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VY1
VY1
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".
- 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.
- Named by the Adaptation: Her appearance in the now-defunct VOCADOL rhythm game named her after VY1's codename.
- Nonstandard Character Design: Unlike the other Vocaloids, who are human or have humans on their boxart, VY1 is represented as an inanimate fan/hairpin. Some fans try getting around this by turning her into a full-blown Animate Inanimate Object or personifying the items.
- 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, an update for VOCALOID3, then VY1V4, which came with a set of new voicebanks, then VY1V5, which isn't much more than a port of VY1V4.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Several personified designs for her tend to have these sorts of vibes.
VY2
VY2
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".
- 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.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Yuma/Yuuma.
- Katanas Are Just Better: A wakizashi, technically.
- Nonstandard Character Design: He and VY1 are the few Vocaloids to be represented by only items, in his case a sword. Double subverted by the V3 design: Nagamiso.SYS had drawn a concept of the kind of human who would hold the sword,◊ but that's not his canon design.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Downplayed — As seen in this concept art for his contest design◊, 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.
- Updated Re-release: VY2V3, but unlike VY1V3, he gets an additional "falsetto" voicebank to expand his singing range. He later received another update as VY2V5, which is a port of his V3 to VOCALOID5. Surprisingly averted in the V4 era, as he did not receive an update for V4 unlike VY1.
Mew
Mew
Artwork for VOCALOID3
A Vocaloid made by Yamaha, she is so far one of the 2 starter vocals offered for the VOCALOID3 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".
- 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
ZOLA PROJECT
Artwork for VOCALOID3. (L-R) YUU, KYO, WIL.
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 Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame. Several impressive and realistic sounding demos have been release so far, such as this and this.
- 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
- Freudian Trio: Their voice types, with Kyo having a loud, energetic voice, Yuu having a sweet, deep-toned voice, and Wil having a husky, somewhat cold-sounding voice. It's further emphasized by their respective EXVoice samples.
- Fun with Acronyms: "ZOLA" is an acronym for "Zenithal Operated Liaison Aggregration".
- Monster Mash: Their Carnelian designs◊ clearly take inspiration from classic monsters — Kyo has a gothic outfit and a pair of bat wings like a vampire; Wil has an Undeathly Pallor and is wrapped up in bandages making him look like an undead or a Frankenstein's Monster; and Yuu has an Animal-Eared Hat and tattered clothing to make him resemble a werewolf.
- 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.
- Vocal Dissonance: Despite having the youngest-looking design, Yuu has the deepest voice of the three.
Anon & Kanon
Anon & Kanon
Left- Anon, Right- 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.
- all lowercase letters: Their names are officially spelt this way.
- Boyish Short Hair: Anon has short hair, contrasting with her sister's long hair.
- Color Contrast: The classic black/white version; Anon wears a white outfit, Kanon wears a black outfit.
- Coordinated Clothes
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Anon is the "foolish," Kanon is the "responsible."
- Idiot Hair: Both girls have a very small ahoge.
- Meaningful Name: Their names mean "apricot sound" and "bird sound" respectively.
- 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.
Fukase
Fukase
A Vocaloid released for the VOCALOID4 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.
- Body Horror: Whatever the hell is up with his left side, and most notably 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.
- Breakout Character: Despite not being the first Vocaloid made by Yamaha themselves, he's arguably the most popular, in no small part due to his Bilingual Bonus and
Memetic Mutation qualities. - Cartoon Creature: Point, the small white humanoid hanging off of his cane in his official art.
- Cloudcuckoolander: While he has no set personality, it's not uncommon to see him portrayed with a strange personality to match his appearance, especially in the Western fandom.
- 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.
- Vocal Dissonance: His voice sounds like that of a teenage boy's. His character design makes him look around Oliver's age. Art by 3kuma after the fact makes Fukase look much older and more voice-appropriate.
Kaori & Ken
Standard Vocals - Kaori & Ken
Along with English banks Amy and Chris, these Japanese vocals were released as part of the standard VOCALOID5 package. They serve as successor voices to VY1 and VY2.- Expy: Can be seen as this to VY1 and VY2, as they are intended to succeed them as standard voices. Arguably, they can also be seen as this to MEIKO and KAITO, who were also intended to be standard voices up until Vocaloid's boom and the release of the VYs.
- Nonstandard Character Design: While their designs have a low poly aesthetic (see Retraux below), they also have a more realistic art style in comparison to most Vocaloids.
- Retraux: Like Amy and Chris, their designs have a low poly aesthetic typical of 90s video games/3D art.
English
CYBER SERIES
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.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Just look at the amount of gold in her boxart.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Amy & Chris
Standard Vocals - Amy and Chris
A pair of English voicebanks issued as part of VOCALOID5's Standard Vocals. They serve as the successor to the English VY Voicebanks.- Ambiguously Brown: Averted; as CYBER SONGMAN has no official avatar, Amy and Chris' avatars are the first to be unambiguously black.
- Expy: Can be seen as this to LEON and LOLA, who have similar voice types. In addition, while LEON and LOLA don't have official designs, they have been officially confirmed to be voiced by black people, were specifically marketed as soul vocalists, and early boxart for them unambiguously depicts them as black◊, further cementing the idea Amy and Chris could be their counterparts.
- Nonstandard Character Design: While their designs have a low poly aesthetic (see Retraux below), they also have a more realistic art style in comparison to most Vocaloids.
- Retraux: Like Ken and Kaori, their designs have a low poly aesthetic typical of 90s video games/3D art.
Po-Uta
Po-Uta
A high-pitched masculine vocal made in collaboration with and sampled from the musician Porter Robinson. His voice is based on Robinson's as it appears in his album Nurture.- Punny Name: Po-Uta both uses "uta" (song) and sounds like a corruption of the Japanese pronunciation of his voice provider's first name (ポーター, pootaa, becomes ポーウタ).
- Undying Loyalty: His debut song, "Humansongs" depicts him displaying this to Porter Robinson himself, singing for him even long after he's gone.
