JAPANESE VOCALOIDS

MEIKO

Meiko is a Vocaloid DTM (Desktop Music) software created by Crypton Future Media. She utilizes the older Vocaloid engine, the predecessor for Vocaloid2, and her voice is based on singer Meiko Haigo. Although rougher sounding, Meiko and her companion Kaito are able to incorporate much broader voice range than Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin/Kagamine Len.

As a mascot character, she is the older sister figure for the Vocaloid group. She wears red, and carries around a microphone stand. She also is frequently seen drinking from One Cup Ozeki, a sake widely available through vending machines.

KAITO

Kaito is a Vocaloid DTM (Desktop Music) software created by Crypton Future Media. He utilizes the older Vocaloid engine, the predecessor for Vocaloid2, and his voice is based on singer Naoto Fuuga. Although rougher sounding, Kaito and his companion Meiko are able to incorporate much broader voice range than Miku and Rin/ Len.

As a mascot character, he is the older brother figure for the entire Vocaloid group, frequently called "Onii-san". He wears a white coat and a blue muffler. He is very popular among the female users of NicoNico Douga. He is very fond of ice cream.

                                                                    

AKAITO

Akaito is basically Kaito, but in a red color scheme instead of his usual blue. 赤 is the kanji for red, which is read as あか (aka). So a Red Kaito = AKAito.

His voice is usually lower octave than Kaito's range.
He also likes peppers (hot, spicy) while Kaito likes ice cream (cold, sweet).



A fanmade Vocaloid that is the female version of Kaito. In Japan, it is very common to have female names end in -ko.

Her two outfit designs were inspired by Kaito; with a Vocaloid2 update, and Idolmaster outfit - Cute & Girly.

Her voice is sometimes put an octave or two higher than Kaito's.

Kikaito

kikaito is A fanmade Vocaloid based on Kaito. He is another brother in the 始音 Shion (assumed named) family.

He has a robot-like body; his hair is blond and his eyes are yellow.

His voice is usually two octaves lower than Kaito's range.

Nigaito

nigaito is A fanmade Vocaloid based on Kaito. He is another brother in the 始音 Shion (assumed named) family.

His coat has very long sleeves and his color scheme is green; his personality is known to be very shy.

A fanmade Vocaloid based on Kaito. He is another brother in the 始音 Shion (assumed named) family.

He is a Yanderoid, and is good friend (or lover?) of Juon Kiku. His color scheme is purple, and his design consists of bandages and body wraps.

His voice is more higher pitched than Kaito's.

Isamine Kaito

Isamine Kaito Is the Metal version of Kaito. He also goes by the collective last name for the Heavy Metal Vocaloids.

He has blue hair, and dark blue highlights. And a tattoo on his lower left arm.

HATSUNE MIKU

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is Crypton Future Media's singing synthesizer based on Yamaha's Vocaloid2. It also refers to the mascot character of the same name. The name is a word play: Hatsune(初音) meaning First Sound, and Miku (ミク) deriving from the Japanese slang for Mixer. The official design was created by KEI: http://kei-garou.net.

Due to her popularity, several fan-made deriviations of Miku exists.

Akita Neru

akita neru in phonetic reading it sounds like "I quit. Going to sleep." (Akita. Neru) She started out as a meme on 2chan, where a troll user started threadcrapping all Vocaloid related threads. Some user commented that he wouldn't get angry only if the troll was a cute girl.

Thus Akita Neru, a tsundere non-Vocaloid net-chara was born. Her image color is orangish yellow and her character item is a cell phone. Her design was created by Smith Hioka (スミス･ヒオカ).

Neru is sometimes written as a Miku wannabe, others as the anti-hero of the Vocaloid personage. She mainly represents forum/bbs trolls, those who don't have enough patience to use the Vocaloid software, or those who gave up using Vocaloid.

Hatsune Mikuo

hatsune mikuo is A fanmade Vocaloid that is the male version of Hatsune Miku. His voice is a masculinized version of Miku's voice samples.

Not much is known about Mikuo except that he inherits some of Miku's traits, especially those regarding leeks.

Mikuo is often written as Miku's bigger brother than a twin. He is often illustrated with a body build like Kaito's, but illustration of Mikuo similar to Len (in shotacon sense) is not uncommon. He is said to be buddies with fellow derivatives Akaito and Meito.

Hatsune Zumi

hatsune zumi is A fanmade Vocaloid based on Hatsune Miku.

She has blue tint hair (or just white) with long sidelocks. Her obvious notable feature, are her mouse ear.

KAGAMINE RIN

Kagamine Rin (鏡音リン) is the second singing synthesizer from Crypton Future Media based on Yamaha's Vocaloid2. The official design was created by KEI: http://kei-garou.net. Her voice is based on voice actress Asami Shimoda, who among other things voiced the Futami twins Ami and Mami in the game IDOLM@STER.

KAGAMINE LEN

Kagamine Len (鏡音レン) is the second singing synthesizer from Crypton Future Media to be based on Yamaha's Vocaloid2. This package is unique in that there are two separate voice samples available: one for a boy's voice and one for a girl's voice. By utilizing the 'gender factor' function, users can create a more colorful tone ranging between the two. His name Kagamine means Mirror(鏡) Sound(音) and implies this character.

The official design was created by KEI: http://kei-garou.net. His voice as well as Kagamine Rin's is based on voice actress Asami Shimoda, who among other things voiced Futami Ami and Futami Mami in the game IDOLM@STER.

Honne Dell

Dell is Voyakiloid (fail Vocaloid), who is based on Len and is always smoking. He represents failed Len users/songs. Characterized as a workaholic, irritable and a black-hat hacker (called crackers in Japan). He is conceptualized by Caffein, the same artist who illustrated and conceptualized Haku.

Magane len

Is the Metal version of Len. He also goes by the collective last name for the Heavy Metal Vocaloids.

He has light blond hair in a ponytail. And a tattoo on his right shoulder.

MEGURINE LUKA

Megurine Luka (巡音ルカ) is the third singing synthesizer from Crypton Future Media to be based on Yamaha's VOCALOID2. The official design was created by KEI. Her voice is based on voice actress Asakawa Yuu, who among other things voiced Rider in the Fate/stay night TV anime and Sakaki from Azumanga Daioh.

MEGURINE LUKI

Fanmade Vocaloid that is the male version of Megurine Luka.

 

OKURINE LUKA

Is the Metal version of Megurine Luka. She also goes by the collective last name for the Heavy Metal Vocaloids.

She has long pink hair in a side-ponytail. And a tattoo on her neck [left side].

KAMUI GAKUPO

Kamui Gakupo (神威がくぽ) is the name of the Vocaloid featured in Internet Co. Ltd.'s singing synthesizer, Gackpoid (がくっぽいど), based on Yamaha's Vocaloid2. The name means "the might of Heaven" (神威) "Gakupo" (がくぽ), which is derived from Gackt, the name of the artist which provides the voice for Gakupo.

GAKUKO

A female version of Kamui Gakupo.

GUMI

 

KAGURA GAKUPO

Is the Metal version of Gakupo drawn by Momopanda. He is Momopanda's personal fanmade character. But he also goes by the collective last name for the Heavy Metal Vocaloids.

He has long purple hair in a ponytail. And a tattoo on his midriff.

GUMI is the name of the Vocaloid featured in Internet Co. Ltd.'s singing synthesizer, Megpoid (メグッポイド), based on Yamaha's Vocaloid2. It is voiced by Megumi Nakajima and designed by Yuuki Masami.

Petite Miku

Another variant of Hatsune Miku, who is even younger and smaller than her sister Chibi Miku. Her notable appearance consist of hair bobbles and a pink color scheme.

Her name means "Speaking weak words" ('Speaking' here has connotation of a pent up sigh or muttering.) She gets her start from a thread in 2chan where a user commented: "I bought Hatsune Miku for her cute looks but no matter how hard I try, I can't get anything better than mechanical sounding songs out of her."

An artist (caffein) took this and ran with it to create Yowane Haku, an alter ego of all unskilled users of Hatsune Miku. Haku is a sad Vocaloid who just can't sing as well as Miku. She is always crying because of her frustration and vents her frustration by drinking. Her image colors are silver and purple. Her character item is a sake bottle.

This created a trend of users that labels badly-made vocaloid songs into voyakiloid, or "shouting vocaloid." It is implied that it was Haku who sung those songs, and not Miku.

Zatsune Miku

A fanmade Vocaloid based on Hatsune Miku, and meant to be her 'dark side' (an alter-ego of her).

Her eyes are dull red, her skin is pale, and her hair is soft black.

She is more provocative than Miku, in the sense that she has a somewhat sexier design than the original. She also sings "sexy" songs.

hagane miku

Is the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal version of Miku, belonging to the Hagane group of Heavy Metal Vocaloids.

She has pink hair, with silver highlights. And a tattoo on her midriff. Other artwork shows her with silver hair and no highlights.