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Long time, no see! We've got a flurry of news to share here! While we are mostly active on our Twitter accounts, with how things have been going lately, if we don't post within 30 days of the previous post, our account could get shut down. We will try to make an effort to post major updates on our website as well to avoid potential loss of major news. First up, we have a new item in store: an acrylic standee featuring the entire JAE VOCAL PROJECT cast, made in celebration of our group's 5th Anniversary! It stands at around 2.5 inches and the width is around 6 inches. Each of the characters use their default outfits. This standee was designed by Mian; be sure to follow her for more amazing art! Unlike the other pieces of merchandise, this standee will only be available for a limited time and will not be restocked. The pre-order will run until July 1, 2023 at 12 AM USA Eastern Time. But as a special offer, here's what you'll get when you order a standee:
Next is in regards to the MMD models for Xiao Meihua, Ser0, Canary, and Xiao Shancha. We were aware that the download links for them were long broken. After speaking with Orahi, we were given permission to upload the models through our dropbox. That said, the links to the models have been updated on those characters' pages. Please be aware of any changes to his Terms of Use and to follow them accordingly! You also may have noticed that we've shared two new demos for Ser0 featuring her update known as "Ser02"! Ser02 will feature some new individual voicebanks, so we hope you look forward to those! Check out these two demos by Purpled! The first is a cover of "Chimera" by ATOLS, with the UST by half a head. The second is a cover of "Ponzi" by Kyoe. This uses Ser02's Appends "AWARE" and "PASSIVE". Hope you're looking forward to what we have in store for Ser0! Closing this out, May 15 is kEna's birthday! This year marks 3 years since he released on UTAU! We've commissioned Reishichi for his official illustration. Here he is among nature, looking as handsome as ever in this peaceful location! We hope that you enjoy everything we had to show lately! Things have been slowing down for a while now, but rest assured, we are still working on new stuff! Be sure to follow our Twitter to keep track of mini updates like anniversary artwork and songs!
Thank you for all your support! Until next time!
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Today is Xiao Meihua's fifth anniversary! This year, we've uploaded a new cover of "Karakuri Pierrot", originally written by 40mP! The cover was handled by Mina Moonrise with illustrations by 02Kase-chan! This uses the VSQx by Mark LawX and the harmony vocals feature our affiliate from The StarRise Project: Seishi Starchaser! The cover is available on YouTube and bilibili! In the PV, you'll also notice cameos of Ser0, Xiao Shancha, JD, kEna, and Yu Junjie! Unfortunately, Canary couldn't make it, but we'll find a way to make it up to him for sure!
In addition, since it's June, all Xiao Meihua and Xiao Meiye keychains are on sale for the month! Please check out our official Ko-Fi shop if you're are interested in obtaining either character! Thank you very much for supporting Meihua after all these years! JAE VOCAL PROJECT has come a long way since then and we hope it shows! A long while ago, Migi provided Miis of the JAE VOCAL PROJECT cast for the 3DS and WiiU. Now, with the new re-release of Miitopia for the Nintendo Switch, Migi provided updated Miis with the new wig and make-up styles available in this version! Like the previous versions, these are his own interpretations of the characters and is not meant to be the official canon. It is entirely optional to use them and everyone is entitled to creating their very own if they would like to! If you are interested in using any of them, use the following code to import them: 8GGJBT. To watch them in action, Migi has began streaming on Twitch and YouTube. All videos are archived on his new YouTube Channel that's dedicated strictly for streaming and non-vocal synthesis use. Check it out here!
Affiliate characters are also present in the game, but will not be accessible. Like JAE VOCAL PROJECT, these are only Migi's interpretations and are not official. There are some who are currently not available in the gameplay but will be in the future. The only affiliate who is distributed is Reicheru Nintone. Her owner actually made the Mii available on Twitter! We hope you like them and enjoy using them yourselves if you'd like! There's so many things that are happening for February 2021! For starters, Canary and Xiao Shancha's 2nd anniversaries are taking place. Canary was released on February 2, 2019 and Shancha released on February 16, 2019. Because of this, throughout the whole month of February, customers can purchase Canary's and Shancha's keychains for 20%! If either character was someone you wanted to collect, now would be a good time to do so until the sale expires in March. For Canary, we haven't prepared an anniversary song for him. We do have some interesting plans coming, but they're not ready to be revealed just yet! Instead, we commissioned a piece from E.via and he came out stunning~! For Shancha, we do have something planned for her anniversary but it will not be revealed until February 16. In the meantime, her MMD model was just released by OSformula! The team collaborated with kimchi-tan (tuning) and Starchaser-C (video) in creating the MMD cover video to promote the model! MinaKi worked on the mixing! The song is "Gokuraku Jodo" which was originally performed by GARNiDELiA. Shancha's model is available for download now and the site can be accessed from her own webpage. If you plan to use her, please be sure to follow OSformula's terms of use. Remember that his rules may override our own (for example: if JAE VOCAL PROJECT allows NSFW, but OSformula does not, his rules are in effect, not ours). Lastly, we are sad to announce that Purpled, the manager and voice actress of Ser0 (JAE-02), as well as a longtime illustrator and designer of many of the cast members, has left JAE VOCAL PROJECT. She is interested in creating more of her own works, so she is still in touch with the voice synthesizer community, however, she ceased JAE VOCAL PROJECT activities. We strongly encourage that you continue to support her in her endeavors and we wish her luck! Due to this, the website has been updated to place Purpled under "Former Members" along with bajucy.
If you are curious, Ser0 is still part of JAE VOCAL PROJECT and will still receive merchandise if we come up with any new ones, but she will no longer be receiving any updates or new voicebanks. We hope you still like her as she is and look forward to any plans we may have in regard to songs or items! It's still hard to believe that it's January and that the first week had already flown by! After January comes February, which means that Valentine's Day is coming up as well! With that in mind, JAE VOCAL PROJECT decided to create new merchandise to reflect the holiday: Love Confessions designed by nekocopicat! This line consists of nine keychains: the seven cast members (Meihua, Ser0, Canary, Shancha, JD, kEna, and Junjie) and the two officially recognized derivatives (Meiye and Naidong)! Each of them have a unique pose and expression while wearing their default clothes, except for Meihua and Canary. Meihua is wearing her Arpasing English outfit while Canary is wearing his Arpasing English Vivid Soft outfit (the voicebank is not released at this time). These acrylic keychains are also holographic, giving a shine at every angle you turn it! To add onto the theme, the clips are shaped as hearts. To order these keychains, visit the JAE VOCAL PROJECT Storenvy located in the navigation bar of our website! If you would like to see these as future stickers, buttons, and other goods via Redbubble, let us know and we'll see what we can do for that if possible!
Like with the previous keychains by Melody, only Meihua, Ser0, Canary, and Shancha will come with the free 25mm buttons by winter. If the seven main cast members (excluding Meiye and Naidong) were purchased, then the postcard by oweruru will be distributed. Both of these are available while supplies last: once they are gone, they will not be restocked! We hope that you like these new keychains! It's a wonder that we can finally add more to the shop compared to some years ago and we're genuinely pleased to share these cute ideas with you all! It's a brand new year! We hope that you've had a wonderful holiday season and hope 2021 treats you well! Along with celebrating the New Year, it also means that we are celebrating Ser0, for she was released on January 1, 2017! For her 4th anniversary, we released a new song cover. It's "Splitting Apart", originally written by MinaKi in 2016. The cover and mixing was handled by Feng Quan while the illustrations and animations were done by Preuss. This was one of Purpled's favorite songs by MinaKi and it suits Ser0's voice very well! The song is available on YouTube, SoundCloud, and bilibili. Secondly, for our latest shop update, Ser0's keychain by Melody is also on sale for 25% off, bringing the price down to $6 instead of $8. This sale will be in effect throughout January, so if you were interested in purchasing her keychain, now would be a good time to do so! We still have amazing things coming for JAE VOCAL PROJECT soon: maybe this month... maybe next month... who knows? Only time will tell!
We hope you're looking forward to what comes next! We have new merchandise available on Storenvy: 4 double-sided keychains with front-side glitter epoxy! These feature the first characters of JAE VOCAL PROJECT, each with a distinct design: Xiao Meihua (DeepVocal), Ser0 (3rd Anniversary), Canary (UTAU Japanese 1.0), and Xiao Shancha (DeepVocal). The art was illustrated by Melody (@faynatical). A few specials are offered for these keychains:
Please keep in mind that due to COVID-19, shipments may be delivered later than usual. In addition, for overseas customers, please refer to this website to see if shipping services are available from the USA to you!
Want to see these as stickers, buttons, and more on Redbubble? Well, we will be making these available later. From now on, keychain designs that are also perfectly compatible for Redbubble will be made available after about at least three months since their initial debut, but you can always purchase them as keychains after that unless it's been decided to retire them. We have many more merchandise ideas circulating, but we can't show them to you just yet. For now, we hope you like these keychains by Melody! JAE VOCAL PROJECT has an official Redbubble shop now! There, purchased goods are produced by the vendor and directly ship to you! For now, you'll see the familiar designs by winter in addition to a few doodle samples from Migi! More designs are to come! As for our Storenvy, it was initially closed due to COVID-19. However, since Redbubble can produce buttons, we are retiring the ones that were available through Storenvy. Our Storenvy shop will only serve to offer products that cannot be produced by Redbubble (keychains, different shaped buttons, etc.). The shop will be reopened once we have new items available! To access Redbubble, hover over the "Shops" tab and it will appear in a dropdown menu!
Thank you for reading! We hope you enjoy the products available!
Just like before, we're afraid we have to put these two together. Sometimes, it's a little difficult to keep track of what needs to be updated, and this blog is one of them. We will do our best to make sure no new content is left behind!
But first, we want to first point out that SlightlyShredded and NebulousViper are now going by new usernames. SlightlyShredded is now known as Mina.Ki and NebulousViper changed his to 実偽Migi to conform with his nickname. These changes will be referenced from now on. Back on topic, Ser0 received another new original song! In total, there are four for her 3rd anniversary: "Shatter", "Will I Forgive You?", "Virtue Star Memorial", and finally, "Gravity". "Gravity" was composed and mixed by Mrs. Peach, with Purpled writing the lyrics and doing the tuning. Visually, Purpled illustrated the artwork and Mrs. Peach edited the video. The song is available on Mrs. Peach's YouTube account!
Next, we have the full version of Xiao Meihua's DeepVocal demo: "Flower color☆Shy girl", which was originally written by kinoshita. The cover was done by Migi and mixed by SlightlyShredded. Marukun provided the MIDI, pimienta_kast illustrated the art, and Cluemily did the video editing.
Of all of the DeepVocal demos for Meihua and Xiao Shancha, there's only one left without a video. This is still a work in progress.
This is all the content we have for today, but please look forward to more in the future! We don't know how soon in the future exactly, but there will definitely be more coming in the year!
For now, please enjoy these two songs!
February 2 is SlightlyShredded's birthday! Last year, he released Canary under JAE VOCAL PROJECT and 2020 is Canary's first anniversary! To celebrate, he and the members of 3GIB, another group SlightlyShredded is a part of, worked together to make a new video!
For this year, they worked on new cover. It's "Iwashi ga Tsuchi kara Haetekuru n da". To respect the original songwriter's wishes to be left alone, we did not give their name. The cover was edited by peYton and mixed by SlightlyShredded. Tora☆Ouji did the illustration. This cover uses Crusher's UST. It is available on YouTube, SoundCloud, bilibili, and Niconico!
It's clear that a lot of effort and love was put into this cover for Canary! We all sincerely hope that you enjoy it.
In addition, in January, Ser0 received three original songs to celebrate her third anniversary. We have already made a blog post about "Shatter", SlightlyShredded's original song for her. We have not yet covered the other two. The first one we would like to display is "Will I Forgive You?". This was composed and mixed by MakushiFrequency, while Purpled handled the lyrics, tuning, and video editing. The art was done by chai-spices. This is only available on YouTube and bilibili.
The other song is "Virute Star Memorial". This was composed and mixed by OneThoughtRemains. Purpled wrote the lyrics and edited the video. Both of them collaborated to create the illustration.
It is available on YouTube, bilibili, and SoundCloud.
There we have it! Already, we're off to an amazing start with four songs to listen to: three originals and one cover!
There is still more to come, but you all would have to wait until February 16 for the next thing! That is, unless, something comes in between now and then? We will just have to see! |
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