[Megurine Luka] Append - The Future of Luka

Luka was confirmed in early 2010 by Crypton Future Media via Twitter to have a Append planned like the other members of the Character Vocal series. Recording was scheduled for autumn 2010 to begin. Nothing is known about the Append other then a few samples were recorded when the Kagamine Append voicebanks were already in production.

【歌手音ピコ】この声が聞こえますか？【オリジナル?】

2010年12月11日 00:27 投稿
Title: "Do you hear this?" - Utatane Piko
Music: HYBRID SENSE
Movie: aim

【歌愛ユキ】『crushed Mary』

2010年12月15日 08:41 投稿
Title: "crushed Mary" - Yuki Kaai
Music: mondaiji(問題児)

【歌手音ピコ】言葉メテオ【オリジナル】

2010年12月11日 02:15 投稿
Title: "Meteor Words" - Utatane Piko
Music: HYBRID SENSE
Illustation & Movie: Romilio
Encoding & Production: aim

[Kagamine Append] The Artwork Box

[Kagamine Append] The final artwork is revealed!

Crypton has updated the site today, revealing the official illustration for the Kagamine Append.

Also, the Append software has been made known to be released on December 27th 2010 (matching with their birthday) at a price of 16,800 yen. AmiAmi is taking reservations for it currently.

【歌愛ユキ】innocent girl【オリジナルグランプリ曲PV】

2010年12月06日 20:09 投稿
Title: "innocent girl" - Kaai Yuki
Music: KagomeP
Lyrics: Ippei Yoshino
Logo Design: mikepochi
Movie: rlldi

[Utatane Piko] Welcome!

2010年12月08日 18:51
Title: "Piko Piko☆Legend of the Night" - Utatane Piko
Music: SAM(samfree)

[Hiyama Kiyoteru, Kaai Yuki & SF-A2 miki] HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

2010年04月04日 19:42 投稿
Title: HAPPY BIRTHDAY☆ - SF-A2 miki
Music: KOOSAN

[AVTechNO] KAT-TUN Song's Alleged Plagiarism

On November 30th, popular Vocaloid producer AVTechNO! removed all of his videos from Nico Nico Douga without explanation.

The plot thickened when a post was made that strongly implied the video removal was connected to the shock he felt while investigating comments that pointed out very strong similarities between his hit song “DYE” and a new song by popular J-pop group KAT-TUN. Later twitter posts by Treow would affirm that this was not the reason, or rather, the reason was related to stress, and that the videos would be back.

This didn’t stop people from realizing what had happened: it certainly appeared that the composers for KAT-TUN’s song “Never x Over” had stolen very recognizable parts of “DYE”.

Even though the video for “Never x Over” on youtube has been put on private (you can guess the reason), you can still judge the similarities for yourself: someone took the first minute of DYE and overlapped it with the first minute of “Never x Over”.

【NEVER x OVER】KAT-TUN

【DYE】 Megurine Luka

The story of possible plagiarism has been steadily gaining ground, with a blurb written about it on Yahoo News, as well as mixi, and although their handle on Vocaloid knowledge seems to be shaky. Comments range from total Vocaloid newcomers asking what Vocaloid is, to people placing the blame on KAT-TUN, to people trying to remain neutral on the matter.

AVTechNO has yet to comment on this subject further. However, with all of the attention the matter is currently getting, he might have a chance of proving he’s been wronged, if he so desired.

Perhaps in response to all of this attention, “DYE” has risen to 57th place on iTunes Japan, and it has reached 2nd place in Amazon.jp MP3 downloads (here).