Hoshi

She's a huge VOCALOID fan, a figure collector, and an all around nerd. Hoshi's been in the VOCALOID fandom since 2008 and has been a hardcore VOCALOID fan since 2013.

VOCALOID Unity-chan Announced for V4 Engine

Recently, YAMAHA announced a collaboration project between VOCALOID and the Unity game engine. To mark the occasion, Japan's moe mascot for the engine will be receiving a VOCALOID 4 voice bank. VOCALOID Unity-chan is set to be released in December of this year. VOCALOID Unity-chan Not much is known about the Japanese VOCALOID at the

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Design Contest for New Male VOCALOID Fukase Now Open

YAMAHA has surprised the fandom with an announcement of yet another male VOCALOID. The new library will be VOCALOID Fukase and its voice provider is none other than Fukase from SEKAI NO OWARI. This marks the second high profile singer (the first being Sachiko Kobayashi voicing VOCALOID Sachiko) and the third high profile person (the

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Is There a VOCALOID Anime?

If there's one question guaranteed to set forth a fury of flames from angry fans, it's someone asking what anime a VOCALOID is from or if there's even a VOCALOID anime in existence. The short answer is, of course, that there isn't a VOCALOID anime. An anime would give characters a canon personality and history

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IA/VT Colorful Released Today!

One year ago, fans were eagerly awaiting the release of the video game IA/VT Colorful as its release date was set for July 31st, 2014. Unfortunately, a delay was announced shortly before and then another delay was seen after the first. But after a long wait, the PS Vita game is finally being released! http

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ARSMAGNA VOCALOID Arsloid Pre-orders Open July 30th

The first demo of the upcoming VOCALOID Arsloid was released on June 15th, 2015 and ARSMAGNA fans were absolutely thrilled. The idea of there being a VOCALOID based on one of the characters in the cosplaying dance group was exciting. However, no one was sure if the VOCALOID would be private or distributed. Many assumed

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VOCALOID Summer Wonder Festival 2015 Highlights

This year's Summer Wonder Festival (also known as WonFes) was an exhibit filled with VOCALOID related reveals (as well as an UTAU). Though Miku dominated, many other VOCALOIDs have figures in the making as well. Below is a collection of information on the exhibited figures. Hatsune Miku Figures For image sources, click the names

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Enka Singing VOCALOID Announced: Sachiko

YAMAHA recently announced a new VOCALOID to their lineup: Sachiko. Using the voice of famous Enka singer Sachiko Kobayashi who is known for singing everything from songs in the Pokémon anime to covers of VOCALOID songs such as Senbonzakura and Akahitoha, as well as her elaborate costumes which are wonderfully represented by VOCALOID Sachiko's design.

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Ruby: The Controversial VOCALOID

On July 4th, 2015, English VOCALOID Ruby was revealed at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in front of a television crew and many expecting fans. Just the day before, Ruby's voice actress Misha was shown the design set to be unveiled. And it wasn't the one that those outside of PowerFX had created. Instead, it

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