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Roki romaji5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() (And if you want more Mitchie M, see also Freely Tomorrow and Viva Happy. Just try to get that chorus out of your head. Mitchie M is one of my favorite Vocaloid composers, and “News 39” is one of my favorites by him. More importantly, this is catchy as hell. Worked better in 2015 when the song was released, but maybe we need this song now more than ever, if only to distract us from that impending doom bullshit I was just talking about. “News 39″* casts Miku as a news anchor on a program that focuses on positive news, I guess to try to get people’s spirits up. Still, I appreciate what this song is trying to do. Okay, I admit that I’m one of those “the world is fucked and we’re all doomed” types, though you absolutely don’t need me to admit that if you’re a regular reader here. Weird reasoning if the message of the song is “go outside”, but I can’t exactly tell. Maybe the real reason was that Sega, who has a license from Crypton to develop Vocaloid games, also wanted to shill their own online game PSO2. At least that’s the case in the Vocaloid rhythm game Project Diva Future Tone, where I found it first, since the video that comes along with it seen above is full of references to the MMO. ![]() Specifically those addicted to MMOs, and especially specifically to Phantasy Star Online 2. Here’s a song with a meaning that’s not vague at all - “Online Game Addicts Sprechchor” is about online game addicts. I just like the music, that’s all.ĥ) “Online Game Addicts Sprechchor” – Satsuki ga Tenkomori I’m not into Vocaloid enough to care about popular fan theories about the lyrics of certain songs, but I know “Donut Hole” isn’t the only song they theorize about. And the meaning of the lyrics is apparently pretty vague, which has given plenty of room for interpretation - and fans have gone ahead and done a lot of that. Not much to say about this one other than that it’s catchy and I like it. From what I can tell she was developed by another company as a kind of spinoff Vocaloid, but Gumi has become pretty popular in her own right, and “Donut Hole” is one of her best-known songs. The following are some of my favorites, listed in no particular order.Īfter going on and on about Miku, the first song I’m posting isn’t one of hers but rather one of Gumi’s. But of course, music is at the core of the Vocaloid craze, and a lot of great music was and still is produced with the software, largely by indie composers. They’ve even gone on tour around the world in hologram form several times. You can find a load of all sorts of media surrounding Miku and her friends now, almost all of it fan-created. Miku has since become insanely popular both for her voice and her design, and apparently picking up on the fact that she was probably most of the reason for Vocaloid’s success at that point, publisher Yamaha and developer Crypton Future Media put out several more “virtual singers” to join her with their own unique voices, like the more mature-sounding Megurine Luka and the Kagamine twins Rin and Len. Unlike the first, Vocaloid 2 came along with a face to fit its new voice: Hatsune Miku, an android girl character built specifically for singing. ![]() However, it only started becoming what it is today when its second release came out in 2007. Vocaloid is a line of music creation software focusing on synthesized vocals that was first released in 2004 for use by both amateur and professional composers. But in case you do, here’s a rough start. I don’t really know if anyone who reads this weeb-centered blog needs a primer on what Vocaloid is. Whenever you can get to them, you should listen to these, some of my favorites using the Vocaloid voice synthesizer software. ![]()
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