Chop’s Vocaloid Blog

main: @theniochopchomp || Here to comment on VOCALOID adjacent acitivity I hear about, etc.

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Intro post!

I’m Chop, and this is my VOCALOID-adjacent blog! I’m here to comment on my personal favorite songs/producers as well as try new songs/albums to review!

Each week, I will post a different song and gather up the news/new songs I hear from around Tumblr. I’ll also give producer/song recommendations in the meantime, so stay tuned!

I also will be sharing my progress on how I’m doing with my own producer work despite not having any originals out yet (I’m actively working on it)!

Thank you for reading!

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In orderly fashion— the sixth album in the challenge…

Hateful Star - Rusino

Note: This review only covers the digital album setlist.

TRACKLIST:

1. Antimemetic Girl

2. Kyoka Suigetsu

3. Funny Woods Dream Park

4. Debug Drug

5. Vivid Violence

6. Hatena

7. im-re

8. Rainy Mind

9. Happy Bunny

10. Nitro Sick

11. Be Vicious

12. Quench March

13. Seventeen

14. forget-you-not

15. Hateful Star

All tracks featuring Hatsune Miku.

[No gifs of this album unfortunately…]

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Welcome to the mind of Rusino, followers. The standouts for this whimsical and weird (/pos) album include…

Antimemetic Girl, encompassing the idea that Miku wants attention, the only thing keeping her going. Funny Woods Dream Park, the whimsy and slightly mysterious land we received. Debug Drug (which features Kasane Teto in the single version), comparing the horrors of life to a game you can’t win. And Rainy Mind, which went straight to the rain playlist.

Also, this proves Rusino is more than just “kuru kuru kuru kuru kurikaesu”.

Overall, this is pure joy and whimsy. Very classy, very cool. They totally should keep making music!

(7/10)

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Album challenge number five!!!

MACHINA MORI - Various artists

Tracklist:

SIDE ONE: MECHANICAL

1. FUROR_MACHINAE (HYPNOPOSSUM)

2. SMILE_OF_ABSOLUTE_DERANGEMENT (electrovoid)

3. VISIONS (keyesgen)

4. Glass Girl (Eggtan)

5. Absence of Light (beat_shobon)

6. 0NE (Staircatte)

7. EDEN 4164616D (Dav-P, Daybreak)

8. INTERLUDE (Maiku Tachibana, 0TS)

SIDE 2: MORTAL

9. The Ruminations of Adachi Rei (Maiku Tachibana)

10. 8 Billion Shapeshifters (Vuvuzela)

11. World End Credits (Mage-P)

12. Positive Result (0TS)

13. Atomize (WitchesWithGlitches)

14. Dance Delightful (Jamie Paige)

15. Wireframe (TOKiMADE)

SIDE 3: EX

16. GIMMICK GIRL (MonochroMenace)

[THERE ARE NO GIFS OF ANY OF ITS SONGS]

A lot of the artists who participated on this wonderful album are here on Tumblr! Be sure to support them!

Let’s start by highlighting the standouts from this album, with every track (except for INTERLUDE, which is instrumental) featuring Rei Adachi on lead vocals!

(For those who need context, Rei Adachi is an UTAU (now a VOCALOID as well) voice bank made by missle39 as a fully synthesized voicebank similar to Defoko/Uta Utane!)

First of all, the album kicks off with Hypnopossum’s FUROR_MACHINAE and Electrovoid’s SMILE_OF_ABSOLUTE_DERANGEMENT! Both deliver stunning electrobeats and have fun twists on the sentient artificial intelligence!

VISIONS by keyesgen is a story of the chronically online through the lens of the machine, executed very well!

Glass Girl by Eggtan and Absence of Light by beat_shobon take a robot’s form of love in two opposite directions, one being the spark of it, the other the incapability thereof. Both extremely good songs!

0NE by Staircatte might be my favorite song on the A-side, with an electropop song’s vibes and the mindset of a killer tool (figuratively and literally)!

EDEN 4164616D by Dav-P and lyrics by Daybreak execute a command of the heaven-sent with visuals of an angelic Rei and existential lyrics!

INTERLUDE (Maiku Tachibana/0TS) and The Ruminations of Adachi Rei (Maiku Tachibana) fit so well despite them being the closers/openers of their respective sides! Tachibana’s second track is in Japanese!

8 Billion Shapeshifters by Vuvuzela throws some J-rock into the mix of everything here! It doesn’t seem to have a trustworthy English translation, however…

World End Credits by Mage-P is what’s going on my Armageddon playlist, maybe the whole album to be fair but THIS! RIGHT HERE!

Positive Result by 0TS has grown on me and buried me alive. The lyricism is actually relatable in a sense that mortality is inevitable, and you can have wishes but not real ideas of what will happen to you.

Atomize by WitchesWithGlitches is a sorrowful goodbye in the voice of a robot, with powerful and poetic lyrics!

Dance Delightful by Jamie Paige made me aware the album existed after finishing Constant Companions’s deluxe edition, with joy and whimsy revolving around a robot who has taught to be real (pun intended)!

Wireframe by TOKiMADE is another Japanese track, a calmer track with a robot’s affirmations of love to her creator!

Finally, GIMMICK GIRL by MonochroMenace, a song that really drives home with the rock and existentialism and somewhat meta lyrics!

I decided to review all of the songs to show appreciation for this “holy shit /pos” album that I had the honor of being introduced to! In all, I would recommend it definitely!

9/10

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Now that I’ve moved my 10-album series to my VOCALOID blog, people can see them more easily rather than swiping through my reblogs.

With that being said, it’s time for album number four:

Where Am I - Yomitan Akane

Tracklist:

1. MANURE

2. JACK-UP

3. Enma the Second

4. Rumors of the Infinity Mirror

5. REAPER

6. Brain Washer

7. Cramped

8. Undeletable File

9. Build To Scrap

10. Crab Club

11. Shameless Reward System

12. Round Round

13. Conc-r-eal

14. Dreamovie

All feature Kasane Teto SV on vocals.

Most of you might not know who Yomitan Akane is, so let me introduce you to her:

She’s anonymous by nature, and married to animation producer Eirina Hamono! Also a video artist who started with Fontaine, a video found on her visual work playlist:

制作した映像

読谷あかねが制作に携わった映像です。部分的に担当したものも含みます

But let’s not go too far down that rabbit hole. We already discussed enough Rabbit Hole.

Stand-outs from Where Am I include:

- REAPER, a song about death. It’s executed in a chilling manner and also reveals the cluelessness of the song’s character. (It receives a mention upon the request of my system’s REAPER fictive, heh…)

- Cramped, which received a remaster from the single version back in 2024.

- Undeletable File, arguably the best song in her discography. It’s about a virus who has abandonment issues, which I find adorable and well-executed.

- Shameless Reward System, the gambling song and pictured directly above. It has melody appeal and definitely grew on me from its release during the VOCALOID Collection Winter 2026.

- conc-r-eal, the song with four different lyric sheets and a dreamlike quality to the visual and the audio. Was my initial introduction to Akane-san’s work.

- Dreamovie. No one knows.

Also, shoutout to its initial crossfade advert, which came in the form of a questionaire. It was later revealed that Akane-san sold a PDF of a quiz completely unrelated.

(8/10)

Where am I?

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It’s time for album number three on the list:

TRANSFORM - DECO*27

Tracklist:

1. Rebirth

2. Rookie

3. HAO

4. Rabbit Hole (Reloaded)

5. Friend-Zoned

6. Aitai Seijin

7. Sad Girl Sex

8. Monitoring

9. Fave Fix

10. Neverland

11. Kiss-Me-Saurus

12. Chimera

13. Salamander

14. Poison Apple

15. Volt Tackle

16. Rabbit Hole

17. Zombie

18. Space Walk

19. Mannequin

20. Blue Planet

21. Love Words IV

The ninth album up veteran producer DECO*27 and his OTOIRO team’s sleeve. Its themes of transformation and the self as well as love in its many forms make it a treat for the ears.

STANDOUTS:

From the first disc (Rebirth - Kiss-Me-Saurus), there is HAO, an oriental pop song with great potential, Aitai Seijin (Aitai-lians), revolving around aliens searching for a new kind of love, and Sad Girl Sex, with strong guitar work throughout.

From the second disc (Chimera - Love Words IV), I’m actually a huge Pokèmon fan so Volt Tackle took me by surprise. I was aware of the song but relistening made me love it even more. Also, Salamander had a catchy opening that lured me in as well!

I would most definitely recommend this one, especially if you want a taste of different genres in a Vocaloid album!

(9/10)

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Last one from my main:

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Alright, let’s move onto the next album in my list:

UNDERWORLD - PinocchioP

Tracklist (all below features Hatsune Miku on V4X)

1. Playing Immortal

2. Don’t Believe In T (also feat Kasane Teto SV)

3. Super Superhero

4. Fake Meme

5. Apocalypse Now

6. UTuber

7. Q

8. Isn’t It “A” (also feat. Kagamine Rin)

9. With or Without Me

10. Love Attribute

11. UNDERWORLD

12. The Extremist - UNDERWORLD ver. (originally sung by PinocchioP as Daihakken)

PinocchioP, for those who are unfamiliar, is a Vocaloid producer who sings harmonies with his synth of choice: Hatsune Miku. He also has two unique characters that appear in his videos: Aimaina-chan and Doushite-chan (pictured: Aimaina).

In this album, UNDERWORLD, he explores the dark side of certain concepts like immortality and love. Standouts from the album in my opinion were Q, a song depicting a quiz that asks existential or controversial questions with unrealistic answers, Love Attribute, the far side of love with a PV by one of my personal favorite animators, Eirina Hamono, and for the best PV: UTuber, with Hamono again and his wife— video artist Yomitan Akane— on video duty! That song touches up on the personal ramifications of being a content creator (“Grandpa used to be a UTuber”).

Whatever it is, Pino never seems to disappoint in the industry, and I look forward to following his music in the future! Did you guys see “Rejected Diva” yet, speaking of?

(9/10)

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From my main blog again.

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Reviewing 10 VOCALOID Albums (PART 1)

Multi Face - Eipu

Tracklist:

1. Ataman Ita (v: Kasane Teto SV)

2. Ano Ko Blackout (v: Kasane Teto SV)

3. Hibou Netsuchuushou (v: Kasane Teto SV)

4. Love Nest (v: Kagamine Len)

5. Dreamin’ Dance (v: KAFU)

6. Aidounnou (v: Hatsune Miku)

7. Abnormal (v: Una Otomachi)

I adore the vibes of electro-rock and other genres included here! My favorite track was Ano Ko Blackout, which overall held the vibes similar to Kikuo’s Aishite, Aishite, Aishite but make it Kasane Teto and more fast-paced! Other notables include Love Nest (featuring Kagamine Len) and Abnormal (featuring Otomachi Una). Aidounnou (featuring Hatsune Miku) also had a nice orchestral/ballad feel to it that made it stand out from the rest, although still retaining its rock genre!

(8/10)

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From my main blog, transferring here: