Sunday, December 6, 2009

Hatsune Miku and Vocaloids Love

My sinful addiction for months... I am poisoned by them to the extent whenever I am free i will listen to their music, damn! LOL^^


Hatsune Miku 初音ミク

First voice (初音) of the future (ミク or 未来, which is supposedly to be pronounced as mirai)
Her series number 01 is embroided (or tattooed? LOL) on her upper left arm.
Her primary colour is cyan, which many mistaken for light blue. When she is placed alongside Kaito, she will become light green XD
Her identity item is the leek, some kind of onion in which she can eat it raw (LOL).

My first favourite song from her that made me drown into the Vocaloid world: World is Mine


The brown hair fella in the video is the "Master" or the vocaloid user. This is created in the way that all vocaloids falls in love with their Master who happens to be the opposite sex. But later the pairing of Hatsune Miku and Shion Kaito is getting more popular than the pairing with their respective masters^^

Fanmade image of her that is one of my many favourites.

Her recent new song that instantly becomes my favourite upon first hearing: Lovergazer (ラヴゲイザー) I Love the image in the PV! *Another one: I love this song so much that I request my bro to do a mandarin translation and I do the English translation*


World is Mine
kyaaaaaaaaaaa


Shion Kaito or カイト(Kaito) or 始音海人

海人 means people of the sea, that is why his primary outfit and colour is blue :-)
始音or Shion means the earliest voice.
Therefore other vocaloids refer him as the Big Brother お兄さん(oniisan)^^
His identity item is the blue shawl and Häagen-Dazs ice cream^^
His supposed-number should be 00, after the introduction of Miku as 01.

Kaito with his ice-cream, uber cute!

I love him as his reply to Miku's World is Mine is very popular^^ They often portray him as a perv (T_T) but I like him no matter what^^
My best favourite version of Kaito's World is Mine (which somewhat tarnish his image) is at the below. Second best is this one which is featured in the PSP game where Miku reached a certain level and Kaito's version of the song is unlocked, and dance and sing to Miku's style, which makes him look gay in it^^).


Sakine Meiko 咲音メイコ
Sakine 咲音 is blooming or preceding sound, as early as or earlier than Kaito (in my opinion Kaito is earlier because of the word which means earliest or ancient). I cannot find kanji for Meiko because it can have many kanji in Japanese.
Meiko is considered as sibling or sister (it is not clear either younger or older) to Kaito as they are released at the same period as first generation Vocaloid.
This is a fanmade picture that embroided 00 on her left arm.

She is portrayed as a sexy (in some PVs Miku is ridiculed because she is a flat chest as compared to Meiko) and mature female singer and her voice range is the widest among all vocaloids therefore she can sing any music genre. Her output is very much depends on the ability of song writer to produce a good song.
Her identity item is tomato and stand-mic.

Some of her songs like Crimson, Colour, Sad Song, are good but without a good or animated PV. Her famous duet with Kaito is 番凩, a very strong Japanese traditional culture-song. Another favourite from her would be a "younger version Meiko" singing Honey, an original song "Honey Honey" by Taiwan singer Cindy Wang.
This is her Piano x Forte x Scandal:



Kagamine Rin (left) and Len (right) 鏡音リン・レン

Many regards them as twin but they are actually mirrorred images and this topic is still highly debated. Their vocaloid software is in one pack and sold together. Rin means left and Len means right.
Their borrowed human voice (seiyu) is 下田 麻美 Shimoda Asami.
Their identity item is roadroller and banana (this gives perverts-song-writers lots of reasons to write perv songs and whatnot) and individually Rin is mic and yellow onion 玉葱 (symbol as to she is the younger sister to miku who is represented by bigger onion which is green in colour) and Len is guitar-style-handled keyboard.

Mirrored image Kagamine 鏡音.
鏡音 means mirrored voice. Some fans us this to argue therefore they are not twins and hence are permissible to be portrayed as lovers/couple.
Their series number tattoo are both 02.


My top favourite of Kagamine Rin's song: Meltdown (The melting of a jealousy heart)


My top favourite of Kagamine Len's song: SPICE (where he posed as a womanizer who sees his twin sister as a woman but trying to flirt around in order to forget her; but upon realising his twin sister has a lover he cannot control himself and raped her and feel guilty in the end. I hate the incest element but oh well the author of the PV is my favourite author who also made Megurine Luka's Just be Friends T_T)



巡音ルカ Megurine Luka

Also known as 巡音流歌 or 巡音流香, which means lingering scent or song that circulates around (the world). Her seiyu voice sample is 浅川 悠 Asakawa Yū to create a "moody but husky female voice".
She is the only Vocaloid who can sing English songs. If you input English songs to other Vocaloids, they will sing funny English^^
Her identity item is Tuna, her favourite food. She can eat them raw too (it is normal in Japan? -_-").
Her series number is 03.

Top recommendation that is well-received within overseas community: Just Be Friends.



Gackpoid がくっぽいどor 神威がくぽ Kamui Gakupo

He is the only one I introduced here who comes from a different production company but is very popular among the first 2 generations of vocaloid users. Other vocaloids above are produced by Crypton under YAMAHA while Gackupo is by INTERNET Co. Ltd.
His voice is borrowed from a famous talented singer, Gackt, whose stage name is Kamui Gakuto 神威 楽斗 LOL!
His identity item is brinjal -_-"
I don't know if he has a series number (LOL).

Sadly, I am yet to have a favourite song from him because his voice reminds me too much of the real person, so my only favourite song featuring him in a duet with Luka, where they are portaryed as having a crush to each other but whenever Gakupo wants to know more about Luka, Luka tells him "Go Google It".
As a result, a hilarious "Go google it" (ググれカス-GGRKS-)song:


Gumi Megpoid, a Vocaloid I didn't notice until very recently -_-"
She is very "foreign" in appearance so I suppose she is not very Japanese... hence only romanized Japanese name for her official name Megpoid: メグッポイド


Like Kamui, her voice is sampled from famous singer/seiyu who voiced one of the Macross main heroine. Therefore Gumi's design is inspired from that character as well. Her character item is carrot


3D version of Vocaloid family from a PSP game Project Diva Hatsune Miku.
There are some songs sang by the "Vocaloid family", such as Little Mermaid, in which Miku and Luka are lead singers.




Fujita Saki 藤田咲 Miku's seiyu

Fujita and Kaganami Rin Len's Seiyu appeared in an interview.

【Miku特集01s】Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, the worlds virtual diva:


【Miku特集02】作曲家・ 津久井箇人さんインタビュー:


【Miku特集03】映像作家・Tripshots~「Nebula」


Links for their discography:
  1. Hatsune Miku (VOCALOID2-Crypton-YAMAHA)
  2. Meiko (VOCALOID)
  3. Kaito (VOCALOID)
  4. Kagamine Rin/Len (VOCALOID2)
  5. Megurine Luka (VOCALOID2)
  6. Kamui Gakupo (VOCALOID2-International Co.)
  7. Gumi Megpoid (VOCALOID2-International Co.)
  8. Others: Miki, Yuki, Vocaloid teacher Sensei Hiyama (VOCALOID2-AH Software)


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