Weekend Spotlight - Exposition Characters

Meg Meg Combi by tsukun

This weekend is an interesting coincidence.  Anime Expo is going on right now, with quite an array of guests.  One being Megumi “Gumi” Nakajima (her Macross foil, May’n, is there, too) and another is Yuu “Luka” Asakawa.  Such an odd pairing in such an odd place captures the imagination.  Well, [...]

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 – The Hangover

Artist: Takitate (via e-shuushuu)

Quick show of hands: how many of you spent most of January 1 sleeping?  Yeah, thought so.  You aren’t alone.  While a lot of you probably can remember what you did the last day of last “decade”, some of you may not.  While you try to remember what you did overnight, [...]

Vocaloidism Awards – Finale

Featuring Krystal & LivingFlame's collaborated logo

So after an eventful rush to the end of 2009, we’ve come to, well, the end of 2009.  And that also means the end of the Vocaloidism Awards.  We have the winners for the big big awards, plus some well-wishes from some of our staff.  If any of that [...]

2009 Vocaloidism Awards – Part 2

Welcome back to the Vocaloidism Awards.  Before we continue, I must say hello and welcome to those who were pointed to us by the Hatsune MikuMiku blog, who translated Part 1 of our show to Japanese. Whether it was to laud us or mock us is moot, because we like being famous. 日本語が苦手ですけど、日本のみんなあさん、いらしゃいませ。 m(_ _)m [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #94

Image source: えふ

【ニコニコ動画】週刊VOCALOIDランキング #94

Ahh… it is good to be back, after all.

Well, as I promised, here I am reviewing the Weekly Vocaloid Ranking (which will henceforth be abbreviated to WVR) for the English Vocaloid community at large. The link above leads directly to the NND upload of said ranking and is for [...]

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 [...]

New Official Illustrations and Demo Song For Megpoid

GUMI~

Earlier this week Internet software company has released new official illustrations for their latest Vocaloid 2 character, Megpoid, in which the software will be released on June 26th retailing for 15,750 yen.

Also, a new demo song titled “BLUE BUTTERFLY” has been revealed and you can view the official illustrations right after the break~