VOCALOID companions


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This is a listing of Official VOCALOID companions and pets

James

 * History

James is the fan-given name to OLIVER's male American Goldfinch. The bird was include on OLIVER's boxart because the artist felt it made the art look a little more balanced and complimented OLIVER's soon to be released design. It is also a little nod to the fact that a lot of Americans worked on this project. The name of the bird was left to be decided amongst the fans of OLIVER and eventually "James" became the popular choice. James has since developed his own identity apart from OLIVER.

According to OLIVER's Twitter, the account is actually maintained by James who types out everything OLIVER says and declared James as his name. Vocatone also played on James' popularity during the PV Dinky Dink, where James can be seen wearing sunglasses.


 * Trivia


 * James is also viewed as having a intellect on level with humans, as evidenced by his abilities not only to use a keyboard (to maintain OLIVER's Twitter account), but also to be able to talk.
 * Despite being dubbed "James" by the fans and OLIVER's Twitter, take note that the name still remains a fan-given name and that nowhere on the official boxart is the name even mentioned. A staff member of Vocatone has stated that the name James is still not "canon."
 * On April 1, 2012, Vocatone ran an April Fool's joke announcing James will become a VOCALOID3 voicebank.

CUBI & Co.
CUBI is YOHIOloid's little digital cubic companion. Sartika originally didn't plan to give him a name, but after hearing that some fans began to refer to him as "CUBI", she stuck with it. According Sartika, CUBI can't speak, and the only word he can say is "YO, derived from YO HIOloid's name.

CUBI isn't the only one of its kind, as Sartika conceptualized a complete family for the little fella. Each one with a particular shape, facial expression and function: Apart from CUBI's family, YOHIOloid also owns a black cat who, according Sartika, always makes fuss with CUBI.
 * CUBI, always has a happy expression. His function is acting as a CD Player
 * CUBI's little siblings, the girl with a "puppy" face, and the boy with an annoyed face. They act respectively as previous (◀▮) and forward buttons (▮▶).
 * Long Cube, it has a smiling expression and acts as microphone
 * CUBI's elder sister, cat-shaped & with a laid-back expression. Her function is to search information on the internet.
 * CUBI's elder brother, the biggest one. He always has a serious expression and acts as mobile amp.

NOVA
NOVA is the official name of MAIKA's robotic companion. Her name was determined in a small poll started the October 16 through MAIKA's Facebook page, asking to the fans to give a name to the floating droid. On December 22, "NOVA" was chosen as the winning name

According to Noriko, the little droid that accompanies was designed to mark a difference in relation to past Vocaloids, and it acts as a pet, microphone and speaker, and despite being genderless it's referred as female.


 * Trivia


 * The second most voted name, "Gertrudis", stems from a inner joke in relation to Akuo insistence that the name of the new Spanish VOCALOID should be Gertrudis.