Featured Vocaloid
This edition's featured Vocaloid is the beloved Kaito, again, whose name is capitalized as KAITO. His voice provider is Naoto Fuuga, who has actually covered a couple of Kaito's songs on occasion, like Hikyou Sentai Urotander. Kaito is the second Japanese Vocaloid for the Vocaloid1 engine, distributed by Crypton Future Media. His most well-known roles are the Second Alice in Alice Human Sacrifice, the Blue Prince in Story of Evil, the Prince in Cendrillon, the Phantom-of-the-Opera-wannabe in Cantarella, and himself in My Ice Cream is Melting. Of course, he's got some other notable roles too. When he was first released, only a few hundred of the software were bought, so Crypton declared him a failure (ouch ;-;). So that was that, until after Miku Hatsune was released. Some producer had her sing a short cover of Higurashi's "You", with altered lyrics asking where Kaito was and what he was doing, etc. During the same time, another producer (now known as Ice-P) was working on a cover of "The Ice Cream Song" for Kaito, saw the video, and tacked on a few things, calling the video "An Answer to Hatsune Miku". This brought Kaito back into the spotlight, and arguably saved him from obscurity. He and Meiko were designed to complement each other's voice, and were developed at the same time, but Meiko was released first, Kaito a year or two afterwards. So there's an argument for KaiMi and KaiMei. * Spaz gets gunned down by KaiLen fangirls * His character item is, of course, ice cream, sometimes specialized as Haagen-Dazs ice cream. His fandom portrayal is of a cheerful, happy-go-lucky kind of guy, if a bit oblivious. Though, lots of his songs are quiet and contemplative... so... take your headcanon where you wish. He's got a bit of a mechanical undertone to his voice, but certain producers can do wonders with him, like shigotoshiteP and shinjouP.
Featured Producer
Let's look at the diabolical genius, mothy, otherwise known as AkunoP. His name comes from his most popular and well-known series, The Story of Evil, consisting of Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil, Regret Message, and Re_Birthday. Oh, and Daughter of White. Of course, Story of Evil is only a piece of his whole Seven Sins series, and Re_Birthday is part of the Clockwork Lullaby series, and the Clockwork Lullaby series connects to the Seven Sins series and the Moonlight series, and the Moonlight series connects to the Pere Noel series, and the Pere Noel series connects to the Seven Sins series, and the Seven Sins series interconnects... it's confusing and mind blowing but awesome. And tragic. Mothy's weakness is tuning Vocaloids, his early songs are pretty awful at times T.T but he's gotten a bit better. He's got most of the major Vocaloids. Oh! And then another song called Handbeat Clocktower connects kinda to the Clockwork Lullaby series and it may be part of the Story of Evil series... Most of his songs compose this grandiose uber-series called The Evillous Chronicles. Mothy's strength is the instrumentals, often classical with a bit of electric guitar. Most of his songs are classics, he's kind of one of the producers you have to know of.
Bonus Section!
And here is where our Featured Vocaloid and our Featured Producer relate! Kaito has a role in almost all of mothy's songs, so let's list them out, just for fun.
The Blue Prince/King in Story of Evil
The Husband Guy in Moonlight Series
The Fifteenth (?) Head Chef in Evil Food Eater Conchita
The person Luka stalked in Tailor Shop in Enbizaka
The Gear in Heartbeat Clocktower
The (SPOILER) in Madness of Duke Venomania (not really safe for work)
The Fiance in Gift from Princess Who Brought Sleep
Blue One in Number Five: Pierrot
The Corrupt Judge in Judgement of Corruption
The Gear in Capriccio Farce
The Blue Prince/King in Handbeat Clocktower
So there!
Vocaloid Vocabulary
"PV", short for "Picture Video" or "Producer's Video", is the standard term for the video along with the Vocaloid song. More specifically, the one the producer provided for it, but usually used to describe any video for the song.
"Nico Nico Chorus" works like this: people on NND cover Vocaloid songs. Some video editing genius takes several covers and smushes them together, sometimes with the Vocaloid singing it, creating awesome.
What's on Spaz's iPod?
Chrono Story, by our Featured Producer, sung by Luka Megurine, Rin, and Len. This is the last in the Moonlight series, the song that connects to the Seven Sins series with Hansel and Gretel (so it connects to the Pere Noel series) taking the "original sin" and splitting it up in to seven parts and releasing them (great idea, guys). It's got an awesome instrumental and the "Lu Li La"s connect with the Clockwork Lullaby series...
The Classics
Meltdown, sung by Rin Kagamine and produced by iroha. An awesome song, but the lyrics are a bit... opaque... but still awesome. Note: Do not try to sing loudly, as there is a very slight risk of serious vocal chord damage.
Crowning Music of Awesome
Bad End Night, by PeopledropP (that's what google translate does with it anyways) and sung by Miku, Kaito, Meiko, Rin, Len, Gumi, Gakupo, and Luka. It's a group piece (dur) with a Nightmare Before Christmas kinda vibe, very fun and Halloween-ish. The PV and their costumes are cool too.
Crowning Music of Sad
What, Servant of Evil isn't sad enough for you? Try the Classical Version. What, still not sobbing hysterically? How about the Nico Nico Chorus Classical Version?
Crowning Music of Funny
Lord of Darkness is a parody of Daughter of Evil, sung by Kaito about a fail vampire. Shut up, it's hilarious.
Spotlight Cover
Byakkoya no Musume. Listen to it first before you read the rest. ... Okay, the starting part is Rin and she pops up later too, but most of the song is Kaito. Yes, that is Kaito. Yes, I know, he sounds pretty much like a real person here. Yes, you can't believe it, but it's true. That's Kaito. (At least, that was Vocaloidnoob Spaz's first reaction). It's a cover of Paprika (Japanese movie, apparenly)'s OP.
Spotlight Duet
TwiRight Prank, by mothy and sung by Rin and Len. It's a song of Rillaine (Daughter of Evil) and Allen (Servant of Evil) as little kids. It's not particularly well-tuned, but it's sweet.
Random Recommendation
Cyber Thunder Cider, sung by VY1 and produced by EZFG. The PV has an amusing dancing stick man. It's a bit odd... Aca just kinda randomly mentioned it. It hung out on the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking for a while, as I remember... Oh, there's a brief curse word in there too, just a heads up OTL
Recent News
Yet another VOCALOID3 voicebank has been announced, "Galaco". How many do we have announced/released yet, like ten? Anyways, she's kind of cool, here's her introduction song called galaxias!, though I'm not sure if that's her actual voice... it's pretty heavily autotuned, but her voice as shown here. She'll be made by Internet Co. Ltd. (Gumi, Gakupo, etc). So there's that, and the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking's up on Vocaloidism.
End Note
See, it's funny because moths are in class Lepidoptera... *brick'd*
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