other miis i made today 🥹 got my island to level 17 i’m having 2 much fun.. from top to bottom left> to right: fukase, yuu, minase kou, iori yuzuru, yuecheng ( king ) and takahashi amato..
I drew all the chinese Vocaloids visiting one of the most famous tourist spots in my country (Vinicunca-Perú) 🦙🇵🇪
You can now download the fanzine and enjoy all the beautiful illustrations and song covers that everyone made with so much love! It was so much fun being part of this wonderful project!! <3 ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
I've been so involved in going back to school that I can barely focus on my drawing planned for these dates...in the meantime I'll leave this old drawing from 2021!!
happy birthday Yuecheng(vocaloid 4) and Khylin(vocalina) !!!!!!! [jul 28]
Yuecheng
Khylin
Yuecheng (aka King) is a chinese synth developed by Shanghai Wangcheng in collaboration with Chengdu Yuefang Cultural Broadcast Co., and announced as a private synth on 30 apr 2018, his character birthday is 28 jul though. he is voiced by Nuochen, and illustrated by CleverCool. yuecheng's vp was chosen through audition and voting. he is originally a character from the manhua "The Manhua Artist and The Idol: Yuerong and Yuecheng", published by NetEase Comics. in sep 2015, a song called "Love Lock" was produced for the character by CleverCool, Zhixiaoai, and Huduoduo. in the manhua, this is the song that allowed yuecheng to become an idol. though the vocalist was a live singer, it is credited as being sung by yuecheng. yuecheng was available as a private synth from 28 jul 2018, to 12 jun 2020. producers who wanted to use yuecheng had to agree to a contract before getting to do so. yuecheng is 19yo and 180cm tall.
Khylin is a korean synth developed by TGENS Co., Ltd. (i think), and released on 18 sep 2012, though her character birthday is 28 jul. she is voiced by Hyo Bae Park, and illustrated by Yeon. khylin is 16yo. she came with every version of vocalina 2.0, but was only available for free in version 2.3.2. she could be purchased through a subscription.
(the rest of khylin's images arent on her page on the vocal synth fandom wiki, i got them from her voca db page, this archive of the vocalina website, and from this video, so if anyone can be bothered putting them up there, please do.)
ref
promotional art
character bio
logo
from the manhua
i unfortunately dont have these in higher quality, nor do i have the last one with a transparent bg, NOR am i certain if Yeon also illustrated the chibi one, but here they are
a while ago i made a post about canceled vocaloids. this is a sort of sequel post about some private vocaloids. often these vocaloids are made and given only to exclusive users, eventually expiring or being retired. when it comes to abandoned vocaloids, private vocaloids and vocaloids that were never completed/released tend to be grouped together.
all information and images are from the vocaloid wiki unless stated otherwise.
the vocaloids discussed in this post are:
Kobayashi Matcha and Masaoka Azuki
Akikoloid-chan
Ueki-loid
Anri Rune
hide
Zhang Chuchu and Yuecheng
Kobayashi Matcha and Masaoka Azuki
Engine: VOCALOID2
Language: Japanese
Company: SEGA in collaboration with YAMAHA
Status: Retired; replaced with public VOCALOID4 voicebanks
They were made for use in Project 575, a multimedia franchise including several games and a series of 5 short anime episodes.
Specifically, the games Utayomi 575 and Uta Kumi 575 used the VOCALOID2 engine to synthesize their vocals in real time.
Their private use made them notable targets of piracy. Their voicebanks were cracked by extracting the voicebank data from Utayomi 575 and making them usable for VOCALOID2.
In 2017, they received VOCALOID4 updates and are now commercially available under the names MATCHA and AZUKI. These are the first private vocals to be made public, although their original VOCALOID2 voicebanks are still legally unobtainable.
Akikoloid-chan
Engine: VOCALOID3
Language: Japanese
Company: Lawson, Inc.
Status: Retired
Akikoloid-chan is a VOCALOID derivative of Akiko-chan, the new mascot for Lawson in 2011.
Lawson was the only group with the license to use her. She was used as a mascot on the Lawson Nico Nico Douga channel to help promote Lawson.
Akikoloid-chan is no longer used for music. However, Lawson still owns her character.
The mascot she originated from, Akiko-chan, is now a VTuber on the Lawson YouTube channel.
Ueki-loid
Engine: VOCALOID3
Language: Japanese
Company: Music Airport Inc.
Status: Unknown; possibly abandoned
This is the first use of VOCALOID that is an attempt to "revive" a deceased singer by emulating their vocals. The singer in question is Hitoshi Ueki, who passed away in 2007.
The voicebank was made by first recording the vocals of Hitoshi Ueki's oldest son, Hiro Kouichi. Then, they studied the differences between his and his father's voice, and edited the recordings to match Hitoshi Ueki's tone.
Only a few demos have been made for Ueki-loid. An album of songs was planned, but has never been released and has received no news since 2012.
It's possible that Ueki-loid was simply a test for the technology of reviving deceased singers' voices.
Anri Rune
Engine: VOCALOID3
Language: Japanese
Company: Fuji TV
Status: Retired
Anri Rune was originally a newscaster character on Fuji TV. Her career as a newscaster was short-lived, as she failed to bring in enough ratings to satisfy the network, and so she was retired.
In 2013, Anri Rune was repurposed as a VOCALOID mascot. She was given a new appearance and biographical information. She was also given a demo song by producer Kikuo, titled Hallelujah Super Idol.
After her single demo, there was no news on Rune's status. In response to a fan, Kikuo did not know her current status. YAMAHA also stated that Rune was never intended as a commercial product.
In May 2015, about 2 years after her debut, Fuji TV confirmed that Rune was retired and no products with her were planned.
"hide"
Engine: VOCALOID3
Language: Japanese
Company: Headwax Organization Co., Ltd.
Status: Unknown
Another attempt to "revive" a deceased singer, this time basing the vocal off of Matsumoto Hideto, better known as hide, the lead guitarist of rock band X-Japan who passed away in 1998.
Unlike Ueki-loid, samples were taken directly from recordings of hide's voice, not from any relatives.
The voicebank was used in the album Co Gal, which began production in 1998. hide was unable to complete the album before his death; the VOCALOID voicebank was used to complete the album with his voice.
The album was then released in December 2014. Fans remarked that the voice was unmistakably reminiscent of hide.
Due to using hide's voice, he is credited as the singer of all the songs in the Co Gal album despite the use of VOCALOID. Because of this, the actual name of the software itself is unknown, and is usually simply also referred to as "hide."
The status of this voicebank is unknown; it has not had any known usage since Co Gal.
Zhang Chuchu and Yuecheng (King)
(sorry chuchu for the crop)
Engine: VOCALOID4
Language: Chinese
Company: Shanghai Wangcheng
Status: Possibly abandoned
Chuchu and Yuecheng both originally appeared as characters in manhua. Chuchu was owned by Migu Comics while Yuecheng was owned by NetEase comics.
Shanghai Wangcheng, who had also worked with Gynoid on Xin Hua, wanted to create business-to-business VOCALOID voicebanks for private use, to turn preexisting characters into virtual idols, and approached these companies with the offer to develop VOCALOID4 voicebanks for their characters.
Both VOCALOIDs' voice providers were contest winners. The voicebanks were complete by April 30, 2018 and continued to be used by their authorized users.
In June 2020, an authorized user of these voicebanks reported that their serial codes had ceased distribution. YAMAHA had ended contracts with Shanghai Wangcheng, and Shanghai Wangcheng has since ceased activity.
This is a similar situation to the discontinuation of Utatane Piko. This does not stop authorized users from using these voicebanks, but no new users can gain access, and if switching computers, they can only be used for a 2 week trial period.
(Sources in the notes. Some gifs have been edited and are no longer identical to the original. If you use the scenery art gif or the icon in the center, please credit me.)
Yuecheng/King from Vocaloid stimboard, with themes of art, desserts, and drink making.
Edit: swapped a gif and re-giffed the second, third, and last gifs because it was made by someone on my DNI. Please credit me if you use my re-gifs.
