Vocaloid have feelings too!

Vocaloid's lack of personality is perfect to write fanfictions about them

Len has whatever personality type involves constantly dying.

Me: **playing Vocaloid quizzes** Game: You got Yowane Haku! Me: BUT SHE'S NOT EVEN A VOCALOID! **Looks at Neru** SHE'S NOT EITHER!

Developers: We shouldn't make Rin and Len twins just in case people ship them. *Adolescence exists*

Fukase is a memelord and you can’t tell me different

I still feel uncomfortable shipping Rin and Len Because of their last names and designs

Everytime I listen to vocaloid it annoys me so much when my friends say, "Stop listening to that anime music. Weeb." Or something along those lines. 1. I can listen to whatever the hell I want. 2. It's not anime.

I asked my friend "Do you know what Vocaloid is?" She said "Yeah I watched that anime before!" . .. ... .... ..... ...... *It's not an anime*

Noobs: Miku was the first Vocaloid! Leon & Lola: ...Are we a joke to you?

I have head cannons for personalities, and I think for the songs it's like when I go onstage: they are actors. They act happy, they act sad

Kaito’s last name isnt shion. It’s just kaito. *facepalm*

The only thing canon for Kaito is 1: he's a male 2: his father loves him deeply

I'm a vocaloid fan since 2012 or 2013 :) It triggers me a lot when people have this misconceptions... Here are another ones *(Trigger warning)*: - "There are only 8 Vocaloids" - "I know all Vocaloid songs" (but they only knew like 100 Miku Songs) - "Vocaloid is only japanese" - "Miku is the first Vocaloid" - "Rin and Len are the second Vocaloids" - " The '01' means that Miku is the most popular Vocaloid" - "This song is made by Hatsune Miku" - (another Vocaloid sings) "Is this Miku?"

I have to kinda disagree when it comes to UTAU’s quality. While UTAUs certainly have a sharper sound compared to VOCALOID’s softer sound, there are some fantastic UTAUs out there that rival VOCALOID’s quality. A really good example that was shown recently is in Circus’s song Monochrome. It just all comes down to mic quality and how well someone can tune/mix them.

Yeah, Crypton has some rights to Teto, that’s why she’s in the Project Diva games.

Fun Fact : Rin represents 'Right', and Len represents 'Left'.

Len's not a slut. *He's too busy dying.*

A sort of misconception that I don’t like is the whole “A and B can’t sing this together because B is older than A and that’s pedophilia! A should sing with C because they are the same age!” Luka was a high schooler in Plus Boy. Most of the Vocaloids are adults in a lot of Hito x Yama songs. Miku mentions having kids in Ai Kotoba. The ages don’t really matter. At the end of the day, Vocaloids are instruments. The only time I agree with this is when it comes to people using Yuki and Oliver to sing romantic songs with Vocaloids that were voiced by adults. That can be a little creepy since the voice providers were actual children at the time of the Vocaloid being made. Since Rin and Len, who were made to be 14, were voiced by a grown woman, it’s not really pedophilia if they sing love songs with Luka or Kaito or any other Vocaloid with an “adult” character.

One more: "Kaito Shion and Meiko Sakine are confirmed to be 21" 1. It's KAITO (all caps, really) not Kaito Shion. He has no surname. 2. It's MEIKO (their names actually are in caps), not Meiko Sakine. Sakine Meiko is just another fanloid character like Akita Neru and Yowane Haku. 3. KAITO and MEIKO have no confirmed official ages 4. In the Hatsune Mix manga, KEI portrayed them as middle-aged, but he himself announced that it was not official and only his perception. 5. They are not 21, they have no official ages as mentioned before. I have no idea why a huge lot of the fandom perceives them to be the specific number of 21. You can actually portray them as 3 or 3000 and you aren't wrong. Though, it _would_ be a little weird... Another one: "Kaito belongs to Miku/Meiko/Luka/Rin/Len/Gakupo/Gumi/Miki/ [insert name]!!" 1. No, Kaito belongs to Naoto Fuuga, Yamaha and Crypton. Similarly, Miku belongs to Saki Fujita, Yamaha and Crypton. Meiko belongs to Meiko Haigo, Rin and Len belong to Shimoda Asami, and so on.

BK: "Imagine how Toxic The Vocaloid community would be if they were to have set personalities!" me: *looks at VOCALOID Twitter* Ha.. haha... ha.. --A bit late on that chief--

I hate it when people says vocaloid is an anime, thank you for covering the topic!!

Excuse me,did you just roast my girl Ann? Wait, RIN AND LEN WERE ORIGINALLY GONNA BE TWINS- (But this video was so unbelievably relatable)

Toxic fans: All the Vocaloids are blank slates so you can hc them however you want! Person: *Hcs the Vocaloids in a way they don’t agree with/like* Toxic fans: Wait that’s illegal

"When i first joined it was a HOT mess trying to figure everything out" Me: *flashbacks to 2011, bacon wrapped hot dog guy, Toyota Corolla Miku, break dancing miku* YES IT WAS

Fukase the memelord is the best vocaloid edit: I love colorbars and broadcast illusion

I do not remember the name but I know MMD has been used to make a legitimate anime. I will look it up after I finish this video. Edit: I found it and it is one of the strangest titles I have ever seen. Straight Title Robot Anime. Seriously that is what it is called.

My only complaint is, people can have plenty of headcanons about their favorite Vocaloids. Obviously it's wrong to assume that is the "only" personality, or to push your headcanons on other people, but if I say "Tonio is a grump, Kaito is a dork, Leon is a nerd, and Cyman is a sweetheart", I don't think there's anything wrong with that -- just my headcanons! Also UTAU can be extremely impressive, and frankly I've heard some that sound better than the lower quality Vocaloids. But it takes a ton of work to get there @n@

I've been a Vocaloid user/fan since 2007 and your point about Rin and Len gave me horrible flashbacks to forum debates about whether Rin/Len were mirror images or twins. People were just short of murdering each other over it; I hated it so much. Does that shit still happen? omg EDIT: Also, adding onto the "Vocaloid is an anime" bit: There were more debates after the Black Rock Shooter anime came out. People kept calling BRS the official "Vocaloid anime" even though it didn't have a vocaloid character in it (although the ryo song was used in it). iirc, the song is based off of a character that isn't actually Miku (but does look like her) and the song was inspired by the character design. When the BRS anime came out, the fandom was a mess whenever someone asked "is Vocaloid an anime?" I feel like an old man talking about his old war stories now.

I think it's fine to headcanon a personality for vocaloids and such, but when people start saying that's their actual personality then it gets annoying

Eeeexactly Vocaloids can be what the fans interpret them to be. I still see Rin and Len as twins, but if there's songs where they're lovers, it's cute. Miku and Luka were interpreted as sisters in Scissorloid (i think?) But lovers in Magnet. Let these voice instruments be whatever you want them to be. XD

Here’s one that I think should be included. People thinking Miku was the first ever Vocaloid because of either the 01 on her shoulder, or because she’s by far the most popular.

I've been a vocaloid fan for 10 years now. I'm so happy you brought up all these points. I cant agree with you more with all of this like omfg.

Some Vocaloids with set personalities: -Mayu (is a Yandere) -v flower (is a Kuudere) -Macne Nana (is a bright and cheerful klutz) -Macne Petit (is quiet, the straight man of her family) -Arsloid (is bright, lively, strong sense of duty, kinda awkward) -Sonika (is cheerful and a little childish [as seen on her twitter]) Those are just the ones I could remember off the top of my head, theres probably more

I have a theory that each vocaloid song is a new universe also, we should get people to make more happy and innocent songs with Len Miku and Oliver

Person: what's vocaloid? Me: text to speech but anime

At least we all know one thing: Gakupo is the sexiest samurai alive. -Also my boi Tonio is amazing aaaa-

For people who just wanna know the software needed for recording and really just making an UTAU voicebank: 1. Oremo 2. UTAU And that's just it... you can use alternatives though (Like audacity if you like hell). Then you need to create an oto.ini so you can just use oremo to generate one and make adjustments in UTAU or other programs like SetParam.

Kaito just loves ice cream though.. CAN I SHIP HIM WITH ICE CREAM?!

I remember someone telling me about Vocaloid n shit and legit all of their facts were misconceptions and honestly it was so weird. They also said that GUMI isn’t a vocaloid and is her own program n shit... I was so freaked out. They also said that Eleanore Forte is a vocaloid and that just. That did it for me, I was doneeeee

I actually disagree with vocaloids sounding better than utaus, when utaus are recorded well and tuned properly they're so beautiful and realistic, vocaloids can do that too but utaus just feel smoother to me? My personal favourite one is merry!!

Bless ur soul for providing this info! I hate it when ppl think Teto is a Vocaloid and WTF does Crypton only promote Miku!? WE NEED KAITO AND MEIKO V6 or something!?!?!?????

One misconception I really hate is when some people go on and on about how Vocaloid songs are better than Western music because “tHeY dOnT sInG aBOuT sEx aNd DrUGs!!!” Like, Vocaloid is basically an instrument and anyone can make whatever song they want. And there’s tons of sexually charged Vocaloid songs. Plenty of very popular Vocaloid songs have explicit lyrics. Plus there’s a lot of Western pop songs that have clean lyrics. There’s nothing wrong with sexually explicit songs of course but it’s so annoying hearing people spout things they know nothing about. Oh, and another thing that annoys me is when some people act like certain Vocaloids (specifically Miku I guess) only sing bubbly idol pop songs and can’t sing other genres of music ever.

I know a lot of people probably said this already, but I just get mad when people call Vocaloid "weeb music." They just look at the Vocaloids' designs, notice they look like they're from an anime, and call it weaboo. I saw someone comment this on Rolling Girl on SoundCloud, and they didn't seem to know that the song was about suicide. A lot of Vocaloid songs talk about heavy topics like this, but in ways that actually help people, which is amazing since I don't hear a lot of radio songs that are like this (at least in America, from my personal experience). Especially with things like 13 Reasons Why, people have been scared to make songs about those topics, and for good reason, but it's really great to know that Vocaloid has already been talking about that in ways that help people. A lot of KZfaq comments on the PVs say that those songs have helped them. Anyway, I didn't mean to make it this long, oof.

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

this is the most annoying one to me: "hime and mikoto have no official gender, meaning they are canonically non binary and you have no right to have gender headcanons for either of them"

"Len? That's the one who always dies right?" -My brother, who doesn't really know anything about Vocaloids BUT THAT

rin's songs are either really kawaii or super depressed but that doesn't mean her character is depressed

My biggest issue probably would be people saying, "(insert song) by Hatsune Miku". All Vocaloids, including Miku, are just programs. There's no way possible that they could write their own music. Discrediting producers is such a big problem in the community as well. Usually I only see this stuff in younger fans who don't really know that much about Vocaloid, but it still bothers me.

**sips water** alright chiefs lemme tell ya something about ships if someone likes a certain ship that you don't like, YOU WILL NOT-I REPEAT-*YOU WILL NOT BASH ON THEM FOR LIKING THAT SHIP* leave them alone, they aren't doing anything wrong (though there are exceptions to when you can rightfully call out someone, for example, if they're really toxic) also also don't bash on a ship just because you find it odd, that's pretty fucking rude yo, even more rude because you're getting angry over a ship comprised of *_VIRTUAL SINGERS_* listen, they dont have personalities, they dont have backstories at all, they have nothing but age, height, weight, and design. ITS A PAIRING YALL remember the golden rule, treat others how you would wanna be treated

Her: Kanon and Anon are confirmed twins so you guys got your twins yaaaay Hime and Mikoto: Am I a joke to you?

an expansion about utau, while yes some utaus can be very metallic (this being a big case with the vipperloids, teto, ritsu, ruko (female) ) the quality of the vocals can also be at time even better articulated than vocaloid! the base recordings are what makes a soundbank sound metallic, tinny or clear this being said most utaus which have been created recently... tyaroemon, merry kohaku and so on are not as tinny and can be very clear! having a good sampler (fresamp, moresampler) plus knowing how to use flags and tune is also a way to make utau sound less metallic! it's freeware program with tons of plugins and high quality voice banks! the mixing and tuning is what makes an utau cover sound good, the recording of the utauloid is what helps the work have clarity!

I'm surprised you didn't mention people thinking vocaloids themselves made the songs they sing

There's one more related to the second one "Teto Kasane should be a vocaloid one day!" No, Teto has to be a UTAU. She started UTAU! She is the queen of UTAU and can't be transferred to Vocaloid! Similarly, no one would make Miku a UTAU. Therefore, Teto sticks as a UTAU and will be proud to be the first UTAU. If she's transferred to the high-quality Vocaloid, we won't have a cute robotic voice anymore. It'll just become a normal anime voice.

2:35 More please. Please

8:38 That's what I thought Gachapin looked like too lmao

“Vocaloid with set personalities don’t sell well.” MAYU: I’m literally the only one and they made me a yandere-

me talking to my friend about flower: them: yeah, vocaloid’s on my *watch list* uuuUuMMmMmMmmMmmm nOoOoOooo

Here's an awesome tidbit of info to add: YAMAHA actually has the trademark for both VOCALOID and VOCALO, hinting to something that Vocaloid may actually, or at the beginning at least, mean VOCALO-ID... Either that or they just got Vocalo too so no one can outright copy them and confuse buyers.

I always just assumed when someone said **insert vocaloid** has **insert personality** they mean it's a popular amoung song writers like to give **insert vocaloid** **insert personality**

*When you have vocaloid manga:* **chuckles** I’m in danger

I see Rin and Len as siblings too uwu Also there's the common misconception that V4 Flower is a boy. She may look like a boy, but she's actually a girl =w= She also happens to be my favourite Vocaloid lol (she has a really cool voice uwu)

I don't agree what you said about utau. It isn't that bad quality actually. Its not even that hard to find a good quality cover. Just look up utau and you'll find some really good ones some even Vocaloid quality or better. For example: Matsudatoki Tanjiro Kyyami Akem And many more!

yes I'm "late" by a year. I don't care I like to picture Meiko as actually a sweet person not a drunk... I get you said personalities annoy you and that but ANYTHING where Meiko isn't a drunk makes me happy as Miku with leeks...

I'm pretty sure I've heard people say that Vocaloid and nightcore are the same things. Like... no dude, they are completely different. I blame it on the fact that a lot of nightcore videos have pictures of Miku for the backgrounds.

I've been in Vocaloid hell since 2015 :D And what I absolutely *HATE* with all my heart and soul is that some people bash and hate on Meiko cause she's an "alcoholic" like hOney wHERE where are your receipts??? This is not a FACT this is just some things fans have given Meiko, like Len liking Bananas or Kaito ice cream- has any of those been proven facts to be apart of the Vocaloid? NO. So it's not fair people immediately hate on Meiko assuming she's an alcoholic- stop it. Get some help. Stop claiming Meiko is an alcoholic it get on my NERVES I adore Meiko with all my heart so this really annoys me.

"Rin and Len can be Anything you want them to be" Aha she I can make them twins UwU

I completely agree with you, especially on the last subject: what I really like about Vocaloid is that they don't have set personalities: you can make them as abstract or specific as you want. Vocaloids can be whatever you want them to be. It would be better if people started to look at them like actors, playing different characters with different personalities in every other song, instead of looking at them like anime characters with a set personality.

Fukase is still the memelord people--

Teto getting a SnythV 4 years later 😍

Thanks for making this! Even though I have been a vocaloid fan for a while, I had no idea that Neru was not an actual vocaloid!

UTAU has improved alot tho ^^; There are some better covers by UTAUloids from Vocaloids. Then again, other underated Vocaloid (Like Meiko mah Queen) also make better songs than Miku, its just sad how they get overshadowed ;-;)

2:14 Unless you’re Tanjiro who’s straight up Jesus

Actually, this helped a lot. I've been wanting to get into Vocaloid for years but I keep putting off making the dive because its history is so expansive and there are so many games and concerts and characters and programs and, well you get the point. You actually broke down some misconceptions that even I heard - also knowing the characters are kind of blank slates was a surprise. I thought they had personalities by listening to other fans but knowing that they can be whatever you want them to somehow makes me more interested in making the plunge into the world of Vocaloid even if I'm trash at rhythm games.

Teto's gonna be in Miku Symphony. Just FYI.

Honestly tempted to just make a video series detailing the entire history of vocaloid at some point.

I’d like to point that “Vocaloid Episode 1” is still in the suggestions on KZfaq when you search up “Vocaloid”

i never thought they were anime. but this is coming from someone who thought hide and seek was japanese but i can see the twin misconception because their visual appearence

1:12 I like how you put the Psycho music for Sweet Ann😆

I kinda wish Vocaloid had an anime. It would be cool

4:52 just noticed tokyo teddy bear in the background. and also, thanks for giving me some background on vocaloids! I'm a vocaloid nub. *subs*

Wait, so the kagamines can be whatever you want them to be? Aight bet. They’re twins for me. ✌️

as a fan of vocaloid for 7-8 years now, im so glad i found this video bc hOH my friends who are new to vocaloid are just,,, triggering me with these misconceptions istg especially the "___ is a ___" one oof

Oh my gosh Ikr. These misconsceptions are annoying. Odd I know these but am kinda new

I agree with a lot of this list. However on the Utau subject, they can actually sound much more human or fine tuned than Vocaloid. It's the same issue with Vocaloid, it's the person/mix/tuning that effects the voice-banks. Anyone can butcher VBs, anyone can make them sound perfect. Some VBs aren't that great, some are, but it all does come down to how it's used by the person. For anyone looking into Utau I would suggest looking at Utau like Yamine Renri and Namine Ritsu's latest voice-bank. Users like Kyaami and Police Piccadilly for example do pretty well with them. It's very easy to come across a random video of an Utau with poor tuning and assume that the VB or Utau itself is poor, when it's not that case. Please don't let that deter you from using/listening to Utau.

The UTAU part isn't quite right. It all goes down to the quality of the recordings of the VB, the tuning, the oto'ing, the flags, and ect. Some UTAUloids hands down beat a LOT of vocaloids

UTAU is honestly nicer sounding than Vocaloid if you're good at tuning.

I've been a Vocaloid fan since when I was in the 4th grade (soon in 7th) and I agree with you. These misconceptions trigger me. Most of my friends think Vocaloid is anime. And I told them it's not anime, but they still say it's anime. And since they come at my place to play games, just talk etc. I will pull out a Switch with Project Diva and play it to prove it's not anime. Now all I need it's to have enough money to buy a Switch and Project Diva. Yes, Project Diva will come out for the Switch, but in 2020.

*BKgirl483:* vocaloid isn't an anime *me:* i wish it was TnT

Something I didn´t know was Teto was a fan-made character. XD That caught me by surprise. XD

I've been a fan since 2013 so it's sad to see the fandom has been slowly dying but it's great to see content Creator's like you making videos about vocaloid(≧▽≦)

I know Rin and Len aren't twin, I just like to think they are :')

"Even the best utau don't compare to the high quality of late Vocaloids." Lmao okay

My first fav VOCALOID wasn't any of the more popular ones. It was Kiyoteru. He's still my number 1 fav.

I saw this video circulating around, and I'm going over both points you made in the video and things you've said in the comments. *To start, it is only difficult to make an UTAU voicebank sound good when singing high notes if that UTAU does not have a pitch recorded to cover that range. Many UTAU have multiple pitches recorded to cover both higher and lower octaves so that the voice does not sound strained when singing these parts. *The UTAU community is quite vast, so you can't just say "90% of UTAU/UTAU covers is like this or that". This is a highly generalized statement that exaggerates and only spreads misinformation, and it's worth noting that individual experience is opinion and not necessarily fact. It's also extremely disrespectful to say that 90% of users don't put hard work/aren't willing to put hard work into their creations. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist, and it doesn't give you the right to generalize based off the margin you do know about. "It's taken 13 years for UTAU to reach Vocaloid quality " is not a fair argument. Vocaloid 1-2 isn't noted to be the absolute best in quality, expressiveness, etc. , (having tons of covers with poor results). You must also consider that the program is given updates every so often. UTAU, on the other hand, has not received an official update in over 5 years, and many covers that have been produced using it can surpass Vocaloid covers that use Vocaloid's newest engine. Good UTAU covers even span from years before now. And your comment about finding USTs with bad voicebanks is something easily debatable. Obviously if you search for a ust of an old song (or one featured in an old cover) you're bound to find results dating back from a time when the program wasn't at its latest update and/or when people didn't have as much resources as they do now. Resources for UTAU can be scarce but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Any UTAU/Vocal Synth forum like Utaforum or a discord server like UTAU-R-US can easily provide you with help and pair you with users who have made tutorials and are willing to answer any questions/give feedback if asked. Saying that no resources exist/so few exist that it's impossible to do anything of quality with UTAU only spreads negative information and blatantly ignores all the good help that can be found if you actually try to search for it. *Not to mention that if you only search in one area (like sticking to KZfaq and Google and not searching Japanese sites like Niconico) you leave out a huge chunk of the existing community as a whole and narrow it down to just the part you bothered to consider. *I saw in another comment of yours that you said it's not good to act as though a program is without its cons. I agree, but you didn't really list any pros in your brief video commentary regarding UTAU (saying something roughly along the lines of the program being, for lack of a better term, "a poor man's Vocaloid" isn't exactly a pro or a compliment). To further this you didn't quite list any cons for Vocaloid during the comparison, either. You failed to give a proper and fair comparison, particularly when you snagged two covers as examples, from two completely opposite sides of the quality spectrum, (a poorly made/adjusted Ritsu cover compared to a well-tuned Rin cover), and didn't bother listing or showing any covers highlighting UTAU's capabilities or covers displaying Vocaloid being poorly used. *And high-quality or just even good UTAU are not at all difficult to find. In a relatively short time, I was actually able to compile a playlist of just a handful of good UTAU found on KZfaq alone (excluding platforms also filled with good voicebanks like SoundCloud and Niconico). You can shuffle the playlist and listen to find that any one of the covers is not the stereotypical "metallic" or "low-quality" you described. kzfaq.info/sun/PLJEiamOfqWNtBxB8lDuPZMwuJn31DpOtG UTAU is free and a majority of completed voicebanks are not private. Ex. Sakurazawa Sakura Darling Honoka Elie Ms. Atia Gahata Meiji KYE Akesato Shirone Tenshi Celeste Kurobousuku Crecia Selestewa Yamine Renri GAO Number Bronze ...and many many more (It's also worth noting that one of the reasons voicebanks considered amongst the best, like Yamine Renri for example, hold such prowess *because* they are noted to be easy to use and easy to make sound good.) *Now I want to make it clear that I hold no animosity/disrespect towards you, I just found that this video and your comments reflected large bias and generalizations that would give many people misconceptions about the UTAU program that could easily have been debunked through proper research, a bit ironic considering this entire video is meant to dispell myths regarding a vocal synth, it'd be nice if the other synth you did mention was showed a similar respect. I also think this video would have benefitted from a better comparison if one was going to be made, or at least one showcasing multiple examples instead of two that varied so differently.

just found your channel today! your characters eyes are pretty I like your artstyle! :D

1:14 I felt the same way about that when i first saw her-

It was kind of a mess when I got started (10 months ago I think!) And this was pretty helpful!

I'm happy you included Gakupo

Every time when someone mentions Sweet Ann they're always like,"Mmmm. .. Nope".