MAYU

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MAYU is a Japanese VOCALOID developed and distributed by EXIT TUNES, and was released in December 2012 for the VOCALOID3 engine. Her voice provider has never been revealed.

EXIT TUNES had released several VOCALOID related CDs and albums for Crypton Future Media, INTERNET, and 1st PLACE VOCALOIDs.

Concept

Her birthday is on May 6.

She is based on a yandere junior high school student.she wields an axe to show her yandere side MAYU is a fifteen year old highschool student her stuff toy has a microphone attached to it.their is also a zipper right under the stuff toy's ribbon.her hair is also blonde-yellowish color that fades into a rainbow

Etymology

Currently, there has been no official word explaining the name "MAYU."

Appearance

MAYU's design is based on lolita fashion. Her hair itself fades from a light blonde to rainbow, and she is depicted with a hat that has a speaker attached. Her earrings appear to be styled like in-ear headphones that hook over the ear. The buttons on her dress are amplifier buttons/knobs, while the bottom of her dress has a keyboard pattern. Her shoes also have neon-lighting.

According to VOCALOID NET, she is supposed to be a junior high school age student.

She holds an axe, which is to show her yandere influence. She also holds a rabbit doll which has a microphone at the top of its head. When she holds it up to sing, she grabs it by the neck, as if she were strangling it. The rabbit is named Usano Mimi (宇佐乃ミミ). The name translates to "bunny's ears." It was first introduced as an April Fools' Day 2012 joke as a parody of the Crypton Future Media Character Vocal series website. There, it was listed as a new line of VOCALOIDs called "Animaloid."

Music featuring MAYU

• On this wiki, MAYU is featured in 72 songs , 65 albums , 3 series , 0 events.

• There are listings for notable and original songs.

Examples of usage

ホルマリンの海

Translation	Horumarin no Umi
Featuring	MAYU
Producers	Deadball-P
Categories	Original song

Love Logic

Featuring	MAYU
Producers	DaniwellP
Categories	Original song

孤独の番人

Translation	Kodoku no Bannin
Featuring	MAYU
Producers	natsu-P (music, lyrics), Haku (guitar, bass, drums, mix), HaruAki (illust, video)
Categories	Original song

チミドロスイッチ

Translation	Chimidorosuitchi
Featuring	MAYU
Producers	mothy
Categories	Original song

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Additional information

Marketing

General

MAYU has a standard usage "terms of use." Individuals and doujin circles can, without prior approval from EXIT TUNES, freely use the name MAYU, illustrations based on the character design, and her voice created through the software, as long as distribution is limited in scope or is one of the “noted distribution methods," regardless of whether money changes hands in doing so. Furthermore, commercial entities can freely use the voice without prior approval from EXIT TUNES. However, the official logo and illustration is not included in this license.

Apparel

A dress based on MAYU's outfit has been produced by Coslook, from which an Usano Mimi stuffed animal has also been made.

Promotion

As part of her promotion, EXIT TUNES released MAYU as a special package, which features her VOCALOID3 voicebank and a Special 2-disc CD. This bundle also comes with a MAYU cellphone strap and mouse pad, though note that these items are limited stock. MAYU also has several pieces of merchandise based on her.

Status

Reaction

Due to early announcement, MAYU started to gain popularity several months before her release. In Japan, due to EXIT TUNES' effort, she received much attention. MAYU songs appeared in the Weekly VOCALOID Ranking seven weeks before her release. By the release date, her most popular song had earned 330,000 views on NicoNicoDouga, and had hit the #1 position in the Ranking (but only for one week). By that date, she had six songs with 50,000-150,000 views, and seven songs with 10,000-50,000 views. However, despite her heavy promotion, this result was not spectacular. Moreover, some of her promotional songs reached a lower number of views despite having been created by famous producers. These producers had experienced much more success in the past with other songs featuring different Vocaloids. In addition, Exit Tunes normally produce the most successful of the albums ever released featuring Vocaloids, with popular Vocaloids such as Hatsune Miku, Gumi and IA featured. MAYU being owned by Exit Tunes themselves, has maintained a presence on the albums since her introduction. However, this does not mean that the songs using her voice within those albums are as popular as those featuring different Vocaloids. The result has been a mixed reaction, and it is unclear how it impacted her popularity. Overall, it is difficult to tell how much popularity/success she has had over the course of her existence.

Misc

In February 2014, Vocaloid Otaku user "Dessert>desert" decided to run a test to see how many illegal Vocaloid downloads had been made via torrent. At 11,404, Mayu was the second highest download, beaten by 12,434 illegal downloads for the VY2v3 package.

Achievements

First VOCALOID from EXIT TUNES First female VOCALOID from EXIT TUNES First Yandere influenced VOCALOID First lolita-styled VOCALOID

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Gallery

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External links

Language	Description	Site
Japanese	EXIT TUNES official homepage	Link
Japanese	Mayu San The official website for VOCALOID MAYU	Link
English	deviantArt , art and media community	Link
Japanese	Pixiv , art and media community	Link

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