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Note as of post­ing: Yes, this focus is intended for 2010 Feb­ru­ary, and it is about 4 months late.

Busy Feb­ru­ary is busy.  Kaito’s anniver­sary, 4th MMD Cup, Win­ter Olympics, home­work, Mabinogi G9 *insert more*.  Even though every­thing is scream­ing of derail­ment and off-topic, look­ing back the past month still yields a good num­ber of enjoy­able Vocaloid songs.  Now, start­ing with the obvi­ous pri­or­ity of the month…

【KAITO・MEIKO】ホール・ニュー・ワールド【アラジン】 | Orig­i­nal: Dis­ney; Pro­ducer: 根気P

You see now, after see­ing many mediocre songs made it to the Nico’s daily ranking, occasional releases like this–incredibly well-made cover really reju­ve­nates my moti­va­tion.  This song is one among the best–if not the best–of both Meiko and Kaito’s tun­ing… It proves a point: if used cor­rectly in the hands of mas­ter, even being the older gen­er­a­tion of Vocaloids, both nii-chan and nee-chan can sing in the most nat­ural voice that you can ever imagine.

根気P is a pro­ducer mostly make Vocaloid cov­ers for other songs using mostly Meiko, Kaito, and Gack­poid.  Con­grat­u­la­tions goes to him for this new hit song that aggre­gated 200k views within a month.  The only song of his that bests this song’s view count is 【KAITO】WHITE NIGHT【吸血殲鬼ヴェドゴニア】.  Same kind of qual­ity you that rocks my expec­ta­tion for this pro­ducer for all his fol­low­ing works… because either Kaito can sing really well, or he can sing in Eng­lish, but very rarely he does both.

So to speak, 根気P’s Whole New World has cre­ated another leg­end as of now.  Tags like 素敵すぎて信じられない and 魔神調教 shows how much fan­dom has the song gen­er­ated.  Now come to think of it, most pop­u­lar Disney’s musi­cals kind of songs should undergo 根気P’s spe­cial treat­ment and wow the fans (of Vocaloids)

More (trans­lated) info on the pro­ducer and the song itself can be found on the youtube page.  Good job to the uploader ^^

【KAITO】お兄さんとJust Be Friend【カバー】 | Orig­i­nal: ゆのみP, Cover pro­ducer: 恥恥恥P
boo. I didn’t find this one on youtube   -> nico­zon link

I guess the pro­ducer is mostly known as some­one who come with fun cover songs for Kaito’s birth­day.  Com­pare to the most famous lolicon-friendly cover song, hav­ing Kaito as the vocal makes the whole thing even my amus­ing… or is it just me who feels its? xD

I was decid­ing which image to use as the cover of this Focus :p I guess I saved the fun one for last, no?  Happy birthday~

Life is tough.  I’m still learn­ing how *not* to spell focus with “focous” while writ­ing titles of Monthly Focus.  After the spring semes­ter started, keep­ing up with updates and other stuff proved to be a bit over­whelm­ing… espe­cially now I picked up Mabinogi once again xD  In case you noticed this site’s down­time a just a few days ago… it is because my yearly domain con­tract expired, again. –_–

Pathetic excuses are pathetic.

Jan­u­ary was a quiet mohth, except when cel­e­brat­ing Kagamine twins’ 2nd birth­day.  (PS: to accu­rately doc­u­ment Rin and Len’s age, please use 14+n nota­tion :p for exam­ple, now they are 14+2 years old)   12/27 was their birth­day… and 1/30 was Megurine Luka oneesan’s birth­day… yet her anniver­sary songs are still being made, we’ll see about them in the next issue of Focus.

End of the year means three things to me:

• (Not so much of) Free time
• Comiket (77)
• Kagamine twins birth­day celebration

Can’t see it with­out love?  Maybe.  Any­how, it looks like I’ve over­es­ti­mated the num­ber of men­tion­able hol­i­day themed songs this year ;_;  Also, I under­es­ti­mated the num­ber of peo­ple who’d rather curse Christ­mas than celebrate.  Hopefully you chose to spent time with your fam­ily rather than your (per­haps non-existing) other half?

【初音ミク】My Dar­lin【オリジナル曲】 | Pro­ducer: Easy­Pop (HP)

Easy­Pop is a tal­ented musi­cian geared toward techno, whom, also as a Vocaloid pro­ducer, is gen­er­ally below the radar.  Her better-known cre­ation, “Coun­try Girl” (カントリーガール) was orig­i­nally voiced by EasyPop’s own sug­ary voice before she dubbed it with Miku.  Don’t mind with the strange error-like effects in her vocaloid songs; those are inten­tional :p

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm9018151 < — “Party Night” fea­tur­ing miki, also by Easy­Pop.  I’m look­ing for­ward for her next piece.

初音ミクのオリジナル曲 機械仕掛けのサンタクロース –Full ver.- | Pro­ducer:  デッドボールP

Dead­ball is a more pop­u­lar pro­ducer… for the good or the bad.  His “neta-ke” works are more numer­ous than hit songs, such as 永久に続く五線譜, an all time clas­sic.  I like his songs purely for the enter­tan­ing values~

con­tinue reading…

Wel­come to the month of snow and hol­i­day spirit, Decem­ber.  Well… with that said, there’s no snow in my place (it’s Texas, yo), and if you are an obser­vant nico-goer, you already knew about half of the Christ­mas related Vocaloid songs are anti-リア充 wwww.

I’m not sure of any casual rela­tion­ship between hol­i­day sea­son and the surge of high qual­ity Vocaloid PVs… any­way, I am impressed with what I saw so far ^^  Another thing focus point is, of course, AH-Software’s new stars, espe­cially miki, who looks promis­ing on becom­ing one of the more pop­u­lar Vocaloids.

Also, I’m con­glom­er­at­ing all the Christ­mas related hol­i­day songs to another Focus ^^

con­tinue reading…

“Happy birth­day, Meiko姉ちゃん! ”

Shall we say that as we enjoy the con­tent pro­ducer who brought life to the occa­sion.  MEIKO生誕祭2009 <- Click to enter the nicon­ico party for our beloved nee-chan, that is, if you haven’t already!

MEIKO, Crypton’s first Vocaloid prod­uct in Japan, entered the enter­tain­ment cir­cle on 2004’s Novem­ber.  How­ever, record shows that neechan’s debut song is prob­a­bly “あの素晴らしい愛をもう一度”, a bonus track for a CD (“HISTORY OF LOGIC SYSTEM”) that was pub­lished in July 2003.  So, the his­tor­i­cal evi­dence not only showed that our neechan is tal­ented and love­able from the very begin­ning of Japan­ese Vocaloid cul­ture, it also more than just hint­ing that Meiko-neechan is meant to be together with Kaito-niichan ^.^

【MEIKO生誕祭2009】Change me / shu-t【オリジナル】

Music, Lyrics: shu-t
Ani­ma­tion: Brother

Mas­ter level tun­ing and good ani­maion, very neat and per­fect open­ing song for the party.  ‘Change me’ echoes with my image of Meiko in per­fectly sync: a skilled, mature female singer spe­cial­ized in techno songs.  shu-t is being known as the mas­ter of Meiko.  His other works, like Var­i­ous Feel­ings, is just as amaz­ing as ‘Change me’.

Some other songs from the birth­day party are actu­ally cov­ers, like this one:

【KAITO・MEIKOでカバーＰＶ付き】　siGrE

Orig­i­nal: sm5837378
Meiko voice tun­ing: ほいほいＰ
Kaito voice tun­ing: てかＰ
Ani­maion: verusさん

Com­par­ing to the orig­i­nal Rin&Len ver­sion, I came to real­ize that the mood of this song fits the older Vocaloids bet­ter than the twins.  Oh and thanks for the nice PV for explan­ing what’s hap­pen­ing xD

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