Top Ten Things You May Not Have Known About VOCALOID

Here are some facts and lore related to VOCALOID. These facts may be obvious to longtime VOCALOID fans like me, but beginner fans may not know them.

The Top Ten

  1. Rin and Len aren't twins

    Canonically, they are not twins or lovers. They are whatever fans want them to be.

    I personally headcanon them as twins, but that isn't official.

  2. Oliver was the voice of Puppycat in the show Bee and Puppycat

    Oliver's official voicebank was used for Puppycat, and it sounds so adorable.

  3. There are tons of lost VOCALOID songs

    One of the most well-known lost VOCALOID songs is Interface, a song by MASA WORKS DESIGN featuring Miku and Rin. Completely off-topic, but in Latin, one of the words for "to kill" is interficio, and Interface the song is presumably about Rin killing Miku. This is likely where the song title came from.

    MASA WORKS DESIGN specifically has several more lost songs, two more notable ones being Medical Wedding and Don't Say Goodbye!, the latter of which is theorized to be the prequel to Interface.

  4. Crypton almost created a fourth character for their Character Vocal Series

    This character is known as CV04, and he was planned to be the second male character in the series after Len. However, he was scrapped by Crypton as they wanted to focus on their already established voicebanks.

  5. Kasane Teto was originally created as an April Fool's joke

    Teto was originally created as a prank to make people think she was a new VOCALOID. However, she was eventually given an actual voicebank under the UTAU software. She was later given a Synthesizer V voicebank.

  6. Many VOCALOIDs have items that represent them

    The most notable ones: Miku has a spring onion, Rin has an orange, Len has a banana, Luka has tuna, MEIKO has alcohol, KAITO has ice cream, GUMI has a carrot, and Gakupo has an eggplant.

  7. Kaai Yuki and Oliver were voiced by children

    These two VOCALOIDs were both voiced by children, whose identities remain unnamed to protect their privacy.

    I like both of their voices, but in my humble opinion, it would've been better if they weren't voiced by children. In this day and age, people can't be trusted with such things, unfortunately.

  8. VOCALOID was originally going to be called "Daisy"

    The name stemmed from "Daisy Bell," which was the first song to be sung by a computer.

    The name was changed due to copyright reasons.

  9. The most viewed VOCALOID song on YouTube is a song featuring v flower

    The song is Goodbye Sengen by Chinozo. The simple fact alone that it isn't a song featuring Miku, any of the Cryptonloids, or even GUMI, who is arguably the most popular non-Cryptonloid, is surprising.

  10. Megurine Luka was the first bilingual VOCALOID

    Luka was the first character to be released with two separate languages, those languages being Japanese and English.

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