Module Prejoin - Day 2

[needles]

(Noelle made this banner btw ♥)

Welcome to Day 2 of Module's prejoin!

Obviously, we're all here because we love Vocaloid... But what has your Vocaloid journey been like? Did you plumb the depths of Nicovideo in 2008? Watch the Kagerou Project anime in 2014 and wonder about the original? Catch Miku live on Letterman in 2022? What producers or videos got you hooked?

I'd love to hear your story with Vocaloid and its derivatives, no matter if you're a fresh face or an old hat. How you got started and what you're doing now, even the future of what you want Vocaloid to go. For answering this discussion question you will be rewarded five random cards and ten crystals.

All prejoin games will end August 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT.

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[wanderlast]

honest to god i forgot the letterman thing until just this moment. the amount of tumblr memes that just flooded back in my memories... who in your otp is the letterman who is the miku...

Anyway, it's been so long that I'm... honestly not sure how I first found out about Vocaloid! I have very vague recollections of sharing a bunch of Vocaloid songs over PMs on a forum for a book series I used to frequent when I was younger - this was early 2008, a few months after Rin and Len came out. The first song I ever heard was Toraboruta-P's Kokoro, and specifically the Glider fan PV of it. Glider is still my favorite Vocaloid artist overall for this reason, haha. But it wasn't until I heard Aku no Meshitsukai (and Aku no Musume by association) that I really fell hard into the Vocaloid realm. I was absolutely entranced by the sheer amount of storytelling inherent in the medium all from an image on a software box.

Vocaloid has absolutely changed my life in numerous ways, probably more than I can count. It's partly what got me interested in learning Japanese, and partly what got me interested in my academic area of focus which has influenced a lot of my work. I've traveled halfway around the world for Miku twice and goddamn I am gonna do it again. I used to be a little embarrassed about how much I love these (air quotes) singing robots, but the older I get the more I realize how genuinely cool it is that there's so much human passion and love put into Vocaloid as a form of creative expression - how cool it is that people connect across the world and language barriers to write and collaborate on songs together.

This got so sappy lmao. Miku is everywhere. In conclusion, there is a very specific reason that it's easy to remember that my car had 39,000 miles on it when I bought it.