History Trivia / Vocaloid

** Zhanyin Lorra was a potential character that would have been part of the now-Vsinger group of characters by Shanghai HENIAN, announced in July of 2014 in collaboration with Chinese company [=NetEase=]. Lorra was initially marketed as an otherworldly companion to Yuezheng Ling, with both her and Ling's initial voicebanks being developed at the same time in 2015 and being intended to release for VOCALOID3. However, Lorra's voicebank went into DevelopmentHell as the year progressed and she was pulled out of the VOCANESE character lineup when it was retooled into Vsinger and Stardust was introduced. It was later revealed that NetEase had decided to abandon Lorra's voicebank due to difficulties and she was later repurposed into a character for an upcoming video game with all relation to the Vsinger characters removed.

** We haven't heard much of [=CV04=] and its existence since its confirmation in 2009, and details get more and more scant as time passes by. WordOfGod says that he's still in production. However, he might not be in the ''Character Vocal'' series anymore since he's now listed as "Male Vocal" rather than "[=CV04=]." The last we've heard anything official about him is in 2012.

** SONiKA had a V4 voicebank in the works around 2016-17, getting far enough into development for an [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/sonika-v4-47474504 official design]] to be made. Sadly, she went unreleased due to Yamaha ending Vocaloid 4 support in preparation for the upcoming release of Vocaloid 5. A voicebank played by popular Vocaloid producer Music/CircusP was also being worked on around the same time, but was scrapped for similar reasons.

* InvisibleAdvertising: YAMAHA dropped [=VOCALOID6=] on October 13 2022 with no advertising leading up to it whatsoever, making the sudden release come as a surprise to pretty much everyone that witnessed it.

** [=SeeU=]'s case has been very rocky for years since her release, and SBS A&T has no plans to remake or update her due to multiple difficulties, including a decision to give her [[TheOtherDarrin a new voice provider]] despite Kim Dahee's arrest. The sales of her voicebank in Japan was also long discontinued. As of 2023, her voicebank only had at least 400 serial codes remaining. Once all of these have been sold and used up, she's done for.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: YOHIOLOID, Maika, Bruno, Clara, and Fukase all have their character designs chosen from fan designs. [=VY1=] and [=VY2=] also had a design contest, but the designs that won aren't their official appearances.

** [[http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Ring_Suzune Ring Suzune]] and [[http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Hibiki_Lui Hibiki Lui]] were announced at the end of May 2011. They were the result of a contest titled "Everyone's Vocaloid project", which called for fans to create an original Vocaloid character for the then-upcoming [=Vocaloid3=] engine. However, DevelopmentHell struck and the project was picked up by [=VocaNext=], whose website became inaccessible in late 2013. The duo are all but said to be abandoned at this point.
** A Vocaloid simply titled "H" was announced by 1st Place during a livestream in 2016. Outside of the initial announcement, nothing else was confirmed about that Vocaloid (at least, until 2020, when the project was suddenly announced as cancelled in another livestream), and it's been speculated H was put in suspension due to 1st Place's focus on [=CeVIO=]. This looks to be on its way to being subverted, however - in 2021, 1st Place introduced a new ''ARIA'' character with an "H" on her nametag, leading to fan speculation that this was the same character. While her connection to Vocaloid or any other engine is still unconfirmed, she's been given the official name "HIPPI".

** In 2013, a bilingual Vocaloid named ALYS would have been the first French speaking Vocaloid in the database. She was crowd funded by a company called [=VoxWave=], and she was set to be a part of the V3 engine. However, due to the technical limitations of the Vocaloid engine (such as not being able to speak as well as she could sing) and hoping to make the system she's packaged in free to use, she was brought over to the [=CeVIO=] Creative Studio instead. She was later released on March 10 2016, this time for Alter/Ego.

** [[https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/File:Illu_KEI_Vocaloid_Hatsune_Miku-img2.jpg Miku went through quite a few different design changes early in her development]]. One of her earliest designs depicts her with only one ponytail rather than her signature GirlishPigtails along with a decidedly less 'futuristic' but more schoolgirl-esque outfit than later designs. Other early designs closer to the final product include a design that makes more references to her technological origins (like a QR code on her shoulder) and a more sophisticated design on her necktie, and one with a much different color scheme (a black shirt and blue skirt with black accents).

** Hatsune Miku was originally planned to appear in Coachella 2020. However, this fell through when Coachella 2020 got cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

** The first three ''VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDiva'' entries for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable (''DIVA'', ''2nd'' and ''Extend'') have never been released outside of Japan. Fortunately, the franchise has since averted this beginning with ''F'', with it and all subsequent entries getting released globally.
*** Likewise, the first two entries of ''Project DIVA'''s spin off series on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, ''Project mirai'' and ''Project mirai 2'', did not leave Japanese shores. Averted with ''mirai DX'', which would receive a global release in 2015.

* OneHitWonder: Mixed with ShortLivedBigImpact. While there has been a number of VOCALOID producers that had only one or two major hits, Ika is a very notable example; he had only made three Vocaloid songs before he left Nico Nico Douga in late 2007 due to being plagued by copyright concerns. However, his first song, "Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru♪", is not only his most popular work,[[note]]Including both the original song and 2012 remake[[/note]] but was also the first VOCALOID song to hit 1 million views, one of the earliest songs to establish her as a character, and being responsible for skyrocketing Miku's, and, to a greater extent, VOCALOID's popularity as a whole. Ika himself hasn't been active in the VOCALOID community since 2013, but he retained an active presence on both Youtube and Twitter(X).

* OneHitWonder: Mixed with ShortLivedBigImpact. While there has been a number of VOCALOID producers that had only one or two major hits, Ika is a very notable example; he had only made three Vocaloid songs before he left Nico Nico Douga in late 2007 due to being plagued by copyright concerns. However, his first song, "Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru♪", is not only his most popular work,[[note]]The 2012 remake is not taken into account[[/note]] but was also the first VOCALOID song to hit 1 million views, one of the earliest songs to establish her as a character, and being responsible for skyrocketing Miku's, and, to a greater extent, VOCALOID's popularity as a whole. Ika himself hasn't been active in the VOCALOID community since 2013, but he retained an active presence on both Youtube and Twitter(X).

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most voicebanks released for Vocaloid and [=Vocaloid2=] have become a lot harder to track down due to YAMAHA no longer handing out serial codes for them. However, any Vocaloid who has a voicebank released from [=Vocaloid3=] onward are still available for download on YAMAHA's website. However, two of them have their own unique situations:
** Utatane Piko, who was only released for [=Vocaloid2=], was completely out of stock on July 2020 according to Sony's website, not long after distribution of the serial codes for [=Vocaloid2=] voice banks have been discontinued. Because any chance of a restock is dead in the water, good luck trying to get an existing copy of his voicebank yourself, as he's extremely rare now.

** [=SeeU=]'s case has been very rocky for years since her release, and SBS A&T has no plans to remake or update her due to multiple difficulties, including a decision to give her [[TheOtherDarrin a new voice provider]]. The sales of her Japanese voicebank was also long discontinued. As of 2023, her voicebank only had at least 400 serial codes remaining. Once all of these have been sold and used up, she's done for.

** SeeU's case has been very rocky for years since her release, and SBS A&T has no plans to remake or update her due to multiple difficulties, including a decision to give her [[TheOtherDarrin a new voice provider]]. The sales of her Japanese voicebank was also long discontinued. As of 2023, her voicebank only had at least 400 serial codes remaining. Once all of these have been sold and used up, she's done for.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Most voicebanks released for Vocaloid and Vocaloid2 have become a lot harder to track down due to YAMAHA no longer handing out serial codes for them. However, any Vocaloid who has a voicebank released from Vocaloid3 onward are still available for download on YAMAHA's website. However, two of them have their own unique situations:
** Utatane Piko, who was only released for Vocaloid2, was completely out of stock on July 2020 according to Sony's website, not long after distribution of the serial codes for Vocaloid2 voice banks have been discontinued. Because any chance of a restock is dead in the water, good luck trying to get an existing copy of his voicebank yourself, as he's extremely rare now.