#hey vocaloid community hi hello

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EXCUSE MY SLIGHTLY LONG ABSENCE !!

I LIVED BITCH /ref

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hi everyoneee :3 jae has a msg for you all

For everyone👇

Hey gang whhassgud. Like to say thy to my friend Pi for being awesome and being a communicator. Yah love you Pi. And I love you guys, I wish I could hang out again!

Okay yah I'm not good with the sappy stuff but you get my point. Love you 🫶

Happy Pride Month ;)

Have some art too btw: (yes I did get into the Vocaloid fandom. And multiple webtoons including School Bus Graveyard. And Pokémon. Yes hello rainbow I can see you jumping up and down, but calm yourself, l'm only 15 episodes into Indigo League so far)

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I challenge you to badly summarize each and every one of your fics

You know what. Ok.

Backstage (Hetalia): bit of backstage homosexuality innit

Buon San Valentino except it’s Switzerland instead of Germany (Hetalia): self-explanatory

Imaginary (Hetalia): local German has been having vivid hallucinations for basically a century

Your Name (Hetalia): “you don’t need to know what my name is. You can try tho.”

The entire True Colors series (so far white, brown, yellow, and green) (Hetalia): “hey bro what’s your favorite color”

The Proposal (Hetalia): *aph china voice* “the fuck you mean japan asked you guys to marry him too??? I don’t wanna be part of a polycule!”

Distrust (Hetalia): *aph poland voice* ‘his vibes….they’re rancid. Untrustworthy.’

Bothered (Hetalia): *aph veneziano voice* “I am not having a good time rn”

To You, With Love (Hetalia): “hello girl it’s been a while hasn’t it”

Marooned (Hetalia): Japan commits murder-suicide

The Thumping (Hetalia): The Tell-Tale Heart but worse

Baking (Hetalia): Germany is physically incapable of doing anything without being even vaguely homosexual

A Happy End (Hetalia): “we’re all going to die but I’m fine with it”

Eyes Wide Closed (Hetalia): having your eyes open like a normal person is too fucking personal tbh

Let Go (Hetalia): Yao Wang should see a therapist

In Your Arms (Hetalia): Spain is the ceo of hugs

Consumption (Hetalia): “you’re so cute I just want to eat you up!”

Fascination (Hetalia): you must have balls of steel to break into someone’s house and act like it’s normal to be there

Colorful (Hetalia): “yes I paint with my eyes closed. But it’s fine bc it’s like a nice little surprise at the end.”

The Hills Are Alive (Hetalia): clearly the land around Lithuania’s house is more than just haunted

Bright (Hetalia): you know when someone’s so beautiful that you can barely make visual contact with them

“Tú eres mi media naranja.” (Hetalia): *aph spain voice* “mi amor I cannot live without you”

Dropping By (Hetalia): your weird boyfriend has come to visit

“Can’t Wait to See You Again.” (Hetalia): “see you soon girl <3”

My Wife, The Sea (Hetalia): tfw you can’t marry people but you can marry a literal body of water

Hurt (Hetalia): those two should really seek therapy

The Handmade Chocolates I Recieved Are まずい。(Hetalia): how do you tell someone their cooking sucks without hurting their feelings?

“Welcome Back.” (Hetalia): local German forgets an important facet of his existence, proceeds to be proper fucking miserable upon finding out about it for the next four and a half decades

Not In That Way (Hetalia): this could’ve been avoided with better communication skills

Closer (Hetalia): “I want to lie on your chest and listen to your heartbeat <3 without all the skin in the way <3”

Dead Battlefield (Hetalia): “we’re the only ones alive here. For now.”

Misdiagnosis (Hetalia): this is why you shouldn’t swallow seeds

Blue Hour Marshmallows (Vocaloid): Bros comforting bros

The Great Outdoors (Hetalia): Alfred is lowkey a scaredy-cat

Dead Weight (Hetalia): “yes I know he’s dead so it wouldn’t matter what happens to him. No I’m not leaving him behind even if doing so guarantees my own survival.”

The Very Beginning (of Something Great) (Vocaloid): *hatsune miku voice* “uwu a new friend??? Yes please”

The Way It Started (Vocaloid): *kaito voice* “oh god oh fuck I need him to think I’m cool so we can be friends immediately”

A Chat About Us (Vocaloid): telepathic convo

Acceptance (Hetalia): “oh so I’m gonna die? Fair enough.”

Kisses (Hetalia): Spain is also the ceo of kissing

Sunset (Hetalia): studies show that the sunset is the best time to be gay

Golden Hour Tangerines (Vocaloid): Bros comforting bros 2: the turn tables

Setting Up (Vocaloid): everybody in that house is extremely unobservant

Rain and Silence (Classicaloid): “hmm. Today I will enjoy the peace and quiet.” (clueless)

Stuck (Vocaloid): stupid idiot gets stuck

Ill (Hetalia): this is why you shouldn’t walk through random doors you find in the basement

Solitude Summer (Hetalia): “I know this is no strings attached but I’m actually kinda in love rn”

Part of You (Classicaloid): “wow he is so cool. I wish he would eat me.”

Hey, Hey, Mamma (Hetalia): lots of Italian men are mama’s boys, aren’t they?

Vene Collezione (Hetalia): the same guy getting railed over and over again

An Unconventional Sort of Employment (Vocaloid): had there been monetary transactions involved, she would’ve been sold to hatsune miku

Do You Love the Color of the Sky? (Vocaloid): “yeah bro actually. The sky is always beautiful because you’re by my side”

Dyed in White: The Return (Hetalia): the Pictonians are back and this time it’s personal

First Sound of the Future (Vocaloid): “everything I know and love is no more and I don’t understand what is happening”

W Academy School Idol Club (Hetalia): “wow that looks interesting. Time to form my millionth club.”

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Artist Spotlights!

🎤 Bluzumara 🥁 Bom 🎷 boredlydoodling

🎺 Bri Penrod 🎸 Bubbles 🎻 C. Douglass

Interview below the cut!

Introduce yourself

🎤 Hi! I'm Bluzumara. I'm a  spanish artist more focused on digital art, and interested on manga creation. You can find me on Deviantart (Bluzumara), on Twitter (@AlmaViajero for art twitter or  @Bluzumara for personal) 🥁 Hi!! I'm bom, I do digital art and draw lots of cute ladies! I love dnd and I'm making an upcoming wlw zine featuring big women! I also love making new characters to sell to people! You can find my art at the following links! https://instagram.com/bombiibom/ https://twitter.com/bombombii/ https://www.deviantart.com/bombombii I follow back as well! 🎷 I'm an artist that enjoys both digital and traditional art. I love drawing cute girls and have way too many oc's. I'm currently in University studying character design and Illustration, and you can find most of my work posted to instagram. ->https://www.instagram.com/boredlydoodling/

🎺 Hello! I'm a nonbinary autistic guy. I love cartoons and drawing and I'm currently going to school to be a storyboarder. You can find me on tumblr at https://hey-lil-artslut.tumblr.com/ on twitter at https://twitter.com/HeyLilArtslut and on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/heylilartslut/ 🎸 Well... This is my first ever zine! I'm generally shy and awkward so please excuse how most of this is worded, I do tend to ramble, sorry;; I'm both a digital and traditional artist (I'm doing digital for this zine though hehe), and I'm currently mostly into Touhou and Granblue at the moment. You can find my art here!!: https://twitter.com/Bubblesdoodles 🎻 Hello, I'm a traditional artist.

Do you do commissions post? Where can we find the info?

🎤 https://twitter.com/AlmaViajero/status/1171118754249490433 🥁 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0zCPqkp7ii/ 🎷 https://www.instagram.com/p/By0mjHlFdld/ 🎺 https://hey-lil-artslut.tumblr.com/post/186570288557/heyyy-ive-been-struggling-financially-since-my

Do you listen to music (or tv shows/films/anything else) when drawing?

🎤 Yes. For some reason, I can't stand podcasts or anything like that, so music is my go-to option 🥁 I watch a lot of speedruns or gaming vids when I draw! I love having constant commentary to give me background noise. 🎷 Totally! I usually can't do anything in silence, but I find music tends to help me more with my schoolwork while a fun movie or tv show is put on for personal drawings! I have a soft spot for animated pieces while I'm drawing.   🎺 Yes, I listen to music, cartoons, youtube videos and movies 🎸 I do listen to music when I draw!!

What’s your favorite music artist/band? If you could ask your favorite band/music artist one question, what would it be?

🎤 Parov Stelar. I would ask them about the starts of their career. How did they started to work to the public and how scary did they feel about it 🥁 I'm really into Ghost right now! I love their spooky tunes and the melody go HARD! 🎷 I'm not sure I have one! I like all kinds. Fan creators. Vocaloids like Miku and Rin and Len, classic artists like Supertramp and I grew up listening to Nickelback, Def Leopard, and Bon Jovi. I would, however, love to ask every single one what their favourite part of music and performing is! Because to me, music is so special and can affect emotions and events, so I would love to hear what goes through some singer and songwriter heads! 🎺 My favorite band is Mother Mother 🎸 I'm not quite sure exactly who my favorite is, considering I have quite a few favorites, I guess I should say Mili since my favorite song is from them. As for asking them whatever question I want? I guess I'd probably ask them which of their songs are connected into a story? 🎻 I really enjoy the music of Lenka. If I could ask her a question, I would ask if her songs are based on her life experiences.

Do you play an instrument? If not would you like to play one? Which one?

🎤 I don't play anything. But I would love to play the violin...Or realistically, the flute 🥁 Id love to play the keyboard or guitar! I'm not musically inclined so the best I could do is a uke or otomone (they're so cute hehe) 🎷 I play piano! Not very well, but I learnt it a few years ago and I still mess around with it from time-to-time. 🎺 I can just barely play the ukulele and the piano. I'd really love to learn to play the keyboard 🎸 I don't! I guess It'd be fitting for me if I knew how to play a trumpet, so that I suppose.

Which song(s) are you going to draw?

🎤 All Night, By Parov Stellar 🥁 A Thousand Eyes by Miracle of Sound, Night of the Werewolves by Powerwolf and Handmade Heaven by MARINA 🎷 I will be drawing the song "Melt" originally performed by Hatsune Miku, though I'll be focusing on the version covered by Youtuber JubyPhonic. 🎺 I am going to draw Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco & possibly another! 🎸 Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery 🎻 Lenka - "Maybe I Love You"

What do you expect from this zine?

🎤 I don't expect anything. More than anything, I expect myself to be able to finish it on time! 🥁 I expect to see many great arts from other contributors! Find new artists to follow and new music to listen too! 🎷 A fun time and a lot of beautiful works of art that express how important and magical music can be! 🎺 I'm just really excited to see everyone's pieces! 🎸 I just hope to gain some experience and confidence from it! 🎻 I look forward to a friendly community of artists working together to put together a nice publication.

Anything else you want to add?

🎤 I see a lot of people with creative ideas as for today, and I can't wait to be a part of it! 🥁 I hope this zine is a growing experience for all who participate and those who view it can enjoy all the beautiful art we all put work into it!! 🎷 I can't wait to see everyone's pieces and how they come together! 🎸 I really hope everyone has fun participating or looking through this zine, considering this is my first one ever I hope it's enjoyable for everyone involved! There's so many great artists here to share their work!!

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Translation of wowaka’s statement regarding his newly released song, “Unknown Mother Goose”.

Hello, wowaka here. I’m not particularly good at talking about my own songs outside the song itself, but there’s something I absolutely had to say about this Miku song, so I’ll write it here.

Firstly, thank you to everyone who listened to “Unknown Mother Goose”. Why did I make another Miku song in six years? Or why didn’t I make another Miku song for six years? Let’s start from there.

I should explain this for people who know me only from hitorie. In 2009 I got my hands on Vocaloid, made my first song and put it up, made about ten songs in a year, and made an album, Unhappy Refrain, in 2011. So it’s something that happened over two years or so. Thinking back on it, so much happened in those two years. In any case, my encounter with Miku literally changed my life. A lot of things happened, I found a lot of ways to get my stuff out, and even now I’ve gotten to hear the songs of other people making their own music. In those two years I met a lot of interesting people and had a lot of interesting experiences. Every day was like floating around on a cloud. It was a strange feeling. When I think about it, it really was like a dream.

I’ve said this before in a few interviews, but after putting out my Vocaloid album Unhappy Refrain, something exploded inside me...or perhaps more like the opposite of exploding, something kind of like that...it’s hard to find the words for it. For those songs that I’d thrown out and were taken out of my own hands, I ended up thinking “am I really existing as ‘myself’? What am ‘I’ supposed to be? What should I do from here on out?” I touched on it a little in the Natalie interview with DECO-san, but I felt like I was living only with the appearance of someone named wowaka, and couldn’t feel my heart at all. With those feelings only starting to increase, getting consumed by the feelings of “wowaka-like” and “Vocaloid-like”, I irresponsibly turned myself away from the community and fell into negativity, all of it finally eating me up with a crunch. With all of it just piling on top of me at once, I ended up becoming a disgrace of a human being for about half a year.

What got me through that half year was hitorie. I should explain for the people who don’t know what that is. hitorie is a four-member band, where I sing songs that I made. I carry the burden of singing it with my own voice, with my own words. I think I would have ended up dying if I hadn't made that band. I really feel I was lucky to have met band members who could do this with me. If those three hadn’t been there, I would have quit music entirely. In that sense I'm really grateful to Vocaloid, because it was through that culture that I ended up meeting them.

So in that state, I ended up making a band, and I wasn't able to see anything else beyond that. It's not like there was nothing left after all that, of course. It's just that as a band we always wanted to leave our own mark (of course, even now). During all that, in regards to time, or in regards to what my heart could allow for, I didn't have the opportunity to touch Vocaloid at all. I'd never had the intention of giving it up in the first place, and every so often I'd listen to other Vocaloid songs, every so often I'd think hey, I feel like making something with Vocaloid again, but in the end I could never get myself in a position to do it. I kept thinking "well, the band can do it fine enough", haha. So hitorie released three full albums and went on a tour around the country, I made the album IKI as an album depicting the crossroads of my life, we had our own live show at Studio Coast, so I ended up thinking "ah, these members and I, we all came this far and we're all gonna be fine." I felt like that "wowaka" who was born in 2009 had finally become a human at the age of 8. I felt like I'd found a perspective I hadn't been able to see before. And perhaps by chance, or perhaps by fate, right around that time in 2017, Miku’s tenth birthday came around.

And as if to guide me there, I was contacted with a request to make a song for Miku's tenth anniversary compilation album. I'm really grateful to those who wanted me to make a Vocaloid song for them, so I ended up letting everything out loose. I kind of let my heart move on its own.

So the timing lined up perfectly. I decided to write a Vocaloid song that I felt like I needed to write. That’s the kind of thing I put myself up to. For three months after saying I’d do it, I fussed about it and, through all the torture and fun of it, made and uploaded the song “Unknown Mother Goose”.

If you were to compare my work with hitorie to my work from Vocaloid...it’s hard to separate them, so things like “wowaka’s Vocaloid works are better” or, conversely, “it’s better if wowaka just sang himself”, or that I threw away Vocaloid or came to hate it...you can say that kind of thing easily, it’s only natural that people will think things like that, but for me it’s more like something that brings “me” together right now, that’s all I can say about it. In the circumstances I described earlier, I started Vocaloid, I started hitorie, and now I’ve written another Vocaloid song. That’s all there is to it. I think that’s all there is that defines what you would call “me”, in my blood or my existence. For now and in the future. For this song, for hitorie, for the IKI album, for all the songs I wouldn't have been able to write had I not come to stand on my own two feet, like I said earlier if I hadn't started hitorie I probably wouldn't be making music now. And the one who gave me that music to begin with was Hatsune Miku. I might be asking too much for you to understand that, but that's the kind of person I am.

Well, let's talk about this Miku song, "Unknown Mother Goose". It'll be a bit crude for me to talk about the song in detail like this, so I'll keep it short. Like this. With this all happening at this timing, I was thinking about Hatsune Miku's importance to me, so I decided to make a song about my relation to Hatsune Miku, and put in everything I'm talking about. So along those lines, I had Miku sing my own words for the first time. In the past, right now, and in the future, I’ve always hoped to say what I wanted to say, even if it’s embarrassing. Ah, incidentally, don't get the impression this was supposed to be some kind of response to Hachi-kun's song, the timing was just a coincidence, haha. I think you've probably come to understand by now, just by reading this, but I don't have a lot of flexibility when it comes to making things. To put it somewhat bluntly, I do things at my own convenience, so I made a song. Also, hitorie did the music for this song. Since I wanted to take advantage of the fact I work with a band now, so it was the first time I'd ever done live recording for a Miku song. We worked really hard, it was fun! I'm grateful to our members and our engineer, Hirai-san. I also sung chorals under Miku’s voice. As I said earlier, it's because this is a song that overlaps myself and Miku that I did that. It has that kind of meaning. I still remember when I made “Prism Cube”. At the time I was only thinking of myself, without any kind of restraint, but now that I think about it I was singing under Miku, wasn't I? How nostalgic.

I’ve said a lot. The song's finally out and it's a huge relief. Having finished making "Unknown" I'm curious how I should present myself now to the public. To the people following hitorie, we're going to be fine, so don't worry. We're writing a super cool song right now. I can't say much about live shows yet, but of course we're going to make you excited and give you lots of surprises.

I said all this like an idiot, so thank you for reading to the end. Please forgive me, it's the first time talking about myself so extensively like this, haha. See you later!

August 25, 2017 wowaka

The Natalie interview referred to is this one (translation by vgperson here).

Studio Coast is an event venue in Tokyo, where hitorie had a live show that they did all by themselves (i.e. didn’t open for another group or participate in a concert lineup).

In case you've been living under a rock, "Hachi-kun's song" refers to "Dune" (or "Sand Planet", whatever you want to call it), which was made after Hachi had undergone a similar hiatus from Vocaloid production. The song also invokes themes of Vocaloid culture and the producer's personal relation to it, as described in his and ryo's Natalie interview (translation by vgperson here).

“Prism Cube” is a song on the Unhappy Refrain album, in which there are indeed wowaka’s vocals under Miku’s.

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HEY VOCAL SYNTH FANS who’s ur favorite tuner and of what voicebank and why 🤨ILL START; i love how Miodiodavinci tunes Fukase (specifically in their cover of My Crush was a Monster Boy) because it’s like the right mix of robotic and realistic, and the pronunciation is rlly smooth and it’s just overall rlly satisfying tuning imo 😌

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HeLLO Vocaloid community (*'▽'*)!! im sio, a queer and neurodivergent artist who loves drawing colorful n silly stuff!! MY ART COMMISSIONS R CURRENTLY OPEN!! I cant work a typical job and currently have like 2 spendable dollars to my name!! :’)) Any reblogs/shares would be super super appreciated!! /g (my commission info is in my carrd and on my DA and insta, link in bio!!)

^examples of my work!!^ ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

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My Mikuo cosplay!! :D this one was the most diy of all the cosplays i wore to Anime Oasis, but im super happy with how he turned out!! :3

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Opinions on the Miku Expo 2021 models? I sorta hated them at first but theyve definitely grown on me n i actually love em now <3

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here happy Fukase Friday :)

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This image kinda boggles my brain…thoughts?🤨

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redrew the art for Identity by Kanaria but with Miku and Gumi :)))

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HELLOHI!!

does anyone know good places to get ita bags online?? I just found out they even existed and i want one so bad but all the ones i found so far have only one zipper :( i wanna have 2 so i can have a plushie stick out the top or something!! ANYWAYS any tips or anything? :0

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Favorite vocaloid plush versions/lines?? :0

I personally love the Fumo/Nendoroid and SEGA FuFu lines of plushes!!<3 (like the ones pictured here!) i also love the knock off ones like fruit and long leg mikus that r rlly hard to find </3

(image credit; unknown, acquired from discord hatsune miku bot!!)

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okay but no fr does anyone remember the youtube community post that Mitchie M made in like late 2021 i think saying he was trying to tune Miku NT BECAUSE I DO AND I WENT BONKERS LIKE ‘YOOO MITCHIES TUNING NT??!?!?’ and then the post got deleted and i O_O i mean i respect his privacy and all and im not tryna start anything im jUST CURIOUS

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OKAY PRESSING QUESTION…what is ur favorite or at least one of ur favorite circus-p/vocacircus songs,,,,

ME I HAVE DETRIMENTAL STUCK IN MY HEAD I LOVE IT SM<333