CUL

CUL (カル Karu) was the mascot character for the show VOCALO Revolution. The name has double meanings, short for "culture" and "Culnoza", a collaborative group organized by Hiroto-P.

History
Cul started off as the mascot for VOCALO Revolution. On June 8 2011, Yamaha announced that CUL would make a real Vocaloid with the voice provider Eri Kitamura. The publisher will be INTERNET Co.,Ltd. On November 4th 2011, her first demo, a cover of V3 Gumi demo "A Flash of Summer", was released on YouTube. Intertnet Co announced on twitter, CUL will be released around December 22nd.

Marketing
She was introduced in "CUL makes Revolution!". CUL was featured in the shows introduction, the PV "白の季節" and the closing credits of the show. CUL was also the mascot of "CUL project; offical", a website designed to promote Cul to make her offical. Stickers were also released on sale featuring her. A MMD model used in her PVs, such as "CUL makes Revolution!", was later released.

Uses for Music
As the Mascot of VOCALO Revolution, she was designed to help promote the growing Vocaloid culture, aiming to rise awareness and the acceptance of this culture. She originally used other female voices for the purpose of PVs such as VY1. Her voicebank is a powerful "young mature" female voicetype and was made to be able to sing all genres of music, being able to climb from low to high notes with ease. Since she is part of a joint promotional effort, she, like Lily does not use Internet co., Ltd's "-poid" suffix. She comes with or without the Vocaloid 3 start pack.

Reception
Since CUL's existence as a Vocaloid is owed to her fans, Cul already had an established fandom prior to becoming a Vocaloid. She has had much support and publicity within the Japanese fandom and this has results in her overall reception being positive.

In the overseas fandom, however, there has not been as much interest in her.