Nekomura Iroha

Template:Infobox Vocaloid Iroha Nekomura (猫村いろは Nekomura Iroha) is a character created by SANRIOWAVE CO.,LTD. in 2009. Also with a collaboration between AH-Software, she was released as Vocaloid2 on October 22, 2010.

"Iroha" is the old Japanese variant of "ABC" (as seen in the Japanese iroha poem). She is illustrated by okama, a Japanese mang aritist.

History

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Iroha's avatar

Iroha is a one of character of the "kittylers", who love the Sanrio character Hello Kitty. She also joined the "Hello Kitty to Issho!" project in early August, 2010.

In October, 2010, Vocaloid2 for her was released, offering two demo songs as well along with revealing her appearance and name. The name of the one who offered her the voice is still unknown, however, she is a professional singer who passed the audition test of AH-Software.
A CD is set to be released with two songs ("Tsubasa" and "ABBEY FLY") with her, along with VSQ files. She owes much of her early use to being supplied as a trial version. The offer for the free trial ended on September 30th 2010.

Notable Iroha Songs

Main article: Notable Iroha Nekomura Songs

Use for Music

Iroha has a deep, strong and powerful voice. Her voice does not give her a "little girl" feel like that of Yuki Kaai, as Iroha's voice provider is a professional singer and she is intended to have singing prowess. She can sing fast-paced songs, and she has clear strong consonants and good Japanese pronunciations. Also she has wide ranged voice to sing both in a high and low voice, and gains an ability to sing in falsetto. Some users say editing her palameters and waveforms are much easier than former vocaloids.

Trivia

• She was originally designed by Sanrio for Comic Market in 2009.
• According to her official profile on the Hello Kitty to Issho! page, she is interested in Hello Kitty and wants to become a "Platinum Kitty".
• As her default voice is low and many creators tested her in a low voice at first, many of her early songs made some fans think she sounds less feminine and "tomboyish". However, now many songs with her high-voiced and feminine voice have been uploaded.
• Her trial version did not have as many reported problems as Lily's had and was a more closer representation of her final product than Lily's was. At this point in time, there are no known major bugs with her demo version.
• Due to miscommunication regarding advertisement of the new collaboration happening at the same Comiket booth as another event, fans initially believed that the new Vocaloid, announced to be a collaboration between AH-software and Sanrio, would be the kittyler Rio which was illustrated by KEI, the illustrator for the Crypton Future Media CV series and the Vocaloid Lily. (It is to be noted that at the time, a "kittyler" was misunderstood to be a moe personification of Hello Kitty herself rather than someone who is simply interested in the character) This sparked a large amount of controversy, and an interview with one of the members of AH-software had to clear up the misunderstanding. Rio was used for an upcoming project by Sanrio, "Hello Kitty to Issho!" and she is one of several kittylers illustrated by multiple artists. KEI was just one of them.
• Since the trial version had enough vocal capablities to function as a normal Vocaloid, hackers were reported to have found out how to turned off the limit of 30 days for both Lily and Iroha's 30 day trial versions.

Gallery

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Primary Sketch of Iroha Nekomura that appeared in DTM magazine

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Orginal Kittyler design

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Iroha's figurine (uses original design)

References

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