Yesterday was April Fool's...
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But more importantly...
...KASANE TETO's BIRTHDAY!!!1




Obviously, in the original Miku artwork by KEI, she has Pikachu because it's the Pokemon franchise mascot, not much deeper than that; however, the more quirky inclusion, Farfetch'd, is there because it's associated with spring onions/leeks, just like Hatsune Miku is. There's some really cute details here in the matching Teto image, regarding her origins as a "fake vocaloid" and 2chan trolling scheme. As I've mentioned before, Kasane Teto is deeply intertwined with lies, mimickry, and trolling; she was born out of 2channers from the VIP board trolling the still-new Hatsune Miku fandom on 2chan by inventing a fake new bank and character for Crypton Future Media's "character vocal" product series, complete with a website and NicoNico video announcement. Her original character design, the one still used for her UTAU voicebank, deliberately mimics design elements of the CV series' characters: Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, and Megurine Luka.
Nohkara on Bluesky notes:
Rook on Bluesky adds:
The other Teto birthday news is that she's getting added as a voice bank to VoicePeak, a text-to-speech software by the same developers as SynthV! (SynthV, of course, being the software her newest, "professional" voicebank runs on. Don't forget, though, that Utau!Teto is still available and always free to use.) They've given her a cute new outfit to go with the new product, as is customary for different product releases of the same vocal synthesizer "character." VoicePeak!Teto releases April 24th.
...KASANE TETO's BIRTHDAY!!!1
Project Voltage
First, some special April 1st additions to the Miku-centric *Project Voltage* Vocaloid x Pokemon crossover. The first new art is "April Fool's" by KEI, designed to match a the Project Voltage announcement artwork made by the same artist for Project Voltage in 2023. The second artwork released was of Kasane Teto as the rival to Hatsune Miku's protagonist, by the artist "take", made to be a counterpart to take's earlier Project Voltage artwork of Miku as a Psychic-type trainer. For context, I'll include the corresponding Miku art (the originals) next to the new, Teto pieces.




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Obviously, in the original Miku artwork by KEI, she has Pikachu because it's the Pokemon franchise mascot, not much deeper than that; however, the more quirky inclusion, Farfetch'd, is there because it's associated with spring onions/leeks, just like Hatsune Miku is. There's some really cute details here in the matching Teto image, regarding her origins as a "fake vocaloid" and 2chan trolling scheme. As I've mentioned before, Kasane Teto is deeply intertwined with lies, mimickry, and trolling; she was born out of 2channers from the VIP board trolling the still-new Hatsune Miku fandom on 2chan by inventing a fake new bank and character for Crypton Future Media's "character vocal" product series, complete with a website and NicoNico video announcement. Her original character design, the one still used for her UTAU voicebank, deliberately mimics design elements of the CV series' characters: Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, and Megurine Luka.
Nohkara on Bluesky notes:
Wow the amount of symbolism. “Sudowoodo” is called ウソッキー which means “lie tree” in Japanese.
Mimikyu comes from “mimic you”.
The pokeball she’s holding is a lure ball. In Japanese trolling or baiting is called 釣り(lit. “Fishing”)
Rook on Bluesky adds:
i find it slightly funnier how sudowoodos japanese name also has the ッ for the glottal stop (?) but coincidentally that specific character becomes "tsu" when full sized, so you can totally misread "usokki" as "usotsuki" which is straight up "liar"
In the "protagonist" and "rival" images of Miku and Teto that take drew, they actually have the same Pokemon - Meloetta! However, Miku's shown using the Normal/Psychic "Aria forme", while Teto's shown using the Normal/Fighting "Pirouette forme." Miku's image color has (especially early in Vocaloid fandom's history) sometimes been identified as green, instead of or in addition to blue; Teto, likewise, has been treated as both a "pink" and a "red" character depending on context. So matching Miku with the blue-eyed, green-haired Aria forme and Teto with the Pirouette forme is cute.
Finally, 23ki (the producer of Mesmerizer and Obsolete Meat) released a song for Project Voltage, using both Miku and Teto (UTAU) vocals.
New Voicebank
The other Teto birthday news is that she's getting added as a voice bank to VoicePeak, a text-to-speech software by the same developers as SynthV! (SynthV, of course, being the software her newest, "professional" voicebank runs on. Don't forget, though, that Utau!Teto is still available and always free to use.) They've given her a cute new outfit to go with the new product, as is customary for different product releases of the same vocal synthesizer "character." VoicePeak!Teto releases April 24th.