Mozaik Role Hits One Million Views!

Image source: たま

Finally, after more than a year we have our first GUMI song which has reached one million views over on Nico Nico Douga and it’s none other than Mozaik Role on Aug 10th 2010 at 17:33 hours Japan Time. And what’s more amazing is that this song managed to achieve the [...]

Happy 1st Birthday, GUMI!

Image source: 山吹たま

Ah yes, it’s been one whole year since GUMI was released as we got to listen to a number of great GUMI songs created by the producers around. For some of the most memorable songs as well as illustrations celebrating her birthday just continue reading as always.

Weekend Spotlight - GUMI At the Top

Red2 guest-hosts the Weekend Spotlight, where Deco*27 is giving GUMI the best chance she’s had to make a #1 [...]

HRP-4C Cosplay: Gumi version

We showed the Miku cosplay vid earlier, and comments about this fusion of gynoid and moé seemed to fall somewhere within the (alleged) Uncanny Valley. Being that it’s Halloween, it only makes sense to give you another scare, this time with V-ism staff favorite Megpoid! WhooooooooOOOOOOOoooooooh!

There’s actually three videos. [...]

Vocaloid Ranking SP4 – It’s the Final Countdown

"Yes, Miku and Luka dominated the Top 10 this time round…" (Image source: ヒジキ)

Duhnuh nuhhhh nuhhhhhh. Duhnuh nuh nuh nuhhhhhhhh….oh hello. We took a deliberate pause >_> to talk about the recent Vocaran but now it’s time to get back to business. It’s time for the virtual rubber [...]

Vocaloid Ranking SP4 – Part 2, or is it 3?

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Greetings, true believers!  In our last episode, we ran through not one, but TWO episodes of the 4th Ranking Special.  We covered over 6 dozen songs and a big interview with asaP (with special guest shippotan).  Today, we start breaking down the Top 40.

A friendly reminder: these scores are [...]

VOCALOID Ranking SP4 pt.1 & 2- Almost Live!

Lat式 Miku tries to crack the Douganci Code

Apparently, our tinfoil hats have prevented us from seeing that SP4 was up. These are your top songs from Rankings 76-100 (Which means only 6 more months until SP5!)  so sit back and relax as we startup the Wayback Machine.

MMD gets update, Gumi gets love

Who's reaching out to capture the moment?

MikuMikuDance has been updated to 5.13 on both the English and Japanese versions. (The one you want is dependent on your regional setting. Just setting your non-Unicode setting to Japanese doesn’t work anymore.) This is all well and good, but there’s something better on the update [...]

A Look at Gumi’s Initial Impact

Image source: ぱんつ

So it’s been a couple weeks since Megpoid has been released to eager music-makers everywhere, and now that Ms. Nakajima can sit back and start collecting her checks (I’m only speculating, though), now’s a good time to take a look and see how Gumi has fared in the early goings.

(Note: For sake [...]

Welcome, Gumi!

Image source: 綾風柳晶

Well, this post is Vocaloidism’s big fat welcome to Megpoid, whose software has already hit the streets of Japan on June 26th. This is SSW’s Internet software company’s 2nd venture into the virtual idol business–their first featuring the ubiquitous J-rocker Gackt. To know more about Gumi’s voice actress just continue reading [...]