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I hope Rana gets her chance one day, me and my friends love her, she seems to have a decent amount of fans in the Western fandom (ironic considering she was region-locked for a while), and she’s already been used by big VocaP like Luna* and Lamaze

I think it's gonna be another Miku/Teto year but if not then the likely answer is Una

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In my heart its Oliver.

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.

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>>836
please let it be haku or zatsune… or a female engloid with an english accent (← delusion)

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It's gonna be Merli

>>875
WIFE MENTION!
She’s not discontinued like my poor girl SeeU either..

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.

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>>836

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Kakoi still has a big fanbase in Japan, maybe 2025 will give us some new stuff with her

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HD8X99FUyqQ

>>836
slave.v-v-r made this song with her a bit ago; maybe this is the beginning of a merli renaissance?

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>maybe this is the beginning of a merli renaissance?
I doubt it. At best she'll get popular in a "Yi Xi" kind of way but i hope i'm wrong.

>>1023
oh 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.

>>1025
Neru 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.

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>>1029
well… yes! i sort of acknowledged this in my previous post. that was only able to happen because people already knew about triple baka; merli doesn't have anything like that. but with how unexpected the neru boom was, i'm not going to completely dismiss the possibility. i just hope i-style project can get their act together and do something actually good because those coeavatar voicebanks flopped hard.

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>>1033
Imagine if they made an AIVOICE or VOICEVOX for Lapis instead of that dumb NFT..Lapis might've possibly gotten a bit more interest in her and said interest could've trickled down to Merli. We still have DennokoP, I guess!

>>1051
>DennokoP
Pray that he continues using her because niki switching to Cevio basically killed the last bit of relevance Lily still had.

>>1022
This has been stuck in my head ever since you posted it so thanks anon

Koto i believe in you…

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>>999
What's stopping Internet Co from releasing a SV of her or at the very least a V6 like with Galaco? With GACKT i can understand it because he doesn't want a realistic AI voice of himself but what about Lily? Newgens basically have no idea she exists but the older fans still like and remember her.

>>1168
probably money and/or yuri leaving the music industry to sell candles and incense

>>1169
i 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)

>>1168
Prominent 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?)

>>1171
So 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.

>>1172
Not 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.

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Why do 90% Japanese producers not care for non-Miku loids? KAFU, Teto and Yuki miraculously got their well deserved spotlight in recent years but is there any hope for the other loids? Are our favorite wholoids doomed to fade into obscurity?

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>>1176
I'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

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>>1177
I mean it's not impossible, Yuki has one of the most viewed songs and there was even a Nissin commercial parodying it. But yeah i agree. I love Miku but she's had the spotlight for nearly two decades, there's other loids who deserve to be known too.

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>>1176
Full write-up in picrel, but
>TL;DR
While 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.

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>>1226
Oh, 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.)

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>>1226
>2024…
>I am forgotten…

>>1231
we're in 2025 anon……

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>>1232
Yes but maybe there's hope for Lily this year.
^ pure copium

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uB_jQ8H2Yeg&t=0s

>>1233
Iyowa has used Solaria multiple times and one of said songs got over 1 million views (and also landed in Project Sekai,) anything is possible

>>1237
>Iyowa has used Solaria multiple times
There's more aside from KLY?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0785eNaV48s

>>1238
Yes!

>>1240
Iyowa writing songs in english is interesting.

Completely ignoring Miku's existence it's actually:
>2021
KAFU
>2022
KAFU
>2023
Kaai Yuki
>2024
Kasane Teto

That's if we go by the rankings on this site
https://vocaloid-rankings.fly.dev/en

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Sonika for sure! /s

>>1475
Buy me some instruments and i'll make it happen

>>1464
<2025
Lily

I think we already know the answer. It's Neru's year.

>>2236
>Yellow Miku

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>>847
2026 will be his year.

>>4583
If Maghni AI releases next year that is lol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjpFw1LRoyM

>>4584
Maghni is cool and i want it to succeed but the fact that its a Western vocalsynth makes me worry a little. Imagine it limits what you can make the voicebanks say and then you can't make Oliver sing Family Reunion by Blink 182.

>2025

Not that the year is over yet but who was THE popular vocaloid this year

>>4586
So far it's Neru but go ahead and correct me if i'm wrong

>>4585
I 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.

>>4596
was 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

>>4598
>i wish he still sounded british
I hope they've taken feedback about it. It's been over a year since his last demo and likely will be another.

>>4585
I know some of the Vocatone people and they're pretty chill overall. I doubt they'd do something like this.

>>4598
They casted a guy for Oliver that isn’t even british?? Adult is good though.

>>4607
I 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

>>4608
That’s funny, I’ll accept it

>>4598
Can't hear the choir accent anymore desu it can't be that hard to fake but maybe I'm being salty

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VzP9vND2iTI

>>4960
I like it personally. I know the voice provider doesn't sound exactly like Oli but it's very close.

>>4598
Ah 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

>>4971
Ditto

>>836
>2025
Neru

Calling it now.
2026 will be either
>Nurse Robot Type T
>Shion Tsukumo
>GUMI (again?)

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.

>>9942
I could see it happening considering Adachi Rei is popular too in the west. 2025 was Neru's year. 2026 will be TT's, trust.

>>9942
>>9943
What's this about titties?

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>>9944
We want Nurse Robot TTs

After TT blows up everyone will realize how cool and pretty Yukari is and she'll blow up next

So Teto is still popular, but what will come after Teto? Before her it was GUMI, then KAFU

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>>11653
>2025
>I am forgotten

>>11654
I'll never forget you IA

2026 will be the year of Rei btw

>>9939
>GUMI
We're getting there for sure

>>11654
IA GLOWB is back and she's getting a new voicebank so it definitely won't be the last time we hear from her

What if 2026 is secretly the year of Miki

I think this year will be Rei's if the V6 comes out the same year

>>15738
I 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.

>>15760
I 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.

>>15776
I 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

>>15776
Intergalactia was popular i think

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In a perfect world 2026 would've been the year of Merli

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>inb4 this year a hit song will turn mirai komachi popular in the form of a MV character

>>16383
A lot of people don't know she exists