Awesome Music / Vocaloid Series

Sometimes Vocaloid songs come in series, starring either the Vocaloid characters themselves or completely original characters. This is a crowning page for the most awesome of those song series.

A subpage for the Vocaloid awesome music page.

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• The whole Story of Evil series, The Servant of Evil in particular is an incredibly touching, tear jerking song. This alongside songs like the touching "The Daughter of White", the incredibly emotional "Maiden of Wood ~Thousand-Year Wiegenlied~", and the determined triumph over emotional conflict that is "Handbeat Clocktower".

• The -InfinitY- series by Story Researcher, a group of producers founded by cosMo and GAiA, which includes 10 songs, notably:
  • Disappearance of Hatsune Miku. The album's out, and it's beautiful.
  • The Division-> Destruction of Hatsune Miku focusing on the then recent release of Miku Appends using all the appends in an epic song with high speed singing.
  • The Intense Singing of Hatsune Miku, most likely the happy ending to the disappearance of Hatsune Miku with more high speed singing.
• sasakure.UK's Doomsday series, four songs featuring Rin, Gumi, Luka, and Miku in which humanity is slowly wiped out by a nuclear war and an alien attack destroying the atmosphere, as reflected in four people's stories of life and love. It culminates in Miku's infamous Tear Jerker "*Hello, planet." All of them are incredibly well-made chiptune and video game-like songs, with most of them being absolute Tear Jerkers:

• Our 16bit endZ Trigger, released a few years after the end of the original series, is a continuation of Gumi's viewpoint in "Our 16bit Warz". It provides an interesting update to "Warz", and still retains the chaotic atmosphere and chiptune elements that "Warz" had.

• Samfree's Night series for a reminder of how fun Eurobeat is; the type you'd love to play at rave parties.

• Lelele-P's "_____ Renka/Lenka" series:
  • "Ike Lenka" (Cool Love Song). The last refrain is a Heartwarming Moment.
  • "Heta Lenka" (Clumsy Love Song). Similar-sounding to the above, only with Len's clumsy moe factor turned up. It's adorable.
    What should I do? I'm sorryyyyyyy!

• The entire Dark Woods Circus series, by Machigareta and starring Miku. It's a brilliant, brilliant series, all the songs are beautiful, the story is terrifying, and speaking of which, watch out for serious scare quotient. Dark Woods Circus in particular is simply wonderful:
  • "Steel Cage Princess".
  • The title song, "Dark Woods Circus". (Also sung by Rin and Len.)
  • "Blue Ice Castle".
  • "On the Bottom of Red Swamp".
  • "Guard and Scythe".
• cosMo's Star Girl and the Illusory Paradise series is a classic for quite a few reasons:
  • "Dr. Realist" is a mix of philosophy, creepiness, and just plain awesome.
  • ANTI THE∞HOLiC serves as a sort of prelude to the series sung by Rin and Luka.

• Nun and Idol Girl seems silly enough; a bored nun becomes an idol to make her life less boring. But, of course, this is cosMo.

• The Putin-P series which consists of 35 songs and is basically about Rin and Len being Vocaloid androids with Dark and Troubled Past lives in Russia. While a lot of fans had trouble understanding the story due to bad translations, the music's pretty awesome, like "The Broken Mirror" (featuring Len and Gackpo) and "With the One I Can't See" (featuring Miku).
• The "Bookmark of Demise Game" project by 150P. It's about urban legends and Doppelgangers with a few helpings of terror, culminated from an after school game gone awry.

• Team Kamiuta's "The New Testament: The Gods' Sealed Eden" series. It is set in the future and revolves around Eve, an immortal Artificial Human who either travels through time or experiences simulations of the past in order to learn about life. So far, only the first installment is out: "Hana wa Sakuragi, Hito wa Kimi" ("Of Flowers, Cherry Blossoms Are the Best; Of People, You Are the Best"), a fascinating, complex song with an exceptionally beautiful PV.
• Teniwoha's "Schoolgirl Detective" series, about the various mystery adventures that Hibari Hanamoto and her mentor, the low-tier eccentric author Renma Kudou, take part in. The series has two albums, three light novels, a handful of audio dramas and a short manga adaptation to expand upon their crazy world.
• Dasu's Stellar*Paradigm series, revolving around Shio, August, and Hira, sang by Len and GUMI in Tagalog and pretty much nothing to go on for the premise except for Dasu's cryptic descriptions.

• "Bulalo". The shortest of the series and free to any interpretation. It features Len as well as Dasu's voice and avatar for the first time, even if it's limited to backing vocals. Justified as Dasu dared to do it in a week.
• "Calorie". The cute one sang by Len about Shio's suicidal tendencies and Cal trying to help him. It's the second one in the series to include Dasu herself.

• Powapowa-P's "Story of Zinnia and Meme", one of his earliest works, is about two girls named Zinnia and Meme being forced to part ways (Word of God implies that Zinnia has passed away and is moving to the afterlife, as explained in the piapro commentary for "Sky Fish" , but this is vague and is likely up for further interpretation). It goes in-depth about their feelings after having to part, ultimately ending in a gorgeous, heartfelt reunion in "Halo". The songs themselves are ambient, (mostly) downtempo tracks that perfectly fit with the melancholic atmosphere of the songs. The Remodel/remastered versions pump up the beauty in the songs even more, completely revamping the instrumentals and giving re-tuned vocals that sound noticeably more emotional than the originals. Overall, this is a beautiful series, and all versions of each song deserve a good listen.
  • "Brown", the first installment in the series, explains Meme's perspective as she notices Zinnia disappearing. She knows that Zinnia won't be by her side for much longer, pointing out how Zinnia's voice is gradually fading away (perhaps hinting at an illness of some sort). The song itself is a relaxing and nostalgic tune - it's a soft, gentle electronica ballad, and is an early Miku song, having been released in late 2009. In August 2010, the song got a self-cover, using Luka's voice to better suit the melancholic instrumental, coupled with a gorgeous PV featuring illustrations by the talented artist, Tokucina, who also drew the art for "stoy.". The Remodel version uses Miku's Soft append, retaining the heartbreak in Luka's voice, but dropping the electronic elements of the original song for an acoustic-based sound, befitting the soft atmosphere.
  • "Zinnia and Meme," the second installment and the namesake for the series, explains Zinnia's perspective as she's disappearing; she reflects on the journey she's had with Meme, and prepares to part ways with her, giving her one last goodbye. The song was made for a compilation album about flowers, called "Petal", and is themed around the zinnia flower. The zinnia's meaning in flower language adds some interesting interpretation to the song - depending on the color, the zinnia stands for a variety of meanings including daily remembrance, lasting affection, thinking of an absent friend, loyalty (in hanakotoba), and so on. The instrumentation is similar to "Brown" in terms of composition, but has a more wistful and mature mood, and there's audible improvement between this and "Brown". The Remodel, as a contrast to "Brown", keeps the electronic elements from the original but uses them in a more atmospheric way, also adding other slight electronic twangs by adding a light bitcrush effect on the drums and autotuning Luka's voice. In addition, the traditional instruments are more noticeable, and complement the ambient synths.
  • "Sky Fish", the third installment, which Word of God confirms is from Zinnia's point of view, after she "disappeared" and is on her way to the afterlife. It's about at this point the series starts picking up in terms of musical style - like the past two songs, the song is a calm, ambient ballad, but it starts experimenting more with ambient sounds and other instrumentation. It even has a gorgeous PV by meisa, to boot. The remaster doesn't make many changes except for some new instruments, better mastering and Miku's vocals being retuned, but it's still worth a listen regardless. Sky Fish ended up being a Breakthrough Hit for the series as a whole, and has gotten much more attention than the rest of the series.
  • Next up is "stoy.", arguably the best song in the series, but also the biggest Tear Jerker. It takes the experimental elements of "Sky Fish" to extremes, making what's perhaps best defined as ambient post-rock folktronica. The lyrics are sung in a Conlang, which Luka manages to handle surprisingly well. The song is about Meme's loneliness after Zinnia has disappeared, with Meme reflecting on her time with Zinnia and just wishing to reunite with her again. Before long, though, she finds someone with black hair and yellow scissors, leading to the next song.
  • "999", the fourth installment in the series, switches back to what Zinnia's up to. Having presumably passed onto the afterlife after the events of Sky Fish, Zinnia sets off on a new journey and has been exploring the new scenery around her. At the very end, she invites Meme to come along with her and join her on her journey. The song is a rather interesting continuation, with the instrumental mostly retaining the same elements as the previous songs but still managing to be a unique addition. This song more or less connects the previous songs, calling back to earlier songs in the series such as "Sky Fish" and "stoy."
  • The conclusion to the series comes with "Halo". With Powapowa-P's My List comment being "The end of Meme's journey, the end of everything", you'd expect this song to be pretty depressing, but it ends on a beautiful note with Meme's and Zinnia's reunion. In addition to a gorgeous instrumental, the video has a PV filmed by Powapowa-P, recorded on a low quality camera for a good Retraux feel. In 2013, Halo saw an update with the release of Powapowa-P's album, "Alterour Setsuna Pop". As usual, the remake is always worth listening to, as well, as both versions provide amazing aural experiences.