No.846
I think it's gonna be another Miku/Teto year but if not then the likely answer is Una
No.849
Honestly hope it's not Miku or Teto again. Miku has always been #1 and has a shit ton of songs already, and Teto has become #2 ever since her SV voicebank came out. But I'll take Teto over Miku just because she hasn't been in the spotlight until very recently.
No.876
>>875WIFE MENTION!
She’s not discontinued
like my poor girl SeeU either..
No.878
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All jokes aside i think Hibiki Koto has the biggest chance this year. There's been a lot of JP producers making songs with her, none of them has blown up yet but it doesn't seem unlikely to happen in a near future. Like
>>854 i'd kill for an Engloid revival but let's be honest that's impossible these days. All the companies who made those original EN voicebanks have left the scene a long time ago and ever since SynthV no one cares about the original english voicebanks, especially when popular ones like Teto can already sing in english.
No.1025
>>1023oh yeah, i'm not counting on it… but with neru's sudden rise in popularity, nothing's impossible! especially considering merli actually has a voicebank. it might just take someone meme-ing her into relevancy. though, i'm not sure what that would look like… merli was never all that culturally significant in the first place.
No.1029
>>1025Neru resurgence happened because of memes. People memed her into Mesmerizer for some reason and it took off in Japan as well. And it was further fueled by Caststation and 32ki themselves acknowledging the meme with the Triple Ryuunen art and Obsolete Meat.
No.1052
>>1051>DennokoPPray that he continues using her because niki switching to Cevio basically killed the last bit of relevance Lily still had.
No.1056
>>1022This has been stuck in my head ever since you posted it so thanks anon
No.1121
Koto i believe in you…
No.1169
>>1168probably money and/or yuri leaving the music industry to sell candles and incense
No.1170
>>1169i mean, some vps aren't even singers, like kaai yuki's and a lot of the seiyuus (who technically sing but i don't believe they're as skilled as an actual professional singer)
No.1171
>>1168Prominent and famous voice providers are probably really expensive to hire, this is probably why we haven’t seen a REDCUL revival even though Hiroto and Zan-Shin are interested in it + Crypton keeps reusing samples
Had no idea Masuda left the music industry but that probably plays a part as well (at the same time, if you don’t sing any longer wouldn’t that just make it easier to release a singing synth?)
No.1172
>>1171So this is why WHITECUL and ROSA exist? Never been a fan of those and the fact that they randomly decided to canonize them as CUL's siblings about 12 whole years after her release.
No.1174
>>1172Not entirely sure but it would make sense! Rev was always supposed to get a VB but I never saw Hiroto or Zan-shin say anything about wanting to give the sisters banks prior to like the 2020s.
No.1177
>>1176I'm pretty sure the answer to that is just… Miku is who gets the views. Think about it; she's the one in the car commercials, the one opening for Lady Gaga… Everyone mistook Momo's cover of nyanyanya as a Miku song when Nyan cat got insanely popular. I'm pretty sure the thought process is "Miku is popular, why use money on other Voice Banks when my best chance at hitting it big is with Miku?" …or something like that.
It's kinda depressing tho tbh
No.1226
>>1176Full write-up in picrel, but
>TL;DRWhile some producers sadly probably use only Miku because they "have" to and won't be able to get enough money or recognition to put food on their table if they don't, the Japanese side of the fandom is mostly waifufags who are using Miku because they genuinely want to.
>Are our favorite wholoids doomed to fade into obscurity?Lmao yes. I don't mean this with malice by the way, I'm a gigantic wholoidfag myself I just like being realistic.Don't let the lack of content discourage you anon! Let it motivate you to learn new skills and make content for your favorites, that's what I do. The amount of talented Yi Xi and Vimalion artists popping up lately are really inspiring to me. One of the main reasons I'm learning art and music production is so I can give my favorite wholoids some love
and Rule 34. With things like the popularity of Kafu, Yuki, Flower, Zundamon and VOICEVOX, and SynthesizerV even on the Eastern side I think Japanese VocaPs are becoming more open to using loids that aren't Miku.
No.1230
>>1226Oh, I feel better about it knowing they (well most of them ig?) just genuinely love her.
It kinda gives me hope one day someone will love one of my favorite wholoids enough to make a banger with 'em. (I don't have enough confidence in any of my skills to think I could do it myself, but I can still try, too.)
No.1232
>>1231we're in 2025 anon……
No.1233
>>1232Yes but maybe there's hope for Lily this year.
^ pure copium
No.1238
>>1237>Iyowa has used Solaria multiple timesThere's more aside from KLY?
No.1344
>>1240Iyowa writing songs in english is interesting.
No.1464
Completely ignoring Miku's existence it's actually:
>2021KAFU
>2022KAFU
>2023Kaai Yuki
>2024Kasane Teto
That's if we go by the rankings on this site
https://vocaloid-rankings.fly.dev/en No.1476
>>1475Buy me some instruments and i'll make it happen
No.2236
I think we already know the answer. It's Neru's year.
No.4584
>>4583If Maghni AI releases next year that is lol
No.4586
>2025
Not that the year is over yet but who was THE popular vocaloid this year
No.4593
>>4586So far it's Neru but go ahead and correct me if i'm wrong
No.4596
>>4585I trust that they would not be gay enough to censor it when Oliver is their golden bird for Maghni and half of his relevance music-wise is singing lewd shit. Getting him voiced by an adult is likely a buffer for that.
No.4598
>>4596was never a big fan of vocaloids voiced by actual children, especially when the community is so unashamedly horny, so im not particularly sad about the voice change but i wish he still sounded british
No.4602
>>4598>i wish he still sounded britishI hope they've taken feedback about it. It's been over a year since his last demo and likely will be another.
No.4603
>>4585I know some of the Vocatone people and they're pretty chill overall. I doubt they'd do something like this.
No.4607
>>4598They casted a guy for Oliver that isn’t even british?? Adult is good though.
No.4608
>>4607I heard that it's an American girl who used to do Oliver impressions on Tumblr circa 2014 but don't take my word for it i'm just repeating what i heard
No.4609
>>4608That’s funny, I’ll accept it
No.4960
>>4598Can't hear the choir accent anymore desu it can't be that hard to fake but maybe I'm being salty
No.4965
>>4960I like it personally. I know the voice provider doesn't sound
exactly like Oli but it's very close.
No.4971
>>4598Ah this explains why I like him so much while I’ve seen a few critics. I’m American so I can’t really tell that he’s less British sounding lol
No.9939
Calling it now.
2026 will be either
>Nurse Robot Type T
>Shion Tsukumo
>GUMI (again?)
No.9942
TT's already started doing numbers on the JP side, but I'm not sure if she'll get that international popularity. My money's on Neru.
No.9943
>>9942I could see it happening considering Adachi Rei is popular too in the west. 2025 was Neru's year. 2026 will be TT's, trust.
No.9944
>>9942>>9943What's this about titties?
No.9949
After TT blows up everyone will realize how cool and pretty Yukari is and she'll blow up next
No.11653
So Teto is still popular, but what will come after Teto? Before her it was GUMI, then KAFU
No.11655
>>11654I'll never forget you IA
No.11664
2026 will be the year of Rei btw
No.12547
>>9939>GUMIWe're getting there for sure
No.12550
>>11654IA GLOWB is back and she's getting a new voicebank so it definitely won't be the last time we hear from her
No.13037
What if 2026 is secretly the year of Miki
No.15738
I think this year will be Rei's if the V6 comes out the same year
No.15760
>>15738I hope Rei is considerate enough to give it to IA first. She can come next year or this December since it would be exactly 1 year since the end of the crowdfund by that point.
No.15776
>>15760I feel like that depends on when each of them will release plus how many producers are willing to use IA over a 'loid that will get them more views
To be honest though I would rather see more IA originals than Rei for the fact that I haven't seen one in ages. I did hear that r-906 demo song though and i liked it, and it seems it was relatively popular too. So maybe not all is lost.
No.15785
>>15776I really like Silly Terror. I wasn't a big IA fan before but I'm looking forward to her V6 release now because of it
No.15786
>>15776Intergalactia was popular i think
No.16384
>>16383A lot of people don't know she exists