Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #95

【ニコニコ動画】週刊VOCALOIDランキング #95 Another week, another review of WVR… Funny, it seems like only yesterday (looks at article below). Last week we saw GUMI going the way of her “brother,” Gakupo and many other Vocaloids who are not named Miku, Rin/Len or Luka. Seems like she’s destined to play second fiddle, which is very unfortunate (since I
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Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #94

【ニコニコ動画】週刊VOCALOIDランキング #94 Ahh… it is good to be back, after all. Well, as I promised, here I am reviewing the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking (which will henceforth be abbreviated to WVR) for the English Vocaloid community at large. The link above leads directly to the NND upload of said ranking and is for registered NND members only,
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Vocaloid Sonika released to the West

The Vocaloid community likes to prank us every now and then, so when the latest Weekly Vocaloid Ranking mentioned the arrival of Sonika, I was skeptical.  I mean, look at that box art.  It honestly, looks like an avatar for IMVU or something and uploaded to a deviantArt account, and I’m not just saying that
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A Look at Gumi’s Initial Impact

So it’s been a couple weeks since Megpoid has been released to eager music-makers everywhere, and now that Ms. Nakajima can sit back and start collecting her checks (I’m only speculating, though), now’s a good time to take a look and see how Gumi has fared in the early goings. (Note: For sake of consistency,
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MMD Version 5.01 Released!

MMD Version 5.01 has been released, stronger than the version 4, changes from the last version would be added model and more detailed work and you can view the list below, the download link for it would be here. (If the link doesn’t seem to be working then you can just go to the VPVP
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[MMD] Vocaloid K-ON Opening Version

A video has emerged some time ago on Nico Nico Douga, featuring Vocaloid family such as: Miku (Yui), Rin (Ritsu), Meiko (Mugi), and somewhat fitting Neru as Mio. 【ニコニコ動画】【MikuMikuDance】けいおん!OP再現 And here’s the YouTube video just in case some of you are unable to access Nico Nico Douga. I left the omake part to the patient
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Welcome, Gumi!

Well, this post is Vocaloidism’s big fat welcome to Megpoid, whose software has already hit the streets of Japan on June 26th. This is SSW’s Internet software company’s 2nd venture into the virtual idol business–their first featuring the ubiquitous J-rocker Gackt. To know more about Gumi’s voice actress just continue reading after the break.