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^^Yep, indeed he did. I think I mentioned his leaving tweets about stepping down in the WOYM7 thread back at the end of January... and forgot to post here as well. (Then again, I opted to edit it into my existing post rather than double post, which is a dumb move considering that was big news at the time...) (・///・)

Mr. Kenmochi was tweeting about the change of command over the VOCALOID Development team leader late last month, and actually posted the whole entire series of tweets as one entry on his Facebook page. I never really did get through the entire thing properly, that's a boatload of text that's overwhelming to translate accurately all at once at my current level... but it's basically stating that he stepped down in the beginning of this year, a new leader was to be announced eventually, expressed his sincere gratitude to everyone involved with VOCALOID franchise's success (from co-workers and companies down to the fans and producers), and stated that it surely does not mean it's the end for VOCALOID advancement/future projects.

It basically explains why VOCALOID4 came out as soon as it did, at least to me it does. He will be missed, though... Hideki Kenmochi has contributed a heck of a lot to what VOCALOID is today... (A;)