Unity-chan! (VOCALOID4)


 * This is an article about the Unity-chan software for the VOCALOID4 engine.

History
Otori Kohaku was an existing character before her VOCALOID announcement originally debuting in December 2013. She was created as a character for Unity, a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies,- for the Japanese division. She grew quite popular with gamers and interactive application writers, as assets for her character were downloadable into for free. This lead to her appearing in a variety of developers' projects and she rapidly grew in popularity.

She also appeared as a guest in Vocalo-P ni Naritai, the magazine that releases VOCALOID3 Rana's voicebank trials and tutorials.

On August 26th, 2015, she was officially announced to be available on the VOCALOID platform as "Unity with VOCALOID". It was uncertain whether she would also be released as a VOCALOID product or not. She was expected to release around December and would be compatible for VOCALOID for Unity and the VOCALOID4 engine.

On December 4th, it was revealed that Kohaku would be sold as a boxed copy on December 29th at Comiket 89, her booth was no.131. A special pre-release package known as the "special c89" VOCALOID4 Library unity-chan! ' PROJECT:AKAZA special package'"(『C89特別仕様 『VOCALOID4 Library unity-chan!』PROJECT:AKAZA スペシャルパッケージ』) was sold for 10,000円. This does not come with the full Vocaloid software.

The digital download and mobile version would be available in January.

Her Unity SDK version became available on December 21st. It was later confirmed that Kohaku and AKAZA share the same voicebank.

She was officially released on January 14th, 2016.