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.
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Exit Tunes
Mayu
Mayu
Artwork for VOCALOID 3
The first Vocaloid devloped by Exit Tunes, Mayu is a Yandere-influenced Vocaloid. She was designed by Hidari.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her default design has her in a frilly sleeveless dress themed after a grand piano, with mary janes, High-Class Gloves and an equally frilly beret completing the look.
- 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.
- Sixth Ranger: In EXIT TUNES compilations of Vocaloid songs, Mayu will rarely have a song just to herself and will often be part of the chorus of one of the original group songs. It's been this way ever since she made her first appearance on the Vocalo series of compilation albums.
- Yandere: Is said to be one via
Word of God, and thus many of her most popular songs portray her as such. - Womanchild: In Uso to Nuigurumi, she acts like this, taking a plush animal for a real friend she can talk to, and she also says that acting like an adult is tiresome and she hates it.
Ki/oon
Utatane Piko
Utatane Piko
Artwork for VOCALOID 2
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.
- Ambiguous Gender: Piko's voice can be either masculine or feminine.
- 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.
- 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
Akikoloid-chan
Artwork for VOCALOID 3
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. She was designed by Hidari.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: She originally had brown hair as Akiko-chan
◊. - Mascot: She's a mascot for Lawson.
1st Place
IA
IA
Artwork for VOCALOID 3
Click here to see her VOCALOID 3 Rocks artwork
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 was, for a long time in the mid 2010a, listed alongside some of Vocaloid's biggest juggernauts. Currently affiliated with CeVio along with the rest of the -ARIA ON THE PLANETES- vocal synthesizers.
She was designed by Aka Akasaka (creator of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War).
- 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.
- Genre Shift: "Shinitai-chan" goes in a very different direction than her usual fare, being a rather sad song in which IA is Driven to Suicide and ends up regretting it while hospitalized.
- 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.
- 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.
We've Inc.
Rana
Rana
Artwork for VOCALOID 3
Click here to see her VOCALOID 4 artwork
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.
- 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
Anri Rune
Artwork for VOCALOID 3
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.
- 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.
- One-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
Artwork for VOCALOID 4
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.
- 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.
Universal Music Japan
Arsloid
Kano Akira/Arsloidnote
". He is voiced by Kano Akira's actor, Oosemachi Keiichi/OH-SE.- The Ace: Word of God states that students come to him for all sorts of problems.
- Curtains Match the Window: Has bright red hair to go with his red eyes.
- 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.
Unity Technologies Japan
Otori Kohaku/AZAKA
Otori Kohaku/AKAZA
- Canon Foreigner: Kohaku was originally the mascot for Unity engine as Unity-chan.
- Personality Blood Types: Kohaku has AO bloodtype.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Curry croquette for Kohaku.
SHARP
COCOROBO
COCOROBO
- 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.
Akatsuki Visual Artists
LUMi
LUMi
A Buddhist-themed Vocaloid released in August 2017, representing the concept of "Death for Life". Her voice is provided by Sayaka Ohara.
- 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 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.
- Fairy Tale Motifs: Associated with the tale of Urashima Tarou, since she was raised by the titular character and Otohime in her backstory.
- 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.
- Light Is Good: Is a kindhearted girl who is a Miko, wears white, has white hair, and has glowing marks.
- 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.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. She may be semi-divine, but she's a kind soul.
Bandai Namco
Mirai Komachi
Mirai Komachi
Artwork for VOCALOID 4
A Vocaloid developed by Bandai Namco Studios as a benchmark on their company's game development technology. She was released on May 24, 2018.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Meta version: due to her lack of marketing, her announcement was issued the day she was released.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Carrots, fitting her orange motif.
- Two First Names: Both her first and last name are given names in Japan, leading to some difficulty in figuring out how to parse it. The Japanese YAMAHA site deals with it by referring to her as "Komachi" when using a given name, while the English site avoided it altogether by spelling her name in CamelCase.
