[KAITO] Vocaloid CRV2

KAITO is a Vocaloid DTM (Desktop Music) software created by Crypton Future Media. He utilizes the older Vocaloid engine developed by YAMAHA, the predecessor of Vocaloid2. The voice was supplied by a Japanese male singer Naoto Fuuga (風雅 なおと).

Naoto Fuuga

The product's name was invited from the public, and "KAITO" was selected from among applicants, which was the idea of Shu-tP. He is fit to sing anything from hymns and children's songs to R & B and pop, though the style that he is best used for is singing pop ballads.

Kaito sold only 500 packages in the initial distribution and Crypton deemed it as a failure. After Hatsune Miku was released, however, Kaito was reevaluated and now many users prefer him with his friendly, tender, strong voice.



Other names: 海人
Developer: Crypton Future Media
Release date: February 17 2006
Gender: Male
Optimum genre: Many
Optimum tempo: Many
Character Item: Ice cream
Product Code: 27720
Reduced Number: CRV2
JAN Code: 4511820069543

According to the package design, Kaito often wears a white coat and a blue muffler. Crypton did not set his character and profile except his package design, as well as MEIKO, for not having a concept of giving a certain character to an synthesizer application software. It was carried over to the following Vocaloids to encourage creative activities by free individuals and expanding the characters based on each user's individual needs. Though his character and profile can be vary from person to person and fans have no common settings yet, as a fanmade character, he is frequently regarded as the older brother figure for the entire Vocaloid group or the lover of other Vocaloids. Kaito and Meiko are often referred as "Nenchou-gumi" (年長組, The Seniors) compared to Vocaloid2s.


The Story of KAITO's Character Item
On September 16th, 2007, Tatsunami uploaded a parody of the song in Higurashi no naku koro ni, "A Request From Hatsune" onto NicoNicoDouga. During this time, Miku was extremely popular on NicoNicoDouga, yet almost nobody knew of Kaito let alone produced songs using him. The video begins with the words "please sometimes recall [KAITO]," as well as Miku saying "where are you and what are you doing now?" which is from the song Dear You.

About four hours later, "An Answer To Hatsune Miku" was posted by Ice-P. In this video, Kaito responds with, "yes? I was eating an ice cream," and then proceeds to sing a cover of The Ice Cream Song (originally sung by Saeko Shuu in 1960). Kaito's last dialogue in this video is "Miku, let's eat it together next time." It just so happened that Ice-P was producing the cover when he saw the video Tatsunami uploaded.








http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Kaito