Lily

Lily (リリィ Ririi) is an official character of a singing synthesizer application software powered by Yamaha's Vocaloid2. Her basic databanks were jointly-developed by Yamaha and Avex Management Co., Ltd.

INTERNET Co.,Ltd is the distributor and also provide her effective support for the users. This was also announced by t-kimura(Takashi Kimura), once a member and now a music producer of m.o.v.e, on his twitter. Lily was published on August 25, 2010 and her design is by KEI. The data for the voice was created by sampling the voice of Yuri Masuda (益田 祐里, Masuda Yuri), a Japanese vocalist of the Japanese musical group m.o.v.e.

Vocaloid 2
Lily originally appeared on the cover of the CD "anim.o.v.e. 01" released on Aug 19, 2009 before the announcement of her Vocaloid development. Lily was introduced as "Code Name: Lily" on DTM MAGAZINE published in May, 2010. The voice source is the lead vocalist of m.o.v.e., Yuri Masuda. The idea of the developing a vocaloid based on Yuri's voice occurred, as one of the members was a user of Vocaloid and the illustration of Lily's Vocaloid was used on the Anim.o.v.e album while the voicebank was in developement. Two official demos, "SUPER SONIC DANCE Lily Ver. With G" and "Gamble Rumble Lily Ver With G" have been released with Gakupo Kamui used in both of them. "SUPER SONIC DANCE" and "Gamble Rumble" are songs released by m.o.v.e.

V3 Lily
At the 2011 Vocafarre Internet Co., Ltd announced that Lily is due next to be updated to Vocaloid 3. Production had already begun and she was already at 20% progress,Vocaloid 3 Lily sample's. A meeting was to be held in the week of the 20th of Feb 2012 to discuss the commericalisation of Lily, however, due to Noboru hurting his back, Internet Co., Ltd's meetings were being rescheduled around his illness and the meeting for Lily was due the following week.

Voice Sample V3 Lily was released on April 19, 2012. Vocaloid2 Lily was retired from sales and is instead sold with V3 Lily.
 * Super Sonic Dance Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Gamble Rumble Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * LEVEL-ZERO Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Lying and Lying Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Tender Moon Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Reminiscence of Garnet Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Last Rebellion Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast
 * Leviathan Nicovideo Broadcast YouTube Broadcast

Marketing
She herself was part of the promotion for Lily of ANIM.O.V.E. and thus most of the merchandise isn't directed at her as a Vocaloid. Regardless, the level of promotion had not been seen outside of the Crypton Future Media Vocaloids prior to Lily's sale and although not aimed at the Vocaloid herself, still gave a strong suppport for Lily as a Vocaloid.

Anim.o.v.e
"Lily" as a character appears on all of promotions and CD cover arts of the group m.o.v.e for their "Anim.o.v.e." albums. The albums themselves are cover songs of popular anime based musics. She represents Yuri's anime-persona or avatar for these songs. The character "Lily" was in-use for some time prior to her Vocaloid release and first started appearing in use by Yuri a short while before the the first Anim.o.v.e. CD "Anim.o.v.e. 01" was released on August 18, 2009 (over a year before her Vocaloid release).

Also, "anim.o.v.e. 02", m.o.v.e album which comes along with her anime movie, was released On Aug 25, 2010. Prizes for her contest were Lily-related promotional goods, also a copy of Internet Co. Ltd.'s Singer Song Writer 9 Professional software. Judges included DJ Lily and MOSH from anim.o.v.e, Masashi Kamibayashi and Kenichiro Yorozu of DTM MAGAZINE, and Hideki Kenmochi of YAMAHA.

A digicomic movie(anime MV) titled "Schwarzgazer", which shows the world where Lily is, has been produced and it will be released with the album "anim.o.v.e 02". The song was sung by m.o.v.e., not by Vocaloids. Its short version has been officially uploaded on Nicovideo and Youtube. (Nico broadcast, Youtube broadcast) This short movie is unique in approach, as it provides an official English language version side by side with the Japanese version. It depicts Lily and companion "Mosh" as fighters against a virus, equipped with music as their weapon.

A manga of the same name, which is written by Kei, was released together.

Lily's avatar was used by Yuri Masuda alongside Mosh and Luna in the PV "Love Shower" feat. Yukari Tamura, the song is in the cover album "anim.o.v.e 03".

Figure
Lily received a figure released in November, 2010 becoming the first non-Crypton Vocaloid to receive a figurine. Lily was the first INTERNET Co.,Ltd Vocaloid to receive a figure and it was made by the Phat Company. She also had a figurine amongst the Prize fair figurines in September 2011, this was made by FuRyu and released as prize models for UFO catcher machines.

She has also had several plush dolls released. One of these sets had a normal Lily doll and two alternetives based on her most popular Internet Memes featuring Lily holding a railway crossing sign, and her as a bee.


 * For more Figurines see Template:Nav Figurines

Offical Cosplay Outfit
Lily has a offical cosplay outfit based on her own.

Taiwan release
On Dec 11th, 2010, the president of Internet Co. announced that Gakupo Kamui, Gumi and Lily will be distributed in Taiwan.

Lily on Twitter
On March 4th 2011, a Twitter account was set up for Lily and she also received her own website. She is the second Vocaloid to have an official Twitter account.

YuyuSequencerPlus
Lily has a YuyuSequencerPlus page.

Vocaloid 2

 * Comparing VY1(β version), Miku Append (Soft), Gumi, Lily
 * Comparison between the Vocaloid and voice provider

Lily
Lily was the third "Artist vocal" voicebank by Internet Co., Ltd. Unlike past Vocaloids by Internet co., Ltd she was not part of the "poid" series and was more of a promotional or guest appearance.

Strengths
Lily offers a professional singer vocal and is a vocal intended to be of noted quality. Lily has a mature sounding female voicebank and is a husky voice overall. She can sing in a low or mid voice better than in a high voice. A few improvements were made between demo and full release. Lily is also capable of reaching the lowest known optimum vocal range of any female Vocaloid 2, reaching as low as #D2.

Weaknesses
Although Lily produces clear pronunciations she has trouble producing a consonant alone. Her voice also has been referred to have a nasal pronunciation, and has a notorious metallic tone. Also she has some issues related with the phoneme [i], the vowel combinations that include it tends to be choppy.

Demo Version
The Demo gave users the ability to test Lily's upcoming software for 30 days for free. This allowed users to test to see if they liked her voicebank enough to buy it.

Some users reported Lily's demo voicebank had pronunciation problem that she could not carry the "i"s (い) over two notes. Her "o"s (お) could get distorted if followed by "n" (ん). Another reported problem was that her consonants could not be pronounced if left on the end. Due to its wide distribution, it was relatively easy to get hold and was cracked quite quickly.

V3 Lily
V3 Lily is the updated vocal to Vocaloid 2 Lily. She has a improved vocal voicebank intended to replace the Vocaloid2 vocal. There are two voicebanks are present in the box. The first is the original Vocaloid 2 voicebank (for details see Vocaloid2 information), the second a new voicebank for Vocaloid3.

Strengths
Lily's optium vocal range is now larger than her Vocaloid2 voicebank due to a change of tone. Her new vocal tone matches her voice provider's vocals more closely than the original and she is overall smoother than Vocaloid 2 Lily.

Weaknesses
With a larger vocal range comes a deeper depth of tone. So the differences between Vocaloid 2 Lily and V3 Lily are much larger than other vocals which have been updated. However, this does mean that users of the older version have more grounds to purchase her as there is a more noticable gap between the vocals of Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 3 versions.

Popularity
Her release overshadowed Tonio and VY1's release in the fandom as well as being one of the more popular newcomers to Vocaloid of 2010 overall.

A independant Vocaloid search on Nico Nico Douga revealed that most Vocaloids had less then 1,000 videos uploaded on Nico Nico Douga in between July 1 and December 15, 2011 with Lily falling into that category as well.

Trivia

 * Early speculation on Lily's given name was thought to be due from the name of her voice provider Masuda Yuri, as "yuri" literally means "lily".
 * Since she was not actually developed as part of Internet Co., Ltd's product line, her name does not follow Internet's naming scheme of using "poid" at the end of the softwares title, despite being sold by them nor does she have a separate name for her mascot and software.
 * Since the trial version had enough vocal capabilities to function as a normal Vocaloid, hackers were reported to have found out how to turned off the limit of 30 days for her 30 day trial versions.
 * Kio's model is available by purchase of Windows 100% magazine and MMD Second Pack magazine.
 * Her height has never been clarified, however, in "Schwarzgazer" she was shown to be of average height.
 * Lily is one of the few Vocaloids outside of those made by Crypton Future Media to have referenced the most popular Internet Memes. As part of her marketing, two figurines were made with one of them being her with a railway sign that referenced "Ievan Polkka" while the one was her with a bee.

Notable for...

 * First Vocaloid sold by Internet co., Ltd not to be part of their main series
 * First Vocaloid that appeared in a commercial Music Video