Dream Fighter – Times Nine

Just for fun, here's an ensemble of no fewer than nine Vocaloids and Utauloids performing Dream Fighter with (much of the time) individual movements. It must have taken a long time to produce this!

The base (Lat) model is identical, simply having different head details to suit each character; and three of them have solo spots within the song – although they are miming to the actual singers who are a human group called Perfume. The song comes from that group's 2009 album titled Triangle.

The performers are (identified by hair colour and style)...

• Blue (twin tail) : Hatsune Miku
• Yellow (short) : Kagamine Rin
• Yellow (side tail) : Akita Neru
• Red (twin 'drill') : Kasane Teto
• Pink (shoulder length) : Momone Momo (桃音モモ)
  Purple (short) : Defoko a.k.a. 'Utane Uta'
• Purple (long) : Utane Oto (Defoko's younger sister)
• Green (long) : Marine Rimo
  Brown (twin tail) : Eika Sachi

Teto and the Bicycle

...and the wasp, and a rafflesia flower, and Akita Neru (who has Len's undies with her!) and several other ingredients as well. Not a song this time, just a fun scenario of what some of the Vocaloid/UTAU characters might get up to if they were doing everyday stuff that the rest of us could perhaps be seen doing.

This short (just over four minutes) clip was produced by one Doronuma-P...

Love Words – For Five

I featured Love Words (Ai Kotoba) not so long ago; but this version, featuring five Lat-designed models, is I think very good so warrants a spot here, even without the English words on this occasion.

Personally, I do like the outfits: the classic high-waisted, plain light-coloured, virtually sleeveless, medium-length, boat neckline summer dress that is just so lightweight and feminine. I much prefer it to (but can live with) the shorter fashions that have become the norm – especially for stage performances – in recent decades.

Now, look closely at our five artistes. From right to left, they are: Luka, Teto, Miku, Akita Neru, and...who? Apparently this fifth lady might be Kiku, about whom I know next to nothing. Checking Google Images, I find that this could be correct, though Kiku doesn't usually have a Teto-like 'double drill' hairstyle...

Akita Neru – Meltdown

This is a Vocaloid I haven't featured before, Akita Neru, who is visually identifiable by her single-sided long hair (as distinct from Miku's twin braids, for example) and matching yellow eyes, also with a slightly different voice timbre, a little deeper overall, I'd say.

Her songs tend to be more on the 'evil' side than usual, although all the female Vocaloids seem to have at least a couple of such items in their own repertoires.

Anyway, this is Meltdown, a track more commonly associated with the equally yellow-haired (though usually styled much shorter, either 'cut' or in what I call fluffy braids) Rin Kagamine, especially at the live concerts. It seemed to be an original way to go into the weekend.

There are no English words with this, but another version (without the character) does have English subtitles...