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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.

“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

Sorry for being late <-not like any­one is expect­ing >.<.  Any­way, life has got­ten a bit lazy busy lately… and I needed to keep up with a lot of things >.<

Com­par­a­tively speak­ing, this month has been rather quiet in terms of Vocaloid releases.  The notable excep­tion is OwataP’s Ren orig­i­nal, Paradichloroben­zene.  Truly unique or not, the addic­tive appeal of the song instantly got me hooked, and I devel­oped a kind of obses­sion of… lis­ten­ing to the song >.<  I remem­ber that for hours I would just put the song on loop and let it play non­stop.  Even a month after, now, as I’m writ­ing this Focus, it’s hard stop lis­ten­ing to Paradichloroben­zene ＼(^o^)／.

【鏡音レン】パラジクロロベンゼン【破壊系洗脳ソング】

Music/Lyrics: オワタP
Animation: 三重の人

オワタP’s Ben­zene (ベンゼン) Series:
1. ベンゼン (Ben­zene)
2. ニトロベンゼン (Nitroben­zene)
3. パラジクロロベンゼン (Paradichlorobenzene)

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As a mean to keep myself updated with newest devel­op­ment of Vocaloid, I made a res­o­lu­tion to write a monthly “focus” of Vocaloid releases.  It focuses not on the rank­ing of indi­vid­ual Vocaloid songs because I believe that a mas­ter­piece to one man might just be a medi­oc­rity to another.  Instead, I will focus on titles of artists who have been around for some while, and jog down some info related to their ear­lier works.  Just in case you are inter­ested into rank­ing and more detailed info on Vocaloid, vocaloidism.com is a neat site to dig in :3

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Hell. it’s about time.

It’s about time some­one fig­ure out that NicoN­ico Suite will be absolutely stun­ning and beau­ti­ful if com­bined all vocals in the VOCALOID fam­ily.  Tonight, I found have found it:

【ニコニコ動画】今度こそ『VOCALOID5人』で組曲『ニコニコ動画』合わせてみた

mp3 on my sky­Drive:

Noth­ing more need to be said, enjoy the awesomeness.

PS: Here’s a ver­sion that actu­ally includes Sweet Ann… though its sound qual­ity is rather cruel so it received much less atten­tion.  BTW, Sweet Ann is sup­posed to be the aunt…