Vocaloid Highlights: June 2024
Senpai! Notice me, senpai!! (loud crash) ...Uh oh.
[The following is historical context for what was at the time all YouTube links. Following NicoNico's reopening in August, many of these have been retroactively updated to Nico links.]
So as you may be aware if you've tried to use NicoNico in the past few weeks, it's been down most of the month as the result of a ransomware attack on their servers. All video data and the like is hosted elsewhere and seems to be intact, but the site's many systems need to be rebuilt using what data they can safely extract from the affected servers, a process estimated to take over a month. Wait, don't I do something involving Nico every month...?
Most artists these days post their songs to YouTube as well (and if they didn't already, are likely to for the time being), so I was able to locate YouTube links for all the songs I had on my list before Nico went down. But my usual method for finding Vocaloid songs is checking the NicoNico Vocaloid rankings for new songs daily. So while coverage of the first third of the month should be pretty "complete," the rest may be a bit spotty, as it's cobbled together from somewhat last-minute (since I was sort of hoping things might be resolved in time) searches for songs on YouTube and VocaDB. Regardless, I feel I got a pretty good selection given the circumstances!
Stand-Outs
| Blaze | - niki |
| On the Verge | - Scop |
| Cinderella | - Ponzu |
| Urameshiya | - zensen |
| Cliffhanger | - Hanakorori |
| HAO | - DECO*27 |
| Cheap Properties | - Frog96 |
| GIMMICK GIRL | - MonochroMenace |
| Love Runs | - Junpyon |
| BREAK ME DOWN!! | - Pleco |
| The Ones Who Found the Moon | - ikomai |
| Madrome (Doze Off) | - Ienu |
| ___'s Picture Diary | - Meiri |
| Net Empath | - Takeisu |
| Machine Love | - Jamie Paige |
| Cerberus | - Dopam!ne |
| Re-Fiction-O | - sasakure.UK |
| The Long Jump Rope Kid | - Mushi-P |
| I'm Sayin' to Shut Up and Rock! | - Nekotachi Kotatsu |
| Forgery | - Akuta Renri |
| Senpai! | - OSTER project |
| Pilot Study | - Nanu Riso |
| XXX (Hush) | - Mellowcle |
| Slowly Night | - MIMI |
| Empurple | - Harumaki Gohan |