Hiyama Kiyoteru

Hiyama Kiyoteru (氷山キヨテル) is a Japanese Vocaloid released on December 4th, 2009. He is developed by AH-Software.

Appearance
His tie clip is a motif of Yamaha's electric upright bass SLB100 and his glasses are ZS92001A by Zoff.

Personality
According to the book "Ice Mountain", the default configuration for his software package is Kiyoteru's vocals as a rookie singer.

Interests
He is said to be good at mathematics.

Relations

 * Kaai Yuki; Student

Backstory
Kiyoteru is meant to be portrayed as a sensei (teacher). He joins a rock band "Ice Mountain" as "Ice Mountain Teru" on weekends.

Etymology
His surname of "Hiyama" seems to be taken from his provider "Kiyoshi Hiyama".

His Ice Mountain name of "Ice Teru" is a play on words, "Hiyama" (氷山) means "ice mountain".

Concept
He and Kaai Yuki were released as "student" and "teacher" Vocaloids.

Examples of Usage

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Marketing
He, along with SF-A2 miki and Kaai Yuki were introduced to expand the Vocaloid market, giving producers more choices.

Until May 2011, all Ah-software Vocaloids were banned from KarenT.

Book: "Ice Mountain"
A book was released about Hiyama Kiyoteru's band "Ice Mountain Teru". The book lists information on the band "Ice Mountain".

Popularity
He was overall the least popular of the trio of Ah Software Vocaloids. Ah Software's Vocaloids all took a while to gain popularity, leaving him as the least popular Japanese Vocaloid in Japan for some time.

An independent Vocaloid search on Nico Nico Douga revealed that most Vocaloids had less then 1,000 videos uploaded on Nico Nico Douga in between July 1st and December 15th 2011; Kiyoteru fell into this category.

Trivia

 * Yuki and Kiyoteru's announcement came in November 2009. Interestingly enough, at the end of the previous month Crypton Future Media had just made their own announcement of a series called Project if… which was set in a elementary school setting.

Notable for...

 * One of the first 3 AH software Vocaloids
 * First male AH software Vocaloid

Gallery

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