No.3319
i remember hearing secrets of wysteria on geometry dash when i was quite young
scared me so bad
definitely a core memory
No.3320
>>3319Was never a huge fan of Steampianist but this is the song that made me fall in love with Oliver's voice about 10 years ago. Depressing how he fell into obscurity in the past few years, he was THE popular engloid for a couple years.
No.3331
It was one of…
<Ievan polka<houkou onchi<alice human sacrificeMelt era rocked and the popularity of nicovideo parody PVs rocked. Fewer memes for better quality back then. But I’m a nostalgic old coot.
>>3320Oliver’s voice is too soft for me musically but he was great as puppycat.
No.3332
>>3331He's always been one of my favorites. I remember Bee and Puppycat from back when it was still just a pilot but I never watched the actual series that came out a few years ago, do they still use Oliver?
No.3334
>>3332It’s been a while since I watched it but as I remember, yeah oliver voiced puppycat for the whole thing. Feels great to be the friend explaining excitedly how the cute cat voice is a vocaloid
No.3414
ievan polkka was my first but i discovered vocaloid itself from early 2010's youtubers who would play games where miku would show up like pewdiepie
No.3460
>>3332i remember watching bee and puppycat on my 3ds haha
No.3472
>>3319How is that game 12 years old already
No.3817
It was Popipo
No.3823
>>3315i'm 23 years old. since i was very young i had some sort of unsupervised access to the internet (sort of, since my parents would check on the websites i visited though).
when i was just six years old, i discovered the song melt by ryo (supercell). at a very early age i learned what vocaloid was and also what anime was, i learned to read and write at a very early age so I could look up whatever i wanted easily on the internet. in this case i discovered anime by searching more about my favourite show during that time, tokyo mew mew (which was broadcasted and localized as meow meow power). and this included discovering vocaloid, since i would watch videos on youtube while searching for things i liked, ending up in some rabbit holes.
the first vocaloid song i came across was melt. i listened to it, and thought it was very pretty, but nevertheless, i forgot about it until i was about 8 years old, when on a forum i was on they started discussing what vocaloid was and what songs people liked. i noticed that the blue haired girl they were talking about, miku herself, was popular, and i realized it was the same girl from the song melt and ievan polkka, both of which i had heard before when i was just in the first grade.
since then, i got interested on vocaloid, and hey, here i am today!
melt is still one of my favourite vocaloid songs. i'd say it's a masterpiece, for me. i tend to like songs i can relate and vent to, which are mostly melancholic in nature. but melt is one of my few favourite songs that is actually happy and cheerful.
i'll never forget that song.
No.3824
>>3315I'm 21, nearly 22, and I discovered Vocaloid through a Bad Apple Miku cover in 2013
I'm pretty sure the first Vocaloid-Origin song I heard was the Rin & Len cover of Electric Angel, Ievan Polkka, or something along those lines. I know I discovered World is Mine, Love is War, Rotten Girl Grotesque Romance, and Kokoro around the same time however.
The first Engloid song I heard was Wildfire. It was quickly followed by FOOLISH. Both these songs had a death grip on me.
No.3825
Is everyone here in their 20's?
No.3867
>>3825I’m 28
No.3868
>>3867Let us know when you turn 31 if you don't outgrow 39chan or 39chan is still around so we can call you a tetohag
No.3870
>>382530s here…
No.3872
>>3825I’m 25 whole years old.
No.5168
>>5162>i am too old for Vocaloid.There's nothing wrong with being 30 and listening to vocaloid. There's no age for music.
No.5173
>>5162>30You're not old and Vocaloid is just music, keep listening and keep loving Luka
No.5179
>>5162Anon, I don't think you can be "too old" for a type of music. I remember sharing some with my mom probably 10 years ago, when Crystalline was still up. She enjoyed it.
No.8917
>>382529. I have been into Vocaloid for a decade now though. I love KagomeP.
No.8920
22. First song i heard i think was called Wash my blood
No.16871
>>3825If this thread is anything to go by it seems most people are between the 20-30 range with a few exceptions like
>>8916Also that anon who was 30 is probably turning 31 this year. Happy birthday Teto anon, whenever it actually is your birthday.
No.16933
>>16932>Last Night, Good NightEvery time i hear this song mentioned i remember that there's a Pharrell Williams remix of it for whatever reason. I guess i should not be surprised when the guy also made It Girl, but it's funny that it exists.
No.16934
>>16933Most of the reason those both exist is because of Murakami, who is about as close as you can get to an otaku art mogul. Superflat probably more than any overriding concern is about gloming to celebrity to pawn a capitalist critique of the otaku.
Entirely aside, but probably the best thing Murakami has been attached to is the LV animation directed by Hosada (Summer Wars).
No.16936
>>16934And the Graduation album art but I'm getting off topic here
No.17026
>>3315Nyan Cat was technically the first back in 2011, but I didn't know it was vocaloid / UTAU at the time.
Then my brother showed me Black Rock Shooter and Fireworks (PinnochioP), which I thought was cool but I didn't get hooked into it.
Then finally, I came across Luka Luka Night Fever which finally got me and now I'm here.
No.17055
>>17054The annotations version was a classic
No.17131
I'm surprised we have so many people in their late 20's / early 30's in this thread
No.17150
>>17131Late millennial / early gen Z was the last group to experience the internet before algorithmically curated short form video destroyed everyone's attention spans. Imageboards are a relic of an older internet, so I'm not surprised it's mostly us posting here.
No.17151
>>17150After hanging around at anime conventions and looking at a lot of the stuff that goes on in Vocaloid internet circles these days i assumed that the majority of Vocaloid fans at this point were either late Gen Z or Gen Alpha who joined the community post-Sekai. But yeah i guess that makes sense.
No.17152
>>3825turning 29 this year, been a fan since 2008
No.17153
>>17152also forgot to answer OP's question, pretty sure it was double lariat
No.17154
>>3825I'm 23 but have been into Vocaloid since i was about 9.
No.17155
>>17153>>17152holy shit can't type or do anything today, meant to say 2009
No.26015
Currently 28
Mine was Meltdown
Sometimes i see all these new, younger fans and feel like i'm too old for Miku but i still dig the music what can i say
No.26018
>>26015Music is timeless and appeals to anyone from any generation
I've seen 15 year olds obsessing over the Beatles
No.26022
>>26018I've seen a couple white or bald heads at MikuExpos. Could be parents but I wouldn't doubt if there's ojisans out there who listen to Miku unironically.
No.26025
>>26022I mean... some of the older millennials who grew up with Miku and all that stuff are parents themselves now...
No.26031
>>26015ojisan in his 30's here. i still like miku. you're never too old to like miku.
No.26036
>>26031Now i'm curious if we have anyone 40 or older on this site. Seems like 20-something year olds make up the majority of people here.
No.26039
>>3823good post, i feel the same way. i love melt. its one of those songs that can bring me to tears. i know it's not a sad song but it's powerful and perfectly represents miku to me. it is *the* miku song for me.
No.26064
>>26025I tried using TikTok for the first time yesterday and I saw a parent giving their baby a Miku-themed bed lol
No.26072
>>26064Do you hate yourself or are you just masochistic
No.26077
I wish I could tell you but that was around like 2008
>>26064I don't know why I find this funny.
No.26079
>>26072Mostly just bored, it's dumb but ok in small doses
No.26113
The song I learned about Vocaloid from was a cover of "Don't Say Lazy" that used Luka. I thought it was gone forever, but after a little digging, apparently it still exists...albeit with the sound quality of a toilet.
Looking back on what I heard first, though, it might have actually been Alice of Human Sacrifice. Half a year earlier, I was really obsessed with Kirby and would absorb everything I could find (especially if Meta Knight was in it). The PVs, like
>>3311 mentioned, could certainly be...interesting.
No.26122
>>3315I found out about Vocaloid when I was around 10 years old on scratch mit edu. I found this project that was just an audio reupload of World is Mine with a static image of the thumbnail.
I think it was the first time in my life that I found a piece of music pleasant and enjoyable in a way that I wanted to seek out again.
>>26031Don't call yourself an ojisan if you're only in your 30s, anon... I'd bet there's a bunch of Japanese Voca producers who are around that age range at this point too. I think I'd only find it genuinely strange for someone to be into Vocaloid if they're old enough to be our parents.
No.26134
>>26122I'm not in my 40s-50s but what's wrong with enjoying Vocaloid at that age?
No.26138
>>26122There's 50-something year olds who still like Gorillaz so what's wrong with enjoying Vocaloid at dad age??. It's just music with characters attached to it at the end of the day.
No.26430
I don't remember exactly the first vocaloid song that I heard. The first memory I can think back to where I recognized "that's Hatsune Miku!" was from playing Stepmania (6key cause I'm a nerd/masochist) and one of my song packs had embed related. (It also had Piano x Forte x Scandal, but I didn't know it was vocaloid because it had a human vocalist, and the chart was cursed.) I would have been thirteen-ish, around 2010. So, I think I must have found some other songs on youtube before that, but I can't recall what. I still have a folder of some ancient mp3s from back then, including Rolling Girl, Nebula, and Mozaik Role, which were my favorites. I think it's likely that the first song I heard was Rolling Girl. Thing is, I was really only passively interested in Vocaloid until a few years ago. I started listening to a lot Rachie, Oktavia, and Ado covers, and found innabakumori and r906 and bunch of other artists that I like.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7025047(can you even embed niconico?)
>>3825I'm 29.
No.26431
>>26430this is unrelated but i noticed a lot of people in this thread seem to be late 20's
No.26437
>>26431It makes sense, in the early 2010s we were all teenagers, probably bored with unrestricted internet access for the first time lol.
>>26430Speaking of which, now that I think about it, I browsed TV tropes a lot back then too, and I remember seeing the vocaloid page and clicking on the Black Rock Shooter link and thinking 'meh.' Maybe that was the reason I found Rolling Girl, through like a youtube suggestion or something...