In recent Vocaloid news, a P known as matt9five appeared on the Vocaran with the song “Circus Monster,” shown below. This was quite a surprise and an achievement to the English-speaking Vocaloid community. I recently had the pleasure to sit down and message matt9five, who prefers to be called DoofusP. DoofusP has been a Vocaloid
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Ever since Kagamine Rin and Len were officially born back on December 27th 2007 we have been hearing lots of great songs from them thanks to the many talented producers around, and this year of 2010 is no exception. What’s better still is that Append Rin and Len will also be released today, which makes
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The SP5 Part 2 is here! How will the Vocaloid movement evolve in the future? Do we still need Miku? But more importantly, are the P’s more popular with girls thanks to Vocaloid? Find out the answers to all these questions, and more, in this Questionnaire Special! 【ニコニコ動画】VOCALOIDランキングSP5 第2部 アンケートスペシャル
In today’s installment, we look at an old Japanese music tradition: enka. The pithy explanation is that it’s the Japanese equivalent of an American country-western song, but instead of beer, trucks, dogs, and break-ups, there’s sake, sakura, nostalgia, and break-ups. Of course, that’s only a small fraction of the story. Wikipedia has a decent-length entry
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FRIENDS AND COMRADES! It was a glorious week for Vocaloid CD sales! Oricon states that Vocalogensis was the top album CD sole on the May 17th – 23rd week! Selling 23,000 copies it became the first Vocaloid CD to top the weekly Oricon rankings! The album had the best of the best in recent Vocaloid
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Ah yes, it’s been four years since Kaito was officially released back on 17th February 2006 by Crypton. The staff here at Vocaloidism are glad to be celebrating Kaito’s birthday so just hop right in for some of the memorable and birthday songs as well as images created especially for his birthday~
What do you think about the new MyList modifier?(polls) As we mentioned in our latest WVR entry, the VocaRan scoring is new for 2010. It complicates things to the point where tallying a score is now just as complex as judging Olympic gymnastics, but it’s for the better, right? Well, we don’t know yet. We
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Yes, it’s been two years since Rin and Len were officially released back in 2007. By now I am sure there would be more good Kagamine songs on your minds ever since Rin and Len celebrated their first birthday a year ago. This date holds great importance to me as I first became a Vocaloid
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Welcome to what I hope will be another regular feature here on Vocaloidism, especially since this category seems so very unused. D: Every Saturday (blog local time), we’ll highlight some fun Vocaloid goodness and whatever I or whoever ends up writing this feels is noteworthy. What are you waiting for? Come on in and have
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NOTE: The following contains comments that are based on the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Vocaloidism or its staff. “Roshin Yuukai,” literally “nuclear fusion”, but more commonly referred to by it’s English subtitle of “Meltdown,” has been taken off of Nico Nico Douga. To non-Japanese speakers like myself,
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