiwan in October of this year. The two (day and night) Hong Kong concerts will take place on October 2 in KITEC Star Hall, and tickets are available through HKTICKETING in three tiers: A tier for 680 […]
NAMCO Bandai has now officially announced through the Taiko no Tatsujin developer blog that GUMI songs will be featured in the arcade version of the game. The three songs slated for the drumming rhythm game are Hachi’s Matryoshka, YM’s Juumensou colorful ver. and DECO*27’s Mozaik Role. Furthermore, GUMI as well as the other INTERNET VOCALOID […]
In time for GUMI’s birthday, head of INTERNET Co., Ltd. Noboru Murakami made some tweets referring to a project to bring out an English version of Megpoid. The first tweet thanked everyone for the birthday wishes and mentioned all the support she had received in the form of songs, illustrations, videos and cosplay outfits. It […]
UPDATE: Noboru Murakami, head of INTERNET Co.,Ltd, has tweeted confirmation of an upcoming English Gumi voicebank! (More information coming up!) [Thanks Virtual>Real!] Today marks the third anniversary of INTERNET Co.,Ltd’s second Vocaloid, Gumi! Gumi’s voice is provided by Megumi Nakajima, most famous for her voice acting roles in various anime series. The official name of […]
As a celebration of Hatsune Miku’s 5th anniversary, two CDs titled “Hatsune Miku 5th Birthday Best impacts” and “Hatsune Miku 5th Birthday Best memories” will be released on Miku’s birthday later this year. Each CD will consist of 19 tracks. The full tracklist has not yet been released, but we know that some of Miku’s […]
An interesting ranking this week, including a new million views hitter. Check it all out below!
Famitsu Magazine’s online site recently revealed 8 new songs for the PS Vita game Project Diva f. These include songs such as Time Machine, DYE, FREELY TOMORROW, Fire◎Flower, HAI WA HAI NI and Nostalogic. Two specially written songs ODDS&ENDS (the theme song for the game) and Weekender Girl were also announced. A more detailed report […]
According to the official 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity website, the Hatsune Miku-Google Chrome ad campaign received one of the 44 Bronze Lion awards in the Direct Lions category. The festival, not to be confused with the Cannes International Films Festival which inspired it, celebrates creativity in advertising. The campaign was submitted by […]
Hahahaha, wow… Ritsu is just dominating this week. Check it out on this weeks Utau Ranking!
It’s that time already? Well lets just get straight to the Vocaloid ranking!
Zero-G, the company behind Engloids Leon, Lola, Miriam, Prima, Sonika and Tonio, is offering special discounts on many of their products including their VOCALOID products. They are offering a 25% discount on VOCALOID 1 products, as well as even larger discounts (up to 50%!) on their VOCALOID 2 products. Leon, Lola and Miriam can be […]
The official product page for INTERNET’s VOCALOID3 update to Gackpoid is now up, indicating a release date of July 13, 2012. The release comes in three flavors — NATIVE (an update to the original VOCALOID2 Gackpoid sound bank), POWER and WHISPER, and customers can also purchase a COMPLETE pack that includes all three sound banks. […]
With the release of Project DIVA f (previously known as NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA) on the horizon, SEGA has slowly been releasing more and more information on the game. PJDf is the third game in the Project DIVA series, succeeding Project DIVA and Project DIVA 2nd (along with PJD Extend). A demo version of […]
Due to real life issues with Bunnychan, she will not be able to continue doing the Utau Rankings, so from now on I will try to complete them to the best I can! I can assure you though, that this week Ritsu is just dominating, and I realized I need to follow Utau more…
Lets get going into another Vocaloid ranking! Jin is still going strong, and a couple older songs were brought back up from the dead, so be sure to check them out.
The full 3+ minute version of the first promotional video for VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT is now viewable from the official website. The animated video tells the story of how Luo Tianyi begins her voyage, although no dialogue audio is present. An intermission features a short singing clip utilizing the Chinese VOCALOID sound bank and the […]
The VOCALO.ID team has now released online for free their second compilation album of VOCALOID songs, using various VOCALOID2 sound banks. The 17 song album includes songs from Miku, Rin, Luka and GUMI in various different languages created by 17 producers/production teams all over Indonesia, of which REDSHiFT likely being the most well-known. According to […]
VOCALOID production group Vocalekt Visions released their new album titled Vocalekt Visions Vocaloid Vacation (V4) at their FanimeCon event as well as digitally through CDBaby (and thus it is available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, etc. as well). The album contains thirteen songs, including variations of the four songs on their previous mini-album, Tuned in the […]
Still sick from post-con depression, and with a summer cold /sad, but a bunch of Jin this week, and if FuwariP’s song isn’t in the ranking next week, I will be very, very, very disappoint.
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
Through Re:VB’s live Vocaloid animation software, AniMiku, many fans around the world are able to create their very own concerts using a projector and mosquito netting. With this software, this weekend, on May 26th, both members of Vocalekt Visions will be holding a concert on opposite sides of the world. TempoP will be running the […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market(Sapporo Short Fest) is holding a contest for users to create videos and short films for Hatsune Miku’s upcoming 5th anniversary. Videos that are submitted will be selected by a committee, and those selected will be screened at the main theater of the Sapporo Short Fest. One CGM grand […]
To make up for being late last week, I am (somewhat) early this week! Enjoy the rankings, and if there are any errors, please let me know, it is 3am at the time of posting…
Sorry I’m late, I’ve just been super busy and last time I tried working on this, my computer crashed and I just gave up… but here is thi– last weeks ranking!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
According to a post on Facebook, Crypton Future Media’s social networking web app MIKUBOOK has reached a stage where users have collectively made over one million “faves”. In celebration, a link visible to logged-in users drops in some fanfare before proceeding to a ranking of the top 20 songs as of the 1 million fave […]
According to a post on the official Hatsune Miku Facebook page, footage of the MIKUNOPOLIS concert held at Anime Expo in 2011 will be broadcast on NHK World Premium starting at 12:15 AM Japan time on May 20th. NHK World Premium is a Japanese channel that is carried by many operators overseas and therefore can […]
CreoFUGA, a website for music contests, is hosting a contest for original GUMI (V2 or V3) songs in collaboration with INTERNET Co., Ltd. and NAMCO Bandai. Winning entries would be used in a video game NAMCO Bandai is working on, although details about the game will not be publicly announced until late June. Participants would […]
VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT has now added a 30 second preview of its fully-animated promotional video, featuring Luo Tianyi in a slightly different costume from her standard design. Production was handled by Seven Stone Studio and it will be shown on May 13 at CF03 according to a post on the animation studio’s website. The post […]
It feels like I run a TV show here every week, but read on to find out the new songs in this weeks ranking!
Today, SEGA, Crypton Future Media and SONY unveiled two special PlayStation Vita bundles for the upcoming PSV version of NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA. The official website gives an overview of the specs and pricing. The limited edition bundles includes a special Miku-decor Vita in addition to the game itself. The Vita will have a […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
PIAPRO has now started a new contest in collaboration with Good Smile Company to design an outfit for the 2013 edition of the Snow Miku Nendoroid. The outfit needs to invoke a sense of snow and ice and be based on a motif of candy sweets fitting Sapporo, such as white chocolate, marshmallows, gummi candies, […]
The official Hatsune Miku Facebook page is asking fans to draw their very own images of Miku (with or without other Crypton VOCALOID characters) so that a few chosen ones could be paraded one-per-day as the official “cover art” for the Facebook page once it reaches half a million likes. In addition to illustrations, photos […]
A few hours ago, EXIT TUNES announced their own VOCALOID character, MAYU, during one of their EXIT TUNES ACADEMY live events. The official Twitter account for the event also linked to the official homepage, which currently only has a character image as well as usage guidelines and a link to the official Twitter account (@exittunesstaff). […]
During the last Tokyo Wonder Festival, we caught a glimpse of the upcoming Gakupo Nendoroid. It was only a prototype model, and was left unpainted. A few days ago, a painted version of the Nendoroid was on display at Nico Super-con (commonly known as Chokaigi). Read on to have a look!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
A few days ago, Good Smile Company posted a 30-second commercial highlighting a photo collage composed of images everyone took for their “Cheerful JAPAN!” campaign wherein they donated money to disaster relief for each photograph of GSC figures people sent in. The video started off with a picture of the standard Hatsune Miku design and […]
It’s been a week already? Well I guess its time for another Vocaloid ranking, and this week includes well-known Ps such as Junky and OrebananaP!
Tda has announced on his blog on the 2nd anniversary of the release of Miku Append that his MikuMikuDance model of the character is complete for the time being and is available for free via download. In his post, he thanked the various people who gave him feedback and created videos/images with his model for […]
Re:VB, creator of AniMiku, posted on VocaloidOtaku, asking for help from fellow animators, especially ones who have worked with MikuMikuDance before. He is looking for people who can choreograph songs, implement said choreography in MMD and also fine-tune and improve currently done animations so that they are fluid and realistic for “a huge project” for […]
This past Saturday, NHK WORLD RADIO JAPAN ran a twenty minute English segment on Hatsune Miku as part of their Japanese Pop Culture Magazine series of programs. This program, like others, are broadcast over the airwaves, and they are relayed by stations outside of Japan as well. Furthermore, recent broadcasts can also be streamed from […]
At Nico Nico Chokaigi 2012‘s “VOCALOID NEWS” event, representatives of i-style Project announced the name メルリ(merli) as the winner of the naming contest for Aoki Lapis’s elder sister. They will be auditioning for someone to voice the new sound bank soon. YAMAHA also promoted its VOCALOID3 music contest and revealed that the mystery VOCALOID3 sound […]
Sorry for being really late this week… PSO2 Beta got the better of me and caused me to almost forget about this D: but here is this weeks ranking!
A new entry on the SEGA Miku blog has revealed that BluRays of the two concerts will be available starting on August 29, 2012. A BluRay for either concert comes in at 6300 JPY (tax included) whereas a DVD would be 5250 JPY (tax included). A 4-CD set of the concert music will also be […]
CreCrew, run by SBSArtech, is hosting a design contest for SeeU goods. You must use either SeeU’s logo, her original design, her SD character, and CreCrew’s mascot which will should all be available in SeeU’s official website shortly. The original image can be seen below along with the rules and the logo, original design, SD […]
Seven Stone Studio announced a few days ago on its website that its third animation project will be titled “VOCALOID CHINA PROJECT” and posted a teaser design as well where Luo Tianyi is singing vocals and the other characters are playing backing instrumentals. A promotional video is expected to air on May 15 at Shanghai’s […]
SEGA has now announced the release date and pricing for the PlayStation Vita version of their upcoming game in the Project DIVA series, NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA. The game will be available on August 30, 2012 at a price point of 7329 JPY (tax included) for the PlayStation Vita Card version and 6600 JPY […]
At its professional event for promoting Windows 8, Microsoft screened an opening video produced by MASATAKA and ELECTROCUTICA (Treow) called “Through the Window”. The video, which ran during Windows Developer Days‘ second day keynote session (“A new ecosystem for the smart devices era, created using Windows 8 and the cloud”), features “8” and the character […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
VOCALOID3 voice banks IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES-, Aoki Lapis and Yuzuki Yukari are now eligible for the VOCALOID3 Release Commemoration Contest. Users of Aoki Lapis will be eligible for a chance to win the i-style Project prize, which is an Aoki Lapis silver ring and Cubase. Furthermore, a few more prizes have been added […]
A new post on the PIAPRO blog points to an illustration contest they are holding with convenience store chain FamilyMart to celebrate 5 years of Hatsune Miku. This appears to be part of an ongoing collaboration between FamilyMart and Miku. The contest consists of two categories — A) an illustration depicting Miku’s birthday, and B) […]
MASATAKA, creator of many MikuMikuDance PVs for VOCALOID songs, has
Re:VB, creator of MikuMikuDance-compatible real-time rendering software AniMiku, held a VOCALOID performance yesterday at Rochester Institute of Technology’s anime convention Tora-Con. Previously, this software was also used by Vocalekt Visions for their performances in California and the Miku-UK team plans on using this as well. Due to unexpectedly large turnout, the performance ran twice in […]
According to a thread on Facebook, a documentary project about Hatsune Miku is looking to interview attendees of Mikunopolis, the VOCALOID concert at Anime Expo last year. People who only watched the stream on Nico Nico are welcome as well. The project, a documentary exploring various aspects of the “Hatsune Miku Experience”, is headed by […]
Welcome to another week of the Vocaloid Ranking!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
At the bottom of the official page for NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA (working title), there is also a link to a survey and raffle in celebration of the Project DIVA series having moved over 1 million units. A commemorative pin badge will be given to 390 winners randomly drawn from everyone who properly filled […]
Masa, organiser behind the annual Mirai no Neiro panels at Anime Expo, has now announced two guests they will be bringing to Anime Expo this year — DeadballP (known for his borderline outrageous lyrics) and Dixie Flatline (famous for the Megurine Luka song Just Be Friends). For each year since 2009, the Mirai no Neiro […]
Being right on time, SEGA has now updated their website for NEXT HATSUNE MIKU Project DIVA (working title) for the 1:00PM April 12 scheduled unveiling. The latest addition to the Project DIVA series will feature both a PlayStation Vita release projected for summer of 2012 and a PlayStation3 release projected for 2013. The Vita release […]
HearJapan, a Japanese digital music distribution platform, is holding a contest to give sasakure.UK’s Miku song “The Trash-Heap Princess and Apostrophe” an official English translation. Translation entries, including the full name of the submitter and HearJapan account handle, are to be submitted via email by May 11th. While all entrants will receive 200 JPY in […]
Welcome to another week of the Vocaloid Ranking! This week, there aren’t a lot of new songs, but there is a certain P that takes up most of the rankings. Check it out below.
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~! And this week is super-sized, just for Teto~
Late February, SEGA, PIAPRO and Coca Cola launched an illustration contest. Entries were to feature Hatsune Miku and Coca-Cola, with the theme being “a refreshing red that matches the image of Coca-Cola”. The grand prize was a Playstation Vita with 3G, a special card for Project DIVA Arcade and a year’s supply of Coca Cola. […]
According to a tweet from the @miku_flick Twitter account, SEGA’s flick-input iOS rhythm game featuring pre-rendered animations from Project DIVA is now available worldwide and has now an English interface as well. The game can currently be purchased from the US iTunes App Store for $13.99. A few things were updated with this new version, […]
In addition to giving a more detailed description of the world Aoki Lapis comes from, i-style Project has also announced that they are working on their next character, Aoki Lapis’s older sister. Furthermore, since her name hasn’t been decided yet, they are looking for ideas for her name, submitted through Twitter. In order to participate, […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
I bet you that most of you already know who will be in the top 3, but check out all of them on this weeks Vocaloid Ranking!
Music Girl Hatsune Miku is a new iOS app created as a joint project between Crypton Future Media, SEGA, MARZA ANIMATION PLANET (which created many of the 3D CG for SEGA’s games, including Project DIVA) and iOS development firm W Rock Games. A teaser video on YouTube tells the user to enjoy listening to music […]
Today marks an important day for all UTAU fans, as today we celebrate Teto’s birthday! Four years ago, a few members from 2ch (a popular Japanese imageboard) created Kasane Teto as an April Fools’ joke. She had a lot of hype behind her, as many believed her to be a genuine Vocaloid. Eventually, Teto became […]
This week we have alot of well-known Ps with new songs, and finally an Aoki Lapis song that made it to the top 30! Check it all out this week on the Vocaloid Ranking!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
The music contest commemorating the release of VOCALOID3 has now had its deadline extended from March 31, 2012 to June 30, 2012. The contest involves submitting a song made using one of the eligible VOCALOID3 sound banks to Nico Nico Douga before the deadline and tagging the video with a specific tag and locking it. […]
Yes, the time has finally come that the Chinese Vocaloid’s design is revealed that was promised little under a month ago at February. The delay, I can say, was well worth the wait, not only did we get Tianyi but also a few friends and stories to go with them. We also found out the […]
Part three is live!
At interaction 2012, a symposium focused on novel interaction techniques organized by the Information Processing Society of Japan, junior employees at YAMAHA demonstrated a keyboard that allowed real-time synthesized vocal performance using the VOCALOID engine. The interactive demonstration received one of the five interactive paper awards at the symposium and a video describing this keyboard […]
Here’s this week’s UTARan; the next SP will be up as soon as it is uploaded, but until then enjoy a whole new load of songs this week.
I’m actually somewhat on time? What is this madness. THIS IS THE WEEKLY VOCALOID RANKING.
FM 139.7, an online magazine about “East-Asian Pop Culture” that primarily focuses on Japan apparently published their first issue of their VOCALOID-centric online magazine, VocaloLight. The first issue, laid out in full color with various VOCALOID illustrations (from official art or art posted on PIAPRO), presents several articles, including an overview of the new VOCALOID3 […]
The two day back-to-back Vocaloid concert set that occurred on 3/8 and 3/9 respectively have been viewed by tens of thousands. It’s time for someone from Vocaloidism to highlight what we’ve seen, and to weigh the impact. Have a look after the break.
This week on the Vocaran, we have a bunch of new songs, including an arrange of a famous 40mP song by Dixie Flatline! Check it all out below.
I seem to be spitting out these UTARans lately, don’t I?
Today we learned that Suzune Ring, one of the new Vocaloids from VocaNext received two new original demos in Nico Video. Suzune Ring is the Vocaloid from “Everyone’s Vocaloid Project” and her provider is MiKA who is going to make her debut as a solo signer in Daisy x Daisy. Both of the demos are […]
The second part of this year’s UTARan SP is live; are you ready?
On March 9, Google and Crypton Future Media unveiled their latest collaborative project, which is intended to further develop and expand the creative movement behind Hatsune Miku, as portrayed by the line “Everyone, Creator” at the end of the Google Chrome video. The Google+ page is available in both Japanese and English. To kick off […]
The iOS rhythm game Miku Flick is now available for purchase on the Japanese App Store for 1200 JPY. Unfortunately it’s not available on other App Stores, but an English version is coming soon. Fortunately, there are onscreen hints for which button to flick which way so that no Japanese knowledge is really required, and […]
The first video of this year’s UTARan SP has been uploaded. Let’s get right to it!
This week we have a bunch of interesting songs including some from someone that hasn’t been active in a very long time! There are also some songs from famous P’s that you will recognize from the first note. As a little reminder, this Sunday will be the first anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
Lily has received two new demos that have been uploaded on Nico Nico Douga showing her beta VOCALOID3 voicebank. The songs are the same ones from Vocafarre. Follow us after the break for the videos!
Lots of things have been happening in the Vocaloid world lately, two new voicebanks have been confirmed for existing Vocaloids.
Unveiled during an AH-Software broadcast on Ustream, VOCALOMAKETS has now added two online flash applications for making short snippets of songs with the Yuzuki Yukari voice bank to their website: YuyuSequencer Plus and YuyuSequencer. Finished songs can be shared via Twitter, Facebook or mixi and they are transferred via a plain text format called “YuyuSeq […]
As of this writing, Hatsune Miku has now reached 393939 likes on her Facebook page. In celebration, she is running a raffle in which 39 lucky fans will win merchandise. The official page for this contest allows anyone to enter by emailing MIKUBOOK with the correct subject, name, address and a message for Miku. People […]
From March 1 through March 9 (Miku day), Crypton’s social networking site MIKUBOOK is holding a puzzle contest called Mikutery World, a pun on “mystery” and “Miku”. To participate, one must login to MIKUBOOK with either a Twitter or Facebook account. There are a total of three parts to the puzzle challenge, with people who […]
According to a new website, SEGA and Crypton Future Media are planning to release a rhythm game called Miku Flick for iOS featuring Hatsune Miku. In this game, hiragana characters scroll horizontally across the screen in time with the lyrics and the player has to input these kana using what is known as “flick input”. […]
Miku is back up at the half way count, but that doesn’t mean that GUMI and IA aren’t in this ranking. Niki is back with another Lily Vocarock song, as well as millstones and an IA song. Topping off this week is another famous P that you just have to check out!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
The VOCALOID news blog Hatsune Miku Miku brings up an interesting collection of tweets made this month from @vocaloid_cv_cfm about projects currently in planning. Of note are hints at a VOCALOID3 KAITO that supports both Japanese and English, as well as multiple female English soundbanks being in production.
In collaboration with the Coca-Cola company, SEGA and PIAPRO are running a contest for original poster illustrations that feature Hatsune Miku in a “refreshing red that matches the image of Coca-Cola.” The grand prize winner will receive a special Project DIVA Arcade IC card, a PlayStation Vita 3G/WiFi Crystal Black model with one game and […]
For those who were unable to visit San Francisco for Anime on Demand 2012’s VOCALOID event, footage of essentially the entire event has been uploaded to YouTube. The event consisted of performances by cosplay dance group WVD01 (World Vocaloid Dance 01) and a concert of VOCALOID songs from Vocalekt Visions. WVD01, of which the winner […]
YAMAHA has just released an update to their VOCALOID3 Editor software, with some user interface improvements. Notably, keyboard shortcuts have been added for note placement and selection, and the ability to export tracks to their own separate sound files has also been added. The Alt key can now be used to bypass quantization settings, and […]
んふんふんふ んふんふんふ んふ～！ (Translation: Not a lot of new songs this week either, and once again Miku isn’t dominating the ranking. Check out this weeks Vocaran!)
Crypton’s CEO, Itoh Hiroyuki, tweeted yesterday that he had the pleasure of meeting with Chinese children’s literature author Zheng Yuanjie. He received a copy of his book as well as a note addressed to Miku asking her to come perform in China for her fans. Zheng Yuanjie is a prolific and well-to-do author in China, […]
Six years guys, six years! That’s how long our beloved male Vocaloid Kaito (affectionately called niisan by fans) has been amongst us for. I wonder what kind of birthday shenanigans him and his fans have been up to this year. Let’s all follow me after the break and find out, shall we?
As part of the on-going collaboration between Crypton Future Media and Romania-based world-oriented cosplay magazine Cosplay Gen, Crypton’s social networking site Mikubook is now currently taking votes on cosplay photographs submitted by fans last month. Each cosplayer was allowed to submit one photograph of himself or herself in order to enter the competition. Voting simply […]
Aoki Lapis, i-style Project’s VOCALOID3 sound bank, has now received a release date of April 6, 2012. The software package will come in at 12,800 JPY for the standard Limited Edition version, 14,800 JPY for the Deluxe Edition and 19,800 JPY for the starter pack. Meanwhile, INTERNET Co., Ltd. has announced a March 16, 2012 […]
Although SeeU currently only has a Japanese and Korean voicebank, it seems as though she may be receiving an English voicebank in the future. Recently, a fan decided to message SBS about the possibility of an English voicebank. SBS Artech replied, saying that they originally planned to make an English voicebank for SeeU. Due to […]
The Tokyo Wonder Festival (commonly known as “Wonfes”) is an event held twice a year, which features garage kits and upcoming figures. During the last Wonfes, Good Smile Company and HOBBY STOCK let us have a peek at some upcoming Vocaloid figures. Read on for information and pictures!
Happy Valentines day to everyone! Whether you receive chocolate, give out chocolate, or just buy chocolate the day after for the sales, Valentines day is still about chocolate! ( and maybe flowers too) However, this week on the Vocaloid Ranking, there aren’t many new songs, presumably due to the 8th MMD Cup finals which you […]
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone~!
With the recent popularity of Vocaloid concerts throughout the world, Re:VB of AniMiku and Vocalekt Visions are collaborating to produce a mini Vocaloid Concert at Animation on Display 2012 on February 18th 2012 in San Francisco, CA. Opening the show will be a Vocaloid Cosplay dance group called World Vocaloid Dance 01 (WVD01), which includes […]
A bunch of new Miku songs this week including a few GUMI and IA songs that made it pretty high! Check it out on this weeks edition of the Vocaloid Ranking!
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
4 years already since Utane Uta, the first UTAUloid, made her first appearance; this year too, her fans have prepared special projects to celebrate her birthday!
Recently, YouTube videos with popular Vocaloid songs, either re-uploaded from NicoNicoDouga or fansubbed, have been taken down via YouTube’s Copyright Infringement Notification system. As a result, uploaders with many songs that were taken down have had their accounts closed by YouTube’s three-strikes system that was designed to discourage repeat offenders. However, many people have raised […]
Sorry for the late writeup; things got hectic recently and this article kind of slipped through the cracks. In either case, we’d like to wish a belated happy birthday to Megurine Luka! (We’d sing, but then we’d get sued for copyright infringement… Oh, and you probably don’t want to hear us sing :))
A few weeks ago, Yamaha released an update for Vocaloid 3. This information is probably not relevant to you if you do not own Vocaloid, but by all means read on if you’re interested!
With the recent release of Vocaloid 3 IA, we can start to see many new songs using IA, and famous P’s like PeperonP with his distinct tuning creating great works! There are also many other songs in the 31 and up, however if you want a full list, head on over to VocaloidIA.com and click […]
OSTER-project, best known for her songs such as “Koisuru VOC@LOID” and “Miracle Paint”, has recently released a new album called “The Best of OSTER.” This album includes some of OSTER’s most famous songs, but the most exciting part is that we get to hear Meiko Append. Read on for more!
This week’s OP image makes my head spin. Fun!
【初音ミク】 Tell Your World フルPV をつくってみた A fan-made music video for Tell Your World has just been uploaded a few hours ago to Nico Nico Douga. This video essentially extends the original Google Chrome commercial by adding in lots of new material including videos from all over the world, MMD choreography and even footage from […]
In time with the release of the magazine “Gekkayo VOCALOID fan Vol. 4” (a magazine/book hybrid, i.e. “mook”, containing tutorial, interviews, sheet music and other info), a collection of “raw” VOCALOID3 audio from a plethora of sound banks have been uploaded to Nico Nico Douga as well. These are all of the same short song […]
Yesterday, SEGA released a new trailer for the upcoming 3DS game Project Mirai. Click through to see the video!
【ニコニコ動画】VOCALOID3メグッポイド（ノーマル） β 再調整版 Noboru Murakami from INTERNET Co., Ltd., makers of Megpoid, has tweeted a link to a song clip uploaded on Nico Nico Douga of an in-development beta version of VOCALOID3 Megpoid Native (tentative title) singing Megumi Nakajima’s Be MYSELF. This sound bank is a revamp of the original VOCALOID2 soundbank and the same song […]
Good Smile Company is looking for user photos of their VOCALOID figures in order to stitch together a giant mosaic art piece for Wonder Festival. More specifically, they would like people to submit a photograph containing figure(s) made by Good Smile Company based on Crypton Future Media’s line up of VOCALOID characters. Each photo submitted […]
After uploading banner images which can be used freely on websites as long as there’s no aim at financial gain, 1st PLACE has now posted usage guidelines concerning IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES-, both for the character herself and for songs created using the soundbank. The guidelines are divided into two categories — one for […]
After hitting number one on the Japan iTunes Store singles charts and doing appreciably well on the US iTunes Store’s Electronic chart, livetune’s Tell Your World is now available on wasabeat, a dance music download store from Japan that caters to a world-wide audience for those who can’t or don’t want to buy from the […]
Too stressed out to give any comments, but heres the Vocaran.
Yayin Gongyu will soon be joining the rest of the Vocaloid family! Gongyu will be the first Chinese Vocaloid, and is scheduled to be released on the 12th of June, 2012. Although the Vocaloid was originally going to be revealed in February, she was announced earlier, in time for a conference about Vocaloids being held […]
Why yes, I do like creepy and odd pictures, why do you ask?
For those not lucky enough to be able to make it to Japan and fight fanatic otaku throngs for tickets (half of the battle involving chance due to the lottery system for ticket preorders) to this March’s set of VOCALOID concerts organized by SEGA, the evening set of concerts (MikuPa on the 8th and Final […]
This week we have many new songs including an excellent use of GUMI Whisper, Heavenz with another great song, niki with his famous Lily rock, and many others! Read on ahead to find out!
A user-made poll on the website TheTopTens asked visitors to the site which singer(s) they would like to see perform at the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics in London. Even though this was just an unofficial poll, it has received a lot of traffic, and was originally dominated by K-Pop groups on top along […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
Busy time of the year for Zero-G Engloids, as three of them are having their birthdays only one day apart. Join us to celebrate Prima, LEON and LOLA’s birthday!
The IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES- webpage has been updated with three uploads — the full Tori no Uta and short samples of ShizenNoTekiP’s Headphone Actor and nekobolo’s Liar (a new song) produced with the finalized version of the voice bank. According to the official Twitter account, new uploads will happen once a day until […]
A blog post on the official SEGA website has revealed that DECO*27’s song Yume Yume will be the opening theme song for the upcoming Nendoroid-themed Nintendo 3DS game Hatsune Miku and Future Stars Project mirai. Furthermore, Aku no Meshitsukai (Servant of Evil) will also be added to the official song list. The blog post also […]
PIAPRO and the development team for SEGA’s upcoming Project MMT (provisional title) game are holding a new contest to solicit artwork to be included in the game. Winners, in addition to having their art included, will also receive prizes from SEGA as well. Artwork must be uploaded on PIAPRO with specific locked tags before the […]
An album containing the full version of kz’s song Tell Your World (featured in the Google Chrome Japan ad video on YouTube) is going to be released in Japan on March 14. The album will come with a total of 8 songs, including Far Away (from Project DIVA), Star Story (from Project DIVA) and Fly […]
First Vocaran of the new year!(and its on time orz…) Not a whole bunch of new songs this week, but you do get great songs with Papiyon x 164, Orebanana with another Kagamine cover, Marasy with a new song, or the #1 spot with Mitchie M. It’s a bit slow in the beginning, but the […]
The final Vocaran of 2011 is here! (It includes a bit of 1/1/2012 but they don’t show up in the top 30) Doriko’s song hits the number one spot due to being released on a Sunday the previous week and not getting enough time to make it up there, Orebanana is also back with another […]
Riding atop a new computer with a faster, better wireless connection, redemption2 returns with a mission, to bring everyone their Vocaran fix! This one up, #221! As if to make up for last week’s lack of new content, we have a distinct lack of old content.
The picture site Nico Nico Seiga is hosting a contest to find the design for Weatheroid, a female forecaster for the weathernews site. Much like the Vocaloids we know and love, this character will consist of voice data provided by WN reporter Airi Yamagishi. The winning design will be used for the character’s launch date […]
Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!
If you like Snow Miku and Hello Kitty and will be in the Japanese island of Hokkaido during the Sapporo Snow Festival (or thereabouts, a release date has not been given) then you can pick up some nifty character goods. Sanrio and Crypton Future Media have joined up to combine their two powerhouse characters into […]
Happy New Year everyone~!
A video detailing the “harsh realities” of VOCALOID videos on Nico Nico Douga had been uploaded recently. In it, the video draws on statistics collected about VOCALOID tagged videos that were uploaded between July 1 and December 15 of last year and highlights some conclusions, such as the fact that less than five percent of […]
