AH-Soft

SF-A2 miki^note Her formal name is "SF-A2 Code Name miki", but most people shorten it to this for the sake of brevity.

The eighth Japanese Vocaloid and the first^note Note that she was released at the same time as Yuki and Kiyoteru; however, she was announced first Vocaloid released by AH-Software (along with the first in their "Vocal Artist" series), Miki was also the first Vocaloid to have a demo CD included with her release (which made many fans think her announcement might be a Troll).

She is voiced by Furukawa Miki of Supercar.

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• Action Girl: At least according to Lience, the appropriately titled Keep Yourself Alive and in Infinity Labyrinth made by Kurozumi-P.
• Animal Motifs: Her illustrator has her hoodie pulled up with bear-like ears and a puffball tail here. She's also been depicted with sheep thanks to that same hoodie and ear muffs which you can also see here and here.
• Artificial Human: According to the information that came from the 2012 redesign, miki was designed to look like she was made out of a inorganic material and was conceptualised as an android. She is covered in muscles made of various materials such as carbon nanotubes, but were made loose to give a mild deformed look about them. Averted for her V4 design however, which abandoned the concept.
• Cleavage Window: Her V4 redesign has two diamond-shaped ones, though there really isn't anything to show off.
• Idiot Hair: A HUGE one vaguely shaped like a question mark.
• Fingerless Gloves: In her unofficial 2012 concept art.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Inverted, since most of the songs she sings/appears in are cheerful and upbeat.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Downplayed - she has robotic joints.
• Surprisingly Good English: Like you never expected.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: She's generally associated with stars.
• Tsundere: This song portrays her as a type B.
• Updated Re-release: She received a V4 update with a Natural voicebank.
• Vague Age: Her body is designed to look like that of a child, but also gives her the overall look of approx 14 years old. Having an immature-looking body allowed more easily for her to be passed off as Younger than She Looks, similar to how Miku and Rin could do the same since they lacked mature looking bodies. See also Artificial Human above.
• Zettai Ryouki: In the PV Liar and in her unofficial redesign by Yusuke Kozaki◊.

Kaai Yuki

Yuki is notable for being the first "child voice" Vocaloid released, meaning that her vocal samples are from a young girl instead of an adult. She is portrayed as a 9 year old elementary school student, and Hiyama Kiyoteru is her teacher. She is distributed by AH-Software and is the ninth (or tenth) Japanese Vocaloid.

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• Cheerful Child: Official artwork by AH-Software and many of her songs portray her as such.
• Creepy Child: Many of her early songs utilised her vocals for horror. Calalini and Rugrats Theory are two of the most infamous ones.
• Girlish Pigtails
• Little Miss Badass: In MUTEKI SHOUJO:99.
• Mascot: Though unofficial, she represents AH-Software's line of Vocaloid products.
• Surprisingly Good English: In Calalini and Castle on a Cloud.
• Token Mini-Moe: Noticeably, she's the youngest out of the AH-Software Vocaloids.

Hiyama Kiyoteru

Released by AH-Software (but not as a part of the "Vocal Artist" series) and the ninth (or tenth) Japanese Vocaloid, Kiyoteru is explicitly stated to be a math teacher. His student is Kaai Yuki. His voice provider is the Japanese singer Kiyoshi Hiyama.

On weekends, he's the vocalist of a rock band named Ice Mountain with the stage name "Ice Mountain Teru".

Thanks to an official artbook released by AH Software (details in the Ice Mountain link), he has more official canon info than the other vocaloids.

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• Bishōnen:
  • If his original look above isn't enough, see "Hot Teacher" below.
  • His bandmates in Ice Mountain◊ are catching up there too.
• Friend to All Children: Again according to the artbook. Likely the main reason he's a school teacher.
• The Glasses Come Off: At first, fans speculate that while Kiyoteru is more mild-mannered and professional, he does have a bit of a wild side when he takes off his glasses... And then the official Ice Mountain booklet describes him as such, confirming the speculation. However, he can't keep them off for too long as it would result in eyestrain.
• Face of the Band: Of his Five-Man Band Ice Mountain. invoked
  • The Hero: Hiyama Kiyoteru himself.
  • The Lancer: Akito Hiyama - Guitar; Kiyoteru's childhood friend.
  • The Big Guy: Tohma Azuchi - Bass; the Delinquent of the band, tends to get into trouble.
  • The Smart Guy: Haruto Amane - Keyboard; said to be an innate genius.
  • The Chick: Natsuki Hokaze - Drums; was once mistaken as a girl, now trying to grow up his manliness.
• Hot Teacher: Damn, Teru-sensei... you're looking good here◊.
  • And if that wasn't enough for you, his V4 boxart for his Ice Mountain persona is even more◊ attractive.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Plays this role in "Plastic Garden", where he lets Rin escape the garden with Len after he realizes that he kept her in a Gilded Cage.
• Memento MacGuffin: His glasses - a gift from his foster father.
• Parental Abandonment: He was raised by a foster father. Though, it appears that he is Happily Adopted.
• Perpetual Poverty: He donates a large chunk of his income to church, thus he's usually broke.
• Stoic Spectacles: Subverted. Neither his Teru persona or his regular personality come off as stoic, though Teru edges towards it a bit.

Nekomura Iroha

Released by AH-Software (not in the Vocal Artist series) and the fourteenth Japanese one, she was created in conjunction with Sanrio for their Together with Hello Kitty! video game project. Thus, she was an established character before the Vocaloidification. Her character was created by illustrator okama. Her voice provider was initially unrevealed, but was eventually confirmed to be utaite singer Kyounosuke Yoshitate.

okama defines her as a "kittyler", or Hello Kitty fangirl.

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• Animal Motifs: Cats.
• Arm Cannon: Her Dynamic-Phonon Busters, gigantic speakers that attach to her arms. They only spew sounds, but cannons nonetheless.
• Be Yourself: The aesop she learns in her backstory of how she became a Platinum Kitty.
• Fangirl: Of Hello Kitty.
• Girliness Upgrade: Compare the above image and the boxart for her V4 package.
• Meaningful Name: "Iroha" is the Japanese equivalent of "ABC" and "Nekomura" means "cat village".
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Downplayed - She has speakers for her hands. Although they may just be gloves, as other official Hello Kitty artwork shows her with normal hands.
  • The speakers are shown to be separate flying entities in her V4 artwork.
• She Is All Grown Up: The design for her Soft voicebank shows an older and more mature Iroha.
• Short Hair with Tail
• Updated Re-release: Received a V4 update with "Natural" and "Soft" versions of the voicebank. Her Soft voicebank allows her to sing slower songs better than her original voicebank.
• Vocal Dissonance: Hotly contested, as some believe it doesn't fit her design while others believe it's just tomboyish.
  • Her voice provider being revealed to be male gives this trope some credence.
  • Some producers are able to subvert this stereotype either by raising her voice (with good tuning) like in Banton Summer Sky, or by making her sing opera like this amazing rendition of Ave Maria (potentially giving the classic style Vocaloids like Prima and Miriam a run for their money).

Yuzuki Yukari

AH Software's first Vocaloid 3, Yukari was made in a collaboration with multiple Vocaloid song producers. Released on December 22nd, she has a smooth sounding deep voice. She was also the first vocaloid to be released with the Voiceroid software, where users could have her speak normally.

Her gray bracelet, located on her right, arm says, "She unites you all with her voice." Seen here◊.

She is voiced by Chihiro Ishiguro.

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• Alliterative Name: Yuzuki Yukari.
• Animal-Eared Headband: More like Animal-eared Hoodie, but it's still there.
• Animal Motifs: Rabbits. Her hood has bunny ears on it. Plus, the "zuki" in her name means moon.
• Chainsaw Good: Goodbye Chainsaw. Title says it all. Never before have purple bunnies looked so badass.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Hair Decorations
• Hot for Teacher: In "Check Check One Two!", she details being so in love with her teacher, that she secretly records his deep voice and splices the soundbites together to make otome-style confession tracks with his vocals for her own listerning pleasure. She gets so paranoid about him giving his attention to another student that she plays one of the tapes over the speaker system.
• Purple Eyes
• Updated Re-release: She was updated for V4, receiving three new voicebanks known as "Onn", "Lin" and "Jun". Her Onn voicebank is whispery, while her Lin voicebank is more powerful, and her Jun voicebank is the closest to her original voice.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has purple hair.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Present in both her original and Onn designs.

Tohoku Zunko

A female Vocaloid released in June 2012 for the Vocaloid 3 engine. She was originally created as a mascot of a relief campaign in the Tohoku region following an earthquake and tsunami that devastated the region on March 11, 2011, later released as a Voiceroid. After enough donations were received, AH Software gave the go signal to turn her into a fully fledged Vocaloid.

She is voiced by Satomi Sato, known for voicing Ritsu Tainaka from K-On!.

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• Anthropomorphic Personification: Non-Vocaloid advertising pegs her as one for the Tohoku region.
• Archer Archetype: She carries a HUGE bow, and has a quiver of arrows on her back. Archery is also stated to be one of her hobbies.
• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Giant Waist Ribbon
• Meaningful Name: She was named after the Tohoku region of Japan. Her first name is derived from "zundo", from zundo mochi.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Zunda mochi, a type of mochi with sweetened green soybean paste. It is a local specialty in the Tohoku region.
  • Her special ability, “Zunda Arrow”, also transforms any kinds of mochi into zunda-mochi.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has green hair.

YAMAHA (Bplats Inc..)

VY1

Codenamed "Mizki" (as a reference to hanamizuki, a type of flower), VY1's announcement and demo files were made in the most mysterious way possible. Eventually it was revealed that it was developed by bplats and was eventually distributed by Yamaha themselves as the twelfth Japanese Vocaloid.

Unlike the other Vocaloids, VY1 has no gender or personality, as it is intended to be used as a serious musical product. It is however described as "feminine".

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• Curtains Match the Window: The revised version of the winning design that shows up in an artbook gives her pink hair and pink eyes.
• The Faceless
• Flower Motifs: All over the box. It's also where the code-name Mizki comes from (the flower hanamizuki).
• Iconic Item: The paper fan and/or the hair clip on its boxart.
• Multicolored Hair: In her winning design in the 2011 VocaFes contest, she has pink and turquoise hair. Her revised design makes the hair fully pink, however.
• Named by the Adaptation: Her appearance in the now-defunct VOCADOL rhythm game named her after VY1's codename.
• Rapunzel Hair: In her winning design above. She retains this trait as "Mizki" in VOCADOL.
• The Tease: In What a Lewd Sequencer! by Lamaze-P, she attempts to flash her underwear to the listener several times.
• Updated Re-release: VY1V3, and later, VY1V4.

VY2

Like VY1, it was developed by bplats and was eventually distributed by Yamaha. It is the 16th Japanese Vocaloid. It is also given a codename of "Yuma."

Also like VY1, VY2 has no gender or personality, as it is intended to be used as a serious musical product. It is however described as "masculine".

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• Cool Sword: The wakizashi on its boxart.
• Curtains Match the Window: His VocaFes contest design gives us pink eyes and pink hair. The revised version for an artbook keeps it that way, but oddly enough matches up with VY1's winning design by pure coincidence.
• The Faceless
• Katanas Are Just Better: A wakizashi, technically.
• Nice Hat: In his winning design◊ in 2011 VocaFes contest.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Downplayed — As seen in this concept art◊, he looks more like a cyborg.
• Single-Target Sexuality: In "A Clingy Boy Sticking for 15 Years", he devotes all of his poems and letters to one single person. Even when he gathers the attention of some very attractive young women for his work, he still thinks them to be inferior to his loved one.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Yuma/Yuuma.
• Updated Re-release: VY2V3, but unlike VY1V3, he gets an additional "falsetto" voicebank to expand his singing range.

Mew

A Vocaloid made by Yamaha, she is so far one of the 2 starter vocals offered for the Vocaloid 3 software, other than VY1 above. Her voice provider is Miu Sakamoto. The cat depicted in her artwork is based off of Miu's own cat, Sabami.

Her full design is here◊; the design is made by a Japanese artist "Otaniryuji".

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• Animal Motifs: Cat, or felines in general. Her shoe even has a bell collar on it.
• Cool Shades: This concept art shows her with some snazzy shades.
• Nonstandard Character Design: She's drawn in a more realistic style than the previous Japanese Vocaloids.
• Pretty in Mink: Not only does she don a scarf that looks suspiciously made from a feline, she also wears a leopard-patterned skirt.
• Punny Name: "Mew" has the same pronunciation as "Miu".
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Tattooed Crook: The tattoo on her right arm is of the English phonetic spelling of her name.

Zola Project

A trio of males, Yuu, Kyo and Wil were made for the 10th Anniversary of Vocaloid. Their voices were made to blend well together, and provide vocals for all kinds of situations, be it as a group, solo, duet or even back-up. Their art was done by Yoshitako Amano of Final Fantasy fame. Several impressive and realistic sounding demos have been release so far, such as this and this.

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• Art Shift: Go through numerous instances of this thanks to the variant covers. Each member has about 4 different shifts.
• Ambiguously Brown: Wil, considering his skin tone is darker than the extremely pale Yuu and Kyo in official artwork. As a bonus, his voice actor, Maui, is Filipino.
• '80s Hair
• Fun with Acronyms: "ZOLA" is an acronym for "Zenithal Operated Liaison Aggregration".
• Nonstandard Character Design: It's what's to expect from the guy who did art for Final Fantasy.
• Personality Blood Types: Yuu and Kyo are blood types B, while Wil is a blood type A.

Anon & Kanon

anon & kanon◊ were released by Bplats in March 2014. The two girls are sisters, Anon being the younger of the two, in high school, and can cover a variety of songs. They are the first Vocaloids to be confirmed as twins, but the second to be confirmed as siblings. Their voice providers have yet to be released.

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• all lowercase letters: Their names are officially spelt this way.
• Boyish Short Hair: Anon has short hair, contrasting with her sister's Rapunzel Hair.
• Color Contrast: The classic black/white version; Anon wears a white outfit, Kanon wears a black outfit.
• Coordinated Clothes
• Fingerless Gloves: Both siblings wear them.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Anon is the "foolish," Kanon is the "responsible."
• Hair Decorations: Both girls have headbands that match their outfit color.
• Idiot Hair: Both girls have a very small ahoge.
• Meaningful Name: Their names mean "apricot sound" and "bird sound" respectively.
• Multicolored Hair: Kanon's hair is a light orange, and is a light purple near the ends.
• Nice Shoes: Both girls have a pair of shoes with a CD player looking thing on them.
• Rapunzel Hair: Kanon's hair goes down to her waist, contrasting with her sister's Boyish Short Hair.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Anon is the Red Oni, described as 'airheaded' and 'scatter brained.' Kanon is the Blue Oni, described as 'a focused and level headed girl.'
• Theme Twin Naming: The "non" (which means "sound") at the end of their names.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Their designs give off this vibe, with Anon being the tomboy, and Kanon being the Girly Girl.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Both of the girls like bread.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Anon is type A, while Kanon is type C.

VFlower/flower ^note  Her formal product name is "VFlower" , but her character name is flower.

flower is a Vocaloid created by YAMAHA. She is a Kuudere. She was released for digital download on May 9th.

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• all lowercase letters: Her name.
• Boyish Short Hair: Her V4 design features her with this hairstyle. Interestingly, it was originally based off an fan-made Rule 63 design.
• Costume Porn: We dare you to describe her outfit to someone.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: She has a see-through detached sleeve on one arm. On the other, it looks like a bandage.
• Flower Motifs: Flower's two designs are officially known as her "Pistil" form (V3) and her "Stamen" form (V4).
• Dark Is Not Evil: A minor example. She wears a lot of black and purples, but she is a Kuudere.
• Improbable Hairstyle: Her hair is hard to describe. Think Girlish Pigtails, except coming out of the same hairband on the top of the head, crossed with Spiky Hair, and you have a basic picture.
• Kuudere: Her official website describes her as such, although they do not specify what type.
• She's Got Legs
• Skunk Stripe: Her hair is mostly white, with one chunk dyed black.
• Updated Re Release: She was updated to V4 on 16 July, and given a new design.
• Vocal Dissonance: She has a very girly look about her, but her voice has been described as 'androgynous,' being on a more boyish side. Her V4 vocals better reflect this however.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Type A.

Fukase

A Vocaloid released for the V4 engine. He is based off of the singer Satoshi Fukase of SEKAI NO OWARI fame.

In 2015, YAMAHA ran a Pixiv design contest for the representation of Fukase's voice bank. The winner (3kuma) was selected on September 18, 2015.

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• Body Horror: Whatever the hell is up with the left side of his face. No one's really certain if it's burns, an unnerving pattern of veins, scales, or something else entirely. But whatever it is, it's kind of freaky. Not to mention that fully blood red eye.
  • Initially in the Pixiv contest drawings, his arm didn't have any anomalies; it was merely bandaged. However for the boxart cleanup, the arm became just as strange as his face.
• Cartoon Creature: Point, the small white humanoid hanging off of his cane in his official art.
• Cool Hat: That silly looking cartoon top hat on his head.
• Curtains Match the Window: Curly red hair to go with his red eyes.
• Dark Horse Victory: Most people thought that the design made by Miwasiba (who also did the design for V4 flower) would be sure to win the design contest. And indeed, there was a lot of votes for Siba's design during the first leg of the contest. Instead, the winning design came right on the very last day before judging.
• Hair Decorations: Wears a small, black flag with a white cross on the side of his head.
• Vocal Dissonance: His voice sounds like that of a teenage boy's. His character design makes him look around Oliver's age.

Meiko

Meiko is the first Japanese Vocaloid to be created, and was released for the original Vocaloid engine. She was released by Crypton Future Media and voiced by Haigou Meiko. She was re-released on Vocaloid 3 engine on February 4th, 2014, which includes an English voicebank and several "append" variants (like Power and Whisper). A 14-day trial edition of her V3 Power voicebank is already available for download for those who want to try her out.

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• Ax-Crazy: In Alice Human Sacrifice, she plays the role of a crazed Blood Knight.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Bilingual Bonus: Meiko V3 has an English voice bank.
• Black Knight: In fantasy/medieval styled songs. Usually a heroic one, though.
• Extreme Omnivore: She plays as the titular character of Evil Food Eater Conchita.
• He Who Fights Monsters: A "she" example, seen in the "Daughter of Vengeance" video.
• Idiot Hair: Present in her Project Diva models.
• Jiggle Physics: Project Diva F gives her this trope.
• Lady of War: In action oriented songs.
• Magic Skirt: Her MMD models do this.
• Master Swordsman: Portrayed as such in a few videos.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: In "The Music Wizard of Oz", she plays the Wicked Witch of the West and steals the Music Wizard's magic emerald guitar, but doesn't do so out of malicious intent; she does so because she's lonely and hopes that by singing she'll find a friend. Dorothy (Miku), the Scarecrow (Kaito), the Tin Girl (Luka) and the Vegetarian Lions (Rin and Len) convince her to return the guitar so that the Wizard will grant her wish for friends. It's also implied that her song was in mourning for her sister.
• Only One Name: Although she has a fanmade last name, Sakine, which is officially used for her teenaged form.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: In Daughter of Vengeance, she leads the rebellion against Rin, who she plans to execute, but upon discovering that Len has pulled a Twin Switch with Rin, she kills him anyway, because he's the only person she (Rin) loves and Meiko wants to make her suffer like she suffered.
  • While the song it's not canon, it's not far off.
• She's Got Legs: Her V3 official artwork◊ emphasizes this.
• Stripperific: Her outfit, to a certain degree.
• Team Mom: In many songs she'd usually be the parental figure for one of the other Vocaloids (typically Len and Rin).
• Trademark Favorite Food: Sake.
• Updated Re-release: Meiko V3 was released on February 4, 2014, which added additional voice banks as well as an English one.

Kaito

The second Japanese Vocaloid, also released for the initial engine. He is distributed by Crypton Future Media and voiced by Fuuga Naoto.

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• Badass Longcoat: Along with his Scarf of Asskicking, in vids where he is badass.
• Bare Your Midriff: His default MMD model does this. Most fanmade models have him wear a shirt under his coat to cover it up.
• Big Eater: He is portrayed as more obsessed with his Trademark Favorite Food than the other Vocaloids in certain songs.
• Bilingual Bonus: His V3 release adds an English voicebank.
• Bishōnen: Portrayed as such in a good ratio of his videos (the best known example being Cantarella).
• Butt-Monkey: If it wasn't Len in a comedic work, it would be Kaito instead. There had been so much Kaito abuse going on in comics and fan works that a gallery was made especially for him, titled "Beating Kaito Shitless".
• Chick Magnet: In Prince of Blue.
• invokedCovered Up: His song "Crescent Moon" was actually a song his "Senbonzakura" character sang in its play adaptation first. It was one of the only songs from the show that got its own PV (by the same artist and composer, none the less) and is the far better known version.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: In "Story About A Poor Rabbit".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: There is a whole nicovideo tag called "Kaito no Honki" (Kaito's seriousness). It contains awesome. Loads and loads of awesome.
• Does Not Like Spam: Based on this song, he hates tomatoes.
• Female Gaze: Project Diva reveals that he has some pretty nice abs.
• Forgot I Could Fly: His parody on Rin's Daughter of Evil, Lord of Darkness, ends with 'ah, he forgot he can transform to mist'.
• I'm a Humanitarian: Along with Meiko in some of the Nightmare Fuel videos, most notably "Dark Woods Circus".
• The Klutz: He trips in both Project Mirai intros.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Appears to be this in Synchronicity.
• Lyrical Dissonance: "Shineba Iinoni" / "I wish they'd just die".
• Manly Tears: In ''Double Rainbow.
• Noodle People: The style of his V1 box art. Averted in his V3 box art, which has more realistic proportions.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: One extremely funny example is present in this video.
• Princely Young Man: Gives off these vibes in Project Diva.
• Scarf of Asskicking: In the vids he's allowed to look like a badass.
  • He does not have the scarf in the vid where he is most badass, though.
• Yandere: His version of Uninstall gets altered lyrics and a small PV.
  • Also here in Koi-Uta.
• Surprisingly Good English: His new English voicebank has received some good review. This is just one of many examples of it put to good use.
• Too Kinky to Torture: In this parody of Rin Kagamine's "Meltdown".
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream.
• Updated Re-release: Kaito V3, but also has new voicebanks, including an English one.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

Hatsune Miku

The second ^note That's right, the second. Sweet Ann was first. However, Miku was the first in Japan. Vocaloid for the Vocaloid2 engine, though the first from Japan, and Japan's third in total. She is voiced by Saki Fujita. Miku was the one who attracted popularity for the Vocaloid engine through some of her Memetic Mutation videos; before then, Vocaloid was nothing more than an obscure music virtual instrument. She is the first in Crypton's Character Vocal series, and thus has a code-name of CV01.

A separate release by Crypton, "Miku Append", features six new voice banks recorded by Fujita Saki, "soft," "solid," "dark," "light," "sweet," and "vivid," designed to capture different moods. The original Miku is required to be installed in order to install the Append. An English bank, which began development way back in 2011, was released (at least in downloadable format) on August 31, 2013 (which coincidentally is her birthday), including an Apple Macintosh version, a first for Vocaloid. Her V4X voicebanks were released on August 31st, 2016; the ninth anniversary of the release of her original V2 voicebank.

She has a bright, generally-used-for-high-pitch voice, which also has a very large song demographic.

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• Action Girl: She's the second strongest character in Synchronicity, second only to the dragon she's forced to serve. There are also two videos that show how badass she is...
  • This one(also with slow motion), and
  • This one. It seems to rely on suggestive angles a few times. Besides, after her one moment of klutziness, she pulls off an even more Badass trick.
• A-Cup Angst: Most notably in one PV of "World is Mine" where she slaps her love interest with a leek for commenting on her breasts.
• Anti-Gravity Clothing: Her square ribbons are stated to hold her hair in place without physically touching it. This is averted in her V4X design.
• Alternate Character Reading: The name "Miku" is a pun based on the fact that the kanji can also be read as mirai, or "future."
• Arc Number: 39 (mi-ku). Her concert is 39's Giving Day (March 9), and her Facebook page needed 39,390 likes for her to get an English bank. Entertainingly, '3-9' can also be read as 'san-kyu', or 'thank you'.
• Artificial Human: In Test Tube Princess.
• Bare Your Midriff: Her new official "American" design.
• Berserk Button: Do not touch Miku's panties. It never ends well. Same applies to her leek.
  • According to Toyota, messing with her face will earn her wrath.
  • Sukone Tei, if stealing "Declare War On All Vocaloid" from Tei means anything.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her English voicebank, though only played straight with her V3 bundled package available since September 26, 2013 (the English voicebank which came out earlier can be purchased separately like Megpoid English).
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In Synchronicity. Len frees her of the mask that made her like this in the second song of the three-part series.
  • Also this way in Festival of Asylum.
• Breakout Character: Probably the most famous Vocaloid of them all; even many people who don't know about Vocaloid are dimly aware of who she is.
• Character Celebrity Endorsement: She starred in a series of Toyota Corolla commercials (for the USA), as a result of Toyota being the main sponsor of her live concert at Anime Expo 2011 in Los Angeles. It happened again with Lux shampoo when the company sponsored the 2016 Hatsune Miku Symphony.
• The Chosen One: Pretty much this in Project DIVA X. It's up to her and the player to restore the world of music. Everyone else? Nah.
• Cloudcuckoolander: For example...
• Dangerously Short Skirt: She wears one in the Project DIVA video for Cantarella.
• Determinator: In the 3D PV of Hello, Planet, she doesn't let little things like her arm falling off from journeying across the devastated post-apocalyptic world to find her master.
• Does Not Like Shoes: Her Append appearance has her barefoot.
• The Dragon: Both literally and in terms of the trope, but trapped in human form, in Synchronicity.
• Genki Girl: Her portrayal in Project DIVA 2nd.
• Girlish Pigtails: All the way to the ground!
• Grand Romantic Gesture: In 1/6, in which she helps her depressed boyfriend by taking him up to a huge tower so that he can feel "elevated".
  Miku: The sun gives its light
  To let the moon glow
  Can you let me help you like them?
• Hotter and Sexier: Her Append boxart has been accused of being oversexualized.
  • Her English voicebank design looks like an older, more adult version of her, including slightly larger breasts, and more piercing looking eyes. Behold.
• Iconic Outfit: Over all of the design variations that she's gone through, the one outfit that's held up is her original V2 design.
• Jack-of-All-Trades: As of her Append upgrade; her six extra voicebanks theoretically should give her the proper tonal qualities to produce most kinds of music now. Append was created in response to user complaints that Miku's voice was too cute and cheery for some of the songs people wanted to make with her.
• Leotard of Power: Her Append design is made of this. Would've been taken more literally if she had a Power voicebank.
• Mascot: Crypton uses her a lot to promote themselves.
• Meaningful Name: 'Hatsune' means 'first sound'; Miku was the first Japanese Vocaloid2 character to be produced.
  • Her full name means "First sound of the future."
• Multicolored Hair: Her English voicebank design sports varying shades of neon colors on her hair, from dark green to lime, and even purple.
• Our Dragons Are Different: She's actually a dragon trapped in human form and forced to ensure that no-one interferes with the process of offering girls to die to appease the other and even stronger dragon in Synchronicity.
• Psycho Lesbian: To Gumi in Escape The Princess.
• Rapunzel Hair: It goes all the way down to her ankles for crying out loud!
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards Tei in the first song Tei made.
• Sailor Fuku: "Ha2ne Miku", a non-idol version of Miku, is often her default outfit in the DIVA series. This was retired by F, which moved out of the school setting.
• Lazy Bum: In a good number of her more humorous songs she talks about how she can't stay awake or complains about working (Triple Baka, Take It Easy and World is Mine come to mind).
  • She also sings Sloth's song in Mothy's Seven Deadly Sins series.
• Smark: BE MIKU got her labeled as one.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She's one of the most popular out of all the Vocaloids, to the point that some people don't realize other Vocaloids exist.
  • Many of the others have similar levels of popularity...within the fandom. Non-fans usually only know about Miku. Crypton's mascotization of Miku doesn't help; they have, for example, 40 different collectible Vocaloid phone charms, 29 of which are Mikus. Vocaloid concerts also tend to be about 3/4ths Miku and 1/4th everyone else.
  • There's a reason the Hatsune Miku Project DIVA series has her name plastered on it. Around 60% to 70% of the songs in every game are Miku songs or feature Miku in some capacity. The other five featured Vocaloids combined get far less representation than her. For example, in F, out of the 39 playable songs, only 12 didn't have Miku in them.
    • It's even worse in X, where she's in all but three of the thirty-two available songs.
• Stripperific: Her recent "Racing Queen" design by Goodsmile Racing for the Sepang GT race in Malaysia as reported here.
• The Cameo: Miku (singing World is Mine) appears in The iDOLM@STER 2 for the PS3 as a priced DLC opponent for the game's Festival stages. Furthermore, she has an alternate download pack which gives her the Miku Append outfit and an alternate song (Melt).
  • She was a DLC character in Persona 4: Dancing All Night, likely due to the fact that Sega owns both the Persona and Project Diva series.
• The Rival: To Tei Sukone. And with good reason.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Usually portrayed as the Girly Girl to Rin's tomboy.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Negi/Leek. It came from her cover of the Ievan Polka, in which she discredited the Leekspin meme from Orihime and made it her own. Along with the leeks she also has a fondness for bacon wrapped hotdogs. according to the Toyota ads.
• Updated Re-release: Miku Append, where she received an update that consisted of six new voicebanks: Soft, Sweet, Dark, Vivid, Solid, and Light. All of which reflect her moods and gives her more vocal range.
  • Her V3 Japanese voicebanks, which are all updates of her original V2 voicebanks, available since September 26, 2013.
  • Her Vocaloid4X voicebanks, made to address the issues with the V3 banks, available since August 31, 2016.
• World's Most Beautiful Woman: Deconstructed in "Alice of Human Sacrifice", where her beauty leads to her becoming an incredibly vain queen and fearing what would happen if she grows old. The song never gives specifics as to what happens to her next, but most PVs have interpreted her as going completely insane.
• Tsundere: During "World of Mine" where she is a type A; bitchy and lovesick at the same time but mellowing to the later at the end of the song.
• Yandere: Most notably in the song ACUTE, but if she's in a scenario where she loves KAITO and she gets rejected in favor of someone else, there will be pain.
  • Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance is another example.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: However, it may alternate between different shades of green and blue. The most often-agreed on color is cyan.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Wearing thigh high boots. Rank A; can qualify for Rank S (with Tsundere added) depending on depictions.

Kagamine Rin / Kagamine Len

Formally distributed as a package together (officially they are Kagamine Rin/Len), Rin and Len make up the second Japanese Vocaloid to be released for the Vocaloid2 engine and the fourth overall. They are distributed by Crypton Future Media and voiced by Asami Shimoda. They are the second in the Character Vocal series and are thus codenamed CV02.

They later received an "ACT2" update voice package with an entirely new set of voices, although whether they're better are up to you. At the time, installing ACT2 required the original Rin/Len installation, but now only the ACT2 is currently being sold and the original is unavailable. In the same vein as Miku, they received an Append—Power, Warm, and Sweet for Rin; Power, Cold, and Serious for Len. They also received a Vocaloid4X update with English voicebanks on December 25 2015.

Debating on whether they are mirror images or twins will cause Internet Backdraft, as Crypton once described them as opposite sides of a mirror ("kagami" meaning "mirror"), but later changed it back to twins. Eventually they just took back both definitions and left it hanging to anyone's interpretation.

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• Adorkable: Both are frequently depicted as such.
  • Len in Kokoro and Rin in Suki Daisuki.
• Alternate Self: The pair are portrayed this way in Mirror's Magic and Magic Mirror, in which Len is an eternally unlucky and miserable boy locked in a tower and Rin is his eternally happy and lucky counterpart. When Len manages to reverse his situation by cursing her through the eponymous mirror, she ends up in the same position as him. Stricken by remorse, he takes the role of a "magician" and gives her back all of the happiness he stole from her at the cost of his own, destroying the mirror at the end to make it permanent, implying that he'll be left to languish in terrible conditions despite Rin's pleading him to stay.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Rin is portrayed as a serial killer in Karakuri Burst, wielding a gun and katana.
  Rin: Destroy, destroy
  Is it enough? It's not enough
  I have an insatiable impulse for destruction
  Fragile, how fragile, how fragile humans are
  • Rin again in Fear Garden, where she gleefully murders the other Vocaloids and chops off their arms to plant in her garden like flowers.

• Declaration of Protection: While Rin is usually depicted as the older of the two, Len is usually portrayed as being very protective of her (Servant of Evil and Kaito ga Uninstall for example). This is usually what leads to his death.
• Bishounen: Whenever Len's drawn to look older than a young teenager in certain PVs, he's this.
• Brother–Sister Team: In some songs, such as Trick and Treat and Desert Bluebird.
• Chick Magnet: In one Project Diva video, a Rokurokubi falls in love with him instantly!
• Creepy Twins: In "Trick and Treat".
• Cute and Psycho: Both twins are portrayed as this in various songs, but Len especially in tracks like True Love Restraint and Super Hero.
• The Cutie: Project Diva and Mirai often emphasise and describe Rin's cuteness.
• Damsel in Distress: Rin becomes one in Synchronicity, which takes place in a world where girls are selected at a young age to appease a dragon by singing and dancing for it nonstop until they die of exhaustion and starvation. Naturally, Len and several of the other Vocaloids take it upon themselves to rescue her.
• The Dividual: Obviously of the Twindividual variety.
• Evil Versus Evil: In "Karakuri Burst". With Rin as an Axe-Crazy assassin and Len as a corrupt, Nazi-like soldier, it's kind of hard to tell who we're supposed to root for.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Songs usually describe Rin as outgoing, Tsundere, selfish, stubborn and/or plucky; Len is usually portrayed as intelligent, sensitive, cute, and/or serious. Their Appends stretched this further: Rin has Power, Warm and Sweet, while Len has Power, Cold and Serious.
  • They have a juxtaposed duet in Paradise of Light and Shadow:
  Rin: A song of hope and light for tomorrow
  Len: A song of despair and shadow to bury the past.
• Girly Run: Len in this PV of Alice in Musicland.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Rin in Story of Evil. She also plays a much sillier example in Death Should Not Have Taken Thee.
• Greek Chorus: In "Witch Hunt", they appear as two commoners providing exposition.
• Hair Decorations: Rin's ribbon.
• Heel Realization: Rin's character in "Story of Evil", after Len's character sacrifices himself for her. Len has one of these in a fanmade PV for "Spice!", when he is in the middle of pretty much trying to rape Rin.
• Heroic R.R.O.D.: Part of the main conflict of Synchronicity. Len has to find Rin before she succumbs to this.
• Half-Identical Twins/Opposite-Sex Clone: Depending on what side of the twins vs. mirror images debate you're on. ^note Of course, if you consider them to be robots, they lean closer to the latter.
• Iconic Item: The roda rora (Roadroller) is synonymous with the Kagamine twins.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Len, usually in regards to Rin and/or Miku.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The best example of this would probably be "Okay, Green is the Enemy", where Rin gets jealous of Miku after she catches Kaito's attention, and asks Neru for advice on what to do about it. Neru suggests that they leave nasty comments on her videos and make her life miserable, but Rin turns the idea down because while she's jealous of Miku, she still admires her and doesn't want to do anything that would hurt her feelings.
• Kid-anova: Len in "Spice!" and "Messiah or Desire". One YouTube comment pretty much sums it up for all the mature Len songs.:
  "If he's not dying, he's womanizing."
• Kiddie Kid: Rin is often portrayed with a childish personality, in contrast to Len's maturity.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: Len is often depicted as this in darker songs. He takes on a more heroic variant in Synchronicity.
• Magical Girl: Subverted, with Len as a Magical Kitty. Seriously.
• Meaningful Name: 'Kagamine' means 'mirror sound', to emphasize their mirror-image nature.
• Order Versus Chaos: In "Karakuri Burst", wherein Rin is an Axe-Crazy serial killer (chaos) and Len is a Knight Templar soldier whose mission is to destroy all evil (order). Interestingly, it's also a case of Evil Versus Evil.
• Pink Means Feminine: Rin wears a pink dress and a white hat with a pink ribbon in the PVs of Prisoner and Paper Plane.
  • She also has a pink bow in one PV of Suki Daisuki.
• Rockers Smash Guitars: The Project Diva X and live version of The Lost One's Weeping has Rin smashing and tossing equipment all over the place, starting with her guitar.
• Sailor Fuku: Rin, however, gets shorts, while Len gets the male version with the tie.
• Sarashi: They provide the page image, each modeling her/his own gender's variation.
• Screw Yourself / Twincest: It's not entirely unusual to portray them as siblings and then romantically pair the two of them up with each other. Many songs indeed played this up.
• Separated at Birth: Played for Drama in many of their songs.
  • In Synchronicity, they're both this but linked psychically, this being the reason for Len's determination to save her from the dragon that so many girls before her had died for.
• Servile Snarker: Len (the soldier) is this to Rin (the king) in Death Should Not Have Taken Thee!.
• She's Got Legs: Rin's shorts (and mini-skirt in V4X) are minuscule. Some fan artists elongate her shorts for dignity, as a result.
  • Project Diva 2 has proven that Len doesn't have bad looking legs either...
  • Project Diva -f- as well. Thank you Punkish◊ and Stylish Energy L◊ modules.
• Sibling Rivalry: Not common, but this can come up between the two, the best example being "Childish War".
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • Len in Like, Dislike. His stalking allowed him to buy the Rainbow Quartz that Rin was eyeing and he tries to cover it with a Suspiciously Specific Denial. Rin doesn't buy it for a second.
  • Also Rin, in "A Loving Robot."
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: In Alice of Human Sacrifice, Rin is stated to be "a stubborn elder sister" while Len is noted to be "a smart younger brother".
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Len, especially in Project Diva 2nd.
  • Here and here too. 'Legs that beg captivation' indeed...
  • Made worse by the release of Dreamy theater....enjoy higher graphics version of the above songs here and here.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: The video for "Skeleton Life" has Rin pulling one of these.
• Tender Tears: To say Len looks adorable when he cries is an understatement.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Both of them get killed in many of their songs.
• Theme Twin Naming: Their names (R and L) are plays on 'right' and 'left' respectively. In addition, L and R are nearly interchangeable in Japanese, making their names sound almost identical.
• The Ojou: Rin in the Story of Evil series.
• Token Mini-Moe: Both of them among the Cryptonloids.
• Updated Re-release: The Kagamine Rin/Len Append and V4X.
• Villain Protagonist: They tend to be this in the darker songs. Usually, it's Rin (Evil series, Fear Garden and Thirteen Year Old Killer) but Len has played this role in The Riddle Solver Who Couldn't Solve Riddles, Spice!, True Love Restraint and Psychotic Love Song and both of them have played this in Trick and Treat.
  • Len could be argued as an Anti Villain Protagonist in the Story of Evil, too. Though motivated by sisterly love, he is still The Dragon to the Royal Brat Rin and participated in a lot of unsavory acts at her command (including killing his adoptive father). Of course, his sacrifice tends to overshadow that.
• What Have I Done: Rin in Message of Regret.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: Rin wears short shorts. Depending on the module, Len gets them in the DIVA series.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: Len has done so on a couple of occasions (sometimes against his will). And he looked quite good doing it.
• Woman in White: Rin V4X has a primarily white outfit that is far different from her previous design.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Rin in Karakuri Burst.
  • Len's Punkish costume in DIVA 2nd.

Megurine Luka

Luka is the sixth Japanese Vocaloid and released by Crypton Future Media. Notable in that 1) she's actually given a Canon personality as "cool, somewhat mysterious", 2) she has both a Japanese and heavily accented English voicebank and 3) her given "age", 20, is significantly older than that of Miku's (16) and Rin/Len's (14). She is voiced by Yuu Asakawa.

As the third in Crypton's "Character Vocal" series, she is codenamed CV03.

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• Bare Your Midriff
• Big Bad: Plays the villainous role in the "Synchronicity" series, although it's later implied that the REAL villain is the dragon.
• Bilingual Bonus: Luka is the first Vocaloid to support phonemes for more than one language (Japanese and English). As of her V4X update, she has two English voicebanks- Straight and Soft.
• Cool Big Sis: Some interpretations feature her as this. The Project DIVA games even have a cutscene where Miku, Len and Rin refer to her as "Luka-nee".
• Determinator: In Double Lariat.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: It depends on who's drawing her, but a lot of the time she only has one forearm sleeve.
  • She is depicted this way in the Vocaloid game, Project DIVA, along with in Hatsune Mix, the manga drawn by Luka's designer, KEI.
  • According to KEI, she was specifically drawn asymmetrical to reflect the fact she is bilingual.
• Jiggle Physics: In her cover of Levan Polka^note Shown here alongside Miku's. Project DIVA also likes to emphasize her bust, such as in "Ai Dee".
• Meaningful Name: 'Megurine' means 'revolving sound', referencing her bilingual capabilities.
• Ojou: Luka is usually portrayed as a refined young lady in official media. She has a more sophisticated design than the other Cryptonloids (especially in the V4x version), a calm and whispery voice, Rapunzel Hair, a black/brown/gold color scheme, design elements that mimic woodwind and brass instruments with a blue jewel, was seen playing a cello in one of the Project Diva openings, was a main character in the Elegant and Cool clouds in Project Diva X, most of her dance routines are distinctively more feminine and graceful than the other females of the group, and one of her recommended genres is Jazz.
  • Crypton Future Media even teamed up with the famous French brand Cattier to produce a special limited edition of Luka-themed champagne.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Reality Warper: In this PV of Alice in Musicland, wherein she's shown to teleport, turn invisible and even replace Miku's reflection in the water with her own. Justified partly because she's playing the Cheshire Cat and partly because it's All Just a Dream. Or is it?
• Smug Snake: In the "Synchronicity" trilogy. Just look at her face!◊
• Surprisingly Good English: Much More often than you'd think.
  • And Surprisingly Good Italian.
• The Stoic: Most of the time as her official profile states.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Tuna.
  • Asakawa Yuu stated to have followed the item competition that created this; when she found out it was tuna, she let out a Big "NO!".
  • "Maguro Tabetai" (I Want to Eat Tuna) is all about Luka craving tuna and going on about the best kinds of Japanese tuna to eat.
• Tsundere: Extreme A-type in "Go Google It". Hell, the song's even nicknamed "Gugudere"!
• Updated Re-release: Recieved not a Vocaloid3 update, unlike Kaito, Meiko, and Miku, but a Vocaloid4 update titled "Megurine Luka V4X". This update is notable in that it contains the brand-new EVEC system developed by Crypton to provide greater expression for their Vocaloids, as well as two different English vocals- Straight and Soft.
• Villain with Good Publicity: In "The Tailor of Enbizaka" and the "Synchronicity" series. For bonus points on the latter, she turns everyone against the heroes, boosting her publicity even further.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: According to the handy manual, her character in the "Synchronicity" trilogy wants the human sacrifices to continue because she knows the dragon will go on a murderous rampage if they don't. Not the best plan, but she had the kingdom's best interests at heart.
• Whip It Good: One of her character items is a whip.
• Yandere: The Tailor Shop On Enbizaka
  • RIP=RELEASE, an answer song for Len's Spice!.
  • Love Disease. (Warning: The image is Nightmare Fuel for some).
• Victoria's Secret Compartment: Hides a fork in her bra in the PV for "Go Google It" — which she uses to stab Gakupo in the hand.
• Zettai Ryouiki: A sort of variation—her stockings do go past her skirt, but you can see it anyway because there is a slit in it.

Tone Rion

A Vocaloid for the third engine. Her brief backstory states that she is 16 years old and was born in 2095, she is good at singing and dancing. Rion preforms on the "Dear Stage" (ディアステージ) located in future Akihabara set 100 years from the current. She has her own website and had eight demo songs (example here) before her release on 16 December 2011. She's designed by famous character designer Akio Watanabe, and Yukiko Horiguchi for her V4 redesign.

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• Animal Motifs: Rabbits. Her surname means "rabbit's sleep", and her V4 design has rabbits on her jacket.
• Blush Sticker: Can't miss em'.
• Cute Little Fangs: Practically a signature of Akio Watanabe characters.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Her existence had been hinted in the Vonama NicoVideo◊ before she's officially revealed to the public.
• Fingerless Gloves: Rule of Cute.
• Giant Waist Ribbon: It stands stiff, all mecha-like.
• Hair Decorations: She has (what appears to be) a little sea angel barrette.
• Kid from the Future
• Meido: Stylized after one.
• Moe: Her design invokes this, as she was intended for the Otaku demographic.
• Nice Hat
• Pointless Band-Aid: Again, a signature item of many Akio Watanabe characters.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: In her redesign.
• Wingding Eyes: Purple heart-shaped reflections in her irises.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Yumemi Nemu

The second Vocaloid produced under Dear Stage, and their first original Vocaloid for the VOCALOID4 engine. She was initially released alongside Tone Rion V4 on February 16, 2017, and shares Rion's V4 character designer Yukiko Horiguchi. Her vocal provider is Nemu Yumemi of DEMPAGUMI.Inc.

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• Animal Motifs: Tanuki. Her half of the NemuRion page has tanuki silhouettes in the background, her jacket has a tanuki logo on it, and she owns a pet tanuki.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Has a big yellow "N" (for "Nemu") on the right side of her jacket.
• Cartoon Creature: TanuQn, the small blue tanuki on Nemu's left arm.
• Cover Version: Her demo song, "Anone... Jitsu wa, Atashi wa Yumemi Nemu Da..." is a cover of her voice provider's "I Am" Song.
• Hand-Hiding Sleeves: Of the "Cute" variety. This is Moe Japan, after all.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Her design is based directly off of her vocal provider.
• Moe: Right down to having a design from the character designer of one of Japan's staple moe anime. Invoked, as she's intended for the Otaku audience.
• Motor Mouth: Portrayed like this in her demo song.
• Never Bareheaded: Always seen with a pair of headphones on.
• True Blue Femininity: Uses aqua as her motif color.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?

Kamui Gakupo/Gackpoid^note His formal product name is "Gackpoid", but he is given an official character name of Kamui Gakupo (also spelled Camui Gackpo).

The fifth Japanese Vocaloid and the first to be distributed by Internet Co., Ltd. rather than Crypton. His outfit is based on that of a samurai. He was designed by Kentaro Miura (the creator of Berserk) and is voiced by Gackt. Yes, that Gackt.

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• Author Avatar: A variation; Gakupo is said to be "an extension of Gackt's persona".
• Bishounen
• Blade Below the Shoulder: In the Synchronicity series, before Miku destroys it.
• Dogged Nice Guy: In "Go Google It".
• Everything's Better with Samurai
• Face Death with Dignity: His cover of "Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" seems to invoke this trope, as it's set to a slower, more calm tune (though still somewhat melancholy). Perhaps it's a samurai thing.
• Harem Seeker: In Madness of Duke Venomania.
• Idiot Hair: A fairly noticeable one (look at the picture).
• Katanas Are Just Better: According to the official profile, this katana actually serves some musical function.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Mr. Fanservice: Even during his Joke Character days, he was portrayed as a handsome man running around in a fundoshi that barely covered his unusually sculpted rear. Aside from that, if he was a lover, he was usually played off as this. "The Madness of Duke Venomania" just took this trait Up to Eleven.
• Obi-Wan Moment: In "Sayonara, Arigatou", his last day with Rin is spent bidding her farewell for the future, regretful that he could not live long enough for her to receive her "Kokoro".
• Otaku: How he's portrayed in the 2015 Niconico Cho Party concert. His room is filled wall to wall with Gumi merchandise, and he's constantly running around with a dakimakura (once with Gumi, the second time with IA).
• The Reveal: "Sayonara, Arigatou" reveals that he is Rin's creator in "Kokoro". Thanks to Adaptation Displacement, most people will tell you it was Len.
• Serious Business: In Dancing Samurai, he believes that anyone who doesn't know how to dance should just die. Ouch.
• Surprisingly Good English:
  • Most of ROY-P's songs featuring Gakupo has him speaking Engrish (mostly for the choruses) at worst , but then you have "Pain of the Sins" a full-fledged, honest-to-God English song made using his Japanese voicebank.
  • Although his English Voicebank is not yet out, it's not uncommon for Vocaloid users to make Gakupo sing in English. Take a look at these.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Eggplants.
• Updated Re-release: His Vocaloid 3 version, which updated his original voice as Native and gave him extra Power and Whisper voicebanks.
  • His V4 update, however, was identical to his V3 voicebanks except with growl samples added.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Literally in "Near Future City". He's hooked up to one of the machines that apparently contributed to instigating the apocalypse.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Has purple hair.

Gumi/Megpoid^note Her formal product name is "Megpoid", but she is given an official character name of GUMI.

The seventh Japanese Vocaloid and released by Internet Co., Ltd., Gumi had a design heavily based off Ranka Lee due to the fact that her voicer, Megumi Nakajima, was Ranka's voice actress.

In the vein of Crypton Vocaloids' Appends, she also gets a voicebank update to be released in Vocaloid3 engine, which was named "Megpoid Extend", but is now officially "Vocaloid3 Megpoid" a notable acknowledge to her product name. On November 5, 2015, she had ten Japanese voicebanks released for Vocaloid4.

An English voicebank for Vocaloid3 was developed with several demos shown, and was eventually released on February 28, 2013, available at the English Vocaloid Store. It has been confirmed she will have another English voicebank, with production starting in 2016 or 2017.

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• Ambiguous Disorder: Considering that for whatever reason many of her songs contain trippy imagery, or give mental issues to her caused by various reasons... (Often due to Love Hurts, e.g. "Ten Faced")
• All Love Is Unrequited: It used to be a fandom joke that Gumi was incapable of getting the one boy she loved in any given song. And a lot of the time, her crush would also be none the wiser until the very last minute.
• Bare Your Midriff: A variation in her standard costume, her shirt is very transparent for her navel to be visible. Played straight in her Vocaloid3 and Vocaloid4 costumes. Subverted in her design following the release of her English voicebank.
• Be Yourself: The Aesop she learns in Ten Faced.
• Bilingual Bonus: Her English Voicebank, though subverted in a way as it is sold separately from her other (Japanese) voicebanks.
• Boyish Short Hair
• Composite Character: In "Music Wizard of Oz", she plays the titular wizard, who comes off as a cross between the Wizard of Oz and Glinda the Good Witch.
• Did Not Get the Girl: Gender Inverted. An alarming number of her most popular songs have her romantic relationships just not working out. They usually end in a bittersweet way at best or tragically at worst.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Well...unless they're like Gakupo's katana.
  • Taken to ridiculous levels in Sheep Sleep Sheep where she's shown to possess a big pile of them.
• Guest Fighter: As part of her 5th anniversary celebration, she is part of a major BEMANI crossover event, and is an opponent character in Popn Music, although she is not playable.
• Hotter and Sexier: See Underboobs below. And especially her whisper◊,adult◊, and english◊ versions.
• Jack-of-All-Trades: Her various new Vocaloid 3 voicebanks, which can be purchased as a bundle (except her "Native" voicebank, see below), give her quite a bit of versatility.
• Licensed Game: Megpoid the Music#. She was also licensed off for Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project mirai, although she only appears in a few songs and isn't able to be interacted with. Later installments gave her her own Nendoroid model and costumes, but still kept her as a guest.
• Louis Cypher: In mothy's works, her largest role is as The Master of the Hellish Yard.
• Love Hurts: A constant victim of this in her songs.
• Nonstandard Character Design: Just as Gakupo's design was done by a famous mangaka, GUMI got this treatment as well — hers was done by Masami Yuuki, the creator of Birdy the Mighty.
• Opera Gloves: Has them in her English voicebank design.
• Split Personality: Because Love Hurts and makes you crazy in the song "Ten Faced"..
  • Also in "A Fake, Fake, Psychotropic".
• Surprisingly Good English: Her English voicebank can produce this when it's put to good use. The earliest example of this is her second English Voicebank Demo, cover of Cindy Lauper's Time After Time.
  • Also made obvious in the original Engish song ECHO, which is understandable even without subtitles.
• Took a Level in Badass: Our 16bit Warz
  • Also, "Mozaik Role".
    • Heck, her cameo in Judgement of Corruption tops all of these; She's pretty much SATAN!
• Trademark Favorite Food: Carrots. Surely there's an Aesop hidden this fact somewhere... This is because she wears orange clothes and has green hair... Right?
• Updated Re-release: Her Vocaloid 3 "Native" voicebank, which is basically a Vocaloid 3 version of her original Vocaloid 2 voicebank (which is now out of print). She later got another update for Vocaloid4.
• Underboobs: What her Vocaloid3 attires are most notable for. No, really.
• Yandere: "Sweet Shackles". It's like Gumi is channeling Yuno Gasai.
• Zettai Ryouiki: In her Vocaloid3 attires, with boots. Grade B.
  • Her design for her English voicebank has her in stockings. Grade A.

Lily

Lily is the eleventh Japanese Vocaloid and is distributed by Internet Co., Ltd. (Note that she was not actually done by Internet; she was made by Avex Co.) Lily's design was actually utilized pre-Vocaloidification as an anime image for Masuda Yuri, vocalist of band m.o.v.e., who provided her voice bank. Coincidentally, said design happened to be by KEI, designer of the Crypton Character Vocal Series Vocaloids.

She was advertised with an animated movie, "Schwarzgazer", depicting her and her companion "Mosh" as secretly fighting a mysterious dark "virus" force that they must combat with their music. Failure to produce music results in weakness, which almost deletes Lily and Mosh before a nearby music producer, Yakuto, saves them by supplying them with music. So does that make Lily a sort of undercover superhero?

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• Animal Motif: Bees.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Biker Babe: In "Schwarzgazer". Notable because she's the one who ride the bike, not her overly-muscular, broad-shouldered partner Mosh.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes
• Meaningful Name: Lily is the English translation of "Yuri".
• Rapunzel Hair
• Stripperiffic
• Tattooed Crook: To emphasis her 'punk girl' imagery, she has some on her left wrist and her lower back that extends to both side of her waist. Fan artists tend to miss this one feature of hers because her clothes (if you can call those clothes) are often cover them.
• Updated Re-release: Has received a V3 Native update.
• Yandere: One of her first major hits, "Chloe", is a yandere song. Here comes yet another one, folks.
  • "Marie-Luise", which was made by sele-P like "Chloe", also is an example, albeit with Incompatible Orientation & Unlucky Childhood Friend involved.

Ryuto/Gachapoid^note His formal product name is "Gachapoid", but he is given an official character name of Ryuto.

Based off the Japanese franchise character Gachapin, Gachapoid is distributed by Internet Co. Ltd. as the thirteenth Japanese Vocaloid. He is designed to appeal to young producers. His voice provider is Japanese voice actress, Kuniko Amemiya.

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• Curtains Match the Window
• Moe Anthropomorphism: He gets his own "human version".
• Ridiculously Cute Critter
• Token Mini-Moe: Among the Internet Co's published Vocaloids.
• Updated Re-release: Initially wasn't planned to have a V3 release yet ended up receiving one anyway. Out of all the V3 vocaloids, his is the only one to be download only.

CUL

Another Vocaloid using the Vocaloid 3 engine, she was an avatar of VY1 (see its section above). As the Mascot of VOCALO Revolution, she was designed to help promote the growing Vocaloid culture, aiming to raise awareness and the acceptance of this culture. That's before Internet Co. Ltd, on June 8, 2011, adopted her design to become a new Vocaloid.

She was released on 21st December 2011, along with Oliver. She's voiced by Eri Kitamura.

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• Badass Longcoat
• Hotter and Sexier: The only explanation for why she feels to wear a garterbelt over some very short shorts to hold up her stockings in her redesign. Her low-cut, cropped halter top also adds to this. For some reason she also has a Badass Longcoat though.
• Lady in Red: Before her redesign.
• Meaningful Name: Her name CUL is from the word "Culture". As stated above, she was used to help promote the growing Vocaloid culture.
• Of Corsets Sexy
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Spear Counterpart: REV, another VOCALO Revolution mascot which was an avatar for VY2 (see its section above).
• Unfortunate Name: Cul, as noted by many fans, means "ass" in French.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: Her redesign.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Galaco

Galaco is a limited voicebank offered exclusively in the Vocaloid Shop competition. She was first introduced in the PV of galaxias! of the band of the same name, and voiced by Kou Shibasaki. Eventually, she was officially released for V3 under the name "Galaco NEO" on August 5, 2014 with an updated version of the original vocal (Red) and a new additional vocal (Blue).

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• Cool Crown
• Early-Bird Cameo: In a similar way to Tone Rion below, she first made appearances in merchandises in Vocaloid Store, but censored.
• Facial Markings: She has one triangle underneath each eye.
• Hime Cut
• Meaningful Name: Galaco's name is similar to the Greek word for milk, γαλακος^note galakos, where the word "galaxy" derived from. Which makes sense, considering she has a space-themed design.
• Multicolored Hair: Along with the blond and brunette long hair, she has multicolored bangs as well.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Star-Spangled Spandex: Her skirt, boots and tanktop has a galaxy-like motif.
• Surprisingly Good English: Here.

Kokone

A vocaloid by Internet Co, released for the V3 engine on February 14, 2014. Noted for having the largest vocal range of any released Vocaloid. Here is one of her demos.

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• Dangerously Short Skirt
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her detached sleeves; short on the right arm, long on the left.
• Jack-of-All-Trades: Was designed to be this. Due to the versatile nature of the vocal, she can perform a variety of singing roles.
• Multicolored Hair: Dark brown at the head, red at the tips.

Chika

A Vocaloid released by Internet Co. as part of the "Character Artist" series. She was released on October 16, 2014. Her voice is provided by Chiaki Ito of AAA fame.

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• Animal Motif: Butterflies. They appeared everywhere in "Chaos Theory", and she had them as a reference to Shrignold for her "LOVE" video.
• Bastard Girlfriend: In "LOVE", she portrayed a failing, obsessive relationship from the abuser's point of view.
• Hair Decorations: Two big black bows on either side of her head.
• Odango Hair: Her main look. She has an alternate one where her hair is cut short.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: In the music video for Chiaki Ito's "Charming Kiss", Chika herself appears alongside her voice provider to dance with her and drag her into her mirror.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie
• Show Within a Show: In "Charming Kiss", Chika appeared as the protagonist of the manga Chiaki Ito was reading, also titled Charming Kiss.
• The Unfavorite: She was voted the least popular Vocaloid of 2014.

Otomachi Una

The first original Vocaloid 4 character developed for the company. She has two default modes— "Sugar", her softer bank, and "Spicy", her energetic bank. Released in July 2016. Her vocal provider is Aimi Tanaka.

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• Curtains Match the Window: Although her hair is a slightly different shade of blue than her eyes.
• Cute Little Fangs
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Spicy moreso than Sugar, with radically different stockings, a cape over her skirt on one side, uneven streaks in her hair, a lightning bolt on one side of her hat, and a musical note painted on one cheek. Her Sugar design is more even, but still has mismatched socks and jewelry on one leg. Her Talk package adverts this entirely; pantyhose and upper garments are completely symmetrical.
• Meaningful Name: Her given name, Una, sounds like part of the word "unagi". She wears an eel hat in both of her forms.
• Multicolored Hair: Her twintails are a different color at the tip than the rest of it (Sugar has white, Spicy has yellow). Her Spicy design also has streaks of yellow in her bangs.
• Rapunzel Hair: For a little girl she's packing some serious locks.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Her "Sugar" side is the light, her "Spicy" side is the dark. They have pretty similar designs, but the Sugar one wears more frills and the Spicy one wears bolder, brighter colors and has a more eager expression. Both wear skirts, though.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

i-Style Project collab Studio DEEN and Sufer's Paradise

Aoki Lapis

Another Vocaloid using the Vocaloid 3 engine, released on April 6, 2012. Her style of music is known as "lifestyle", and that she is targeted towards casual Vocaloid users. The project leaders, comprising of the Surfer's Paradise search engine, the anime studio Studio DEEN, and Nico Nico Douga, sent out a call for NicoNico users to "audition" by submitting a song they believed would suit Lapis, with a chance to become her actual voice. The role of her seiyuu was eventually awarded to an Utatte-mita singer^note Utattemita is a category on NND used by people performing covers of various songs named Eguchi Nako.

She has at least two demos so far, which can be viewed here and here. Since her commercial release, she's had an explosion of cover songs, most of them quite well made.

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• Color-Coded Stones: She is named for the Lapis Lazuli Gemstone and has a color scheme of blue and purple.
• Fun Size: Word of God states that she's 15 centimeters tall.
• Hair Decorations: She sports a HUGE gem on her head.
• Identity Amnesia: She has no memory of who she is, according to Word of God.
• Innocent Blue Eyes
• Invisible to Normals: She's said to only be visible to a subset of human population.
• Magical Girl: Her apparent concept, complete with Transformation Sequence.
• Magic Music: Her singing can give life to others.
• Meaningful Name: Lapis comes from the jewel Lapis Lazuli. Also, "Aoki" means "blue princess". Guess what her primary color is.
• Our Fairies Are Different: As noted in I-style's official site, she's one of the faeries, a special race who can convert songs into power.
• Sailor Fuku
• Short Hair with Tail: Or rather, two tails.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Zettai Ryouiki: Again, with boots.

Merli

The second Studio Deen Vocaloid, her voice was determined by a contest just like Lapis before her. Merli has been described as Lapis's Darker and Edgier sister, which really shows. A demo of her voicebank can be heard here. She was later revealed to be voiced by Misaki Kamata.

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• Aloof Darkhaired Girl: Her personality is just as dark as her hair.
• Ambiguously Brown: The first Japanese Vocaloid to be so.
• Animal Motifs: Butterflies.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Darker and Edgier: Not only visually, as she's said to have a devilish personality.
• Evil Counterpart: Of Lapis above.
• Fun Size: She's only a centimeter taller than Lapis.
• Hair Decorations: It appears to resemble a crystalline head microphone.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Surprisingly enough, she's actually quite naive and innocent. However, she covers it up by pretending to know everything ad hoc.
• Meaningful Name: Her name is taken from Merlinite, a stone known for its dual light and dark appearance.
• Of Corsets Sexy
• Rapunzel Hair
• Sibling Yin-Yang: If Lapis can be seen as "light", then Merli would be seen as "dark".
• Tsundere: Word of God describes her as one, though it's never specified which type.
• Vampiric Draining: While Lapis' power of song gives life, Merli's draws energy from living things.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple hair with blue streaks, to be exact.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Yet again with boots.

Macne Nana

The very first voicebank to have previously been an UTAUloid! She was first part of the Macne Series, made because before Vocaloid Neo, Vocaloid was not compatible with Mac. Her voice provider is Haruna Ikezawa.

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• Bilingual Bonus: She has two voicebanks - Japanese and English.
• Canon Immigrant: She was originally an UTAUloid as well as a Macloid.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Word of God describes her as such.
• Follow the Leader: invoked She was inspired by the success of Hatsune Miku.
• Meaningful Name: Macne is a combination of the word "Mac", referring to the Macintosh related products, and Ne,"sound", so her name literally means "Mac Sound". Nana comes from her voice provider's nickname.
• Nice Hat: Wears a cute little beret.
• Rapunzel Hair
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: It's light green, like a green apple.
• Zettai Ryouki: Again, with boots.

Macne Petit^note Her full name is "Macne Nana Petit", but it was officially shortened to this in her Macne appearance. Her V4 package is referred to by this name.

Nana's younger sister, initially created as a "lite" version of her original vocals for the Macne series. When Nana was released for VOCALOID4, Petit was packaged alongside her.

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• Canon Immigrant: Just like her sister.
• Magical Girl: Her extra UTAU/GarageBand voicebank, Whisper☆Angel Sasayaki-san, is this.
• Meaningful Name: Petit is a letter short of "Petite", referring to her origins as a lite voicebank. She's also petite in every way compared to her sister: shorter, lighter voice, and a much smaller frame.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: Has this as her default look.
• The Straight Man: Plays this to the rest of the Macne household according to her backstory.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Looks almost identical to Nana. Justified, as her original concept was to be Nana's lite bank before she was made into her own character.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Light green, like her big sister. As Whisper☆Angel Sasayaki-san, her hair is blue.

Project 575 (SEGA)

Kobayashi Matcha/MATCHA^note  Her formal product name is "MATCHA" as of Vocaloid4, but she still retains her character name.

Part of a multimedia project called Project 575 by Sega, which uses a lighter version of Vocaloid 2. Matcha is the calmer, but more introverted of the two. Her voice is provided by Ayaka Ohashi. Along with Azuki, she finally got a public release and received a V4 update on July 12, 2017.

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• Edible Theme Naming: Her given name is based on a powdered green tea.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover
• Otaku: Likes making doujins in her spare time.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Azuki's red.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Dark green hair.

Masaoka Azuki/AZUKI^note Her formal product name is "AZUKI" as of Vocaloid4, but she still retains her character name.

The other half of the Project 575 duo. Azuki is the more cheerful one, but is rather impatient and often acts before thinking. Her voice is provided by Yuka Ootsubo. Along with Matcha, she was finally released to the public on July 12, 2017 with a V4 update.

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• Edible Theme Naming: Named after the Azuki bean, a bean noted for its red colorization.
• Fiery Redhead: She's quite energetic.
• Genki Girl
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Matcha's blue.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Deathly afraid of kites.

Note: All Japanese names are in Japanese order (surname-given name), as this is their formal product name arrangement. For consistency, the names of the providers of the voice banks are in the same format.

Exit Tunes

Mayu

The first Vocaloid devloped by Exit Tunes, Mayu is a Yandere-influenced Vocaloid.

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• An Axe to Grind: She wields a small hand axe, as seen in the above picture.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: The rabbit's name is Usano Mimi. It doubles as a microphone for her, and apparently she strangles it while she sings.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: She's quite the cutie, but she's often seen holding an axe.
• Multicolored Hair: Blond, with rainbow tint.
• Nice Hat: It's reminiscent of a record disk.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Yandere: Is said to be one via Word of God, and thus many of her most popular songs portray her as such.

Ki/oon

Utatane Piko

Released by Ki/oon, a subsidary of Sony (yes, that Sony), as the fifteenth Japanese Vocaloid and the first one by Sony. The voicebank was recorded by the Nico Nico Douga singer Piko, hence the name - this makes Piko somewhat of a Promoted Fanboy. The design is based on an electric guitar (complete with a power cord).

The voice data is male but has a feminine voice; however, gender factors can easily set to make it more masculine.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Piko's voice can be either masculine or feminine.
• Bishounen
• Idiot Hair: Styled after either a music note, or the letter P.
• Meaningful Name: "Utatane" means "sound of singer". His voice actor is Piko, an actual singer.
• Mismatched Eyes: His left eye is green and his right is turquoise.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Downplayed - he looks more robotic than most other designs, looking from his unusual headphones, his eyes, and especially his USB tail.

Lawson

Akikoloid-chan

Yet another new Vocaloid, she is the mascot of Lawson, Inc. Unlike other vocaloids, she is not intended for public sale, and is only used for private commercial purposes by Lawson.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: She originally has brown hair as Akiko-chan◊.
• Mascot
• Zettai Ryouiki

1st Place

IA

The first Vocaloid produced by 1st Place, IA is voiced by singer Lia. She is described on her official site as IA -ARIA ON THE PLANETES- and was released on January 27th, 2012. Her demo song was a cover of Lia's Tori no Uta. After having starred in kemu's "A Tale of Six Trillion Years and a Night" and the popular Kagerou Project franchise, she experienced a massive popularity surge and now stars alongside some of Vocaloid's biggest juggernauts.

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• Breakout Character: Is one of the most popular of the V3s, often featured in group pictures with the most famous Vocaloids.
• Cleavage Window: Her outfit in "A Tale of Six Trillion Years and a Night".
• Cloudcuckoolander: Her basic personality is that of a dreamer, and she is often portrayed in fan art and PVs with a distant look on her face. Her songs sometimes give this impression.
• Determinator: Taken literally, she can be this in "Setsuna Drive".
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her legwear.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Wants to form friendships with everyone. Also used and Played for Drama in Imagination Forest, with a Cute Monster Girl named Marry (not IA herself though, Marry is from Kagerou Project) closely resembling IA who isolates herself from the outside world because of her ability to make others be Taken for Granite.
• Licensed Game: The No Export for You IA/VT -COLORFUL- from Marvelous.
• Mad Dreamer: She is usually interpreted as a more serene version of this trope, but it still fits.
• Mysterious Waif: She was designed with this in mind.
• Mythology Gag: In Mekakucity Actors, she is cast as Momo Kisaragi's singing voice when she performs "Moon-Viewing Recital" as a reference to the original series. This is in contrast to the other remade songs, which feature human singers.
• Rapunzel Hair: Her hair falls to her ankle most of the time.
• Sailor Fuku: "Into Starlight -anniversary special ver.- gives her and ONE these. Amusingly, it retains her sock-based Fashionable Asymmetry, but now gives her Grade A Zettai Ryouiki on her right leg, Grade C on her other. Same goes for ONE.
• Screw Yourself: "Perverse Love Rock!" depicts IA hooking up with IA ROCKS, an "Append" version of herself with an improved voice bank.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Also apart of her given personality is that she wants to get along and be friends with everyone.
• Zettai Ryouiki: On her right leg only.

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We've Inc.

Rana

The 37th Vocaloid released for the VOCALOID 3 engine in collaboration with We've Inc. and Internet Co Ltd.. Her debut was in Vocalo-P ni Naritai! ("I want to become a Vocaloid producer!"), a how-to magazine showing novice users how to use Vocaloid software and create videos for their songs. Her voice is described as "tomboyish and ready to rock". Her voice is provided by Ai Kakuma. She was updated to Vocaloid4 on December 1, 2015.

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• Animal Motifs: Rana's hoodie is bear-shaped, and when she puts the hood on, the lights on her head resemble bear ears. Her logo also comes in the shape of a bear.
• Copy Protection: The only way one can use her Vocaloid3 is by collecting all the tickets found in the Vocalo-P ni Naritai! magazines. Her Vocaloid4 release averts this, being able to be bought normally.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: Has rainbows on her hoodie and the lights on her head. According to the creator, they're supposed to symbolize her users' creative freedom with her, so they may "color her with the color that best represents you".
• Robot Buddy: Three of them: Morio Shishou (a panda), Jasmine Kenkyuuin (a puppy), and Sakiko (a bird). Her Vocaloid4 release gave her a fourth companion: Kouhei (another bird).
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: Certainly has the looks of one.
• Sailor Fuku: One promotional image had Rana dress up in a Fujimura high school uniform.
• Significant Birth Date: Shares the same birthday as her voice provider.
• Stealth Pun: Rana's bear motif might be due to her voice provider's name being Ai Kakuma.
• Updated Re-release: She has a Vocaloid4 release.
• Younger Than They Look: Her official age is stated as 0.

Fuji Television

Anri Rune

A Fuji Television character used as an announcer. Originally a synthetic host for several failed TV programs, Anri was given new life as a Vocaloid.

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• Book Dumb: Official sources say that she get bad marks in Japanese class.
• Cosmic Plaything: This girl just hasn't gotten any luck. When she was used for Fuji TV she didn't stay on the programs for long because all of them got cancelled. When she was set to be used as an announcer for a phone service, it shut down after two years. And when she was converted to Vocaloid, she ended up only producing one major song before being left in limbo for two years, and then was subsequently retired as both a mascot and a Vocaloid.
• Canon Immigrant
• Lady in Red: During her Fuji TV days.
• invokedOne-Hit Wonder: Her first major hit was Kikuo's "Hallelujah Super Idol" before her retirement.
• Older Than They Look: Her redesign makes her look like a teenager, but her official age is 23.
• Pals with Jesus: Seems to have this relationship with God in "Hallelujah Super Idol".
• Put on a Bus: After her first performance, it was never made clear if she would be put up for commercial purposes. Turned into Bus Crash 2 years later, as YAMAHA stated she was never meant for commercial use and Fuji TV put out the statement that she was retired.

Sachiko Promotion, Inc.

Sachiko

Sachiko is the 4th vocaloid made for the V4 engine, made in partnership with YAMAHA and Sachiko Promotion, Inc. Her voice is provided by Enka singer Sachiko Kobayashi.

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• Anthropomorphic Personification: Word of God states she's supposed to be a singer that represents Japan.
• Iconic Item: Her incredibly large hand fan.
• Impractically Fancy Outfit: Truth in Television, too- enka singers like her voice provider often wore extravagant outfits for their stage shows.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Type A.

Universal Music Japan

Kano Akira/Arsloid^note His formal product name is "Arsloid", but he is given an official character name of Kano Akira.

The first Vocaloid produced by Universal Music Japan, announced during summer 2015 with a release date of September 23, 2015. He has three voicebanks; Original, Bright and Soft. His looks, personality, and voice are all based on the character Kano Akira of the dance troupe ARSMAGNA, with his debut even being in the demo for their song "Shokuetsu Parasite". He is voiced by Kano Akira's actor, Oosemachi Keiichi/OH-SE.

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• The Ace: Word of God states that students come to him for all sorts of problems.
• Curtains Match the Window
• Fiery Redhead: Prone to getting into fights at school according to Word of God.
• Idol Singer
• Meaningful Name: His product name comes from the real life Akira's idol group, ARSMAGNA (its own name coming from the Latin phrase "the great art").
• Pointless Bandaid: Wears one on his left cheek. Slightly justified due to his getting into fights all the time.
• School Uniforms Are the New Black: Wears his Chronos Senior High uniform as an outfit.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Vocaloid Net calls him "Alsloid", with his band being called "ALSMAGNA" in turn.
• Unfortunate Names: His product name sounds like the British pronunciation of "Ass". Naturally fans took this and ran with it.

Unity Technologies Japan

Otori Kohaku/AKAZA

A pair of Vocaloids created for the "Unity with VOCALOID" platform. Though Kohaku and AKAZA are different characters, they share the same voice bank. Their voice is provided by Kakumoto Asuka, Kohaku's original seiyuu.

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• Canon Foreigner: Kohaku was originally the mascot for Unity engine as Unity-chan.
• Dark-Skinned Blonde: AKAZA.
• Mega Twintails: Kohaku sports them.
• Personality Blood Types: Kohaku has AO bloodtype.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Curry croquette for Kohaku.

Akatsuki Visual Artists

LUMi

A Buddhist-themed Vocaloid released in August 2017, representing the concept of "Death for Life". Her voice is provided by Sayaka Ohara.

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• Animal Motifs: Jellyfish. She seems to carry one on her back, and her ability to regress to jellyfish form on severe injury is based on Turritopsis nutricula's ability to do the same. Her initial concept was even a jellyfish imitating human form.
• Animorphism: If he's hurt enough, she will turn into a jellyfish to recover.
• Bioluminescence Is Cool: She has glowing marks on her shoulders, fitting with her jellyfish theme.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: LUMi is supposed to take on humanity's pain, but is prone to that same pain herself due to dealing with personal anguish on top of it. As a result, her voicebank cones with built-in pained sounds.
• Magical Girl Queenliness Test: Her job is to turn 1000 of humanity's "seeds of anguish" into "seeds of hope". If she succeeds, she will Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence and become a goddess.
• Miko: A Benikurage miko, according to her backstory.
• Mystical White Hair: Her hair is tied to her backstory as a goddess-in-training.
• Woman in White: Goes hand in hand with her mystical nature.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. She may be semi-divine, but she's a kind soul.

SHARP

COCOROBO

A VOCALOID based on the limited edition version of the Cocorobo RX-V200. Originally known as "COCOROBO (Little Sister ver.)", the vacuum was sold in 2014 and utilized voice clips of voice actress Ibuki Kido to act as a friend to the user. The robot was later rereleased in 2016 with singing capabilities and the ability to make up speech thanks to using the VOCALOID4 engine. SHARP has revealed that they plan to sell COCOROBO commercially as well.

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• Mascot: Of Cocorobo, back when she was Cocorobo-chan.
• Moe Anthropomorphism: "ASHIOTO" portrays her as this for an unseen owner's vacuum.
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: She was a cute little girl◊ during the run of the "Little Sister ver." model. It took only two years to reach her late teens for her Vocaloid model.

Shanghai He Nian - Vocaloid China

Mo Qingxian, Zhiyu Moke, Luo Tianyi, Yuezheng Ling, Yuezheng Longya

The winning entries of V4 (formerly known as the "Vocaloid China project").

Note: There are only three confirmed Vocaloids presented, Luo Tianyi, who was the top winning entry for the project, Yuezheng Ling and Yuezheng Longya. The other two are confirmed to receive vocals some time in the future. Luo Tianyi was released on July 12, 2012 which much fanfare, including a few OVA-like videos as a means of publicity, while Yuezheng Ling was released on July 17, 2015. After much fan clamor to finally release one of the male vocals, Yuezheng Longya was released on June 28, 2017.

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• Accidental Kiss: Or at least, something that looks like it in one of Tianyi's demos, involving her with Ling.
• Alien Among Us: Tianyi's official profile states that she was summoned to earth with an important mission, and arrived in the guise of a Vocaloid.
• Aloof Darkhaired Girl: Qingxian. Her official profile states that she is quite popular; cool, stable, and good-looking. She's so mysterious that some people fear her.
• Bare Your Midriff: Qingxian.
• Beauty Mark: Ling has one. It's located on the right side, below her bottom lip.
  • Her brother Longya has two; one under each eye.
• Big Brother Instinct: Longya's official profile states that he has a bit of a sister complex.
• Big Eater: Tianyi. Originating from one of Tianyi's first popular works, Millennium Recipe Song, which was a tribute to Chinese cuisine. Often Played for Laughs in official promotions, making this Ascended Fanon.
• Child Prodigy: Moke, with an IQ of 168.
• Colour Coded Characters
  • Mo Qingxian - Yellow
  • Zhiyu Moke - White (officially deep blue)
  • Luo Tianyi - Blue, specifically the sky blue shade with the hex code #66CCFF.
  • Yuezheng Ling - Red
  • Yuezheng Longya - Green
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Moke. His official profile states that he is often mistaken for a girl. And though he dislikes it, it is rumored he once cosplayed as a girl during a cosplay convention.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Tianyi and Ling's single thighhigh. Though all of them have a degree of asymmetry with their apparel.
• Fingerless Gloves: Moke and Ling.
  • Tianyi's previous design had this.
• Follow in My Footsteps: Longya is expected to take over the Family Business in the future.
• Genki Girl: Ling's official profile states she is active and full of life. She likes to experience new things and even out competes the boys.
• Green Eyes: Tianyi (formerly golden brown) and Longya.
• Hair Decorations
  • Flower in Her Hair: Qingxian and Tianyi (official design).
• Idiot Hair: Ling.
• Ill Girl: Qingxian was born with 'bad health' that made her quite slow in reaction.
• Meaningful Rename: Their original names to a degree, while their renames stand out more.
  • Luo Tianyi - "Luo" last name of the goddess of music, Luoshen. "Tian" means Tianlai, the sound of nature (to describe a beautiful voice), "Yi" is short for "Yiren" that means fair lady in ancient Chinese.
• Multicolored Hair: Longya
• Nice Hat: Moke (his previous design does not have one)
• Non-Human Sidekick: Tian Dian, the small creature who accompanies Tianyi. Described as a fairy of music, she's said to be 10 years old. Can transform into her microphone.
  • The others have similar companions:
    • Yuezheng Ling - Shi Tian, a 10,000 year old big feline that can transform into a guitar.
    • Yuezheng Longya - Bei Chen, a 50,000 year old dragon that can transform into a drumset.
    • Zhiyu Moke - Fei, a bird that can transform into dual keyboards.
    • Mo Qingxian - Yi Xian Qing, a... flower thingy that can transform into a double bass.
• Ojou: Ling, being the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate's CEO.
• Otaku: Moke, surprisingly. He's also quite skilled at making MADs.
• Purple Eyes: Qingxian
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ling and Tianyi, which caught on with the fandom during their 'development stage'. The duo is known as "Nanbei zu", i.e. "North and South Team".
  • Their official updated personalities show Ling being active and lively, while Tianyi is sensitive and quiet.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Moke.
• Rapunzel Hair: Qingxian, Ling, and Longya.
• Short Hair with Tail: Longya.
• Shrinking Violet: Moke is said to not talk much, and is a quiet boy. He smiles at everyone, but can be frank. And he has a dislike of being alone, though he does have close friends who know he's an Otaku.
• Starfish Language: Tianyi knows nothing about human language, so she can only sing to express her feelings.
• The Empath: Tianyi can feel and read the hidden songs in a human mind. She can also turn the repeating thoughts of a person, into a song.
• The Fashionista: Qingxian, her outfits are described as fashionable.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Ling and Tianyi.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Yayin's (presently Tianyi) favorite food is haw apple, and Tanghulu made by haw apple.
  • Now, Tianyi is known for eating just about everything.
• Two Girls to a Team: Inverted; of the planned and unplanned characters for Shanghai He Nian, Longya and Moke are the only male vocals.
• Uncle Pennybags: Ling and Longya are heirs to an immense fortune, but are nonetheless depicted as down-to-earth musicians.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Qingxian (even though she's, well, Chinese), her behavior is regarded as being a 'traditional lady'. She likes ancient books, poems, understand Tao, and likes traditional Chinese instruments. She is also generous and kind towards others.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Ling and Tianyi... at least with one leg each.
• You Gotta Have Purple Hair: Qingxian.

Yan He

The second Chinese Vocaloid, released on July 11, 2013. Her design was chosen from a character design contest like Tianyi before her. Her design is quite sporty.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Canonically female, but her deep voice and Boyish Short Hair were cause for dispute within the fandom in her early days.
• Boyish Short Hair: Quite possibly the shortest for a female Vocaloid.
• She's Got Legs: Often Played for Laughs in official promotions.
• Sixth Ranger: Her appearances in Vsinger concerts treat her as the newest member of the gang above.
• Tomboyish Voice: A natural result of being the original voice for Zhiyu Moke, before controversy forced the company to run a new design contest to match her voicebank.

Stardust

Stardust, also known in Chinese as Xing Chen, is a Chinese VOCALOID developed by Shanghai HENIAN Information Technology Co. Ltd., in collaboration and distributed by Quadimension for the VOCALOID 4 engine in April 2016. She is the first VOCALOID for the Voicebank Customize Project.

She is voiced by Chalili, a Chinese utaite.

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• Rapunzel Hair: Her locs go down to about her knees.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: They evoke her spacial nature.

Zhang Chuchu

Hailing from the manhua Chuchu Dong Ren, Zhang Chuchu was the first Vocaloid created by Shanghai Wangcheng. Her voice provider is Wan Su.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Unlike her brunette manhua counterpart, her hair is all pink.
• Pretty Butterflies: Her outfit is positively decked in them.

King

The second announced of the Shanghai Wangcheng family, and the first male vocal of the line. He's based off of the character Yuecheng of the manhua The Manhua Artist and the Idol: Yuerong and Yuecheng.

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• Bare Your Midriff: Wears a crop top as a default outfit.
• Dub Name Change: He's known as Yuecheng in his home country. Everywhere else, he's King.

GYNOID Co., Ltd.

Xin Hua

A Vocaloid created in collaboration with GYNOID Co., Ltd. and YAMAHA. She is the first Vocaloid to have a Taiwanese voice provider, and has a Taiwanese accent as a result. Her voice is provided by Wang Wenyi.

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• School Uniforms Are the New Black: She wears her school uniform under her idol outfit.
• The Unintelligible: Taiwanese users have commented that they have trouble understanding her, while Mainland Chinese users say her accent is too thick to hear properly.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

PowerFX

Sweet Ann

The fourth English Vocaloid, the first Vocaloid released by PowerFX, and the first Vocaloid released for the Vocaloid2 engine^note although not in Japan, where Miku was first, Sweet Ann is voiced by an Australian singer under the stage name of "Jody".

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• Dark-Skinned Blonde: And often depicted with Regal Ringlets.
• Mama Bear: According to Oliver's Twitter account, she doesn't take kindly to Oliver getting hurt.
• Nice Hat: A nice, white cowboy hat in her E-capsule design.
• Older Than They Look: The Madness of Duke Venomania PV says she's 62. Canonically (at least in the Taiwan version), she's 23.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Even in Taiwan, Sweet Ann can not escape being portrayed as a blond-haired blue eyed American cowgirl by some means. This continues despite the fact that her origins are Swedish.
• Punny Name: Sweet Ann = Sweden.
• Steam Punk: E-capsule Sweet Ann gives off this impression to viewers.

Big Al

Since Big-Al was announced years before his actual release due to complications with recording the voice bank, for a while he was the Duke Nukem Forever of the Vocaloid community. However, he was eventually released with a voice bank provided by PowerFX staff Frank Sanderson and a more Animesque design (his original artwork, done in the style of Sweet Ann's, was often regarded as Nightmare Fuel) as the seventh English Vocaloid.

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• Anime Hair: Particularly his third boxart design (E-capsule), which is of the Spiky Hair variety.
• Badass Longcoat: In his Taiwanese designs.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: A minor meme at most, but he seems to have a good relationship with antarctic animals.
• Iconic Item: A pocket watch, apparently as a reference of him being "late"^note The infamous "Big Al Syndrome" is a tendency for a male Vocaloid's release date to be delayed; this syndrome is shown first on, obviously, Big Al.
• Megane: E-capsule Big Al sports a pair of white glasses.
• Rated M for Manly: His original voice is ridiculously deep and rumbly.
  • His final voice isn't quite as deep, but is still much deeper than the other male vocaloids.
  • Hell, just listen to THIS! Manly to the MAX!
• Sinister Scythe: E-capsule Big Al has one.
• Younger and Hipper: Most people interpret the grey streaks in his hair as a sign that he's at least in middle age. That said, the Taiwanese version looks much younger than him, is more slender, and has a head full of brown hair.

VocaTone

Oliver

Announced on October 15, 2011. Oliver is the name of the PowerFX's new Vocaloid3 made in collaboration with the new American Vocaloid company VocaTone, which notably consists of passionate Vocaloid fans.

Early fan supporters couldn't be deterred from making art based on him, even before any details of his design were revealed. VocaTone did release a silhouette of him◊ ahead of time, which helped considerably.

On November 12, 2011, three demos and his official artwork were released. Additional demos continued to appear until Oliver made his actual debut on December 21, 2011.

He provides the voice of Puppycat in Bee and Puppycat.

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• A Boy and His X: He's often depicted this way with the the bird featured on the boxart, James. James' popularity was so great that VocaTone took advantage of it, in ways including but not limited to: 1) an official demo song of Oliver, "Dinky Dink", where James is shown wearing Cool Shades; 2) Oliver's official Twitter account claims to actually be administered by James, with Oliver dictating to him what to post; 3) James was hinted to be able to speak; and 4) VocaTone played an April Fool's joke by announcing that James would become a Vocaloid of his own, as Bird-loid.
• Bandage Boy: He has bandages covering his feet and left eye. The artist noted that it's to substitute the stitches in the previous PowerFX characters.
• Breakout Character: Not on Miku's level (yet) but so far, he's slowly but surely been rising in the ranks to becoming one of (if not the) the most popular English Vocaloid.
• Cherubic Choir: He can be used to make one.
• Child Soldier: His official design gives off vibes of this. And he has bandages on his legs and left eye... Atlthough it's actually based off the Vienna Boy's Choir.
• Cool Pet: James the bird. In tribute to Oliver's co-creators in the U.S., it's an American goldfinch.
• Creepy Child: Some songs like this one portrayed him as such. And it'll be hard to shake that reputation off of him, considering some of his greatest hits are songs about unsettling subjects and eating a live tarantula.
• Curtains Match the Window
• The Cutie: Oh God... Just listen to this and try to resist the urge to hug him through the screen.
• Does Not Like Shoes: After releasing a silhouetted version of Oliver, the artist stated that he looked too girly with shoes, so they were scrapped. The "youthful innocence" variant of this trope is a popular interpretation of his character as a result.
• Eyepatch of Power: He has a bandage over his left eye.
• Hotter and Sexier: When he's drawn in his older teenage years.
• Nice Hat
• Token Mini-Moe: Of the POWER FX line.

YOHIOloid

A male Vocaloid released on September 10, 2013. He is voiced by Swedish Visual Kei artist YOHIO. Despite his Swedish origins, he has English and Japanese voicebanks. Beta of his Japanese bank can be found here, and a couple of his English demos are here and here. His design was determined by a contest, chosen by YOHIO himself.

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• A Boy and His X: More precisely, A Vocaloid and His Companion Cube.
• Affectionate Nickname: The Twitter Character Blogs had the other PowerFX characters christen him as "Hio".
• Ahoge
• Badass Longcoat
• Big Brother Instinct: In works where he's alongside Oliver.
• Bilingual Bonus: He can speak in both English and Japanese.
• Bishōnen: Well he is based off of Yohio. Humorously enough, he's actually more masculine looking than his namesake (a picture for reference◊).
• Companion Cube: Cubi, a black cubical object that floats around him. Stated to be his pet and music player.
• Determinator: His past self shown shades of this in the song NeapolitaN. His current self double subverts this, as he was shown to be pessimistic at first, before finally standing up after seeing the reflection of his past self.
• Hair of Gold
• No Name Given: According to VocaTone's Tumbir, his character does not have a given name.

Ruby

The second English Vocaloid made for the V4 engine. She was slated for release on September 23, 2015 along with Arsloid, but her distribution was delayed until she was available for digital release in October 2015. She is meant to have a general American accent similar to her voice provider Misha.Her design was made by Natasha Allegri of Bee and Puppycat and Adventure Time fame.

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• Ambiguously Brown: As of late, it hasn't been confirmed what ethnicity Ruby is stated to be. Word of God says she's of Latina descent.
• Bare Your Midriff
• Foil: She's described to be the opposite of Miku.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: She has a ruby emblem on the back of her hoodie.
• Tomboy: Word of God states that Ruby was designed with an "upbeat and sporty" personality in mind.

YAMAHA

CYBER DIVA

CYBER DIVA is the first new English Vocaloid for V4. She is notable for having been recorded with a new English recording script. It has been confirmed that she is part of the VY vocals, and is also known as VY3.

She was released on 4 February 2015.

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• Cool Shades
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Just look at the amount of gold in her boxart.
• Hair of Gold
• Meaningful Name: The term Diva is usually used to describe female singers that have reached idol status or consider themselves to be.
• Theme Naming: As mentioned above, she is the native English female of the VY vocal series, but has a completely different name to VY1 and VY2. She has a similar naming scheme to CYBER SONGMAN instead, with it being written as "CYBER" followed by a word applied to certain types of singers.
• Rapunzel Hair: Probably, judging by the fact that you can't see the ends of her hair in her boxart.

CYBER SONGMAN

CYBER SONGMAN is YAMAHA's second English Vocaloid for V4. As CYBER DIVA was said to be the "female" half of the pair for the English VY vocals, CYBER SONGMAN is speculated to be the male half, VY4.

He was released on 31 October 2016.

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• Cool Shades
• Meaningful Name: The latter part of his name is another word for a lay clerk, or male choir singer.
• Theme Naming: Carries the same "CYBER" in his name as CYBER DIVA.

Zero-G

Leon

The first Vocaloid (alongside Lola) - ever - and the first male English Vocaloid. He was released by Zero-G and runs under the original Vocaloid engine.

Due to the obsolescence of the Vocaloid 1 engine, he is due to be retired and pulled out of sales after December 31, 2013.

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• Blue Boy Pink Girl: Leon's boxart is blue, in contrast with Lola's pink boxart.
• Demoted to Extra: See Irony below.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In the Japanese fandom, one of his popular visualizations, was as a sweet young man with blonde hair.
• Irony: He was one of the first ever Vocaloids, and yet he gets the least amount of recognition and fanart.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Leon having a high voice and Lola having a low voice.
• Vocal Dissonance: His vocal range shows this.

Lola

Released at the same time and by the same company as Leon, Lola is the first female Vocaloid. She also runs under the initial Vocaloid engine.

Due to the obsolescence of the Vocaloid 1 engine, she was retired and pulled out of sales after December 31, 2013.

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• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Lola's boxart is pink, in contrast with Leon's pink boxart.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Leon having a high voice and Lola having a low voice.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Even if she does have a very deep voice, an astonishing number of gems show up if you look for them.
• Surprisingly Good Foreign Language: Sings backing vocals in the movie Paprika. Many speculated it was MEIKO, until it was revealed in an interview to have been LOLA.

Miriam

The third English Vocaloid and the first to reveal the provider of the voice bank. She is distributed by Zero-G, is voiced by Miriam Stockley, and is the last English Vocaloid to be released under the first engine.

Due to the obsolescence of the Vocaloid 1 engine, she is due to be retired and pulled out of sales after December 31, 2013.

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• Odd Couple: Sound wise, she compliments Avanna surprisingly well.
• Temporary Online Content: Despite LOLA, LEON, and MIRIAM all being removed from sale, it was still possible to buy a downloadable link until November 2015. MIRIAM was the only one of the three to have all her serial codes had been sold at that point, making it currently impossible to purchase her.

Prima

The first Vocaloid2-engine Vocaloid by Zero-G and the fifth English Vocaloid, Prima is built almost entirely for opera songs. Thus, she sings with deep vowels and rolls her consonants.

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• Classically Trained Extra: One interpretation, seeing as she was designed to sing opera and is usually used to sing...not Opera.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Based upon her photo boxart.
• Idiot Hair: E-capsule Prima has a stray curl on the side of her head.
• Meaningful Name - From "prima donna," the lady in an opera company who generally got the leading roles.
• Shrinking Violet: E-capsule Prima shyly glances sideways, while her chibi form shows her standing pigeon-toed, tight lipped and blushing.
• Surprisingly Good English: While an English voicebank, Prima was the first Vocaloid to have phonemes and can sing in multiple languages. Makes sense considering she's designed to sing in opera.
• Technician vs. Performer: Between her and Sweet ANN back in 2007. Both were released at the height of the Vocaloid craze, and are credited for people developing interest in oversea Vocaloids. While Sweet Ann was notable for sounding sharp and clear, while Prima was praised for sounding beautiful.
• Unusual Ears: E-capsule Prima sports a pair of headphones with pointing speaker ears. No one is quite sure if they are Fox ears, Cat ears or Wolf ears. Though the most popular assumption is fox.
• Vocal Dissonance: Much like the popular teenager design spawned from the Japanese fandom, E-capsule Prima was designed to appear as a young female (18 in fact). In the Western fandom such portrayals are criticized as some believe it doesn't fit her voice.
• Yandere: She's portrayed as one by the Western fandom, mainly those who tried to pirate her and the software with a wrong cracking code, making it unusable; they interpreted it as Prima being yandere and taking everybody with her.

Sonika

The sixth English Vocaloid, Sonika is essentially Zero-G's attempt at imitating the Japanese Vocaloids by invoking Animesque. Thus, Sonika was advertised with height/age/weight measurements along with katakana on her arm, and was advertised as being able to "sing any language" (since she's not as restricted to phonetics as other voice banks), and is essentially Zero-G's mascot, even with a full-blown personality and Twitter profile. This... backfired. She was criticized for having terrible pronunciation and being a badly-attempted sleight at marketing. Eventually, people warmed up to her, but she'll Never Live It Down.

She has two boxarts, the first being a CGI render and the second being done by an artist on DeviantArt.

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• Absolute Cleavage: E-capsule Sonika, surprisingly less subtle than her second design.
• Bare Your Midriff: Can't get anymore obvious.
• Hotter and Sexier: Compare her current boxart (pictured above) to her original◊.
• Idiot Hair: After Sonika's original box art included a loose strand of hair, several artists tend to exaggerate this (though still to a realistic degree). This was eventually exaggerated in her second boxart.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: Her green hair is able to change color to red according to her Twitter messages.
• Master of None: Though her voice is average at best and often unintelligible, she's less restricted by phonetics and syllables than other Vocaloids, making it easier for her to sing in other languages.
• Omniglot
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She doesn't have to be The Unintelligible, so long as you know how to use her. So just carry on.
• Trickster Archetype: Yeah, it's there.
• The Unintelligible: Oh so much. Many of her fans find this appealing, though.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: E-capsule Sonika
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: By default, her hair is green.

Tonio

Tonio was released by Zero-G as the eighth English Vocaloid; while his initial release was delayed and people thought it would go to Big-Al status, Tonio was eventually released after a few months. He is meant to be an opera singer as a partner to Prima.

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• Classically Trained Extra: Like Prima, he is not used for opera. Some of his most famous songs are Lady Gaga covers.
  • Walk walk fashion baby!
• Horned Humanoid: E-capsule Tonio's artwork◊
• Perma-Stubble
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: The stock image on his box art.
• Tuxedo and Martini: Even Sonika claims a martini to be his character item!

Avanna

The first Vocaloid3-engine vocaloid by Zero-G. She is promoted as having a Celtic voice bank. She was first publicized through a demo (cover of Enya's Only Time) which was played during this Vocaloid Producers Panel. Her second demo was a Rose Royce song, "Wishing on a Star".

She was released 22nd of December 2012.

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• Animesque: Unlike the other Zero-G vocaloids, her sole official design closely follows the anime style of drawing, mainly as a result of Yamaha's insistence (the commissioned artist, AkiGlancy, originally designed her to be a western style elf; this concept was rejected, but still appears as a sillouette on the boxart behind the official design).
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Given her original elf concept, she fits into the Mage role between her, Daina's, and Dex's fantasy designs.
• Innocent Blue Eyes
• Pointy Ears: She was going to have this, but changed at the last moment — which hasn't stopped fan artists from continuing to draw her with them.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Like many Irish people.
• Tareme Eyes
• Youthful Freckles

Daina

Developed and distributed by Zero-G, she is the first female English Vocaloid for the Vocaloid4 engine. She is modelled after a fox and derived from the Fox character of 'The Fox and The Hound'. She was released along with Dex in November 2015.

She is voiced by AkiGlancy, an American Vocaloid producer.

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• Cunning Like a Fox: Her main motif. A picture of a blue fox also appears on her headset in her official design. Her alternate thief design also plays into the "thieving fox" stereotype.
• Fiery Redhead: Sometimes portrayed as this.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Among the three fantasy designs for her, Avanna, and Dex, she fittingly takes the Thief role.
• Little Bit Beastly: Her original design had her with fox ears and tail.
• Loveable Rogue: Her thief◊ design.
• Mascot: She and Dex serve as the headliners for the Engloid-themed concert Vocamerica.
• Meaningful Name: "Daina" is the Lithuanian and Latvian word for "song". There's another, unintentional meaning on AkiGlancy's part: When coming up with the names for the duo, she wanted a whimsical-sounding name for Daina. Nostraightanswer pointed out that she shares the name with the very whimsical Alice Liddell's cat, Dinah.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Fittingly enough for an American vocaloid, Daina's main colors are a prominent red, white, and blue.

Dex

Developed and distributed by Zero-G, he is the first English male Vocaloid for the Vocaloid4 engine. He is modelled after a wolf and derived from the Hound character of 'The Fox and The Hound'. He was released along with Daina in November 2015.

He is voiced by Sam Blakeslee (aka. nostraightanswer), an American Vocaloid producer.

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• Ambiguously Brown: The first male Vocaloid with this skin type.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Dex's hunter design is more combat oriented, placing him in the Fighter role among his, Avanna's, and Daina's fantasy designs.
• Heroes Want Redheads: In songs that portray Dex and Daina as a couple, he's usually the one that ends up pining for her.
• Little Bit Beastly: His original design had him with wolf ears and tail.
• Mythology Gag: Dex shares his wolf theme with the werewolf singer Baionoto Kenji, an UTAU nostraightanswer also had a part in.
• Noble Wolf: His main motif. A picture of a yellow wolf also appears on his headset in his official design. An alternate design shows him as a hunter◊, fittingly enough of a wolf.
• Mascot: He and Daina are the main focus of the Engloid-themed concert Vocamerica.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: Goes hand in hand with his alternate wolf boy design.

Voctro Labs

Bruno and Clara

The first pair of Spanish Vocaloids on the Vocaloid3 engine. The old character design by Raimon Benach was used in their first visual demo video "Juntos Tú y Yo". The current design is by artist "Rumple".

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• Cool Shades: Clara.
• Iconic Item: Bruno's hat and Clara's glasses. They're also both seen with microphones.
• Latin Lover: Played up and then some for Bruno's version of "SPICE!".
• Nice Hat: Bruno wears one.
• Skunk Stripe: Clara has a small white streak in her black hair.
• Spicy Latina: Depending on the producer, Clara is viewed as being this. While on the other side she is viewed as The Cutie.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: Clara.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Clara has a variation with her shorts.

Maika

The second female Spanish Vocaloid on the Vocaloid 3 engine, released on December 15 2013 as a download (her boxed version is yet to be released). Her character design was made by Noriko Hayashi, the winning result of a contest held by Voctro Labs. The voicebank itself was acutally part of a collaboration between Voctro Labs and the Spanish Pop Band La Oreja de Van Gogh, where the Vocaloid was used by the band to listen to their own written lyrics before recording their songs. Supposedly the voicebank was based on the band's current lead singer, Leire Martinez, though this has yet to be confirmed.

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• Beauty Mark: The "Play/Pause" symbol under her left eye.
• Multicolored Hair: White at the head, gradually turning red at the tips.
• Princess Curls: Rare variant - her straight hair curls at the tips
• Rapunzel Hair
• Robot Buddy: Nova, the little orb that follows her around.
• Ship Tease: Surprisingly, she gets this with Yohioloid, by virtue of their character designers liking to pair them up.
• Surprisingly Good English: While her voicebank is Spanish, it is versatile enough to sing almost clearly in a few other languages, including English, Italian, Japanese and Russian, without the need for a separate voicebank.
• Zettai Ryouiki

ONA

Voctro Labs' fourth mascot, made in collaboration with The Lab Barcelona and La Merced (ICUB). She interestingly shares the same voicebank as MAIKA, making her a Literal Split Personality for their shared data. She is meant to represent the Catalan capabilities of the voicebank. Unlike MAIKA, she is not intended for public use, instead being used for concerts and events.

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• Foil: To MAIKA. On the whole, MAIKA seems to be more geared toward the public image of Vocaloids, being an Animesque young singer with a futuristic design and bright colors to match, while ONA is more geared towards professional usage and has a more contemporary design fit for the 21st century. And while both are Virtual Celebrities, MAIKA is meant to be used on computers, while ONA is meant to be used on a live stage or in the public.
• Literal Split Personality: Of MAIKA's voicebank.
• Meaningful Name: Ona means "wave" in Catalan, and her design motif has waves in it.
• Primary-Color Champion: Her shirt has bits of red, yellow, and blue in it, and she's represented by a red, blue and yellow logo.

SeeU

The first Korean Vocaloid, released by SBS Artech. Character design by manhwa artist Kkuem. Voiced by real-life Korean Idol Singer Kim (also known as Kim Tahi, Dahi, Dahee), who has since debuted in the Korean girl group GLAM (she's the girl riding the bicycle).

A leaked early demo can be found here, which was praised for its humanlike realism. It should be noted, though, that Kim Tahi also sings in the background for said demo. Her first official demo, 'RUN', was released 22 September 2011; and was brought her back to the forefront in "Never Let You Go" .

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• Cat Girl: No tail in evidence, but her costume includes a pair of cat-ear-shaped speakers mounted on her head, and her standard facial expression is a Cat Smile.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Star-shaped light reflections in her irises.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Rule 63: She has an official genderbent named ZeeU.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Uni

The second Korean Vocaloid. Uni's release date has been changed many times, the latest being September of 2016. Her official release finally came on February 14, 2017, although it was a bare bones version; her Power and Soft Appends became available to the public later in the summer of 2017.

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• Pink Means Feminine
• Rapunzel Hair: A long side plait that goes down to about her waist.

Fanmade derivatives of existing Vocaloids, who have gained official recognition as memes from Crypton themselves; two of them, Neru and Haku, made cameos in the spinoff manga and games.

Yowane Haku

Haku is a depressed counterpart of Miku, created by those who cannot use Miku properly. She is usually off-key when she sings (although sometimes she produces nice songs), and envies Miku's voice, to the point where she drinks. A lot.

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• Ascended Fanon: Sort of, her creator CAFFEIN ships her with Miku Hatsune, and when mothy, one of the most influential Vocaloid producers of all decided to include a character based on Haku, he paired her together with a character based on Miku.
• Bare Your Midriff
• The Cameo: A special Mythology Gag for Evillious Chronicles fans; Haku appears briefly in the Project mirai rendition of "Servant of Evil", referencing the song "Daughter of White".
• Drowning My Sorrows: Because she thinks she'll never be as good as Miku.
• Gasshole: Several elements of the fandom love portraying her as such. In fact, she may be more well-known for her farting than anything else. Granted, she drinks a lot of sake, so this should not be too surprising.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her concept as not being as good a singer as Miku, she's often portrayed as being good at other things, such as playing musical instruments (especially the guitar).
• Jiggle Physics: Her model in Miku Miku Dance is the first officially released one that does this.
• Ms. Fanservice
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "weak willed words".
• Rapunzel Hair
• Tareme Eyes
• Technicolor Eyes: Red eyes.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Sake, just like Meiko up there.
• The Voiceless: In Project DIVA, being a fan-created Vocaloid, Haku had no voice. Averted in Project DIVA 2nd, where (like everyone else), she has her own celebration dialogue when completing a song.
  • Haku's voice in Project DIVA 2nd seems to be a deeper, more reserved-sounding Miku.

Akita Neru

Neru is another counterpart of Miku, made by people who make Miku's pitch too high. It is said she represents those who are too lazy and impatient to use Vocaloid correctly and give up half way through, which is indicated by Neru's Tsundere nature. Her origin can also be explained as a personification of Trolling.

Her voice is usually an edit of Miku's, but can also come from Rin's, depending on the editor.

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• Companion Cube: Her cell phone.
• Lazy Bum: Her origin and name lampshade this.
• Meaningful Name: Her name itself is a reference to trolling; "akita, neru" equates to "(Fuck this,) I'm tired, I'm going to bed."
  • While it's likely accidental, Neru also shares her last name with the Akita Inu, a dog breed with a reputation of being loyal towards humans, yet aggressive toward other animals.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Often depicted as one due to her cell phone.
• Rapunzel Hair
• Skirt over Slacks: She wears shorts under her skirt.
• The Voiceless: Like Haku, had no voice in Project DIVA (Due to being an unofficial cameo). Also like Haku, averted in Project DIVA 2nd in the same fashion. All of her celebratory quotes sound displeased, no matter how well the player performs.
  • Neru's dialogue in Project DIVA 2nd seems to be a deeper, more womanly-sounding Rin.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Haku in Dark Woods Circus, in which she's the "girly girl" (she's seen wearing a long green dress). In fanon, however, it's usually the other way around.
• Troll: Created out of a trolling incident, as can be read on that trope's page.
• Tsundere
• Tsurime Eyes: To contrast with Haku.

Hachune Miku

A chibified version of Miku, created especially for her Leekspin video and helping to push her (and arguably, Vocaloids as a whole) into the mainstream.

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• Ascended Meme - As in literally ascended. 3 figurines of her were launched in a rocket from Black Rock, Nevada.
• Blank White Eyes
• Perpetual Frowner: She spends most if not all of her time with a shocked, sleepy, or angry expression.
• Super-Deformed
• When She Smiles: In the opening for Project Diva 2nd, she actually smiles for once.

TakoLuka

Meaning "Octopus Luka", this is Luka's disembodied head with her hair turned into pink tentacles. She somewhat resembles the yukkuris associated with Touhou, but shouldn't be confused with them.

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• Body Horror: One piece of fanart suggests that TakoLuka's eyes are actually anuses. Eww!
• Head Pet: Her Nendoroid figurine is designed to rest on top of a Luka nendo.
  • Her Nenderoid plushie is also able to sit on the Luka plushie's head. And it's adorable◊.
  • In Project DIVA F, a Tako Luka doll is available as a head accessory.
• Interspecies Romance: She's sometimes paired up with a tuna named Ooma-san^note as in "Mr. Ooma", although it's a pun on "ooma san", meaning "produced in Ooma", such as in Tako Luka * Tuna Fever.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Although Luka likes tuna, Tako Luka takes it further by dating tuna.
• Waddling Head

Sakine Meiko

A teenage counterpart of Meiko made when the popularity of Hatsune Miku left Meiko behind.

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• Bare Your Midriff
• Color-Coded Characters: In the Hatsune Miku Project DIVA series, her official color is pitched as being orange, in order to distinguish her from MEIKO.
• Composite Character: Some fans settle confusion between her and normal Meiko by making them the same person (usually with Meiko's fanon personality in Meiko Sakine's body).
• Lady in Red
• Magic Skirt: That skirt is just begging for a panty shot.
• Ms. Fanservice: Though more subdued than MEIKO.
• Prequel: "Sakine" means "preceding sound", as in preceding Miku^note and technically also Kaito. Also, her official setting is "the Meiko who came into music trend in the age of 16".

Calne Ca/Calcium

A rather disturbing original character created by Deino, first starring in his PV Machine Muzik. She is sometimes also incorrectly called Karune Ca. Calcium is a mechanized skeleton with a cybernetic red left eye, finger-like appendages in place of a lower jaw, a clawed mechanical right arm, a skeletal left arm, and twisted, mechanical legs. She runs on batteries and requires a robotic companion to occasionally replace them (humorously and disturbingly at once, her batteries are located under her skirt). Calcium is usually seen wearing an outer shell and outfit resembling Miku Hatsune's, and goes by the alias Calne Ca while doing so.

She is closely associated with insects and other crawling critters, such as wharf roaches and cockroaches. The world of Calne Ca is full of grotesque and deathly imagery.

Calcium also appears in a PV for DJ Technorch's Ataraxia, but with red eyes and more normal-looking robotic limbs as opposed to Calne's wierd appendages. She was recognized by Crypton as a derivative of Miku, and has been featured in some of their events.

Calne Ca also stars in Bacterial Contamination with an all new look!

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• Absolute Cleavage: When "dressed" as Miku she leaves the vest undone, when she's wearing anything at all.
• After the End: If Zeromachina is anything to go by, then her home is the Earth after some cataclysm that wiped out the majority of mankind.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: in the Bacterial Contamination PV, the nightmarish Vocaloids trade their mechanical appendages for organic spiny insectile limbs. In the Machine Muzik PV, she's accompanied by a large scorpion-like creature.
• Body Horror: Her legs, mouth, one eye, and an arm are grotesque cybernetic prostheses, and her other arm is disproportionately long, three-fingered, and skeletal.
• Dark Is Not Evil: According to Word of God.
• Dem Bones: The base form of Calne Ca is a mechanized skeleton. The stuff that makes her look even remotely human is additions.
  • Associated with her is a skull with a cybernetic eye walking on 4 mechanical legs.
• Eldritch Location: Fittingly enough, she lives in one.
• Hair Decorations: A spiny insect-thing.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In Bacterial Contamination. She fights against her bullies so hard, that eventually she becomes one. Her reaction upon realizing this Isn't pretty.
• Humanoid Abomination: Her biological insect-like form, for a given definition of "humanoid". Calcium fits the trope even better; she only looks human, but you can tell that there's something...off about her...
• Killer Robot: Even though Deino has insisted that "she is not a brutal character", she definitely has that vibe going.
• Losing Your Head: has been seen at least once with her head detached and walking on the floor on its finger-appendages.
• Ms. Fanservice : Her creator makes artworks featuring her in which she has some gloriously fanservicey outfits such as this and this among others ( yes this is calne ca in case you have doubts, she simply is human form in these artworks ). And if you turn off the mature filter you can find more.
• Natural Weapon: Insect Calne Ca's hand-blades mirrors the blades of her robot form.
• Our Clones Are Identical: Those weird faceless mannequins, be they clones or androids.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the previews for Zeromachina she is voiced by.... Yui Horie. Definitely not the kind of voice one would expect from such a fearsome-looking robot.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In Bacterial Contamination, where she's a severe victim of bullying.
• The Worm That Walks: Not quite, but she is occasionally seen pretty much swarming with creepy crawlies.

Mikudayo

An invokedUncanny Valley-esque chibi version of Hatsune Miku based on a memetically creepy Nendoroid costume of her from the the Tokyo Game Show 2011 presentation of SEGA's 3DS title Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project mirai.

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• Axe-Crazy: Often depicted as this in pictures.
• Butt-Monkey: In the "Together with Mikudayo!" promo videos for Project mirai 2. She gets absolutely trampled for the sake of comedy.
• The Cameo: Project DIVA F and Arcade featured a Head Accessory of her, and Project mirai had an unlockable face swap of Miku that made her look like Mikudayo. F 2nd went a step further and included a whole outfit. In every game she appears in, she's either Downloadable Content or the hardest item to acquire in the game.
• Creepy Monotone: When she does speak, she mainly says "Miku da yo" in a very droning version of Miku's regular voice bank, but with little no no inflection. This makes her come off as very unnerving.
• Last Lousy Point: When she isn't DLC, she's this.
• Meaningful Name: Based on the phrase "Miku da yo", meaning "I am Miku!". The phrase used to be used ironically concerning how much she doesn't look like Miku at all, but it's now used to signify her wanting to Kill and Replace the actual Miku.
• Perpetual Smiler: She's this as a result of her costume.
• Super-Deformed: She's supposed to be this.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Otoro sushi, or specifically, giant otoro sushi, since regular sushi is too small for her.